Author Event: Scott Gould

Join us as we welcome Author Scott Gould in conversation with Author Denise Cline. We'll be celebrating the release of Scott's new book Beneath A Fallen Sky. 

May 1910. As Halley’ s Comet hurtles toward Earth, panic grips the mountains of northeast Alabama. Experts predict the end of all life, and in Fort Payne, four townsfolk face their final days.Charlie McCracken continues his mail route up Sand Mountain, caring for an elderly Cherokee woman who escaped the Trail of Tears. His aunt Zona baptizes terrified townsfolk for a quarter each, preaching her improvised scripture. Sheriff Tyus Wetley struggles to hold his anxious town— and his marriage— together, while brothel madam Elva Shugart seeks redemption as the heavens prepare to fall.Over four harrowing days, their paths collide in unexpected and sometimes violent ways. Beneath a Fallen Sky is a sweeping, unforgettable portrait of fear, faith, and the resilience of hope when the world seems poised to end.

Scott Gould is the author of seven books, including Peace Like a River and Beneath a Fallen Sky, both from Regal House Publishing. His novel, The Hammerhead Chronicles, won the Eric Hoffer Award for Fiction, and Things That Crash, Things That Fly, was awarded a 2022 Memoir Prize for Books. His other honors include a Next Generation Indie Book Award, an IPPY Award for Fiction, the Larry Brown Short Story Award, and the S.C. Arts Commission Artist Fellowship in Prose. His work has appeared in several publications, including Kenyon Review, Eclectica, Black Warrior Review, Crazyhorse, Pithead Chapel, New Ohio Review, Garden & Gun, and New Stories from the South, among others. He was on the creative writing faculty at the SC Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities for 21 years. He lives in Sans Souci, South Carolina. 

Denise Smith Cline is an author and lawyer born and reared in Upstate South Carolina. Her short stories and essays have won recognition and prizes, including a Pushcart Prize nomination. Her work has also appeared in Press 53 Magazine, Mamalode, Carolina Woman, the News & Observer and The Shoal. The Resettlement of Vesta Blonik is her first published full-length novel. Denise currently resides in Raleigh.