·        Tim Callahan-author of the Cave, the Cabin & The Tattoo Man; selected for the Southern Festival of Books and the Kentucky Book Fair; The Kentucky Summer Series.  Thank you so much for your continued support and comments about the books.  I hope everyone who has bought the books have enjoyed and laughed some.  I was able to retire on March 20th, 2009 after 35 years with the phone company.  I'm now writing and attending festivals full time. Hope to see you there. The third book in the series "Dark Days In Morgan County" was a struggle, but also a great challenge to write.  I hope you love it as much as I do.  Please don't take that as conceited, but I wouldn't want to publish a book I didn't love.  I never want to just "publish" a book.  I pray that they will touch people and help people. I also want to thank everyone who has stopped at festivals to say hello or buy the books.  It's been fun.  Check out the book signing page for this summer and fall schedule. I would like to thank Nicole Seitz for painting the beautiful cover of "Sleepy Valley".  Please check out her wonderful and beautiful books.  Her new book "A Hundred Years of Happiness" has just been released. Continue reading and thanking God for your blessings. ABOUT THE BOOK, BY THE AUTHOR.  The Cave, The Cabin, & The Tattoo Man was truly a work of love.  It started out as a means to capture memories of my childhood summers spent with my grandparents in Morgan County, Kentucky.  I soon decided to try to get the book published. In June of 2005 my wife and I visited the area after an absence of nearly twenty years.  I visited the farm that my grandparents bought after they sold the country store.  My papaw died there in the same house that still stands.  After mamaw left the farm Susie’s (a main character in the book) family bought the farm and her mom Monie still lives there today. After visiting Monie and her daughters Donna and Brenda at the farm I decided to write.  The story is based on several real people and some fictional characters.  Some areas are real and others are made up.  But all were written in honor of my family and loved ones.  KENTUCKY SUMMERS AS A CHILDREN’S SERIES I believe children 6 and up will enjoy the antics of Timmy and Susie (the main characters) as they develop a love-hate relationship.  Kids will like Timmy’s adventures in the caves, playing in the creeks and woods.  The book has lots of humor to keep kids wanting to read more.  It also introduces kids in a very subtle way God’s love.  Besides Timmy and Susie, other characters kids will enjoy include 6-year-old twins Delma & Thelma, 11 year old James Ernest and adult brothers Large Larry and Harry the Mouse. With computers and video games being the biggest entertainment for kids today and great fiction such as Harry Potter, the Hobbit and C. S. Lewis’s books taking over the store fronts, I hope this series will give kids a different escape for fun.  An escape to what is waiting for them in the outdoors.  I hope the books give them an idea of what fun fishing, hiking and exploring the great outdoors are.  Even if they can’t experience it - they will be able to dream it. KENTUCKY SUMMERS FOR ADULTS More adults have read the book than children at the time that I write this and they love it.  I’ve had numerous people say they started reading and could not put it down till it was finished.  For this I feel blessed.  I think adults enjoy the look back to years when things were simpler and they remember the childhoods they enjoyed in similar circumstances.  Adults enjoy the adventures, the humor and the suspense of the murder mystery.  I do think this is truly a book for all ages.  I’ve had readers from 8-year-olds to my 97-year-old great aunt read the book and then recommend it to others. In closing, if you’re going to read the book or have already read it, THANK YOU!  When the idea to write the book came to me, I would have never imagined people would buy it.  Timmy’s life has changed. He is now living with his grandparent’s and attending the one-room school in Kentucky. Dark Days in Morgan County is the third installment in the popular Kentucky Summers series. Novelist Tim Callahan carves out a dramatic, suspenseful tale about a colored family that has moved into the Morgan County farm community in 1960.  Overcoming his initial fear, Timmy makes friends with the poor Henry Washington’s clan of six and introduces them to other families in the area.  Problem is – one man moved to Morgan County to keep his family from having to live near blacks and is determined to keep the area all white. Despite the difficult theme of the book, Tim Callahan has maintained the country wit and charm of the first two books while tackling racism and hatred. Spend a few evenings reading this important and entertaining story.