Sunday, October 25, 11 to 5, on Main Street in downtown Franklin—signed copies of Jetson’s Journey at the Middle Tennessee Authors Circle tent.

Seven hours at the Middle Tennessee Authors Circle tent on the Bicentennial Mall, and a hardcover stack that was shorter at five than at ten.

The Old Factory Store at 114 East Main is Franklin’s oldest commercial building: Lot 20 in 1799, a juke joint, an 1864 hospital, and now a bookstore.

The Jetson’s Journey reading group guide—six discussion questions, notes for hosts, and how to request a virtual book-club visit with the author.

Landmark Booksellers is real and named in Jetson’s Journey. The café inside it is not. What’s real, what I made up, and the launch-night reading.

The sentence Jetson’s Journey was written to arrive at, from the night before it published—on grief, custody, and a rescue nobody manages into being.

Six real Franklin, Tennessee places in Jetson’s Journey—Landmark Booksellers, Main Street, Merridee’s, Gray’s, the Animal Center, Timberland. No spoilers.

“He had a rough start.” That is the whole of it. Five words, spoken on a porch in Chapter Two by a woman who is about to leave the planet for three years and cannot stay long enough to explain. Michael Sawyer does not ask what she means. He is fifty-five, days out of a job he gave six years to, and in no condition to ask anyone a follow-up question. So the line just sits there. It sat in my drafts for about a year too. This post is about what was on the other side of it. Who

There is a black Lab on the cover and the book is not about a dog. A novel about a man who loses nearly everything, and the one thing that will not leave.

Jetson’s Journey published September 15, 2026. Kindle was $4.99 through launch day; it is $9.99 now. Paperback, hardcover, and a launch night in Franklin.

Before he was Jetson, he was Red—a young Labrador at Riverspook, marked with a dab of paint while he waited for the family that would name him. Riverspook is his origin story. Five Labrador siblings escape before dawn when something dark approaches. They cross a swelling creek and survive a night in the wilderness that will teach them what they were born to be. A contemporary literary novella in the tradition of Watership Down and A Dog’s Way Home, told in Red’s own voice. Th