Author Meet & Greet | #GetAfterIt Book Tour

Kim McCollum and JB Harris are independent authors striving to change how authors who are not part of the big five publishing houses get promotion and media exposure. They are organizing a book tour called #getafterit, which will run from April 20th to May 5th. They will start in Billings, Montana, and end in Portland, Maine, where they will engage with readers and promote their books.

Fables Books is excited to host a Meet & Greet event with Kim McCollum and JB Harris on April 26th from 4-6 pm as part of our week-long Independent Bookstore Day Celebration. The authors will be present to meet readers and sign copies of their books.

Kim McCollum’s debut novel, What Happens in Montana, is about friendship, betrayal, and forgiveness. It follows a group of women who gather at a haunted hot springs retreat in Montana for a reunion. They come from different backgrounds and have struggles, but they’re all seeking a break from the chaos of their lives. As they bond over old memories and create new ones, they also confront the challenges of life, love, and the occasional poltergeist.

JB Harris’s novel, The Immigrant’s Wife, is a historical women’s fiction inspired by her great-grandfather’s disappearance. It’s a story about love, sacrifice, and resilience, set in 1913 when tuberculosis ravaged America. The novel follows Anna Patrinos, a middle-class girl who elopes with a Greek immigrant named Charles. When TB tears them apart, they give up everything for their love and their child. But Charles is anonymously exiled to a sanatorium to protect Anna and their unborn baby from the deadly disease. Anna fights to keep herself and her child alive despite ostracism, starvation, and assault, while Charles struggles to survive and return home to his family. When they’re finally reunited, they must confront what it means to belong and whether love is enough to heal their devastated lives and start anew.

Both authors have impressive writing credentials and have published their works in various literary publications. If you’re a fan of women’s fiction exploring complex relationships and the depths of human emotion, these two novels will pique your interest.