We’d love to hear from you, whether you’re a reader with a question, a book club looking for a guest, a bookseller, or an organizer planning an event. We present together or individually, and we’re happy to tailor a talk to your group. Check out our list of possible topics for book clubs and speaking engagements.
We travel throughout the Southeast at no cost to your group. For events farther away, we ask that travel expenses be covered or a stipend be offered. Signed copies of all our books are available at every event.
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Together…
Two Views of the Mill Village
From the Castle to the Cotton Mill and Mill Daddy read as companion books: one family’s mill-village story told by a woman and a man, each from inside their own inheritance.
Two Reporters, One Newsroom
How we met as young reporters at The Albany Herald, how that romance found its way into Bill’s thrillers, and how we found each other again twenty years later.
Writing the Family Story
Two writers, two approaches to family history, and what we’ve learned about telling the truth about the people we love.
Phyllis McCoy Lightle…
Braided Book Party
Phyllis joins your book club, in person or via video, for an evening of conversation about From the Castle to the Cotton Mill and the questions at its heart.
What Women Were Denied
A thousand years of women’s autonomy, from medieval queens to Alabama cotton mills, and why it still matters now.
Genealogy Is the Door, Not the House
How to read between the lines of family records to recover the inner lives of the women in them. Ideal for genealogical and historical societies.
Bill Lightle…
Chasing the Story
A reporter’s life in 1980s South Georgia, and how it became the John Maynard and Abby Sinclair thrillers.
Dead River and the Flint
The real environmental history behind Bill’s first thriller.
Race & Politics: Coming of Age in Albany
Growing up in Albany in the years after the civil rights movement, from Bill’s memoir.
Justice and Other Spirit Animals
A warm talk about dogs, family, and compassion, especially for libraries, schools, and young readers.
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