Nothing pairs better with a Kentucky road trip than a book written by someone who actually knows these roads.

There's a version of entrepreneurship people talk about at parties. Be your own boss. Build something from nothing. Follow your passion. Sounds peaceful, right? Nobody mentions the part where you're staring at the ceiling at 2am redoing math you already checked twice that day. I run a bookstore, a tea parlor, a podcast, a radio station, and a small creative agency, and honestly some nights I couldn't tell you which one is keeping me up. It's rarely just one thing. It's a staf

Salt River hosts Friday After 5 events with live music, and has quickly become a place to gather, celebrate, and make memories together.

One book for you, one for a friend. Grab your next read, then grab something for the person who's always borrowing your books anyway. Half off makes it an easy yes.

Every reader has one. Some people keep it in a notebook by the bed. Some people have forty tabs open on Goodreads. Some people just have a stack of books on the nightstand that keeps growing sideways because there's no more room to grow up.

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There's a particular kind of quiet that happens when the teapot arrives at the table. Conversation slows down. For a few minutes, nothing else matters except the steam rising off a fresh pot and the tiered tray of treats waiting to be shared. That feeling is exactly what Pinkies Out was built to give you, and now it's happening every week in two communities. Two Locations, One Experience Pinkies Out started in Shepherdsville and has since grown into something bigger: a year-r

Issue No. 1, July 5, 2026 The Official Publication of From the Ground Up Books Welcome to The Signal Welcome to the very first issue of The Signal! Over the years, From the Ground Up Books has grown into so much more than a bookstore. Between Pinkies Out Tea Parlor, author events, Weirdos in the Wild, Salt River Current, workshops, community events, and everything else happening, it became clear that we needed one place to bring it all together. That's why we created The Sign

This isn’t your typical writing class. It’s eight weeks of learning, talking shop, asking questions, getting unstuck, and hanging out with people who understand why you’ve been thinking about Chapter 12 while standing in line at the grocery store.

Indie Author of the Week! William M. Crouch William M Crouch a fiction author from La Grange, Kentucky, where he was born and raised. He earned his bachelor's degree in Psychology at the University of Kentucky. Having spent 22 years in the facility services industry he has traveled all over the United States and amassed a plethora of stories and life experiences. He now spends his time writing, selling real estate, and reconnecting with the people of La Grange, over coffee, w

Indie Author of the Week! DeAnna Kaye Fields DeAnna Kaye Fields is finally pursuing her dream of being an author. She is a Christian first, wife second, and mother third, with a deep love for closed-door romance, small-town charm, and stories that feel like home. She lives in Hillview, Kentucky, with her husband. She has three grown daughters, one still currently at home, and two dogs. Her Shepherd's Grove stories are inspired by small-town life in places like Bullitt County.

Indie Author of the Week! Sara Marian Sara Marian was raised in the woods by wild English teachers and has been writing for as long as she can remember. She is also a partner in Per Bastet Publications, a small press based in southern Indiana. Her fiction blends genres including fantasy and urban fantasy, cyberpunk and steampunk, mystery, historical fiction, literary fiction and comedy, and she is the author of over 200 nonfiction articles on the Clio history website. Her day

Indie Author of the Week! Amy McCorkle Amy McCorkle was born and raised in Louisville, KY. She has lived in New Mexico and Texas, but currently lives in Shepherdsville, Kentucky. She is not only an award-winning blogger but also a successful author in the sci-fi erotic romance genre, with the novel No Ordinary Love and the upcoming release of the dark romantic suspense tale Another Way to Die. She has also been contracted for GLADIATOR, a Mad Max meets Gladiator series set to

Indie Author of the Week! Sandra Sanders Sandra Sanders is a registered nurse. She attends church and feels inspired to write a testimony on how religion and the Holy Spirit influenced her life. She was called by Christ to share her story with the world. Ink Happens Signing Event with Cody Burton May 16th from 1-4pm in the La Grange location Join us as we help Kayla Davenport launch the fourth book in her Beyond the Gates series. Meet Kayla in person, pick your favorite b

Indie Author of the Week! Lee Wright Lee Wright is a visionary author, storyteller, and passionate explorer of the mystical and the unknown. As the creative force behind The Grand Mystics Saga, an ambitious five-book epic fantasy series, he weaves together ancient magic, legendary heroes, dark prophecies, unforgettable quests, and richly imagined worlds that transport readers far beyond the ordinary. When he’s not crafting tales in hidden realms or developing the next chapter

Indie Author of the Week! Ellen Birkett Morris Ellen Birkett Morris is the author of Lost Girls: Short Stories, winner of the Pencraft Award. Her novel Beware the Tall Grass is the winner of the Donald L. Jordan Award for Literary Excellence and will be published in March 2024 by CSU Press. Her fiction has appeared in Shenandoah, Antioch Review, Notre Dame Review, and South Carolina Review, among other journals. She won the Bevel Summers Prize for short fiction. Morris is a r

Indie Author of the Week! Bobbi Buchanan Bobbi Buchanan has led therapeutic writing workshops for inmates and others in recovery from addiction and trauma since 2013. She promotes a self-care regimen of unplugging, communing with nature, and journaling. A poet and author, Buchanan taught college writing at Jefferson Community and Technical College and now teaches English at Valley High School in Louisville. She launched and ran a literary journal, New Southerner, for more tha

Indie Author of the Week! Carol Franks As a teacher, Carol June Franks wanted to write in a way to engage her students in reading and to model what it means to be a writer. Participating in Louisville Writing Project’s Summer Institute, Carol learned how to write alongside her students, interacting with them throughout the process. That’s how the ideas for Potato’s, Pawpaw and Me, Silent Tree Remembers, and Sled Ride Down Untrue Street began- as poems shared with her students

Indie Author of the Week! Teri Polen Teri Polen is the author of young adult horror, science fiction, and fantasy novels. Sarah, her debut novel, was a horror finalist in the 2017 Next Generation Indie Book Awards and named Subject A36 one of the 50 Best Indie Books of 2020. An avid reader, movie watcher, and chocolate lover, Teri lives in Bowling Green, KY with her husband and Feline Overlord, Bond. Ink Happens Signing Event with Author Celeste Black - April 18th, from noo

Indie Author of the Week! Eva Vertrice She didn’t always love to write. Let’s face it, she didn’t even know she could until her forties. But she always had in the back of her mind the bucket list item to write a book. Now, she honestly doesn’t know if she added it to the list with the intent of ever doing it, or if it was just one of those things you add with no intention of ever actually doing, but it sounds good. Kinda like jumping out of a perfectly good airplane. Never go