Meet Author Anesa Miller at the Tucson Book Festival!

Meet Author Anesa Miller at the Tucson Book Festival!

University of Arizona campus, Tucson, Arizona
Festival Runs March 9th and 10th
Indie Authors Featured on Sun, Mar 10, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Link to Event: https://tucsonfestivalofbooks.org/

About I Never Do This: A Novel

“I will tell all in full truth and will hold nothing back to protect myself from the eyes of the law… I’m the only one who can tell it all.”

In country noir style, we hear the unforgettable voice of a young woman,
LaDene Faye Howell, who finds herself in police custody recounting her story after her paroled cousin Bobbie Frank appears and engages her in a crime spree.

LaDene Faye Howell grew up in the small town of Devola on an oxbow of the Muskingum River in southeast Ohio. Her conservative family is deeply religious, although another branch of the Howell clan are notorious criminals. When one of her outlaw relatives returns from prison, LaDene hopes the two of them may share an evening of fun, or even a spark of romance. Instead, Bobby Frank embroils her in kidnapping their old high school principal.

Taken into custody, LaDene recounts her misadventures in the form of a dramatic monologue. Pledging to “tell all in full truth” she hopes to keep herself out of jail and perhaps even soften Bobby’s likely sentence. She aims to capture her listeners’ sympathy by recounting a history she has never shared before: her teenage pregnancy and confinement at an unforgiving evangelical facility for wayward girls.

About the Author
Anesa Miller is a native of Wichita, Kansas, and winter resident of Patagonia, Arizona. She received an MFA in fiction-writing from the University of Idaho and an Artist Fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council. Her prose and poetry have appeared widely, and her previous novel, “Our Orbit,” was a finalist in regional fiction in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards.