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Quirk Fun Summer Read - image of cover of Barbara's Desert Cafe - "No one but Kevin Jones could have written this alternatively rollicking, tender, hilarious, fascinating, and compassionate book -- with recipes" quote from Steven Trimble. Image of Kevin T. Jones with gray hair and beard wearing a hat and sunglasses. Available from Amazon, Bookshop.org, Kobo, and many other booksellers worldwide via Ingram.

Barbara's Desert Cafe

"No one but Kevin Jones could have written this alternatively rollicking, tender, hilarious, fascinating, and compassionate book -- with recipes" Steven Trimble.

Available from Amazon, Bookshop.org, Kobo, and many other booksellers worldwide via Ingram.

"In the four volumes of her Consulting Detective series - beginning with The Crack in the Lens - Cypser chronicles the early life of Sherlock Holmes while weaving in many of the untold adventures mentioned in the Conan Doyle canon." Steve Steinbock, The Jury Box, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine March/April 2025

"In the four volumes of her Consulting Detective series - beginning with The Crack in the Lens- Cypser chronicles the early life of Sherlock Holmes while weaving in many of the untold adventures mentioned in the Conan Doyle canon." Steve Steinbock, Jury Box, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Spring 2025

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Kevin T. Jones, author of Barbara's Desert Cafe, will be signing books at Back of Beyond Books, Moab, Utah on August 16 from 5 pm to 7 pm.

Kevin T. Jones, author of Barbara's Desert Cafe, will be signing books at Back of Beyond Books, Moab, Utah on August 16 from 5 pm to 7 pm.

Book cover for The Wandspringer by Robert C. Edgar. Cover features a person wearing a long coat and beret in front of a narrow tower with a row of 1960s East German cars at the bottom

Book cover for Search for the Signet, an Orion Labauve novel by LL Blacke. A young man with black curly hair with a streak of white, wearing jeans and a purple jacket is holding a magic sphere. Behind him is an old Southern mansion.

Next two books coming: The Wandspringer and Search for the Signet.

Hellllooooo Brick and Mortar stores!

If you list our books on your website, we link to your website!
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Many of those sites are merely affiliate marketing sites that merely want your clicks.

‘Four Corners Voices’ anthology wins 2025 Colorado Book Award “Four Corners Voices,” an anthology created by the Four Corners Writers, was awarded a Colorado Book Award at the 2025 Colorado Book Awards in Denver on July 26. The award ceremony, which was hosted b...

Anthology including an earlier version of a excerpt from Barbara's Desert Cafe won a Colorado Book Award. www.tricityrecordnm.com/articles/fou...

That's an insult to clowns.

And I hear they are interested in doing an event for The Wandspringer release.

Why Cheap Promo is No Bargain: One Unusually Prolific Example - Writer Beware A literary agent recently reached out to me to let me know that one of their authors (a well-known literacy advocate) was being impersonated via a message falsely sent out under the author’s name. The...

If you are a writer you should be familiar with Writers Beware, your best source to learn about scams to separate you from your money. Sometimes even free is not a deal for you, but rather a source of affiliate income for the website. writerbeware.blog/2025/02/21/w...

We have some science fiction & fantasy books coming out soon. We are actively seeking reviewers, podcasters, readers, etc who want review copies. It seems many of those we used to work with have stopped writing or have been inundated by large publishers.

Ten years in the life of young Sherlock Holmes in four books. Also available from bookshop.org/shop/Foolsca...

While we were out, the number of online distributors of Barbara's Desert Cafe doubled. It is now offered on Walmart's website and more foreign distributors.
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While we were out the number of sites offering the audiobook of The Crack in the Lens doubled - including its return to Audible under the new distributor.

Walmart's website also picked up the paperback version of the entire Consulting Detective series.
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We still have some review copies for Barbara's Desert Cafe as well.

Looking for reviewers, bloggers & podcasters! We are publishing two books in August. One is a mid-grade time travel adventure about a girl looking for a hero to save her father who finds the hero in herself. The other is a magical realism story about an old curse & a new hero. DM for review copies.

Need a laugh? Or a recipe? Get the ebook of Barbara's Desert Cafe now!

Sneak peak at another book coming out this summer:
The Wandspringer

Barbara’s Desert Café explores history, mystery and culture As he prepares to appear at the Mesa Verde Literary Conference and Festival in Mancos, archaeologist and author Kevin T. Jones is celebrating the release of his debut novel. The story, focused in the ...

Farmington, New Mexico newspaper covers Barbara's Desert Cafe:
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Barbara's Desert Cafe Check out Barbara's Desert Cafe - <p>When Mormon pioneers became lost and were saved by a band of Ute Indians, they learned of the incredible Native artworks painted and etched in the cliffs and canyo...

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‎Barbara's Desert Cafe ‎Mysteries & Thrillers · 2025

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The paperback version of Barbara's Desert Cafe is currently ranked 21st (lower right corner) under Cultural, Ethnic and Regional Humor on Amazon.

Cover of Barbara's Desert Cafe by Kevin T. Jones with illustrations by Carel P. Brest van Kampen which includes a multicolor Native American design. A sunburst has the words Barbara's Desert Cafe Quirky Fun Summer Read inside it. There is a QR code in the lower right side of the image.

Barbara's Desert Cafe -> Quirky Fun Summer Read

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Barbara's Desert Cafe paperback is now live on Amazon. If this book does not make you laugh, check your pulse; you may be dead.

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