BPL Local Author Reading Challenge: T.K. Thorne
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| T.K. Thorne, author of House of Rose |
Who: TK Thorne
Book: House of Rose
Details: House of Rose is the first of a trilogy, where murder and mayhem mix with a little magic when a Birmingham police officer discovers she’s a witch.
Video of Thorne reading: https://tkthorne.com/t-k-reading-from-house-of-rose/
Retired Birmingham police captain turned author T.K. Thorne has answered BPL’s Reading Challenge, reciting a passage from her book House of Rose.
As a service for folks stuck at home due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Birmingham Public Library has been spotlighting books being read by past participants of the BPL Local Authors Expo. The BPL Reading Challenge kicked off April 1 with Spin It Like That by Chandra Sparks Splond, an award-winning Birmingham-based author, editor and blogger.
Thorne's newest novel, the first of a trilogy, is House of Rose, where murder and mayhem mix with a little magic when a police officer discovers she’s a witch.
Click here for links to books by Thorne on Amazon
Thorne’s childhood passion for storytelling deepened when she became a police officer in Birmingham. “It was a crash course in life, what motivated and mattered to people,” she said.
When she retired as a captain, she took on Birmingham’s business improvement district as the executive director of the City Action Partnership (CAP) before retiring again to write full time. Both careers and a Master’s Degree in Social Work from the University of Alabama provide fodder for her writing.
Thorne has written two award-winning historical novels, Noah’s Wife and Angels at the Gate, of the untold backstories of extraordinary unnamed women—the wives of Noah and Lot—in two of the world’s most famous sagas.
The New York Post’s “Books You Should Be Reading” list featured her first non-fiction book, Last Chance for Justice, which details the investigators’ behind-the-scenes stories of the case and trials related to the 1963 Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing that killed four little black girls in Birmingham.
When not writing novels, Thorne loves traveling and speaking about her books and life lessons. She writes at her mountaintop home near Birmingham, often with a dog and a cat vying for her lap.
Thorne also blogs about “What Moves Me” on her website, www.TKThorne.com. Join her private newsletter email list and receive two free short stories by clicking on “TK’s Korner.”
Other authors who have participated in past BPL Local Authors Expo are invited to send video links of them reading a portion of one or more of their books.
BPL will feature the authors on the BPL website, www.cobpl.org, BPL Facebook page and BPL Twitter page.
Interested authors should send the following to BPL Public Relations Director Roy Williams to his email roy.williams@cobpl.org:
* Author name and year they participated in the Local Authors Expo
* Video link to a reading of his/her book
* Brief description of the book
* Brief author bio
* Link to author website or link to where people can buy the book
* Head shot author photo and book cover
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