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BookPeople Events. Scott Semegran in conversation with James Wade. March 28, 2024 at 7pm.

THE CODGER AND THE SPARROW Book Launch Event at BookPeople

Scott Semegran in conversation with James Wade. March 28, 2024 at 7pm.

Location: BookPeople

Address: 603 N Lamar Blvd, Austin, TX 78703

Date: March 28, 2024

Time: 7pm

RSVP and preorder your copy of THE CODGER AND THE SPARROW for this event.

RSVP and preorder the book!

BookPeople Events. Scott Semegran in conversation with James Wade. March 28, 2024 at 7pm.

THE CODGER AND THE SPARROW Book Launch Event at Nowhere Bookshop

Scott Semegran in conversation with Andrew Porter. March 30, 2024 at 6pm.

Location: Nowhere Bookshop

Address: 5154 Broadway, San Antonio, TX 78209

Date: March 30, 2024

Time: 6pm

Preorder your copy of THE CODGER AND THE SPARROW for this event.

Preorder the book!

Austin Public Library Greater Austin Book Fest

Austin Public Library’s Greater Austin Book Festival

Scott Semegran will be selling and signing copies of THE CODGER AND THE SPARROW

Location: Austin Public Library - Central Library

Address: 710 W. César Chávez St., Austin, TX 78701

Date: May 11, 2024

Time: 10am - 5pm

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Cover Reveal for THE CODGER AND THE SPARROW

Here’s the cover for my new novel THE CODGER AND THE SPARROW from TCU Press. Release date is 3/22/2024 and it will be available in paperback and eBook everywhere you buy books. The front cover features a blurb from New York Times bestselling author Kevin Wilson. "Wondrous... told with such an abundance of both humor and tenderness.

I’d like to thank all of the authors who wrote blurbs and will also be featured on the back cover as well as inside of the book: Annie Hartnett, James Wade, Stacey Swann, Aaron Burch, Thomas H. McNeely, C. Matthew Smith, Johnnie Bernhard, Ran Walker, Philip Elliott, Brian Kindall, and Rick Treon! Thank you all for taking the time to read my new novel and write such wonderful things about it. My heart is full!

I’m so excited to be releasing this book into the world with a rambunctious story about an unusual friendship stretching across the generations, filled with humor and a bit of grace. I hope everyone falls in love with this special friendship between Hank the “codger” and Luis the “sparrow.” And thank y’all for reading all these words about my new book. It means a lot to me.

Read more about the book here: https://scottsemegran.com/books/the-codger-and-the-sparrow.html

THE CODGER AND THE SPARROW will be published by TCU Press in 2024

I'm excited to officially announce that my new novel THE CODGER AND THE SPARROW will be published by TCU Press in 2024! It's a dream come true to collaborate with this prestigious university press. Thank you TCU Press and my agent Mark Falkin!

"A dream come true." I can't say it more plainly than that. I'm so grateful to Charlotte Gullick and my wife Lori Hoadley for helping me edit this new novel into something special.

Thank you to all of my writer friends who generously spent time reading and blurbing this novel: Kevin Wilson, Annie Hartnett, James Wade, Stacey Swann, Brian Kindall, Thomas H. McNeely, C. Matthew Smith, Johnnie Bernhard, Ran Walker, Philip Elliott, and Rick Treon, Author.

Thank you to Jeff Loftin for taking a stellar photo of me for the book.

And thank you to my family and friends who enthusiastically read an early version of this novel and provided me valuable feedback.

2024 can't come soon enough! Looking forward to seeing this dream come to fruition!

Scott Semegran Signs with Falkin Literary

I signed with an awesome literary agent on October 21, 2022: Mark Falkin at Falkin Literary! I'm excited to see what the future brings this humble writer.

After 30 years of searching for the right literary agent and publishing eight books myself, it feels great to traditionally publish my ninth book and to have a fabulous literary agent on my side. Great news coming soon about my new novel!

To read more about my forthcoming novel The Codger and the Sparrow (2024, TCU Press), please go here.

For more about Falkin Literary, please go here.