{"id":719,"date":"2016-02-29T20:26:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T20:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cowbudpub.com\/?p=719"},"modified":"2016-02-29T20:46:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T20:46:48","slug":"cbp-new-author-rickie-lee-reynolds-blytheville-bookstore-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cowbudpub.com\/?p=719","title":{"rendered":"That Bookstore in Blytheville Book Signing for New CBP Author Rickie Lee Reynolds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo by Ward Boult<\/p><\/div>\n

That Bookstore in Blytheville will host the first book signing for Evil Thingies<\/em><\/a>, our latest book release! The book is a fantasy tale written by Rickie Lee Reynolds<\/a>, an original member of Southern rock band Black Oak Arkansas. The event will take place at 1 p.m. Saturday, March 5, at 316 W. Main St. in Blytheville. <\/p>\n

After more than 50 years of touring the world, and still going strong, Reynolds has transformed what once were bedtime stories for his daughters into a novel filled with adventure, good vs. evil, humor and even love. \u201cI began planting the small seed that would become this book as far back as the 1990s,\u201d he said. \u201cI would tell little snips of it as a bedtime story to my daughters and then leave them hanging as to what would happen next. It made them anxious for bedtime instead of fighting it for late-night TV.\u201d <\/p>\n

During the winter months when Black Oak Arkansas wasn\u2019t touring as often, Reynolds put down on paper what he\u2019d been \u201cbabbling about\u201d to his daughters all those years ago. Evil Thingies<\/em> takes readers on a wild journey as they explore how everyday people pull their inner strengths together to save Earth from annihilation. The most evil character \u2013 named \u201cHE\u201d \u2013 represents the bad man faces every day, in every country, in every religion. \u201cIt\u2019s the kind of bad that you can\u2019t negotiate with and must stop whenever possible,\u201d Reynolds said. \u201cHE is only one of a race of beings seeking a toehold into other worlds, but HE is evil with ambition. This cannot and will not be tolerated \u2013 in fantasy or in real life. The worst thing man can do is nothing when evil shows its face.\u201d<\/p>\n

About the Author<\/strong>
\nBorn Oct. 28, 1948, in Manila, Ark., Reynolds spent his younger years in California. His family moved back to Arkansas during his teenage years. In the small town of Monette, Ark., he entered into what would become a lifelong friendship with a classmate named James \u201cJim Dandy\u201d Mangrum. After 53 years of playing music together in Black Oak Arkansas, they have achieved three gold and platinum albums and one gold single for \u201cJim Dandy to the Rescue\u201d \u2013 the recording of which was inspired by Elvis. The band has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to charities, not only in Arkansas but also across the nation. After writing hundreds of songs and two poems, Reynolds has turned his hand to being an author. He lives in Memphis, Tenn., with his dog, Dollie, and son Nick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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