Award-winning storyteller J.A. Bolton will hold a book signing event for his new book, “Just Passing Time,” later this month.
“J.A. Bolton was raised along the banks of the Pee Dee River,” according to a release from the Anson County Writers Club. “His dad would take him over to the old country stores on both sides of Pee Dee River bridge. Why, the one in Anson County even had a black bear to feed. J.A. loved to set around the stores and hear the old characters tell their tales. Won’t long he was telling with the best of them.”
Thomas Heffernan, author of “Working Voices,” praised Bolton’s book.
“While we are laughing, we are sharing a sense of humor that is older than we are,” Heffernan said. “The sort of passing time we hear in Bolton’s deft, canny collecting is itself a bridge connecting now and then.”
Bolton’s book promises tales of “coon hounds, fishing crappie, a tater pie, rattlesnakes, hunting, gigging suckers, an old truck, the Greatest Generation, cowboys, and much, much more” on the back cover description.
Bolton, a regular columnist for the Anson Record and the Richmond County Daily Journal, is a member of the Anson County Writers Club and the chairman of the club’s Carolinas Writers Conference Back Porch Stories committee; he was a featured presenter for Back Porch Stories at the Ansonia Theater in 2015 and was a moderator for the event in 2014 and 2016.
Bolton also took first place in the ninth annual Bold-Faced Liars’ Showdown in Laurinburg last January.
“Just Passing Time” is available on Amazon.com both in paperback and for Kindle.
The book signing and reception will be held at the Little Theater in the H.B. Allen Library from 3-4 p.m. Oct. 30.
