Jesse Suratt's peaceful rural existence is destroyed when he discovers drug dealers growing marijuana on the mountain behind his farm. When Jesse interfers to prevent the murder of a young woman, he finds himself in a struggle for his life.
Bob Sloan is a working writer who doesn't have, and isn't pursuing an MFA. He and his wife Julie live on thirty hillside acres east of Morehead, Kentucky, with a dog and an embarrassing number of cats. Their house once belonged to Bob's grandfather, and Bob's father. His Appalachian commentaries have been heard on NPR's "Morning Edition," and seen on the Herald-Leader's editorial page and Kentucky Educational Television and in the Christian Science Monitor.
Wind Publications has released three books from Bob: the short story collection Bearskin to Holly Fork: Stories From Appalachia and more recently, Home Call: A Novel of Kentucky. Nobody Knows, Nobody Sees: A Novel of Appalachia, a sequel to Home Call, was published in the spring of 2006.
Bob has won a Gold Medal from the Faulkner Society of New Orleans, and a PRNDI from the professional association of public radio news directors.
He says his goal as a writer is "to write honest stories that reflect the hard lot and the intelligence of the Appalachian working class and working poor."
