The 2025 Louisiana Book Festival will be held on Saturday, November 1.
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Shirley McCoy

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Shirley McCoy grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and started writing at an early age. As she grew older, she developed a love of paranormal romance and decided to write one of her own, The Smoke and the Flame. Her novel, If the Shoe Fits, was featured at the 2017 Louisiana Book Festival. Currently, McCoy is hard at work on her next book, Welcome to Niceville, in which a woman wakes up in 1955 with no memory.

 

Schedule

9:00 am to 10:00 am

State Capitol, Senate Committee Room A

Dead Guys to Dragons: Fantastical Fiction

with Diana Marie Dubois and Shirley McCoy

 

10:15 am to 11:00 am

Cavalier House Books Tent

Book Signing

Dragon Song

Dragons rule the world. Princess Morgan Talbot of Esterhaven knows one rules her. Rownar, the most powerful dragon of all, forced a magical bond with her at a tender age. He intends to corrupt her soul, then consume her body. Now of age, Morgan knows she must take back her life and defeat Rownar, and all his kind. Connor O'Malley is the greatest dragon slayer alive. He spends one memorable night with Morgan, never thinking to see her again. Until he does. He is deeply shaken to learn the woman he fell for is a princess and determined to conquer Rownar herself. When Connor offers to train her, Morgan reluctantly accepts. Now an epic battle will begin, for a princess's life, her soul, her kingdom, and the world.