Events and Appearances by Don Keith

Author Don Keith will be attending the Impact Book Festival, presented by the Impact Arts Council at the Fultondale Event Center, 2980 Hawkins Ln, Fultondale, AL, on Saturday, April 18, 2026 from 10AM to 3PM. Don will have copies of his recent books available for purchase and signing including HUNTER KILLER, THE KABOOM BOYS, THE BLACKSMITH OF DACHAU, and ARGENTIA STATION. Click HERE for more info.

Award-winning former broadcaster and now award-winning author Don Keith will be a part of a special event for "Legends of Broadcast." The Alabama Historical Radio Society sponsors the annual event to honor radio and TV broadcasters from Alabama and around the Southeast USA. This year's event will be on Thursday, April 16, 2026, starting at 10 AM at the society's museum and workshop, 1801 Reverend Abraham Woods Jr. Blvd in Birmingham, Alabama.

The facility includes a state-of-the-art shop, an extensive electronics library, a broadcast and communications equipment museum, and a fully functional 1960s radio broadcast studio.

Montevallo will host the 2nd Annual Backyard Book Fest on Saturday, March 14, 2026 from 10:00 - 3:00. It will take place in the Pecan Grove of Orr Park located at 940 Island Street.  

The Backyard Book Fest will feature vendors who are selling book themed crafts, accessories, authors, and more.  The day will  include a full schedule of events, with story-times, trivia, book themed costume contest, featured author talks, games, and make & take crafts. And of course, the perfect opportunity to find a new favorite author or book. Proceeds of the event benefit the Parnell Memorial Library Foundation that works to enhance the offerings to the community by the Parnell Memorial Library, as well as building expansion projects.

Among those who will be attending is award-winning and best-selling Alabama author Don Keith. He will have his latest releases available for purchase and autographing, and will also conduct a forum at 1:30 on writing to be published and read, highlighting the many ways authors can have their works published and made available for purchase by readers.

"I am especially excited about helping support this festival and Parnell Memorial Library," Keith says. "As a kid, I found my interest in reading and writing through the St. Clair County library's bookmobile. Then my first novel, THE FOREVER SEASON, received the Alabama Library Association's "Fiction of the Year" honor in 1997, and one of my latest, THE KABOOM BOYS, has just been named one of the best books of 2025 by The Library Journal."

Best-selling and award-winning author Don Keith, who is also an active amateur radio enthusiast, will be attending and exhibiting at the annual BirmingHamfest ham radio event. The hamfest takes place March 6 and 7, 2026, at the Trussville Civic Center, 5381 Trussville-Clay Road, Trussville, Alabama. Keith will have copies of his amateur radio books available as well his other works, including HUNTER KILLER, a military thriller that was the basis for the hit motion picture starring Gerard Butler and Gary Oldman, THE KABOOM BOYS, a WWII historical thriller, and ARGENTIA STATION, the first book in a new series of submarine thrillers set in World War II. 

Don Keith, who holds the amateur radio call sign N4KC, has been an active ham radio enthusiast for most of his life and credits the hobby for a long, successful career in radio broadcasting. His amateur radio books that will be available at the BirmingHamfest event will include RIDING THE SHORTWAVES, GET ON THE AIR...NOW, and THE AMATEUR RADIO DICTIONARY. If attendees already have copies of any of Keith's books, the author says he will be happy to sign and enscribe them if they bring them to the Birmingham amateur radio event.

Authors Don Keith and Elaine Hume Peake will celebrate the release of the second book in their A CALL TO WAR SERIES of historical fiction at a special South Florida book launch on March 3, 2026, at 7PM. The event will take place at one the region's largest and best known bookstores, Books & Books, located at 265 Aragon Avenue in Coral Gables. Elaine Hume Peake and Don Keith will be signing THE BLACKSMITH OF DACHAU, which releases that day, on March 3.

The authors will also be signing and discussing the initial release in the A CALL TO WAR SERIES, THE KABOOM BOYS, a previous number one Amazon bestseller. Both books are historical fiction but were inspired by the actual experiences of Elaine Hume Peake's father, one of the first US Army Air Forces' first bomb disposal captains in World War II. In the review of that book, Library Journal said in a starred review, "...riveting historical fiction that captures the extreme physical and psychological stress of war and the bravery required to deal with its aftereffects. Highly recommended."

THE BLACKSMITH OF DACHAU continues the story from THE KABOOM BOYS, but the books do not have to be read in order. Each book stands alone. 

The historical novels The Kaboom Boys and The Blacksmith of Dachau plus other upcoming books in the A Call to War Series of historical fiction will be the topic of discussion. Bestselling authors Don Keith and Elaine Hume Peake join the Neighborhood Burke, Virginia, Book Club via Zoom for discussion of this team's exciting new World War II series based on actual events.

A number of e-books by award-winning and bestselling author Don Keith are on sale for the rest of 2025 at fifty percent off regular price at the Smashwords platform. Those include Don Keith titles dealing with the hobby of amateur radio (Don Keith is an active ham radio operator with the callsign N4KC), DREAM ON, the biography of Birmingham artist Steve Skipper, and the novels THE SPIN and WIZARD OF THE WIND e-book editions.

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Elaine Hume Peake and Don Keith will visit with the Wellesley Post Office Book Club, Wellesley Free Library, Boston, Massachusetts, via Zoom. The event will take place in the Arnold Room at the main library, beginning at 6:30 PM on Wednesday, November 19. While the event is hosted by the book club, members of the general public are welcome to attend in person. No prior registration is required.

Don Keith and Elaine Hume Peake will be discussing their new bestselling historical novel, The Kaboom Boys, an epic World War II novel described by The Library Journal as "...riveting historical fiction that captures the extreme physical and psychological stress of war and the bravery required to deal with its aftereffects. Highly recommended."  The novel is available in paper, e-book, and audio book wherever books are sold, including via Amazon.

  The Kaboom Boys is the first book in the authors' series, A Call to War. Book #2, The Blacksmith of Dachau, will be released on March 3, 2026.

For directions to the library and more, visit the Wellesley Free Library website.

For more on books by bestselling and award-winning author Don Keith, visit his website. There is also info there about another new series of WW2 historical fiction, The Tides of War Series, co-authored with former nuclear submarine captain George Wallace.

Author Don Keith will speak to the Jefferson County Historical Association about the value of and methods available to capture and archive oral histories. The presentation will coincide with Keith's Untold Millions Project in which he urges people to document recollections of people involved in what he calls "eyewitness history." He maintains a website detailing the project and has published a short e-book about the subject.

Keith has written extensively about historical subjects, both fiction and non-fiction.

"We bury or cremate millions of people who have valuable stories and remembrances that will forever remain untold," Keith says. "But with today's technology, it is easier than ever to capture those stories and make them available for family members, historians, and writers like me."

The presentation will be during the Jefferson County (Alabama) Historical Association's quarterly meeting, beginning at 6:30 PM, at the Mountain Brook City Hall, 56 Church Street, Mountain Brook, Alabama. The public is invited to attend along with members of the association. 

To learn more about the organization, visit the Jefferson County Historical Association's website at: https://jeffcohistory.com/ 

Elaine Hume Peake, co-author with Don Keith of the historical novel THE KABOOM BOYS, will be a part of the 62nd annual Havre de Grace Art Show in Havre de Grace, Maryland. Elaine, who is a native of the area, will conduct a "pop up coffee talk"--which is a new feature of the long-running and very popular event--on Sunday, October 19. The event takes place at Tydings Memorial Park and Concord Point Park, Saturday and Sunday, October 18 and 19, 2025. See more about the art show along with a schedule of events and directions here: https://hdgartshow.org/ 

Peake will be talking about the new World War II historical fiction book THE KABOOM BOYS, now available wherever books are sold, as well as the three sequels upcoming, all a part of the A CALL TO WAR SERIES. The books follow a young man from Pennsylvania who seeks a more exciting and adventurous life by enlisting as a bomb disposal captain in World War II. A portion of the first novel takes place at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. Peake is writing the series along with prolific bestselling author Don Keith. The aim is to tell a powerful personal story of the experiences of the bomb disposal captain--modeled on Peake's father, who was one of the first BD captains in WWII--and his squad of misfits as they work their way across France and Germany after D-day, "winning the war one defuzed bomb at a time." But they do so in a unit with a life expectancy at the time of only ten weeks. And their duty offers a unique perspective on the brutality of war but also on the bravery and perseverance on the part of those everyday people most affected by it.

The novel is already in the top ten in sales in a number of Amazon's most competitive categories and received the coveted "starred review" and "highly recommended" tag from LIBRARY JOURNAL.

To learn more about THE KABOOM BOYS, visit https://severnriverbooks.com/products/the-kaboom-boys 

To learn more about the A CALL TO WAR SERIES of historical fiction books, visit https://severnriverbooks.com/products/the-kaboom-boys 

To learn more about other books by Don Keith, visit https://www.donkeith.com/# 

To learn more about the 62nd Annual Havre de Grace Art Show in Havre de Grace, Maryland, visit https://hdgartshow.org/