Events and Appearances by Don Keith

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. 

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/ 

Prolific and best-selling author Don Keith is more than just responsible for more than 40 books, many of which have ended up on best-seller lists, have won many literary awards, and have been made into motion pictures. He is also a long-time licensed and active amateur radio operator with the call sign N4KC. Four of his books are about the hobby of ham radio. 

Keith will be in attendance at the annual Huntsville Hamfest, one of the nation's largest gathering of amateur radio enthusiasts, in Huntsville, Alabama, August 16 and 17, 2025. The ham radio convention takes place at the Von Braun Civic Center.

N4KC will have copies of many of his books--including those dealing with amateur radio--available for sale and autographing.

For more on author Don Keith's books dealing with ham radio, visit his hobby website here: https://www.donkeith.com/hamradio/amateur-radio

Best-selling and award-winning author Don Keith will be the guest speaker for the monthly adult group meeting at Indian Springs First Baptist Church in Indian Springs Village, Alabama, on June 12, 2025. The meeting begins at 11 AM.

Don will speak to the group about his career as a broadcaster and how he became a best-selling author of books on a wide range of subjects, including history, submarine warfare, World War II, NASCAR racing, and more. He will also talk about his most recent release, THE GIBRALTAR AFFAIR, which he co-wrote with former nuclear submarine captain George Wallace, and two upcoming books that will be the first works in a couple of ambitious historical fiction series. THE KABOOM BOYS and ARGENTIA STATION are both set in World War II and allow readers to experience totally different views of the war than they may have read before.

To learn more about Don Keith and his more than forty published works, visit his web site at https://www.donkeith.com/ 

Award-winning and best-selling author Don Keith will be in attendance at the ham radio hamfest event sponsored by Birmingham Amateur Radio Club. Don is an active ham radio operator and holds the FCC callsign N4KC. Among his 41 published books are four dedicated to the amateur radio hobby. Keith has written extensively on a broad range of subjects including three historical fiction novels that will debut in 2025.

THE GIBRALTAR AFFAIR, co-written with former submarine captain George Wallace, is the tenth book in THE HUNTER KILLER SERIES and publishes in May.

THE KABOOM BOYS, co-written with award-winning TV journalist Elaine Hume Peake, will be released in September. It is the first book in the A CALL TO WAR SERIES set in WWII and just after.

The first book in a new World War II series by Don Keith and George Wallace, ARGENTIA STATION, publishes in November 2025. It is set in the submarine service just before and during WWII. The series will be titled THE TIDES OF WAR.

Click here to learn more about the Birmingham, Alabama, hamfest, and to learn more about the hobby of amateur radio.

Click here to see more on Don Keith's N4KC ham radio books.

Award-winning and best-selling author Don Keith will be participating in the annual Alabama Writers Forum convention September 6, 7, and 8, 2024, at Orange Beach, Alabama. In addition to other activities, Don Keith will conduct a seminar on how writers can overcome some of the more commonplace roadblocks they face. That includes overcoming writers block, finding a publisher, finding an agent, advantages and disadvantages of self-publishing. Don will also be available throughout the Alabama Writers Forum conference to speak informally with other would be authors. 

Several of the books by author Don Keith will be available for sale at the AWF convention bookstore, including his fiction and non-fiction titles like SOUTHERN CROSS, the latest in his HUNTER KILLER SERIES of military thrillers.

For more on the Alabama Writers Forum and its annual convention, visit https://writersforum.org/news/ 

Best-selling and award-winning author Don Keith is also an active amateur radio enthusiast (ham radio) and hold the callsign N4KC.  He will be attending this year's Huntsville Hamfest, August 17 and 18, 2024, at VonBraun Civic Center in Huntsville, Alabama. This event is acknowledged to be the third most attended gathering for ham radio operators in the nation. Don will be manning a booth and offering his four books on the hobby of amateur radio. He will also have available several of his fiction and non-fiction works and will be happy autograph copies for purchasers. 

See https://hamfest.org/ for more about the Huntsville Hamfest in Huntsville, Alabama

See https://www.arrl.org/ for more about the hobby of ham or amateur radio

See https://www.donkeith.com/n4kc/ for more about Don Keith N4KC and his activities in and writings about amateur radio

Award-winning and best-selling author Don Keith will be attending the BirmingHamfest ham radio get-together. Don is an active ham radio operator--callsign N4KC--and has written several books for those interested in the hobby of amateur radio. He will be offering and signing those books at BirmingHamfest in addition to other works, including WWII history and biographical titles on such notables as Shelley Stewart, Chuck Yeager, and Admiral Eugene Fluckey.

The event will be held at the Trussville, Alabama, Civic Center, 5381 Trussville-Clay Road, 
Trussville, AL