Events and Appearances by Don Keith

Don Keith and Elaine Hume Peake will join Pacific Northwest writers' group The Wordherders for a presentation. Members can join the Zoom event beginning at 6:30 PM PDST.

Speaking and booksigning event at Williamson County Public Library, Franklin, Tennessee. Don and co-author Elaine Hume Peake talk about THE KABOOM BOYS and THE BLACKSMITH OF DACHAU and other projects. Books will be available for purchase and signing by the authors.

Official book release day for DARKEST BEFORE DAWN, the second book in THE TIDES OF WAR SERIES from best-selling authors George Wallace and Don Keith. Those who have pre-ordered the book will see it listed in their Kindle e-book devices on this day or paper edition purchasers will receive their copy.

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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