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Planning Book Tour

I’ve already started planning the details of a book tour after releasing my investigative memoir, Because: A CIA Coverup and a Son’s Odyssey to Find the Father He Never Knew, on June 15 (Father’s Day), 2025. Brenda and I plan to travel in a small RV from Florida to Maine next summer and fall. In each city we plan to visit, I’m attempting to contact the local independent bookstore that is willing to provide the books and/or host a reading/signing event, as well as get the contact information for local newspapers, radio/TV stations, American Legion and VFW posts, public libraries, and yes, even Episcopal and other churches. This planning project is turning into a full-time job, but I feel compelled to set the record straight about the life and death of a man, as one of my endorsers states, who “stood up for ethical conduct in the face of serious resistance.” Given current affairs, this story should be a timely and appropriate topic. I’m glad I’m retired and will have fewer farm chores this fall and winter. A publicist would want a fortune for what I’m doing.

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By James b. Wells

JAMES B. WELLS is a retired criminology and criminal justice professor in the School of Justice Studies in the College of Justice, Safety, and Military Science at Eastern Kentucky University, and is the recipient of the 2025 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences John Howard Award, an award given intermittently, upon significant demand, to recognize an individual who has made significant and sustained contributions to the practice of corrections. A former carpenter, soldier, and correctional officer in a super-maximum-security prison and later as a researcher/planner assisting architects in prison design, he has multiple degrees, including an M.S. in Criminal Justice, a Ph.D. in Research, and an MFA in Creative Writing. He’s authored or co-authored over sixty-five books, chapters, articles, and essays, as well as over a hundred and fifty research reports for various local, state, and federal agencies. Recent essays from his research and memoir work appear or are forthcoming in Collateral Journal, About Place Journal, Wild Roof Journal, Military Experience and the Arts, The Wrath-Bearing Tree, Shift, Proud to be: Writing by American Warriors, Trajectory Journal, and From Pen to Page III: More Writings from the Bluegrass Writers Coalition.

His investigative memoir about his father's still CIA-classified death in Vietnam in 1965, titled Because: A CIA Coverup and a Son’s Odyssey to Find the Father He Never Knew, will be launched on Father's Day weekend, 2025. Links to publications, presentations, trailers, social media, blog, and other information can be found at https://jamesbwells.com. James enjoys spending much of his leisure time with his spouse on their Lexington, Kentucky farm located on the palisades of the Kentucky River, where he is an organic gardener and beekeeper.

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