Title:
Zeppelins Over Denver
Author: Michael T. Shay
ISBN:
9781564390905
Price:
$30 list, $35.22, signed and mailed
Print
length: 426 pages
Format:
Paperback
Publishing
date: May 5, 2026 by The Ridgeway Press of Michigan
How
to order: Venmo $35.22 (book plus USPS Media Mail shipping) to Hummingbird Minds Press on Venmo (307-241-2903); put address and name for signing in notes. It also is available on Amazon and at your favorite bookstore. My new favorite is Novel Tea Books in Ormond Beach, a place with comfy chairs and a distinctive selection of teas and munches. It is accessible for those of us in walkers, rollators, and e-scooters. I suggest using a rollator for the ramp in the back and for the quaint spaces inside. There's also a cool front porch with only two steps that can be managed easily.
BTW, when Ingram Spark was uncertain about pub date, I did a test order with Ann Patchett's Parnassus Books in Nashville (I'm reading one of her "Friday Favorites" now) and Books & Books in Miami, originator of the fantastic Miami Book Fair. It took about ten days but books arrived safely.
Zeppelins Over Denver is a historical novel set in 1919 Colorado
July 1919. Irish immigrant Patrick Hott and U.S. Army nurse Frannie Lee
meet on a train going west through Colorado. He's a lung patient headed for the
West's healing climate and she's off to an assignment at a new army hospital
outside Denver. As they strike up a conversation, neither realizes that the
train is hours away from a disaster that will upend their lives and bring them
together to face new dangers as America tries to forget The Great War and race
into the "Roaring Twenties." Inspired by his maternal grandmother's
war diary and years of research, Shay gives readers a new look at Colorado's
post-war boom that also saw the rise of the KKK, a "Red Scare"
prompted by fear of Bolsheviks, and labor strife fueled by the infamous Ludlow
Massacre
Michael
Shay’s work has appeared in High Plains
Literary Review, Nomad, Colorado
Review, Owen Wister Review, Poetry
Hotel, Flash Fiction Review, WyoFile,
Silver Birch Press, Working Words: Punching the Clock and Kicking Out the Jams from
Coffee House Press, and Blood, Water, Wind, and Stone: An Anthology of
Wyoming Writers. He was co-editor of the Pronghorn Press anthology Deep West: A Literary Tour of Wyoming. He’s
a graduate of Father Lopez High School, Daytona State College, and University
of Florida. He earned an M.F.A. in creative writing from Colorado State
University. Michael worked as an arts administrator for 25 years, promoting the
literary arts for the Wyoming Arts Council and the National Endowment for the
Arts. He and his family live in Ormond Beach, Fla.
Contact:
michaelshaywyo@gmail.com; hummingbirdsminds.blogspot.com; Michael Shay on Facebook
