{"product_id":"yance-wyatt-in-conversation-with-bradley-sides-featuring-the-watersmith-at-old-black-bear-brewing","title":"Yance Wyatt in Conversation with Bradley Sides (featuring 'The Watersmith') at Old Black Bear Brewing","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(183, 97, 11);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSaturday, October 10 from 4:00-5:30 PM\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(183, 97, 11);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eEvent Ticket Includes:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdmission to the private event at Old Black Bear Brewing, located at 212 Main Street in Madison, Alabama, on Saturday, October 10 from 4:00-5:30 PM\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA signed copy of \u003ci\u003eThe Watersmith \u003c\/i\u003eby Yance Wyatt\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYour choice of a moonshine-based cocktail or other alcoholic or nonalcoholic drink from the bar at OBB\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlus One Ticket\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e(which can ONLY be purchased in conjunction with the Event Ticket)\u003c\/strong\u003e includes all of the above EXCEPT for a copy of the book. Limited quantities available.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdditional copies of \u003cem\u003eThe Watersmith\u003c\/em\u003e will be available for purchase and signing at the event. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*Attendees must be age 21 or older\u003cbr\u003e**Tickets are nonrefundable. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWe are thrilled to partner with our downtown neighbor Old Black Bear Brewing to host a special author event featuring Yance Wyatt in conversation with Huntsville author Bradley Sides about his debut novel, The Watersmith (which has recently earned a glowing endorsement by bestselling author Silas House!).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYance is a native southerner-turned-USC professor who is touring the south with his fascinating book in which a moonshine still serves as a plot catalyst, so when he proposed an event with us, we suggested having it just down the street at OBB, where they distill their own moonshine!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYour ticket to this private event will include a signed copy of the book and a custom moonshine-based cocktail (or other drink of your choice). You will have the option to order food at OBB and handle that transaction separately. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eABOUT THE BOOK\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen hard-drinking handyman Jack Calloway discovers an old moonshine still behind the Smoky Mountain cabin he plans to flip, his teenage son dares him to get it running. Jack accepts— until his wife, Jolene, tries to sabotage the first batch and is horribly burned in the process. Wracked with guilt, Jack sends their son away and moves Jolene into the cabin to recover while he tries to sober up. Doctors diagnose Jolene with a rare post-traumatic dementia that responds only to scent— smell being the strongest trigger of memory. Desperate to help, Jack begins distilling essential oils from her favorite flowers, searching for the one that might bring her back. When a fleeting moment of clarity during a visit from their son slips away again, Jack grows frantic— willing to distill anything in his grasp to reach her. A haunting, tender tale of love, regret, and the volatile bonds between parents and children, The Watersmith is a story of oil and water, memory and mercy— and how far one man will go to bring his family home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eABOUT THE AUTHOR\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYance Wyatt was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. He studied fiction at the University of Cambridge and the University of Southern California, where he has gone on to serve as a Professor of Writing and the Director of the Writing Center. As a two-time finalist for the Lit\/South award and a fiction editor with the Southern culture magazine The Blue Mountain Review, he seeks to acquire the best new stories from the South. His own stories have appeared in dozens of nationally circulated literary journals and received several Pushcart Prize nominations. The Watersmith is his first novel. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eABOUT THE HOST\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBradley Sides is the author of two short story collections, Those Fantastic Lives and Crocodile Tears Didn’t Cause the Flood, which was a finalist for 2024 Book of the Year at Southern Literary Review. His writing appears at such venues as Chapter 16, Chicago Review of Books, Electric Literature, LeVar Burton Reads, Lit Hub, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Millions, The Rumpus, and Southern Review of Books, where he also serves as the host of “The Southern Summer Book Club.” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBradley holds an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte, where he was Fiction Editor of Qu. He also has an MA from the University of North Alabama. He serves on the National Advisory Council for Sigma Kappa Delta, the English honor society for two-year colleges, and he is a previous board member of the Alabama Writers’ Cooperative. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBradley is also an award-winning educator. As a former high school teacher, he received recognition as Teacher of the Year at the school and district level, and he also won the prestigious Chair of Excellence Award. As a professor, he was the recipient of Calhoun Community College’s 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 Teaching Excellence Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe currently teaches writing and literature at Calhoun, and he lives in Madison, Alabama, with his wife. 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