A.S. King (1) : A. S. King

A.S. King has recently returned from Ireland, where she spent a decade dividing herself between self-sufficiency, teaching adult literacy, and writing novels. Her short fiction has been published in a bunch of cool journals and has been nominated for Best New American Voices 2010.She now lives in Pennsylvania ... (more)with her husband and children and is a huge fan of corn on the cob, nice weather, and fleece socks.Amy is not, nor has she ever been a pirate

TEEN EVENT: A.S. KING: THE DUST OF 100 DOGS 4:30pm A.S. King visits with her much anticipated debut novel, The Dust of 100 Dogs. In the late seventeenth century, famed teenage pirate Emer Morrisey was on the cusp of escaping the pirate life with her one true love and unfathomable riches, when she was ... (more)slain and cursed with “the dust of one hundred dogs,” dooming her to a hundred lives as a dog before returning to human form—with her memories intact. Now she’s a contemporary American teenager, and all she needs is a shovel and a ride to Jamaica, where her long-buried treasure awaits.