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CONTACT:
Jill Hendrix
Fiction Addiction
864-675-0540
info@fiction-addiction.com
http://www.fiction-addiction.com
Book Signing for South Carolina Author Ken Burger
 Greenville, SC, March 15, 2013 - South Carolina author Ken Burger will be signing copies of the third book in his Swallow Savannah series, Salkehatchie Soup (Evening Post Books, hardcover, $26.95), at Fiction Addiction on Saturday, April 20th, from 1pm-3pm.
Salkehatchie Soup is the much-awaited third novel in Ken Burger's trilogy of South Carolina stories. And it doesn't disappoint. "Nobody picks at the scabs of South Carolina like her native son Ken Burger," says New York Times bestselling novelist Pat Conroy. As in Burger's previous tales (Swallow Savannah and Sister Santee), the cast of characters includes the powerful and the pitiful, both working through the options life presents them. In his usual no-holds-barred style, Burger's tale of the Adger family continues from cushy golf resorts to a one-hole course in the middle of nowhere. Along the way, even small, seemingly private lives are caught up in the politics, crime, and intrigue of Miami, Manhattan, and Washington, D.C. In Burger's mangy imagination, political bargains made in the cloakrooms of Congress impact both those who have fallen from grace and those who urgently seek it. In his first novel, Swallow Savannah, Burger wrote about the collision of the Cold War and Civil Rights in the area around the Savannah River Site where plutonium for atomic weapons was produced in the 1950s and '60s. In Sister Santee, he spun an all-too-believable yarn about the pine plantations and racial uneasiness in the 1970s and '80s. With Salkehatchie Soup, Burger returns to his birthplace to expose the remains of 50 years of nuclear waste buried in our beautiful state.
.jpg) Ken Burger spent almost 40 years writing for two South Carolina newspapers, a career that included stints covering sports, business, politics, and life in the Palmetto State.
While writing sports for The Post & Courier in Charleston, Burger won numerous statewide writing awards and was named one of the nation's best sports columnists three times. He was also named S.C. Journalist of the Year in 1996.
Burger topped off his journalism career by writing a popular metro column for the Charleston paper before retiring in 2011.
His first novel, Swallow Savannah, was published in 2008. His second novel, Sister Santee, came out in 2010. Both novels were touted as among the best in Southern fiction by the Independent Publishers Association. He also published Life Through the Earholes of Our Youth, a collection of sports columns that has become a collector's item, as well as Baptized in Sweet Tea, an award-winning books that collects his columns celebrating the South. In retirement, Ken entertains himself and others with a blog at www.kenburgerblog.com.
Born and raised in Allendale, SC, Burger graduated dead last in his class at the University of Georgia, has been married five times, is a gratefully recovering alcoholic, a cancer survivor, and a happy man.
If you cannot make the signing, you can reserve a personalized copy of many of Mr. Burger's books by contacting Fiction Addiction in advance at 864-675-0540 or at info@fiction-addiction.com.
ABOUT FICTION ADDICTION - Fiction Addiction is a local, woman-owned, independent bookstore established in 2001. The store carries a mixture of new and used fiction and nonfiction, including children's books, as well as gift items. We have recently moved to a new, bigger location at 1175 Woods Crossing Rd.
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