I’m excitedto announce that Fall Line, my second novel initially published in 2011,will be reissued in paperback in April 2026 by the University of Georgia Pressimprint NewSouth Books. The new edition’s cover features a drawing by my goodfriend and exceptionally talented artist LeeAllen Wells. 
(It is available for preorder at UGA Press, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Bookshop, IndieBound, and many other spots where books are sold.)

Lee read themanuscript years ago before it was initially published. His drawing envisionsthe book’s dog, Percy, beside character Elmer Blizzard’s 1950 Chevrolet 3100pickup truck, as well as the new dam around which the story’s plot revolves. I’mthrilled with the cover design that UGA Press put together using Lee’s drawing.

Fall Line earned praise from the AtlantaJournal-Constitution, which called it a “quiet dazzler of a new novel,” in March2012. 

Reviewer Gina Webb wrote: "Ofall the contemporary Southern novels today that draw comparisons to Faulknerand O’Connor, Starnes’ tale may be one of the few that deserves them. Theunsentimental but glorious world seen through the eyes of a “half mutt halfchow” fearful of man and guns is pure Faulkner. Elmer, condemning the bigwigsaround him for “their fondness for impure women and liquor and money and the love of their own images reflected in shiny glass,” echoes the righteous,scathing hatred of Hazel Motes (Wise Blood)."

The novel wasincluded in the paper’s “Year in Review: Best of the South” list later thatyear.