Loiacono Literary Agency welcomes Kathleen Rodgers and her novel, Johnnie Come Lately!

Loiacono Literary Agency welcomes Kathleen Rodgers and her novel, Johnnie Come Lately!

 Kathleen Rodgers and Jeanie Loiacono

Kathleen Rodgers’ work has appeared in Family Circle Magazine, Air Force, Army & Navy Times, Family: The Magazine for Military Families, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Albuquerque Journal, Clovis News Journal, and in the following anthologies: "Because I Fly," McGraw-Hill, "Lessons From Our Children," Health Communications, Inc., "Stories Of Faith And Courage On The Home Front,” AMG Publishers, Inc., and "Home of the Brave: Somewhere in the Sand" Press 53. Her essay, “Remembering Forgotten Fliers, Their Survivors” will be published in a new anthology forthcoming spring 2014 from University of Nebraska Press (Potomac Books).

Her debut novel, The Final Salute, (Leatherneck Publishing, 2008) was selected in 2009 by Army Wife Network as their July book club pick and Military Writers Society of America awarded it the Silver Medal. In 2010, USA-Today, The Associated Press, and Military Times ran stories about the author’s sixteen-year journey to bring the novel to life. The novel soared to #2 on Amazon’s Bestselling Military Aviation paperback list. In 2011, Navigator Books released the Kindle edition and the novel hit #1 on Amazon's Top Rated War Fiction the following year. www.kathleenmrodgers.com

Johnnie Come Lately

He was her savior and she was his saint. But sometimes, even saints kept secrets.

In an effort to save her son, Johnnie Kitchen exposes a deeply hidden secret that tears her family apart. Still haunted by her mama’s disappearance and her father’s death in Vietnam, she turns to the comfort of her journal, penning irreverent letters to the missing… and the dead. Her youngest son enlists in the military as the United States is involved in two bloody wars; fear grips her soul on all fronts. Rebuffed in her efforts to repair the damage she’s inflicted on her marriage, Johnnie finds herself trapped in a terrifying emotional spiral that threatens to trigger a relapse of the bulimia that almost killed her. Amidst sightings of her mysterious mama, an odd new neighbor, a granny who knows all yet tells nothing and Bubba Dog who is her constant companion and best friend, will Johnnie succumb or survive?

 JOHNNIE COME LATELY is a thoroughly compelling story of a family in crisis. Rodgers has combined humor, tragedy and ultimately love, in what is an uplifting story of the human spirit. There were times that I laughed and cried and shouted for joy, and I am not ashamed to say it.”

-- Dwight Jon Zimmerman, New York Times #1 bestselling writer