Author Signing with Kay Smith-Blum and Hadley Leggett

An Austin, TX transplant and lifetime environmental advocate, Kay Smith-Blum has resided in Seattle for more than four decades. The recent upheaval over leaking waste tanks at the Hanford site in Washington state compelled her to write a Hanford story in a way that would educate and entertain readers, resulting in her debut novel, Tangles. A companion short story to Tangles is featured in the 2024 anthology, Feisty Deeds: Historical Fictions of Daring Women, which Smith-Blum co-edited. She has published a variety of other short works that can be found in multiple literary journals. Smith-Blum works out her writer’s block in her sons’ gardens and the nearest lap pool. To learn more, please visit KaySmith-Blum.com

Hadley Leggett is a novelist and science writer whose winding career path has included degrees in medicine, biochemistry, Spanish, and journalism. Her short stories and essays have appeared in the Bellevue Literary Review, Literary Mama, and Halfway Down the Stairs. After moving all over the United States during her childhood, she's now made her permanent home in Seattle, where she lives with her husband and three children, as well as three cats and an ever-rotating troop of foster kittens. All They Ask Is Everything is her first novel. Visit Hadley online at www.hadley.ink.