Award-Winning Author Book Signing

About this event

KSB comes to the WA state capitol! Don't miss this opportunity to meet award-winning debut novelist, Kay Smith-Blum at the Barnes & Noble in Olympia WA. KSB will personalize your copy of the riveting Cold War thriller, TANGLES. Recent winner of the Best Regional Fiction in the West (across all genres) from the National Indie Excellence Awards and Best Historical Mystery/Suspense from the American Fiction Awards 2025 BookFest, TANGLES serves up important Manhattan Project history, along with a poignant human story that puts a face on the fallout from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Hanford, a key but little known component of the Manhattan Project, is located in Eastern Washington -- now the Western Hemisphere's largest environmental disaster. Come for an autographed copy of this riveting debut novel, but stay for the nuclear revelations, between 11:30 and 3pm, Sunday, November 15th!