stories that take you places

 Ida’s world is muddy. Filled with dirt roads, creek banks, steep bluffs and cotton fields. Inhabited by bumblers and braggarts, punks and preachers, seekers and soothsayers. Where the fight for redemption is hard fought and hard won.

So turn up the radio and hold tight, this is one ride you do not want to miss!

Check ‘em out.

  • Rooted - Idabel Allen

    It all comes from the root…

    and Grover McQuiston was the root of it all.

    Strung-out 1970s NY punk rocker crash-lands in a sleepy Southern town, raising Cain and resurrecting skeletons his iron-fisted grandfather is determined to keep buried. As his traumatized family and world spiral out of control, Grover learns nothing, absolutely nothing stays buried forever.

    Not even blood.

    Sweeping from the grime of the 1970s New York punk rock scene to the truck-scarred roads of the rural South, Rooted is an evocative, wry and beautifully-written historical fiction novel that captures the grit of Southern storytelling at its finest.

  • Cursed! My Devastatingly Brilliant Campaign to Save the Chigg

    Mischief! Mayhem! Madness!

    Creative genius, future-award winning screenwriter and all-around screw-up gets more than she bargained for when she helps the class outcast solve the mystery of a deadly family curse (whether the sour-puss likes it or not!)

    Can these mortal frenemies uncover the truth of Larson curse, the meaning of friendship, and the perfect pickle ALL while writing the most zomborrific screenplay of all time?

    See for yourself.

  • Headshots - Idabel Allen short story collection.

    Shotgun blasts that deliver the goods on life in all its pain and glory.

    In this short story collection, a boy learns how hard it is to be good in post war Mississippi, a father teaches his beloved daughter her place in the world, and an elderly doctor makes the ultimate sacrifice on a dying planet.

    All this, plus plenty more to keep an avid reader’s head engaged.