Cheap beer.
Old hats.
Good stories.

Meet Scott Gould, author of the new novel, Beneath a Fallen Sky, coming from Regal House Publishing in September 2026.

Scott is the author of six additional books, including Peace lIke a River, Whereabouts, The Hammerhead Chronicles (winner of the Eric Hoffer Award for Fiction), Things That Crash, Things That Fly (winner of 2022 Memoir Prize for Books), as well as the story collections, Strangers to Temptation and Idiot Men. His other honors include a Next Generation Indie Book Award, an IPPY Award for Fiction, the Larry Brown Short Story Award and the S.C. Arts Commission Artist Fellowship in Prose. His work has appeared in a number of publications, including Kenyon Review, Black Warrior Review, Pangyrus, Crazyhorse, Pithead Chapel, Garden & Gun, and New Stories from the South, among others. He lives in Sans Souci, South Carolina and recently retired from the S.C. Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities.

Author of…

• Beneath a Fallen Sky (Regal House Publishing, 2026)

• Peace Like a River (Regal House Publishing, 2025)

• Idiot Men (Vine Leaves Press, 2023)

• The Hammerhead Chronicles (Univ. of North Georgia Press, 2022)

• Things That Crash, Things That Fly (Vine Leaves Press, 2021)

• Whereabouts (Koehler Books, 2020)

• Strangers to Temptation (Hub City Press, 2017)