Photo by Keith Stewart
John Golden reads his recently published children’s book “Kiley and the Love Struck Frog” as his daughter and inspiration for the book Kiley listens during Saturday morning’s public reading at Cathrine’s Custom Framing.

June 11, 2014

Sullivan man publishes first children’s book

by Keith Stewart
keith@newsprogress.com

Perhaps for most authors, books begin with writing something down.

For John Golden, his began with a text message. Or a series of them. 

Now, two years later, the Sullivan man and monthly columnist for the News•Progress conducted his first book signing and children’s reading of “Kiley and the Love Struck Frog.”

“It’s about a frog that falls in love with a girl while she’s fishing. She gets up and leaves, and the frog waits for her, but she never comes back,” explained Golden. “He then decided he will go find her. That’s what the book is about, this journey to find Kiley and along the way he encounters different animals.”

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