By Guy Spriggs
As he enters the second semester of his senior year, Jeremy Puckett finds himself at the end of his undergraduate study with plans to continue his education by pursuing a master’s degree in library science.
But Puckett also finds himself undertaking a task normally reserved for advanced graduate students and professors: publishing a book.
“It’s funny…I’ve been writing since I was in middle school and I never thought of it as a career,” Puckett said.
Puckett was compelled to write his novel after a trip home to Green County, Kentucky.
“I spent a lot of my life trying to get away from my home county,” Puckett explained. “You spend your whole life running away from something and you look back and it’s always over your shoulder because you’re taking it with you as you go.”
“I realized that the act of running away defines that place