Out March 2025!
In his best debut novel yet, veteran journalist Jeff Kramer unloads the story of Woody Hackworth, a newspaper reporter laid off amid whispers he made up a source.
Thirsting for redemption, Woody makes a fateful decision: To write an environmental thriller and post chapters on social media as he goes.
His book wins a following, but not for the reasons Woody intended. Readers believe Woody is using his fiction to expose his in-laws and their family-owned Upstate, N.Y. construction business.
The cracks in the foundation of Woody's home life deepen with each new post, but how can he stop writing now that fame has come calling?
A capstone to Kramer's 35-year-career as an award-winning humor columnist and reporter, “Mud Season” wallows in the classic conflict between ambition and family, digs into the muck of online notoriety and slings a comic-tragic elegy to the once-mighty daily newspaper.