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observations, musings and miscellany from an unapologetic sentimentalist.
Winner of the GIAA Author of the Year Award
Georgia Independent Author Association - Literary Fiction
GIAA Spotlight on Georgia Award - Fiction
"Engrossing and entertaining. Well written with interesting characters who are revealed as layer after layer is peeled away."
"Brenda is such a loveable character, and her story, though bittersweet, made me smile."
Lint Head Author Bill Fortenberry Honored
with Author of the Year Recognition for Literary Fiction
Lint Head, the debut novel of Georgia author Bill Fortenberry is the recipient of Georgia Independent Author Association Author of the Year recognition for literary fiction and the Spotlight on Georgia Award for fiction. Set in rural Sumner, Georgia, Lint Head, is a nostalgic loveletter to the small town where Bill attended high school in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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My
Story
I am a husband, a dad, grad student, storyteller, writer and follower of Jesus who has had the fortune of writing professionally for a living my entire adult life, which is pretty amazing, considering my dad never learned to read or write. I grew up dirt poor, figured out that education was the key to improving my life, and learned to cut, perm, color and style hair right to pay my way through college. It worked like a charm. (Read my "Dear Sandy" blog post to learn more about that story.) I have worked as a sportswriter, news reporter, news editor and columnist, and I'm in my third decade of working in public relations. Since 2019, I have focused my efforts on writing novels. Lint Head was published in 2024 by St. Matthew's Press. Aunt Connie's Old-Fashioned, New-Fangled, Electric-Powered, County Road Christmas published in November 2025, also by St. Matthew's Press.
“So, what do you do when you ain’t got nothing and nowhere to go? You want your daddy, don’t you? You want to go home, and that’s exactly what that boy did."
Aunt Connie's Old-Fashioned, New-Fangled, Electric-Powered, County Road Christmas,
by Bill Fortenberry
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