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Travis Kennedy @traviskennedy.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Maine booksellers are the best - the Whyte Python World Tour published in paperback today, and it was so fun hitting the road with my favorite roadie, reconnecting with all the awesome booksellers who really champion local authors. Freshly signed copies all over Greater Portland, more to come!

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Travis Kennedy @traviskennedy.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

It's always exciting to see a box arrive from your publisher! These handheld beauties showed up this afternoon - just in time for beach season, the paperback edition of The Whyte Python World Tour hits shelves June 23! @doubledaybooks.bsky.social @vintagebooks.bsky.social

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Travis Kennedy @traviskennedy.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

My kids are not allowed to read even the first paragraph of The Whyte Python World Tour. I wrote an abridged version for them, and after she read it my 10 y/o daughter was inspired to make this awesome poster for the book. Paperback hits shelves June 23! @doubledaybooks @vintagebooks.bsky.social

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Travis Kennedy @traviskennedy.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

The internet is a dark place. Take a few minutes’ break and watch bears get scared by Halloween decorations. youtube.com/shorts/zyRy0...

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Doubleday Books @doubledaybooks.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Congrats to our ALEX Award winners!!! THE WHYTE PYTHON WORLD TOUR by @traviskennedy.bsky.social and HOLE IN THE SKY by Daniel Wilson. @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-sc...

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The Aviation Show @theaviation.show · 26/01/2026

Following up on my belated 2025 non-fiction highlights the other week, here are my 2025 fiction highlights featuring @aptshadow.bsky.social, @nickharkaway.com (and @aidenr0.bsky.social), @traviskennedy.bsky.social and more! This is a free article. #booksky www.patreon.com/posts/what-i...

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What I've Read: 2025 Fiction Edition | The Aviation Show

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Travis Kennedy @traviskennedy.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

This is a BIG ONE! The @americanlibraryassociation announced today that they're honoring the Whyte Python World Tour with the prestigious 2026 Alex Award, given to books that are for adults but carry special appeal to teenagers. Thank you ALA!

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Travis Kennedy @traviskennedy.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I'm deeply honored that the Texas Library Association selected the Whyte Python World Tour as a top ten title of the year in their Lariat list, highlighting "outstanding fiction that is simply a pleasure to read.” Thank you Texas librarians! @doubledaybooks.bsky.social txla.org/news/2026-la...

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2026 Lariat Reading List Announced - Texas Library Association

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15-Minute Book Club @15minutebook.club · 14/12/2025

The story of Whyte Python might have come from @traviskennedy.bsky.social's brain, but there is an element of truth to it and therein lies the link to Scorpions. Check out the full 15 minutes with Travis and meet WHYTE PYTHON!!! 🤘 🎧 pod.fo/e/3636a7 📺 youtu.be/9kCKKiXjTM0 #newbooks #booksky

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15-Minute Book Club @15minutebook.club · 12/12/2025

Well, it is safe to say that this week @alexchurchill.bsky.social and @boneyabroad.com lose a bity of their hard edged objectivity and basically geek out over @traviskennedy.bsky.social. The Whyte Python World Tour is really that much fun. 📺 youtu.be/9kCKKiXjTM0 🎧 pod.fo/e/3636a7 #books #booksky

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Travis Kennedy @traviskennedy.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Thank you Alex! It was a joy to talk with you and Matt!

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Best fiction book of the year, hands down. Just a joy! Do give it a listen…

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Travis Kennedy @traviskennedy.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I love this!! Thanks so much Matt and Alex for your support, and for this awesome conversation!

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Travis Kennedy @traviskennedy.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Thank you Carla! I hope metal uncles everywhere have a Merry Christmas!

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Matt Bone @boneyabroad.com · 05/12/2025

Honestly, @traviskennedy.bsky.social's The Whyte Python World Tour is one of the most joyous books I've read all year. I've already bought three extra copies for friends. I love this book and this chat was epic 🤘

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The Aviation Show @theaviation.show · 16/11/2025

I've been to the pub, I'm home, the fire is crackling nicely in the grate, I'm drinking champagne and reading @traviskennedy.bsky.social's fantastic The Whyte Python World Tour and loving every page. The early bits brought back happy memories of the Croydon metal scene in the 90s. 🤘

My copy of Travis Kennedy's The Whyte Python World Tour open on my living room toy box with our fire burning away happily in the background.

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Lorin Elise @paperbackbish.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

A 1980s glam metal band goes on tour across the Eastern Bloc to (hilariously) try to destroy authoritarianism—what do you mean you haven’t read it yet?! HOP TO IT! 🎸 @traviskennedy.bsky.social @doubledaybooks.bsky.social This was a five star book for me, another perfect rec from @sgj.bsky.social 🤘

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Travis Kennedy @traviskennedy.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Penguin Michael Joseph distributes The Whyte Python World Tour in the massive UK publishing territory, and they facilitated a great back and forth for me with Ali at Shots Magazine about writing, reading, music, family, and what's next. Enjoy! wwwshotsmagcouk.blogspot.com/2025/07/talk...

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Talking with Whyte Python’s author Travis Kennedy

Very rarely have I enjoyed reading a debut novel [ that contained such an absurd plot ] as I did last week with The Whyte Python World Tou...

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Travis Kennedy @traviskennedy.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Lots of really fun fall events are lining up for me and the boys in Whyte Python! (The boys in Whyte Python not guaranteed to appear). We kicked things off Wednesday at the Briar Patch in Bangor, and up next is Books-A-Million in South Portland tomorrow. More dates are likely to fill in, stay tuned!

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Aaron’s Books @aaronsbooks.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

This month’s Fic Pick selection is The Whyte Python World Tour by Travis Kennedy 🎸 The book follows the chaotic global tour of a rock band led by the wildly unpredictable Whyte Python. Let us know if we’ll see you on August 27th! 📚💙

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Travis Kennedy @traviskennedy.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Whyte Python has taken Southern California! I had a really fun conversation with Kelli Skye Fadroski about The Whyte Python World Tour, and her fantastic article is running in about a dozen daily newspapers across greater LA. SoCal friends and fans, check out the print edition this Sunday!

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Spies, spandex and ’80s hair metal fuel raucous ‘Whyte Python World Tour’

Travis Kennedy’s ‘The Whyte Python World Tour’ combines Sunset Strip shenanigans with international espionage.

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Travis Kennedy @traviskennedy.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I love seeing The Whyte Python World Tour getting such nice features in bookstores all over the country! Yesterday, I was sent messages from friends within an hour of each other visiting Mitchell's Book Corner on Nantucket Island, MA, and Maria's Bookshop in Durango, CO. Looking good out there!

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Travis Kennedy @traviskennedy.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Come and get it, KC: "Like you're watching a hair metal video mashed up with an 80's action movie." Thank you Angie Strathman, and KCUR for listing Whyte Python as a top summer title - Kansas City loves its Travis Ks!

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Travis Kennedy @traviskennedy.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I’m loving all the pictures that friends are sending me of The Whyte Python World Tour from all over the country - and this one definitely gives me the feels. Just a couple of hillbillies from Maine, taking on the world together! Thanks Sherman’s Books for the royal placement!

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Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

"The Whyte Python World Tour is a fun and wild ride of a book." Karen Bellovich's review of “The Whyte Python World Tour" by Travis Kennedy (@doubledaybooks.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/06/26/t...

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The Power of Music Never Dies in “The Whyte Python World Tour” - Chicago Review of Books

Our review of Travis Kennedy's debut novel, "The Whyte Python World Tour."

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Travis Kennedy @traviskennedy.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

What an honor! Every new Stephen Graham Jones book is a must read for me- this really means a lot!

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Lex T. Lindsay @lextlindsay.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

So THE WHYTE PYTHON WORLD TOUR by @traviskennedy.bsky.social absolutely rips. And by that I mean it's funny and cracky and made me laugh out loud multiple times. I talked to some random dude at an Orange Julius and we both agree it's the book of the summer.

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 24/06/2025

Oh, man, The Whyte Python World Tour beat me to this dialogue tomfoolery. Been wanting to do it to make fun of … I’m not sure: the world? Which is why I hadn’t done it yet (just surface/no heart). But, I probably couldn’t have done it this well anyway. Puts me in mind of Pynchon’s “sez.”

I was like, “What’s up, dude?”

And he was like, “You gotta hide me.”

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Print: A Bookstore @printbookstore.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Join us for the book launch for @traviskennedy.bsky.social‬'s THE WHYTE PYTHON WORLD TOUR on Tuesday, June 24 at 7pm right here at Print!

A blue sky with the words THE WHYTE PYTHON WORLD TOUR by Travis Kennedy at the top, and four cartoon band members at the bottom featuring the date, time and location of the event. It looks like a band poster.

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Travis Kennedy @traviskennedy.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Huge thanks to the immensely talented Cory Doctorrow, author of the bestselling, award winning book Little Brother; and Cindy Burnett, host of Thoughts From a Page, for their generous quotes supporting THE WHYTE PYTHON WORLD TOUR! @doubledaybooks.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

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Travis Kennedy @traviskennedy.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

One writer, one reader - this week, huge thanks to Lincoln Child - author of over 25 NY Times bestsellers and counting! - and Cathy on Goodreads for their really kind comments about THE WHYTE PYTHON WORLD TOUR. You can read the full blurbs at whytepython.com @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

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Travis Kennedy @traviskennedy.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Penguin Random House is holding a free contest to win twelve of the summer's hottest reads... including The Whyte Python World Tour! Enter for free at the link! sites.prh.com/brrsummerswe...

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Enter Our Summer Reading Sweepstakes! - Penguin Random House

One lucky winner will recieve a bundle of 12 of the hottest must-reads for summer and a tote bag - perfect for carrying books to the beach!

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Travis Kennedy @traviskennedy.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I'm deeply honored that Penguin Random House has listed The Whyte Python World Tour as one of the Most Anticipated Fiction Books of Summer 2025! @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social www.penguinrandomhouse.com/the-read-dow...

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The Most Anticipated Fiction of Summer 2025 | Penguin Random House

From debuts to new stories from beloved authors, these are the most anticipated fiction books coming Summer 2025!

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Travis Kennedy @traviskennedy.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

whytepython.com is live! The people at Doubleday Books and Penguin Random House have been nice enough to help the boys in Whyte Python set up their very own band website! You can preorder the book, read interviews with the band, listen to a band-curated playlist, and much more!

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The Whyte Python World Tour

A head-banger of a debut, steeped in ’80s music culture nostalgia and international suspense. Get to know the band and get ready for THE WHYTE PYTHON WORLD TOUR--headlining in bookstores June 2025.

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Travis Kennedy @traviskennedy.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Smiling is a universally recognized gesture of friendship and goodwill in every situation, except for a karate fight.

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Travis Kennedy @traviskennedy.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

I try to live my life in the footsteps of that gentle sensei, Mr. Miyagi. Which is to say, I like to fight teenagers in the town quarry.

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Travis Kennedy @traviskennedy.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

OLD MAN: You must never feed Mogwai after midnight! BILLY'S DAD: Got it. So between midnight and when? OLD MAN: Huh? BILLY'S DAD: What time in the morning is it safe to feed it? OLD MAN: ... I shouldn't be selling these things.

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Travis Kennedy @traviskennedy.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

You guys, I feel like my fight club has been too focused on the "fight" and not enough on the "club" lately. Never mind, I'm not supposed to talk about it.

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