Local authors can provide new titles for the bookshelf this holiday season. Here are some of the books that have crossed the desk this year.
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Local broadcast veteran David Carroll has published his fourth book, “I Won’t Be Your Escape Goat,” that is “all humor, 100%,” he says, with cover art and illustrations by Chattanooga artist Mike Salter that “make it even funnier.”
“A few years back,” Carroll explains, “I began collecting and compiling the funny mistakes we all make on social media, text messages, church bulletins and even signs in stores and on the highway. I included these in several columns, and the response was tremendous. People told me I could fill up a book with them, and make people laugh. So that’s what I did.”
“I Won’t Be Your Escape Goat” is subtitled “David Carroll’s Ho Made Social Media Blunders,” based on a handmade sign he saw advertising Ho Made Apple Cider.