Cheap beer.
Old hats.
Good stories.

Meet Scott Gould, author of the new novel, Peace Like a River, coming from Regal House Publishing in August 2025.

Scott is the author of five additional books, including The Hammerhead Chronicles, winner of the Eric Hoffer Award for Fiction, and Things That Crash, Things That Fly, which won a 2022 Memoir Prize for Books. His other honors include a Next Generation Indie Book Award, an IPPY Award for Fiction, the Larry Brown Short Story Award and the S.C. Arts Commission Artist Fellowship in Prose. His work has appeared in a number of publications, including Kenyon Review, Black Warrior Review, Pangyrus, Crazyhorse, Pithead Chapel, Garden & Gun, and New Stories from the South, among others. He lives in Sans Souci, South Carolina and teaches at the S.C. Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities.

Author of…

• Peace Like a River (Regal House Publishing, 2025)

• Idiot Men (Vine Leaves Press, 2023)

• The Hammerhead Chronicles (Univ. of North Georgia Press, 2022)

• Things That Crash, Things That Fly (Vine Leaves Press, 2021)

• Whereabouts (Koehler Books, 2020)

• Strangers to Temptation (Hub City Press, 2017)