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!
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
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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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...
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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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!
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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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
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
Thank you Alex! It was a joy to talk with you and Matt!
Alex Churchill@alexchurchill.bsky.social · 8mo agoIn the late 80s, the CIA sent Whyte Python behind the Iron Curtain to bring it crashing down with the power of metal! 🤘 @traviskennedy.bsky.social tells us the story of the band that "changed" the world, @15minutebook.club 📺 youtu.be/9kCKKiXjTM0 🎧 Wherever you get your podcasts @boneyabroad.com
Best fiction book of the year, hands down. Just a joy! Do give it a listen…
15-Minute Book Club@15minutebook.club · 8mo agoIn the late 80s, the CIA sent Whyte Python behind the Iron Curtain to bring it crashing down with the power of metal! 🤘 @traviskennedy.bsky.social tells us the story of the band that "changed" the world, in just 15 minutes. 📺 youtu.be/9kCKKiXjTM0 🎧 pod.fo/e/3636a7 #books #booksky
I love this!! Thanks so much Matt and Alex for your support, and for this awesome conversation!
Matt Bone@boneyabroad.com · 8mo agoThis is, hands down, my favorite book of 2025. @traviskennedy.bsky.social's The Whyte Python World Tour is joyous, funny and kicks serious ass. I've bought five copies for friends so far. I love it. So does @alexchurchill.bsky.social. So will you. Join us! WHYTE PYTHON NEVER DIES!!!!! 🤘 #booksky
Thank you Carla! I hope metal uncles everywhere have a Merry Christmas!
Carla Jean@beerbabe.bsky.social · 9mo ago🧵 Books I read this year that might make particularly good gifts for specific people: For your long-haired uncle who was really into metal bands, who doesn't read often but might pick up a good book for a long flight: @traviskennedy.bsky.social "The Whyte Python World Tour" - quite a fun read.
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 🤘
15-Minute Book Club@15minutebook.club · 9mo agoOur Patreon supporters now have access to @alexchurchill.bsky.social and @boneyabroad.com turning the fangirling up to 11 as they chat with @traviskennedy.bsky.social about the greatest rock band that never was, Whyte Python. Join us here: www.patreon.com/posts/whyte-... #NewBooks #BookSky
New episode! Insights into spy craft & glam metal with Travis Kennedy @traviskennedy.bsky.social & his novel, The Whyte Python World Tour @doubledaybooks.bsky.social. Now available on all the usual podcast platforms & here: abookanditsauthor.libsyn.com/069-the-whyt...
A Book & Its Author: 069: The Whyte Python World Tour by Travis Kennedy
Travis Kennedy discusses and reads from his debut novel, The Whyte Python World Tour (Doubleday, 2025), wherein the CIA exploits a glam metal band as part of a psy-op to destabilize communist countrie...
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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. 🤘
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 🤘
Thank you Lisa!
Lisa Yee . . . is confused about social media@lisayee.bsky.social · 11mo agoAbsolutely loved @traviskennedy.bsky.social's Whyte Python World Tour. It's like if Spinal Tap got caught up in the Cold War and the CIA sent them to ensure world peace. Is there a book you've loved recently? #Reading #booksbooksbooks #Satire #metalmusic
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...
Talking with Whyte Python’s author Travis Kennedy
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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!
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! 📚💙
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!
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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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!
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!
KCUR (Kansas City's best news source)@kcur.org · last yr.A hair metal band recruited by the CIA, fake newlyweds and retellings of "The Great Gatsby" are among the stories selected by Up To Date's panel of readers as the best books to pick up this summer. https://loom.ly/Z6U-GII
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!
"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...
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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What an honor! Every new Stephen Graham Jones book is a must read for me- this really means a lot!
Stephen Graham Jones@stephengrahamjones.com · last yr.Dude, @traviskennedy.bsky.social’s new novel is Slow Horses taking a stroll through Headbangers Ball. I read it slow because I didn’t want it to end. We need more hair metal novels like this.
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.
Hey Steve Martin, we did it! It's a massive honor to make Readworthy's best new humor list at BookBub alongside one of my all-time biggest comedy heroes!
Best New Humor - July 2025 - Readworthy
You’ll love this month’s humor picks — which include a laugh-out-loud collection penned by Steve Martin, a delightfully funny mystery set in a quaint English town, and more!
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