Shaun Perkins is the founder/director of the Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry in Locust Grove. She has published several books of poetry and a novel and has a work of nonfiction about the fiction of Erle Stanley Gardner forthcoming this fall from Bear Manor Media. This book, “Cocktails, Coquettes and Cigarettes: Perry Mason Concoctions” is a guide through all of Gardner's Perry Mason mysteries, with special emphasis on those three Cs.

 

A former teacher, Perkins is a Teaching Artist with the Oklahoma Arts Council. She has also been the webmaster for the Territory Tellers, Oklahoma's state storytelling organization, for many years. In this interview she reads from her mystery novel in verse, “The Book with the Good Intentions."

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Book to Feature: The Book with the Good Intentions