Join author/illustrator team Eleanor Scott and Adam Pernell Deal as they share how they created Knoxville Mermaid and founded Part Flamingo Press, a new Knoxville publishing house committed to elegant binding and fantastic themes.

Deal and Scott are a couple living in East Knoxville with their children and animals. Adam grew up in Loudon and is a self-taught illustrator working in ink and watercolor. Most of his drawings feature mysterious otherworldly creatures in surreal landscapes. He is best known locally for his art for the Knoxville Horror Film Festival and his album covers for independent musicians. Using no digital tools, he creates most of his work through surrealist automatism, a method of making art by opening up the movements of the pen to the subconscious. Scott majored in English at the University of Tennessee. She reported small, untold stories about nature and marginal people for Knoxville’s alternative newspapers Metro Pulse and the Knoxville Mercury. She has worked in rare, antiquarian, and secondhand bookstores her entire adult life, cataloging and handling curious books. From the beginning, Adam and Eleanor’s chemistry lay in dreaming up creative projects. They spend their time sitting at the table together drawing, writing, and listening to music.

Links to purchase hardback copies of Knoxville Mermaid will be provided.