“Parnell’s stories reflect an organic sense of the people, land, water, culture, and history of the distinctive Ozarks region.”
-Dr. John E. Moore, Jr. , Retired President, Drury University
Todd Parnell
Author | Entrepreneur | Water Quality Activist
Todd Parnell, retired educator, banker, civic leader, environmental activist, and inductee into the Missouri Writers Hall of Fame has channelled his creative energies into writing the past several years. His fiction and non-fiction are consistently grounded in his love of the Ozarks, its unique and precious waters, communities, and resilient culture. From “hillbilly noire,” to complex contemporary issues, to inspirational personal remembrances, he blends humor and history to share stories of fact and fiction.
Parnell’s post-pandemic plans include the release of two recently published novels, THE POSSE and CURE, a series of book signings launching with the Earth Day Festival at Mother’s Beer Garden on Saturday, April 23 and continuing through early summer, and, of course, more writing.
“Amazing! What an imagination and natural storytelling ability.”
-Karen Foss, retired anchor, NBC affiliate KSDK St. Louis
Recent Releases by Todd Parnell
Cover art by Betty Parnell
The Posse: A Story of Love - and Resistance
The Posse is a tale of love gone right, and economic development gone wrong...check in with “Deep Ag,” 51st State in The Union.
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The Posse is a tale of love gone right, and economic development gone wrong.
A multinational conglomerate, a multi-currency conspiracy to control global meat production, processing, pricing, and marketing, bypassing standard trading practices and treaties while laundering huge sums of money, and an international bureaucracy controlling critical production locales with bribery and extortion?
Check in with “Deep Ag” the 51st State in The Union, and follow the unlikely love affair between Penny Plum and Sammy Spode for answers to the question.
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“In The Posse, Parnell tells us how a ragtag team of local yokels, fed up with their industrial pig farm neighbors, hatch a scheme to bring them down.”- Loring Bullard, President, Schoolcraft Chapter, Ozark Society
Cover art by Betty Parnell
Cure
By Todd Parnell with Dr. Patrick Parnell
What if the cure for the coronavirus could be found in our own back yard? …
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What if the cure for the coronavirus could be found in our own back yard? Thankfully for Ethel and Hobart Campbell it was.
A quest to save humanity from a deadly pandemic unites young lovers, a famous but discredited scientist, researchers, regulators, and Big Pharma in a race against time and global calamity.
Political and corporate malfeasance, science, religion, and racism underpin a rollicking rollercoaster ride filled with intrigue and never ceasing twists and turns.
All set in the context of a remote and pristine Ozarkian Creek.
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“In CURE we find a charming mix of Ozarks’ heritage and current events. The characters come alive in the context of raw emotion splashed with a stream of fantasy, playing on our desire for heroes who save the day. Just what we need in a time of crisis.”
-Harry Appleby, Entrepreneur, Author