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

The internet is a dark place. Take a few minutes’ break and watch bears get scared by Halloween decorations. youtube.com/shorts/zyRy0...

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...

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...

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!

Best fiction book of the year, hands down. Just a joy! Do give it a listen…

I love this!! Thanks so much Matt and Alex for your support, and for this awesome conversation!

Thank you Carla! I hope metal uncles everywhere have a Merry Christmas!

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 🤘

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...

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!

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...

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!

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!

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...

What an honor! Every new Stephen Graham Jones book is a must read for me- this really means a lot!

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!

Huge thanks to the Chicago Review of Books for this total shredder of a review for The Whyte Python World Tour:

Oh, man, The Whyte Python World Tour beat me to this dialogue tomfoolery. Been wanting to do it to make fun of … I’m not sure: the world? Which is why I hadn’t done it yet (just surface/no heart). But, I probably couldn’t have done it this well anyway. Puts me in mind of Pynchon’s “sez.”

The Whyte Python World Tour is one of @peoplemag.bsky.social People Magazine’s 100 reasons to love America!!! @doubledaybooks.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social #thewhytepythonworldtour #summerreads #debutauthor

Join us for the book launch for @traviskennedy.bsky.social‬'s THE WHYTE PYTHON WORLD TOUR on Tuesday, June 24 at 7pm right here at Print!

WHOA! Books-A-Million has listed THE WHYTE PYTHON WORLD TOUR as one of "the best books of June" alongside the latest from Taylor Jenkins Reid and S.A. Cosby! @booksamillion.bsky.social @doubledaybooks.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social www.booksamillion.com/newnow

Huge thanks to the immensely talented Cory Doctorrow, author of the bestselling, award winning book Little Brother; and Cindy Burnett, host of Thoughts From a Page, for their generous quotes supporting THE WHYTE PYTHON WORLD TOUR! @doubledaybooks.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

One writer, one reader - this week, huge thanks to Lincoln Child - author of over 25 NY Times bestsellers and counting! - and Cathy on Goodreads for their really kind comments about THE WHYTE PYTHON WORLD TOUR. You can read the full blurbs at whytepython.com @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

Penguin Random House is holding a free contest to win twelve of the summer's hottest reads... including The Whyte Python World Tour! Enter for free at the link! sites.prh.com/brrsummerswe...

Following up onPenguin Random House's most anticipated fiction of this summer - they've now listed The Whyte Python World Tour in their most anticipated list of ALL books this summer! @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social #thewhytepythonworldtour

I'm deeply honored that Penguin Random House has listed The Whyte Python World Tour as one of the Most Anticipated Fiction Books of Summer 2025! @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social www.penguinrandomhouse.com/the-read-dow...

whytepython.com is live! The people at Doubleday Books and Penguin Random House have been nice enough to help the boys in Whyte Python set up their very own band website! You can preorder the book, read interviews with the band, listen to a band-curated playlist, and much more!

Smiling is a universally recognized gesture of friendship and goodwill in every situation, except for a karate fight.

I try to live my life in the footsteps of that gentle sensei, Mr. Miyagi. Which is to say, I like to fight teenagers in the town quarry.

OLD MAN: You must never feed Mogwai after midnight! BILLY'S DAD: Got it. So between midnight and when? OLD MAN: Huh? BILLY'S DAD: What time in the morning is it safe to feed it? OLD MAN: ... I shouldn't be selling these things.

You guys, I feel like my fight club has been too focused on the "fight" and not enough on the "club" lately. Never mind, I'm not supposed to talk about it.