Tom Epperson, the screenwriter behind One False Move—the cult classic crime thriller co-written with his childhood friend Billy Bob Thornton. He's the author of the Edgar-nominated The Kind One and the haunting noir Sailor. But today, Tom Epperson is here to talk about something entirely different.

His new book, Baby Hawk, is a bold, breathtaking departure: a novel in verse that fuses fable, feminism, and post-apocalyptic survival into a white-knuckle, heart-rending journey.

Set in a near-future world where one woman may be all that remains of her gender, Baby Hawk is both a gripping story of captivity and resistance and a lyrical meditation on ecological collapse and the raw brutality of power. It’s visceral. It’s visionary. And it’s unlike anything you’ve ever read.