This week on a rebroadcast of The Florida Roundup from May 22, we revisit conversations with two Florida-based authors. We spoke first with Artis Henderson about her novel No Ordinary Bird (03:22) and then Kip Lyman about her novel The Purple Ribbon. (29:32).
Published July 3, 2026 at 1:00 PM EDT
Encore: Florida summer reading series
In a rebroadcast of The Florida Roundup's special ‘Florida summer reading’ edition from May 22, we spoke with two Florida-based authors.
In No Ordinary Bird, Artis Henderson writes about her father, a pilot involved in a South Florida drug smuggling operation in the 1970s and 80s who died in a plane crash — a crash that she survived.
The Purple Ribbon, the debut novel from writer Kip Lyman, is a psychological thriller set in Fort Pierce. The story follows two separate individuals manipulated by an evil, otherworldly force.