Taylor Brown

Shopping for the right holiday gift for the readers in your life? I’d like to humbly suggest Pride of Eden — especially for those readers with a love for animals, adventure, or the sea islands of the southern coast.

We were thrilled to find that Pride of Eden recently made Goodreads’s list of 33 Reader Approved, Highly Rated Fiction to Discover Now:

“From independent presses, to tales in translation, to critical darlings and new debut novels, these books (all published in the U.S. this year) are nothing but gems just waiting for you to discover them! Plus, each one has at least a 4-star average rating from your fellow readers.”

The book also makes a great gift for those readers who loved (or loved to hate) Tiger King:

“While we’ve all binged Tiger King, this is the lit fic version of the absolutely mind-numbing reality docuseries that we all love to hate. The book spans a few continents but mostly focuses on Little Eden, an exotic animal sanctuary on the Georgia coast.” —Get Literary

For what it’s worth, Pride of Eden has my favorite cover of all my books — it’s truly gorgeous in person. Picador will be publishing the trade paperback version next year, which may well have a different cover, so don’t miss your chance to have one of these hardcover beauties on your shelf!

Purchasing Options…

• Bookshop.org (Supports Indie Bookstores)
• Indiebound.org
• Amazon
• Barnes & Noble
• Apple Books
• Books-A-Million

And signed copies are available from E. Shaver Bookseller and The Book Lady Bookstore!

Pub day! There’s nothing better than a good book if you’re stuck at home. Please consider ordering from your local bookstore.

read.macmillan.com/lp/pride-of-eden/

Here’s a little about the book from me, the author!

Friends & Readers,

With the pandemic top of mind and the new book due out next week, I’m writing to ask for your help on behalf of myself and the many local bookstores that support writers like me.

Please consider ordering a book from the link below — the IndieBound option will allow you to order a book directly from your local independent bookstore and have it delivered:

https://read.macmillan.com/lp/pride-of-eden/

Starting today, if you order the book, please let me know in the comments — you’ll be entered to win one of five $100 gift certificates to one of my hometown stores, E Shaver Bookseller — recently voted “The South’s Best Bookstore” — to be used online or in-store.

One entry per purchased book — no limit on entries! Drawing will take place on April 1 and be announced online.

Whether you purchase my new book or another one, please consider supporting local stores directly or through IndieBound.org.

My best wishes for your health, a speedy goodbye to C-19, and the comfort of a good book during this time.

-Taylor Brown

Today is publication day for my novel Gods of Howl Mountain.  I’m so thrilled to set this book free in the world and I’d be so grateful if you considered picking up a copy!

http://read.macmillan.com/lp/gods-howl-mountain/

I’m very pleased to share my short story “Rednecks,” which was published recently in The Bitter Southerner — a brave, intelligent, important publication I’ve followed and respected for years.

Story link:  http://bittersoutherner.com/rednecks-southern-fiction-taylor-brown

Hey guys,

Today, The Wrath-Bearing Tree — a journal established and maintained by combat veterans — has published an excerpt from my forthcoming novel, Gods of Howl Mountain:

http://www.wrath-bearingtree.com/2018/02/new-fiction-excerpt-from-taylor-browns-the-gods-of-howl-mountain/

What’s more, my friend Andria Williams — author of The Longest Night — interviewed me about the book and more:

http://www.wrath-bearingtree.com/2018/02/interview-taylor-brown-author-gods-howl-mountain/

I’m pleased to announce that my third novel, Gods of Howl Mountain, is now available for pre-order (links below). Here’s the scoop:

Set in the high country of 1950s North Carolina, Gods of Howl Mountain is a dark and compelling novel of family secrets, whiskey-running, vengeance, and love.

Maybelline Docherty, “Granny May,” is a folk healer with a dark past. She concocts potions and cures for the people of the mountains—her powers rumored to rival those of a wood witch—while watching over her grandson, Rory Docherty, who has returned from the Korean War with a wooden leg and nightmares of the Battle of Chosin Reservoir. Rory runs bootleg whiskey in a high-powered car to roadhouses, brothels, and private clients in the mill town at the foot of the mountains—a hotbed of violence, moonshine, and the burgeoning sport of stock-car racing.

Granny May must help her grandson battle rival runners and federal revenue agents, snake-handling pastors, and the mystery of his own haunted past: namely, the real story behind his mother’s long confinement in a mental hospital, during which she has remained completely silent.

With gritty and atmospheric prose, Taylor Brown brings to life a perilous mountain and the family who rules it, tying together past and present in one captivating narrative.

Pre-Order Gods of Howl Mountain now!

• Amazon
• Kindle
• BN
• Nook
• iBooks
• Kobo
• Indiebound

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I’m so damn thrilled about the endpapers in The River of Kings hardcover. Huge thanks to my editor, George Witte, and all the people at St. Martin’s Press who made these happen.