Hugely honored for Fallen Land to be selected as one of four finalists for the 2017 Southern Book Prize in the Literary category. Congratulations to Julia Franks, whose novel Over the Plain Houses won the prize!
Taylor Brown
Author of FALLEN LAND, GODS OF HOWL MOUNTAIN, and REDNECKS
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Huge thanks to the Georgia Center for the Book for selecting The River of Kings as one of the 2017 Books All Georgians Should Read. In some ways, this book is my love poem to the state of my birth, childhood, and formative years. I’m so grateful for the book to make this list.
Also, Fallen Land made the 2016 list!
More details here: http://georgiacenterforthebook.org/Read-Georgia-Books/index.php
Huge thanks to Gina Gambony of WHQR’s Communique for having me on the show. We talk about The River of Kings, the nature of time, and I read a passage from the novel.
http://whqr.org/post/communique-book-launch-river-kings-award-winning-author-taylor-brown
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.
Thrilled to announce that Fallen Land is available today in paperback! And oh what a beautiful cover! Copies are available everywhere fine books are sold, and online as well:
Pick up your copy of Fallen Land in paperback!
You guys, The River of Kings is now available! Get your copy today from one of these retailers:
Excited to share the cover art for The River of Kings, coming on March 21, 2017. Here’s the description:
The Altamaha River, Georgia’s “Little Amazon,” has been named one of the 75 “Last Great Places in the World.” Crossed by roads only five times in its 137-mile length, the blackwater river is home to thousand-year-old virgin cypress, descendants of 18th-century Highland warriors, and a motley cast of rare and endangered species. The Altamaha has even been rumored to harbor its own river monster, as well as traces of the most ancient European fort in North America.
Brothers Hunter and Lawton Loggins set off to kayak the river, bearing their father’s ashes toward the sea. Hunter is a college student, Lawton a Navy SEAL on leave; both young men were raised by an angry, enigmatic shrimper who loved the river, and whose death remains a mystery that his sons hope to resolve. As the brothers proceed downriver, their story is interwoven with that of Jacques Le Moyne, an artist who accompanied the 1564 expedition to found a French settlement at the river’s mouth, which began as a search for riches and ended in a bloody confrontation with Spanish conquistadors and native tribes. In The River of Kings, SIBA-bestselling author Taylor Brown artfully weaves three narrative strands—the brothers’ journey, their father’s past, and the dramatic history of the river’s earliest people—to evoke a legendary place and its powerful hold on the human imagination.
The French publisher of Fallen Land, Editions Autrement, recently unveiled the cover art for the French of the book, which has been re-titled La Poudre et La Cendre, or Powder and Ashes. This title has more resonance in French, and I love it, as well as the new artwork. This edition is coming in February. I hope that French readers enjoy it, as one of the main storylines in the next novel, The River of Kings, follows French artist Jacques Le Moyne, the first European artist to capture the flora, fauna, and natives in the New World.
I’m over the moon to let you know that my short story “Rhino Girl,” which follows the story of a Georgia-born anti-poaching ranger in South Africa, has been published in one of the biggest venues there is, The Rumpus, alongside some incredible artwork by Clare Nauman.
Read “Rhino Girl” Here
“Rhino Girl” was a finalist for the 2015 Rick DeMarinis Short Fiction Contest, awarded by Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts, and also a finalist for the Tenth Annual Danahy Fiction Prize, awarded by Tampa Review. The story was also awarded second place in the 2016 Doris Betts Fiction Prize, sponsored by the North Carolina Writers’ Network and managed by the North Carolina Literary Review.
I’m thrilled to let you guys know that my tribute to Waylon, my German Wirehaired Pointer rescue, has been published in one of my favorite magazines, Garden & Gun (June 2016 issue). The piece is part of the monthly Good Dog column, and it’s titled “Creature Comfort.” It’s now online, so you can read it here:
Read “Creature Comfort” Here
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