I’ve been dipping into my indie catalog lately, featuring an excerpt from the books I’ve published since 2013. This week it’s Town Father‘s turn. This might well be the only historical fiction I ever write, unless you consider a novel set in the early 1970s to be historical fiction. Maybe so. But I had never […]… Continue reading One of my favorite novels: Town Father by Kevin Brennan.
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Town Father is great book club material — and it’s on sale for 99 cents!
Dear Reader, do you belong to a book club? Well, here’s a sale for you and your fellow bookies (or book lovers, whatever): Kevin Brennan’s Town Father is on sale for 99 cents but only through Friday so HURRY! And check out Kevin’s post: he has questions that you can use to guide your book club’s discussion!
Pick me! Pick me!
Starting today and running through Friday, Town Father is on sale at Amazon for 99 cents. I finally landed an EReader News Today slot!
And this gives me the opportunity to suggest that Town Father would make an excellent choice for book clubs. Don’t just take it from me. Author Carrie Rubin (Eating Bull) introduced the book to her club, which just wrapped up their discussion last week.
Carrie had asked if I might want to prepare a few discussion questions for the group to dig into, which I was delighted to do. I might have gone a little overboard with fifteen questions, but consider them a pick n’ choose menu. You can download a pdf here. (Caution: includes spoilers!)
If you’re in a book club and you’re looking for unique historical fiction about a Gold Country village made up of three…
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A Different Kind of Book Review: Town Father: Where Graceful Girls Abound
My dear friends, I've been inspired to write a different kind of review for a novel that is currently ON SALE at Amazon. Kevin Brennan's Town Father: Where Graceful Girls Abound is available for 99 cents this weekend only. I recommend you pick up a copy now and read my review later. But, it's a… Continue reading A Different Kind of Book Review: Town Father: Where Graceful Girls Abound
Heads up, readers/writers!
What could be better for Valentine’s Day weekend than a novel by Kevin Brennan for only 99 cents! That’s his latest novel, Town Father! The sale starts Friday and lasts through the weekend.
Y’all are the first to hear that, starting Friday, Town Father will be on sale for a mere 99 pennies. The sale runs all weekend and will be listed on EReader News Today on Saturday, so if you’re thinking of buying please snag your copy to help propel TF up the Amazon charts. Think of it as lighting a little bottle rocket.
Don’t worry. I’ll remind you on Friday … and Saturday … and Sunday.
Also, if you missed the announcement yesterday, do check out my new editing service, dubbed Indie-Scribable. The first three intrepid writers to hire me will get a special rate (even lower than those quoted on the website), but all of my clients will receive an ebook of Town Father, Occasional Soulmates, or Yesterday Road at the end of the project.
I’ve set up a new Twitter account for the business — @_IndieScribable
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Apropos of Nothing #MondayBlogs #MerryChristmas #HappyHolidays
I've been lurking offline of late, infrequently skating by a few blogs or Facebook status updates or tweets. I've several reasons for my grayish absence, and only a few of them may redeem me. Guess which. Reasons for being absent from social media: In a pre-holiday funk, which seems to always come around this time… Continue reading Apropos of Nothing #MondayBlogs #MerryChristmas #HappyHolidays
What Kevin Brennan talks about when he talks about writing
I must reblog this guest post by Kevin Brennan! I always enjoy hearing (or reading in this case) about the “back story” of a writer’s novel, what propelled him or her to write this particular book. And, what for me is icing, Kevin mentions Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Yes, that kind of name dropping does get me excited 😉
Guess who’s visiting today?
Kevin Brennan (can you tell that I’m excited?).
Not only is Brennan one of my favorite writers (author of Occasional Soulmates, Yesterday Road, Parts Unknown and Our Children Are Not Our Children), but he writes women characters that are so authentic, so complex and flawed and human and real, that it’s impossible to believe that they were written by a man. I think this is because he secretly harbors a woman’s soul, which is one of the biggest compliments I can give a writer.
But I’ll shut up for now, grab some chocolate and let Brennan take over.
(P.S. I couldn’t get the caption to come through but the vivid painting at the top of this post is Welcome to Utopia by Julia Di Sano.Source: fineartamerica.com. See more of her work here.)
Kevin Brennan contemplating his next book with his dog, Hitch.
Thanks to…
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“Town Father, Or, Where Graceful Girls Abound” is LIVE
Kevin Brennan’s latest novel, Town Father, is NOW available on Amazon! And the best part is, it is available in paperback with an gorgeous cover! Sigh, eye candy for readers 🙂 Don’t waste time. Go get yourself a copy. I’m on my way now 🙂
Click the purty image to buy
Unexpectedly, Town Father has shown up on Amazon and can be purchased in paperback today. I thought for sure it would take two or three days to appear, but CreateSpace and Amazon have become remarkably efficient. Like all Death Stars.
But all the better! You can get your own copy of this fine edition right away.
And my goodness, but doesn’t it look scrumptious? I know, I’m biased, but I think Max Scratchmann outdid himself on the cover image and interior. It’s a real beauty. Matter of fact, if I were to smuggle a copy into a bookstore and plop it on the front fiction table, nobody could possibly tell that it wasn’t published by one of the top traditional houses. One thing I’m thinking of doing, marketing-wise, is to send copies to some of the better-known indie stores out there with a pitch…
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Town Father cover reveal and sneak peek
Check out this great cover and blurb for Kevin Brennan’s forthcoming new novel!
Click image for a free pdf of Chapter 1
In advance of the paperback’s release, I thought you might like a little look-see at Max Scratchmann’s remarkable cover for Town Father, Or, Where Graceful Girls Abound, along with a bit of teaser text.
Be sure to tell all your friends. Don’t forget, word of mouth is literature’s best lubricant.
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A Town of Nothing But Fallen Women?
Utopia or Ill-fated Experiment?
Scandal in the Foothills!
Three hundred independent-minded women in 1880s California have embarked on an impossible journey: to establish a town in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada composed exclusively of women. The only way for the singular town of Hestia to succeed, though, is for a second generation of residents to come along, and the women imagine there must be, somewhere in the country, a benign and willing gentleman who can help them. In short…
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