Pub day for REDNECKS! 🧨💥 I’d be so grateful if y’all considered grabbing a copy — let’s get the story of Blair Mountain out into the world!

read.macmillan.com/lp/rednecks/

Thank you to my team at St. Martin's Press & to Bitter Southerner for supporting this story from early on. Y’all rock!

Happiest of pub days to my man Taylor Brown !!!
REDNECKS, a story of working people fighting an unjust system, deserves to stand right up there with Grapes of Wrath and John Sayles’s Matewan. It’s a masterpiece, y’all ❤️

Also the pug enjoyed chewing it, so you know it’s tasty

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Pride of Eden (Taylor Brown, 2020)

Lusciously written tale of man vs nature, against the glorious backdrop of the coastline swamps of eastern Georgia (and much beyond)
Do yourself a favour and check out this little gem by Taylor Brown

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Yes John Vaillant!! Amazing book 🔥🔥🔥

Fire in the hole, y’all! 🧨💥 REDNECKS is hitting the road! Hope to see you somewhere along the way!

Hub City Bookshop
Park Road Books
WV Mine Wars Museum
Scuppernong Books
The Country Bookshop
Barnes & Noble Dawsonville GA
M. Judson Books
St. Martin's Press

Who loves a map in a book? I like to do all the maps in my books myself. Here’s the one from REDNECKS in full color!

Posting all my tour stops soon!

Blair Mountain miner with his rifle slung over his shoulder, 1921.

When one of your favorite photographers Roger May has a 🔥 photo in your novel excerpt 🙏🤝 Bitter Southerner

It was one thing to see this online but an entirely different thing to see it print. Thanks, Bitter Southerner for sharing my work and Taylor Brown for your writing. More here - bittersoutherner.com/2024/rednecks-….

A little REDNECKS book bandanna design I’ve been cooking up. Lots of little “easter eggs” from #BlairMountain and #MineWars history. Gonna get some printed to give away on book tour!

You all are going to love this book. I’m serious. I read and listen to books all day, five days a week. It’s got that sizzle.

There aren’t too many labor history-themed novels so I’m looking forward to reading “Rednecks” by Taylor Brown, based on the Battle of Blair Mountain. CC United Mine Workers
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Georgia boy doin’ #FloridaMan stuff! I was asked if I wanted to feed Maximo, the 15’3” 1250-lb saltwater croc at StAugAlligatorFarm… We’ll call it the inaugural Flagler College Author in Residence Croc Feeding!

An accelerol-fueled hellbender of a book. SLIME LINE takes a bite out of the Alaska you don’t see in the TV shows...and guts the fancy red salmon that arrives so pristine on your dinner plate. Maynard is a bold new American voice in fiction, and he’s arrived with a fillet knife.

Stopping to gaze at the Matanzas River on my ride home.

Matanzas means massacres. The name comes from the execution of ~250 French Huguenots from Fort Caroline. If you’ve read my novel THE RIVER OF KINGS, you know what’s up!

Lovely river despite the name and history.

🐪 Day Giveaway! Bitter Southerner is giving away 30 advance reading copies of REDNECKS (5/14/24 St. Martin's Press) to the first 30 folks who subscribe to the magazine! Dolly says: “Get you some!” Here's the link to subscribe: bsgeneralstore.com

The new episode of Bitter Southerner’s BATCH podcast w/ Kyle Tibbs Jones just went live: “Ode to Blackwater Rivers — With Taylor Brown”! Let me take you upriver, into the black water ➞ bittersoutherner.com/podcast/2022/b…

Thanks to Mickie Meinhardt of MD’s The Buzzed Word for this lovely review:

“Absolutely phenomenal… So much heart & soul & energy in this book, even if savagely sad at times. Bravo @taylorbrown82 for giving voice to the voiceless. Out this May.”

Finalist for the Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize — woot! Extra special because I loved Wolfe from a young age. Btw, I save all these rejection notes. Way I see it, each one is another step toward publication. Thank you North Carolina Writers' Network for the consideration and everything you do 👊

Taylor Brown a new french review of Le fleuve des rois on Babelio : 'Ce roman de l'auteur américain Taylor Brown est une épopée magnifique où la fureur le dispute à la puissance des liens.

Plusieurs époques se succèdent selon les chapitres, unissant notr… ift.tt/acLJvmU