Brynn Barineau

Tag: Pre-orders

  • Book Launch Event for Jungle of Ashes

    Book Launch Event for Jungle of Ashes

    Flyer advertising a book launch event for Jungle of Ashes featuring the author, Brynn Barineau, and Lynn Cullen.
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    It’s finally happening! Way back in 2017 while reading Greg Grandin’s Fordlandia I thought, “This would make a great setting for a novel.” Nine years later that novel is finally going to be in the hands of readers. On May 19, Jungle of Ashes launches and we’re going to celebrate at The Book Bird in Avondale, GA. If you’re in the Atlanta area, you’re invited! I’m so honored to have national best selling author Lynn Cullen join me in conversation about Jungle of Ashes, the importance of historical fiction, the writing process and more. The event is free! Just RSVP! No book purchase is necessary. Although we are having a giveaway! The first 30 pre-orders with Book Bird will receive a free audiobook book copy!

    I am so, so proud of this book. I believe it’s timely and important that we discuss its theme of the human cost of unchecked power and empire, be it political or corporate. I love my characters. They say write what you know and I wrote an American girl and a Brazilian boy whose crushing sense of responsibility may or may not be inspired by my own Brazilian boy. (Nobody tell him!) If you can’t make it to the Book Bird on May, I’ve got a few other events around Georgia and South Carolina lined up. There’s also a virtual event with the fabulous audiobook narrator, Carolin Hewitt, so keep an eye out.

    If you love historical fiction set during a time and place you probably never learned about. If you love the hope and tenderness of first love. If you love the trials as young adults come of age in a world they can’t help but question. If you love tales of man versus nature where nature counters every punch man can throw. If you believe the most dangerous people are the ones who can never admit they’re wrong. Jungle of Ashes is a story for you. You can pre-order it at History Through Fiction and support an indie publisher. You can pre-order it through Bookshop.org and support a local indie bookstore of your choice. You can pre-order through Amazon paperback, ebook or audiobook. You can also ask your local library to order a copy.

  • Pre-Order Jaguars and Other Game! A Rousing Historical Adventure!

    Pre-Order Jaguars and Other Game! A Rousing Historical Adventure!

    It’s finally happening! After more than a decade of writing, I can finally answer the dreaded “Oh, you write novels? Where can I buy your book?”

    At your local bookstore! That’s where! Jaguars and Other Game, my gender-flipped, Three-Musketeers-style adventure set in 1809 Rio de Janeiro, is available for pre-order from any local bookstore. (Shout out to my indie, Charis Books!) Or if you prefer, buy digital copies from Amazon or Barnes&Noble! Grab a signed first edition directly from Orange Blossom Publishing!

    I have inwardly cringed at the “Can I buy your book?” for years. Writers constantly share memes “If you write, you’re a writer,” but let’s be honest. If you constantly talk aloud to yourself without an audience, you’re not an actor. You’re the person at the coffee shop no one sits near. And a writer without readers is a prolific diary keeper with delusions of grandeur. An author requires an audience.

    Of course, we’re always warned to be careful what you wish for. Once your book is out in the world, it’s fair game for readers to interpret, critique, review and judge. Despite desperately wanting people to read my book, I was also terrified of people reading my book. I carried around a knot in my stomach from the moment my publisher uploaded Jaguars for early reviews on NetGalley until the first review came in 48 hours later. 5 stars. From a stranger. This person was under no familial obligation or threat of causing a super awkward PTA meeting. They could trash my book without consequence to themselves, and they gave my book 5 stars.

    I know you’re not supposed to read reviews. It’s the one piece of advice all authors give to debuts. Don’t read your reviews. But…who actually does that? Who possesses the stone-cold, borderline sociopathic indifference to others’ opinions required to avoid reviews? When you take your kid to a doctor, you don’t leave the check-up without hearing some feedback. This is my book baby. I love it, but maybe I’m delusional. Honestly, after line edits I have no perspective whatsoever where Jaguars is concerned. I need a second opinion. I want to know what readers think.

    Currently, they think it’s a 4.9 out of 5 stars!

    I even got 5 stars from a librarian! *screaming* Take that agent lady who read an early query and said for Americans to read a book set in Portugal it would “have to be exceptional, and this is not it.” (Also, Rio de Janeiro is not in Portugal.)

    This is very stream of consciousness post is to say, I’m an author. My debut novel, Jaguars and Other Game, is available for pre-order through your local indie bookstore, Amazon, Barnes&Noble and directly from Orange Blossom Publishing. You can get signed first editions from Orange Blossom. Check-out early reviews on Goodreads then order your own copy and see for yourself. Jaguars and Other Game comes out on November 22! I hope you love it!