Month: June 2013

From the Tucker Patch: A book by author Jonathan Grant has won an award from the Independent Book Publishers Association. The 2013 Benjamin Franklin Award for popular fiction was bestowed on Brambleman at IBPA’s annual meeting in New York City on May 29. The novel is about a mob that expelled 1,000 African-Americans from Forsyth County, Georgia early last century and is a sequel to The Way It Was in the South. “Winning meant a lot because I put so much into that book,” Grant told Patch. “It took ten years to write, and from conception to awards ceremony, nearly two decades. When my category came up and they announced that the winner was Brambleman, I kind of froze. Then I told…

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Note: Brambleman recently received the Benjamin Franklin Award for popular fiction, and to celebrate this honor, Thornbriar Press has put the Kindle version on sale through June for only $6.99 — $2 off the regular price. * * * Forsyth County, Georgia is the site of one of the most infamous acts of ethnic cleansing in American history.  In late 1912, white mobs and nightriders drove out more than 1,000 black residents from the community.  Their success was remarkable in its completeness, and Forsyth, in the shadow of the black Mecca of Atlanta, remained lily-white for nearly a century afterward. I first came up with a primordial idea for Brambleman in 1993 and started writing something resembling this book in 1998. Ten years later, I finished the manuscript.…

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Prepared for the Ashbrooke Book Club, Forsyth County Georgia, Oct. 22, 2012

Brambleman is actually selling over in the UK! The very proper Mrs. Helen Painter gives Brambleman four stars and writes: “I really enjoyed this book, it wasn’t what I thought it was going to be, so I was very pleasantly surprised! If you want a story that is long, funny, strange and weird then this is the book for you!!!” See original review. If you want to buy the book here in the states, you’re in luck, because Brambleman is on sale now, by the way. Kindle and Nook versions are only $6.99. That’s $2.00 the regular price. Grab the eBook today!  Best price on the paperback is here. Regardless of what the Brits think, Brambleman won the 2013 Benjamin Franklin Award for…

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  For more about Brambleman and the Benjamin Franklin Award, click here.  

News from Thornbriar Press Brambleman, Jonathan Grant’s gritty, supernaturally-tinged tale of redemption and revenge in Forsyth County, Georgia has won the Independent Book Publishers Association 2013 Gold Benjamin Franklin Award for popular fiction. The Franklins were presented at the IBPA’s annual meeting in New York City on May 29 in a prelude to Book Expo America. Brambleman tells the story of down-and-out writer Charlie Sherman, who has no idea what madness awaits when a stranger convinces him to finish a dead man’s book. Charlie’s work on the manuscript—about the mob-driven expulsion of 1,000 blacks from Forsyth County, Georgia in 1912—leads him to a more recent crime that has enriched a Forsyth County family.  Charlie becomes convinced that he’s been chosen by a…

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