Finally.  Now you can get  Brambleman for your iPad and iPhone.  Download the sample and check it out. Brambleman A Novel by Jonathan Grant ISBN 978-0-9834921-2-2 ISBN 978-0-9834921-3-9 (ebook) Thornbriar Press Atlanta Paperback suggested retail: $18.95 ebook suggested retail:  $8.99 Down-and-out Atlanta writer Charlie Sherman has no idea what madness awaits him when a mysterious stranger convinces him to finish a dead man’s book about a horrific crime that’s gone unpunished for decades. What Charlie inherits is an unwieldy manuscript about the mob-driven expulsion of more than 1,000 blacks from Forsyth County, Georgia in 1912. During the course of his work, Charlie uncovers a terrible secret involving a Forsyth County land grab. Due to its proximity to Atlanta, the stolen farm is…

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UPDATE: The giveaway has ended and 5 winners picked from 904 entries.  You can still enter the giveaway for both paperbakc and eBok versions of Brambleman at LibraryThing. Registering a 4.6 on the Reader Scale. Wow. Brambleman is taking off at Goodreads. With one more day left register for the book giveaway, 640 people have signed up to win a paperback copy. (There are only 5 available, alas.)  Also, 20 people put the book on their to-read list Friday. That’s really exciting! I’ve spent the past couple of days sending out both Chain Gang Elementary and Brambleman to reviewers after receiving 17 requests. There’s another giveaway going on a LibraryThing. It’s going on until May 1. While 59 people have signed up…

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I know you’vel got documents up there you need to get rid of. Now’s the time! Times: 10:oo a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Dates: Monday,  April 23,  through Friday, April 27 Place: Shredderman  Document Destruction Service 3605 North Parkway  Cumming, Georgia 30040 In association with Keep Forsyth County Beautiful (Infrormation: 770.205.4573).  

Jim Galloway has written an excellent article about the resurrection of efforts to seek justice for the former McIntosh County, Georgia residents (and their descendants) who were evicted from their land during World War II to make way for a military base that was never built.  And after the war, instead of returning the land as promised to the people it belonged to—who happened to be black—the federal government eventually turned it into the Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge. For decades, the land’s rightful owners fought to regain what had been lost, to no avail. It appeared to be a dead issue—one of those historical injustices that appeared to be cast in stone (and may yet be). The only possible solution would…

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From the Miami Herald: Florida special prosecutor Angela Corey has charged neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman with second-degree murder in the shooting of Trayvon Martin. The charge carries a maximum penalty of life in prison. Zimmerman turned himself in at about 8:30 p.m. … The prosecutor’s decision capped weeks of protests nationwide, which were marked by student walk-outs in South Florida and throngs of marchers wearing hoodies in cities from New York to Seattle. The case of a hooded high school junior from MIami-Dade who went for a walk in the rain to get snacks became a national symbol of racial injustice. And for others, it became a glaring example of the media’s rush to judgment and willingness to try a case…

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I know you can hear me, so listen up. Stores in and near Forsyth County now have Brambleman, the Forsyth County saga, in stock. Humpus Bumpus in Cumming and the Barnes and Noble in Alpharetta, specifically. Check first to make sure they haven’t sold out. Humpus Bumpus Books  703 Atlanta Road Cumming, GA 30040 770 781-9705  Visit store website Barnes and Noble Booksellers 7660 North Point Parkway Alpharetta, GA 30022 770 -993-8340