Sonny Brewer is a writer and editor, and founder of Over the Transom Bookstore in Fairhope, Alabama. Browse all Sonny's books at BookSense.
His novels include The Poet of Tolstoy Park,
Cormac-The Tale of a Dog Gone Missing, and
Sonny's first two books painted a historical backdrop of the author's bayfront hometown of Fairhope, Alabama. The Poet of Tolstoy Park was set in the 1920s, and A Sound Like Thunder in the 1940s.
Now, he has completed a present day Fairhope novel The Widow and the Tree, a fable-istic tale of a 500-year-old oak tree at the intersection of lives and emotions in Coastal Alabama. Read actual news account of events surrounding the intentional killing of "Inspiration Oak," a champion Live Oak near Magnolia Springs.
The book's cover art is an original wood engraving by celebrated artist Barry Moser.
Look for Sonny's 4th novel in the fall of 2009.
SIGNED FIRST EDITION HARDCOVERS OF
A SOUND LIKE THUNDER
ARE AVAILABLE DIRECTLY FROM THE AUTHOR.
The paperback will be released in early 2009, until then click
here for details on how to order your collectible hardback.
Sonny edits the anthology Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe, published now and then by MacAdam/Cage. The fifth volume in the Blue Moon Cafe series is published under the title, A Cast of Characters and Other Stories.
Sonny spent three minutes of his fifteen-minute allotment of fame when he got some press for wearing a seersucker suit while riding his Harley. Read the back issue of the New York Times.
A children's book
called Rembrandt the Rocker, Sonny self-published, and you can sometimes find it on the used book market illustrated by the author. Sonny has another book for children, Sweet Sleepy Time, and when it lands at some fine publishing house, will be illustrated by the great Barry Moser.
If you're in the mood for some dime-store philosophy, look among the out-of-print titles for A Yin for Change.
