Sonny Brewer is a writer and editor, and founder of Over the Transom Bookstore in Fairhope, Alabama. Browse all Sonny's books at Barnes & Noble.
His novels include The Poet of Tolstoy Park, A Sound Like Thunder, and Cormac-The Tale of a Dog Gone Missing.
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 The Old Rocking Chair will be published as soon as he can draw better pictures, or when he will spring for the cost of a real illustrator. He's got his fingers crossed for the
spring of 2008. In the meantime, you can sometimes find it on the used book market as Rembrandt the Rocker with his squiggly, elementary drawings.
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 drafted the opening
chapters of a present day Fairhope novel The Old Woman and the Tree inspired by the events surrounding the intentional
killing of "Inspiration Oak," a champion Live Oak near
Magnolia Springs. Look for this book in the fall of 2009.
