Indie Author Living in Fort Erie, Canada (Niagara Region) – The Fifteenth of June, Fender, The Afton Morrison Series
I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be making appearances at three Niagara Region libraries in the month of May.
Each event will last about an hour, and will include the following:
Here are the dates, times, and locations:
[The Fifteenth of June] is a deep book and can apply to all of us no matter what situation we are in. . . . This is a great story and one that I recommend for anyone.
—Jessica Bronder, Book Reviewer (jbronderbookreviews.com)
Be prepared for a heavy life lesson and a feel-good ending as the author graphically demonstrates despair and reawakening hope. . . . [The Fifteenth of June is] a biting, successful debut effort from Brent Jones. Recommended read.
—Stanley McShane (Virginia Williams), Author of Cocos Island Treasure
My favorite part of writing The Fifteenth of June was creating the characters—they’re flawed, haunted, quirky, vulgar, relatable, and amusing at times. And I enjoyed every moment of inventing dialogue between them.
I captured some of my favorite quotes from six of the main characters and organized them below as plain text, click to tweet buttons, and images that can be easily shared to Pinterest.
. . . authors like Mordecai Richler and Douglas Coupland . . . known for their dark but humourous literary masterpieces, clearly guided Jones’ hand during the production of his debut novel, The Fifteenth of June.
—Niagara This Week
While completing my first draft of The Fifteenth of June, I was introduced to writing software called Scrivener.
It’s popular among indie authors, and for good reason. Among a whole host of plotting, editing, and publishing features, it was designed with the functionality to add notes and images to different chapters, parts, and character bios.
I thought it might be fun to go on a hunt for celebrities who resemble how I envisioned and described each character. A few Google searches later, I had celebrity lookalikes for each character imported into Scrivener.
From John Goodman to Emily Blunt, this is what I came up with:
I think some of the ugly truths about human nature in [The Fifteenth of June] were powerful. Fantastic debut from a talented author.
—Michael McDonald, Author of Walking Away from Depression
The world is kind of a crazy place.
Not long ago, an author had to rely on landing a traditional publishing deal if he or she wanted to sell books.
But with the invention of print-on-demand services, such as CreateSpace, and eBook technology, such as Nook and Kindle, anyone can publish his or her work to a worldwide audience. Just yesterday, for instance, someone in Brazil purchased The Fifteenth of June.
That just blows my mind . . . in a good way, of course.
That said, I still have a soft spot for local commerce and the community where I live.
I’m running a giveaway on Goodreads until Friday, March 17.
The prize?
I’ll be shipping print copies of my debut novel, The Fifteenth of June, to 10 lucky winners. If you’re that reader who prefers physical books to digital, it costs absolutely nothing—as in $0—to enter. All you need is a Goodreads account.
[The Fifteenth of June is] a process, for both the protagonist and the reader, of self-discovery and acceptance . . . and through this process, both reader and protagonist are shown glimpses of hope, of different possibilities, of the potential for change, and begin to understand that the way events and situations shape us depends on how we choose to deal with them . . .
—Daphne Kapsali, Author of 100 Days of Solitude
