Spencer K.M. Brown
Award-winning Author of Hold Fast, Move Over Mountain, and Slow Fire
Recommendations for a Departing Soul - Regal House, 2027
I’m pleased to announce my new Southern Gothic novel, Recommendations for a Departing Soul will be published by Regal House Publishing in the Fall of 2027!
Publisher’s Marketplace, 11/25/25: Author of Hold Fast and Move Over Mountain Spencer K.M. Brown's RECOMMENDATIONS FOR A DEPARTING SOUL, a Southern Gothic novel pitched as Wise Blood meets As I Lay Dying and Gilead, which follows two brothers and their violent, estranged uncle across a near-apocalyptic North Carolina to bury their mother as supernatural visions and buried sins press them toward redemption, to Jaynie Royal at Regal House, for publication in fall 2027 (world).
Author Bio:
Spencer K. M. Brown is a finalist for the 2023 CMA National Book Award for “Best Novel,” winner of the 2016 Penelope Niven Award, the 2018 Flying South Fiction Prize, and a finalist for both the 2019 Doris Betts Fiction Prize and the 2019 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize. His short fiction and poems have four times been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and have appeared in numerous publications. He lives in North Carolina, with his wife and three sons. He is the author of the novels Move Over Mountain and Hold Fast, one chapbook of poetry, Cicada Rex, and one collection of stories, Slow Fire. His debut collection of poems The Salvation of Me is forthcoming from Press 53 - on sale 11.3.26
Contact
Social Media: @SpencerKMBrown
Author Email: spencerkmbrown@gmail.com
Literary Agent: Wendy Goldman Rohm - The Rohm Literary Agency