Spencer K.M. Brown

Award-winning Author of Hold Fast and Move Over Mountain

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).

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, and one chapbook of poetry, Cicada Rex. His debut collection of stories Into My Heart an Air that Kills is forthcoming from Loblolly Press, Fall 2026.