Category: books

  • Audiobook release of Mosquito Song: Dreams in Old San Juan

    Audiobook release of Mosquito Song: Dreams in Old San Juan

    My new short fiction audiobook is out now and free US review copies are available in a limited number.

  • Veterans and my novel, Brindle 24

    Veterans and my novel, Brindle 24

    Norman Brown, the author’s father was a veteran of WW2.

  • Distracted by Death: New York Stories

    Distracted by Death: New York Stories

    I used to have an obsession with death. Lately, I have come to think of it as more of a distraction but it still definitely sparks my imagination. I’ve just published a new collection that contains all of my novellas and short stories in one place, titled Distracted by Death: New York Stories on the…

  • Way to Heaven

    An excerpt from Death and the Dream by J.J.Brown, deliciously dark short stories for Halloween. It’s so unnaturally quiet inside the old wood shed. And dark. It’s so completely dark inside, even at midday, as if buried above ground. Spiders hang in front of webs so thick on the dirty windows that they form lace…

  • Comorbidity: Expressions of Love

    When does love begin? I have a memory that I think is from before I was born, where everything is dense and fluid pressing up against me like an ocean. From this familiarity and safety, a kind of love may have already begun. And who could deny that babies love their mother, that most intimate…