Author Stanley P. Brown
Black Legacy by S.P. Brown
A little bit about Author S.P. Brown…
I’m from the small Cajun town of Plaquemine, Louisiana. My father was a painter, and my mother was a homemaker. Growing up, I read Marvel Comics voraciously, but realizing I didn’t have the right stuff to be a superhero, I concentrated on academics and took my first post as a college professor at The University of Mississippi. After many scientific publications and several textbooks, the call of storytelling grew in me so much I couldn’t deny it any longer, so I started writing fantasy and thriller stories. That was about 20 years ago and I now have two novels published, and more on the way.
This is Author S.P. Brown’s writing and publication journey in his own words…
Inspiration to start writing…
Truly, my writing fiction grew out of boredom. After many, many academic papers and textbooks, I wanted a new challenge. I found it in trying to write publication-worthy fiction. I write what I call contemporary fantasy and paranormal thrillers. Those are what I have published with The Wild Rose Press (TWRP). I read widely and I find that I like to write mixed genre. For example, the plot for my paranormal thriller with TWRP, Black Legacy, involves a terrorist bombing in Washington, DC, ghosts, and black magic. So, it mixes in aspects of political thriller with pure paranormal. My other book with TWRP is a contemporary fantasy with fantastical elements in our own world and time. I love the mixture of the fantastical with the ordinary.
S.P. Brown’s works…
You can find my works at The Wild Rose Press website here (https://wildrosepress.com/product/black-legacy/) and here (https://wildrosepress.com/product/veiled-memory/)
Veiled Memory by S.P. Brown
Veiled Memory Blurb
Madeline Alleyn is a successful professor of Celtic history, but she’s haunted by her past. When she discovers that she’s carrying triplets, she runs to protect them. Now, after nearly eighteen years of vigilance, the destiny from which Madeline has tried to escape catches up with her. Her daughters are developing psychokinetic powers. Is their fate tied to ancient stone tablets discovered by their mysterious grandmother? As they seek answers, they have to escape a murderous attempt to negate an ancient prophecy and solve the riddle of the Stones of Sumer, a mystery with startling implications for the origin of Stonehenge and the world.
One of S.P. Brown’s favourite scenes from Veiled Memory…
Prologue
Saturday Night:
The technician made it to the observatory on Mount Fowlkes as the last vestiges of sunlight slipped past the western horizon. In the clear skies of southwest Texas, the usual starlit blackness could be so deep that earthbound objects seemed to fade into silhouettes, unchained, like wraiths.
Those were the times he liked best, but tonight was different. An unnatural haze suffused the region, blurring the usually bright stars. Confused, Ben gazed into the sky, scratching his head as though the answer to some cosmic mystery could be coaxed from his tangled mass of hair. “If that’s not the darnedest thing,” he whispered, still perplexed by a nagging feeling that something was off.
Twin white domes of neighboring Mount Locke sat like mute sentinels propped against a black sky that should have been full of star-speckled brilliance. Otherwise, nothing seemed out of place. A slight wind rustled the boughs of Emory and Western Gray Oak sprouting from the stony soil.
Still focused on the stars, Ben jumped when the giant telescope he stood next to creaked and groaned as it began rotating.
“You say something, son?” Turning, he found his boss standing behind him.
“Just wondering who’s manning the instruments?”
“A visiting professor. He could use some help calibrating.”
“Can’t. There’s a call up from New York. A student needs lunar ranging data. Routine stuff.”
The boss nodded and walked back inside. Ben craned his neck again. Pollution couldn’t have caused this haze, not in this unspoiled environment, but the puzzle would have to wait. He walked across the parking lot of the McDonald Observatory complex to a square metal building standing next to the laser station and called Joe Prather, an astrophysics graduate student at Columbia University.
