T M Brown

T. M. Brown, Mike to friends and family, embraces his Georgia heritage, thanks to the paternal branches of his family tree. Mike recalls his childhood when on many warm Sunday afternoons his father drove the family beyond Stone Mountain to his Great-Uncle’s farm. Though the dust-filled, red clay back roads of Snellville, GA, now widened and paved over the subsequent decades, Mike fondly recalls getting bitten by barb-wire pasture fences, sipping cool well-water from a ladle, and getting scrubbed in a washtub near the front stoop of Uncle Kerry’s and Aunt Monk’s old farmhouse.

Retired since 2014 from the 9-to-5 life, Mike and his wife Connie live below Atlanta near Newnan, Georgia. Creating his fictional rural town of Shiloh and its cast of memorable characters has conjured up many near-forgotten memories, and thanks to recollections of his Pop and Poppa, the truth they espoused to Mike as a young man resonates in his stories — “The testament of a man lies not in the magnitude of possessions and property left to his heirs, but the reach of his legacy long after his death.”

His new book, a historical novel, The Last Laird of Sapelo, is based on the life of Randolph Spalding of Sapelo Island fame. The story dramatically portrays the challenges he and his family faced after Georgia seceded from the Union. Though Randolph and his famous father were against secession, he faces the challenges of preserving his land, family's legacy, and the people who had sworn to protect while defending his beloved Georgia against the approaching Union navy in the first months of the War Between the States. Koehler Books, July 2023.

Shiloh Mystery Series: Sanctuary, A Legacy of Memories (Jan 2018); Testament, An Unexpected Return (March 2018); Purgatory, A Progeny's Quest (February 2022).

Presenting author at 2017 & 2018 Decatur Book Festival, 2017 Milton Literary Festival, 2018 Dahlonega Literary Festival, 2022 Southern Lit Fest, 2022 & 2023 Sharpsburg Book Fair, and Carrollton BookFest 2023. Member of the Atlanta Writers Club, Georgia Writers Association, Columbus Writers Club, Southeastern Writers Association, and Broadleaf Writers Association (ATL). Founding President of Hometown Novel Writers Association, Inc. based in Newnan, GA; Board of Trustees member of Newnan Carnegie Library Foundation.

Christian Suspense Book of the Year 2017 finalist, Reviews & Interviews; nominated for Georgia Author of the Year in 2018, and 2018 Best Book Award Finalist, AmericanBookFest.com for Sanctuary, A Legacy of Memories. Runner-up for the Hal Barnard Fiction Award, June 2019 by the Southeastern Writers Association and 2021 Silver Falchion Suspense Book of the Year Award Finalist for Purgatory, A Progeny's Quest at Killer Nashville.

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