Authorpreneur Dashboard – Bruce Joel Brittain
Brother Daniel’s Good News Revival
Literature & Fiction
IN THE EARLY SUMMER of 1933, an 18-year-old naive Kentucky farm boy, Michael Boone, becomes a driver for a traveling religious revival troupe. As the summer unfolds and the itinerant group moves from town to town, he learns that things are not what they seem; primarily that the goal of the enterprise is making money, not saving souls and that hardly anyone in the group fits into a neat and normal family narrative. Michael, in turns, is exposed to religious hypocrisy, the world of good literature, the destructiveness of alcohol abuse, pedophilia, overt racism, first true loves, near tragedy and selflessness. He is also skillfully tutored in the art of seduction and sex. The full impact of Michael’s time with Brother Daniel’s Good News Revival is only learned many years after the summer of ’33. It is a revelation that shakes the foundation of the life he had since built.
Book Bubbles from Brother Daniel’s Good News Revival
Humor Has a Role in Novels
Reader comments and reviews have taught me that my writing has a certain patina of humor, not something that I intended to do when I set out to write an historical novel. These little set pieces, which crop up only occasionally in the novel, seem to delight readers and add a touch more of humanity to the characters.
Setting the Hook Early
I believe that before a story goes on too long in establishing verisimilitude, it should peak the reader's interest,resulting in further reading. For instance, most murder mysteries open with a dead body and the remainder of the book explores the "who" and "why". In my novel, I suggest an intriguing future relationship that pulls the reader further into the narrative.
