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Barry Brennessel

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http://www.goodreads.com/barrybrennessel

born

January 01, 1964 in Dansville, New York, The United States

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http://www.barrybrennessel.com

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Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers, Gay & Lesbian

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March 2011

About this author

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When Barry’s first collection of stories was read aloud by his second grade teacher, the author hid in the bathroom. As the years flew by, he wrote more, hid less (not really), and branched out to Super 8 films and cassette tape recorders. Barry’s audience—consisting solely of friends and family—were both amused and bemused.

Since those childhood days, Barry has earned degrees in English and French from the State University of New York College at Brockport, and a Master of Arts in Writing from the Johns Hopkins University.

Tinseltown is Barry’s first novel.

His second novel The Sulphur Cure is forthcoming from L&L Dreamspell. Reunion, a collection of linked stories, is forthcoming from MLR Press. His novella The Price of Silence recently...more

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Firenze (Crossroads #2) Is Now Available!

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Books by Barry Brennessel

Average rating: 4.07 · 60 ratings · 28 reviews · 10 distinct works

	Tinseltown 4.18 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:
	All the Souls on Earth 3.42 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Price of Silence 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Reflections 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	Reunion 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings	My rating:
	Sete (Crossroads, #1) 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Sulphur Cure 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:
	Dubrovnik (Crossroads, #3) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Firenze (Crossroads, #2) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	Fireworks by G.C. Constantine, Barry Brennessel (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:

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Crossroads (3 books)
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Barry's Writing

The Curtain Wall (Gay & Lesbian)

1 chapters — updated Oct 31, 2011 06:36pm

Description: Free short story written as part of the Goodreads Gay-Straight Alliance Group's "Traveling to Better" series. My topic is "Bullying in Schools."

The Sulphur Cure (Literature & Fiction)

1 chapters — updated Sep 05, 2011 05:13pm

Description: Vincent Rhodes, an artist whose family fortune has been lost in the Great Depression, receives four rambling letters from his brother, Theo, who went missing during the first Great War in Europe. Though postmarked April 1933, from Claremont, New Hampshire, the letters are dated 1918, the year Theo disappeared. Vincent leaves his Brooklyn flat to find him. Based on clues from the letters, Vincent tracks Theo to his last-known location: a decaying New England health resort known to locals as the Sulphur Cure. There he meets Helen Sage-Brown, the last descendant of the original owners. Though Vincent is convinced his brother was at this strange complex, Miss Sage-Brown insists that she has never seen him. As Vincent digs deeper into the lives of the eccentric residents in search of answers, he finds there is more to this place than sagging floors and broken windows. He discovers that the people inhabiting the old grounds have as many secrets as he does, and that his life will change forever once those secrets come to light.

Excerpt from Crossroads (Sete, #1) (Gay & Lesbian)

1 chapters — updated Aug 30, 2011 09:32am

Description: Brandon Meier’s academic year in Europe takes him far beyond museums, castles, and classrooms. When he embarks on a month-long rail journey, his sightseeing includes an edgy French boy, a Carravagio-esque Italian, a rich Swiss lad, a Croatian heartbreaker, and an Indonesian beauty in Amsterdam, to name but a few. These are lessons no textbook can ever teach. It’s not long before Brandon realizes that the best sightseeing is almost always off the beaten path. From sultry nights in saunas, to midnight strolls in seemingly endless parks, chance encounters in sleepy seaside towns and nights of wining, dining, BMW convertibles and penthouse apartments, Brian’s year in Europe is anything but “by the textbook.”

The Price of Silence (Mystery & Thrillers)

1 chapters — updated May 04, 2011 10:14am

Description: Each of their meetings had been a disaster. He paid her to get lost, and thought he’d rid himself of her for good. But then he found the party invitation stuffed in his mailbox. Was he suspicious? Indeed. Should he fear for his safety, sanity, and Swiss bank accounts? Oh, you bet. Nathan Tanyon’s encounters with a ditzy social climber are hardly by chance. Helena Arntree claims to have far more detail about the death of Nathan’s wealthy aunt than those presented to the police. Nathan insists she has it all wrong. But when she manipulates him into some compromising positions that might harm his credibility, he ends up paying her a healthy sum to keep her mouth shut and go away. So she vanishes. At least for a while. Two years later, she invites him to a costume party in honor of her recent marriage to a man she doesn’t bother to name. Nathan soon finds out the real reason for the invite. When he contemplates skipping the party, he fears doing so might place him in even greater danger. Can he ever escape this woman? Just how much is Nathan willing to sacrifice to keep Miss Arntree from spinning her fanciful tales? Just what is the ultimate price of silence? Finalist, 2009 Pacific Northwest Writers Association Literary Contest

Tinseltown (Gay & Lesbian)

1 chapters — updated May 04, 2011 10:07am

Description: Film student Micah Malone learns the hard way that when life sucks, you can’t just yell, “Cut! Let’s do another take!” His grades are a box-office bomb. His friends create more drama than a soap opera. And his love life needs a laughtrack. While there’s no script to dictate what happens next, can Micah find the direction he needs? Life, after all, is no film school project. But it is great source material. The only source material. Let the cameras roll. Micah’s quirky story has begun filming. [Intro and Chapter 1 from Tinseltown, available in May from MLR Press. (3rd Place Winner, 2010 Pacific Northwest Writers Association Literary Contest)]

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“Endora, the next time you're passing by, please do.”
― Darrin Stephens

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“That is why, walking across a school campus on this particular December morning, I keep searching the sky. As if I expected to see, rather like hearts, a lost pair of kites hurrying toward heaven.”
― Truman Capote

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“Diddly-dah, diddly-dum, twiddly-dum, twiddly, twiddly, twiddly, dah; blinkety-blink, blinkety-blink, chaddily-dum, chaddily-dah, boopity-boop.”
― Emma Peel

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