Randy Thornhorn's Blog, page 15

Meanwhile, over on Bluegrass Today…

You might need to click on this and enlarge it to really see it. But I thought you might enjoy a gander at what is popping up regularly this weekend and in weeks to come over on Bluegrass Today dot com.

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BLIND FIDDLER (from The Kestrel Waters) *reposted by Popular Request

performed by Hoyt Axton

Currently Available in print and as Kindle ebook on Amazon.com

Get a $6 Promotional Code Discount on print book of The Kestrel Waters at Amazon/Createspace (Code: DF6MFL8X)

Cottage For Sale (from The Kestrel Waters)

performed by Judy Garland

COMING: The Kestrel Waters will be available in print on April 1. (That’s right, April Fools Day, folks!)

(Currently available as Kindle ebook on Amazon.com)

A Letter from William Peter Blatty (re: The Kestrel Waters)

Well, folks, today I received a letter from a very gracious man whose words moved me deeply. I can never thank him enough for taking the time to read and respond to my request.

I have not told many people until now–but The Kestrel Waters (my new novel) is going to be available in print the first of next month. The cover is designed already, everything is falling into place for it. (It is already available online as a Kindle ebook at Amazon.)

Then, this afternoon, I received an email from Oscar-winning, best-selling author William Peter Blatty (who wrote The Exorcist and The Ninth Configuration). It began like this:

Randy,

I took most of the rest of the day off to read The Kestrel Waters after which I’ve come to believe that it is I who should be asking you for quotes. I was haunted throughout by a sense of mystery and otherness, it’s a mesmerizing, wonderfully written and extraordinary work of the imagination…

In The Beginning were The Brothers Brass…

Join author Randy Thornhorn at BookExpo America
at the IBPA Booth (2352) for a  free signed copy   of
The Kestrel Waters.

===> Watch THE KESTREL WATERS Book Trailer! 

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The Kestrel Waters  are sweet and deep and full of sorrow.

The Kestrel Waters  are dark and scary.

The Kestrel Waters  are the waters of life.

“I was haunted throughout by a sense of mystery and otherness. This book is a mesmerizing, wonderfully written and extraordinary work of the imagination…Thornhorn, where the hell have you been?” ~ William Peter Blatty (author of The Exorcist )

In The Beginning were The Brothers Brass.

In The End there is no end to what one girl’s heart will do. And no end to what one brother will do for the other.

The Brothers Brass. A young and celestial bluegrass singing duo (with echoes of The Everly Brothers). Raised in Savannah by the sea, together, these boys’ voices chime like heavenly bells.

The oldest brother, Kestrel, falls fast in love with a wild mountain girl who hides in the trees—a bit of a girl named Bettilia. A girl raised by a flesh and blood devil on a haunted mountain called Riddle Top.

Soon all the Family Brass will fall for little Bettilia. She captures Kestrel, she captures everyone. And they capture Bettilia, forever.

Until that fateful day when, deep in his own heart, Kestrel says I do to his own devil.

“Captures the tragedy of romantic and familial love better than any story I have ever read.” ~ Janeiro Bento

The Kestrel Waters is an eerie, heroic, and beautiful story of human love, like none you’ve ever known. An epic fable of an epic family whose hearts are comic, profane, and profoundly true.

“Mellifluous, Lyrical…with a darkness that creeps like kudzu.” ~ Kirkus Reviews

The Kestrel Waters (A Tale of Love and Devil) by author Randy Thornhorn.

“One of the South’s wildest new voices…” ~ The Oxford American Magazine

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More readers’ comments:

“The Kestrel Waters is one of those books that leaves the reader with an emotional hangover. It’s difficult to start reading another book, because one’s feelings are still so influenced by the book just read. This emotional hangover doesn’t happen too often for me, and I’m a voracious reader. Indeed, it happens more often with music. But in a way I can’t explain, The Kestrel Waters is like music…”

~ Joy Williams

“I had no idea what to expect when I started reading The Kestrel Waters…I didn’t expect to care for the characters the way I do. I didn’t expect to be as concerned for them as I became. And I certainly didn’t expect to finish this book with a lump in my throat, tears in my eyes, and the sense of having experienced something profound.

This was a hell of a good read had I sought only an engaging yarn of good and evil, love and redemption, and a mystery solved. But it’s a lot more than that.

This is immersive, obsessive, and deeply affecting. Disorienting – in that way that a good book can connect you to something that leaves a tint on everything around you, an aftertaste… this is powerful.”

~ Jeffrey Lindner

“I found it masterful…I feel almost as haunted by [Bettilia] as Kes did. She’s a haunting, haunted little creature, but I fell in love with her. Her snappish wit, her obvious devotion to Mambly and Mama, her courage and strength, and her fears…The climax was riveting.”

~ Brianne Harris (Age 20, Illinois)

“I just finished The Kestrel Waters. I started it this morning and read it mostly in one sitting…I could not put it down. The language was beautiful. Honestly, I think it an amazing book…It was a profound experience.”

~ Rebecca Jacobson (Age 44, Texas/Washington DC)

Herald the shadowed things…

Herald the shadowed things, the hearth and tinder,

Lo, she comes, yon midnight madonna, newborn and beheld.

RT

The Brothers Everly

What strange creatures brothers are…

~ Jane Austen