A WORK OF FICTION & MUSICThe first novel with a sound track. CD or downloads sold separately.EPIDEMIC OF BEACHED WHALES HITS EAST COAST"We have a humpback whale dead on the beach here in Maine with some kind of huge silver-green pod-like object partially visible in its mouth." Jasmine, New York Co-Anchor, INN"New beached whale sightings seem to be coming in every few hours now. Between fifteen and thirty beached humpback whales have been reported along the east coast over the past three days." Ellworth Hayes, Washington DC Co-Anchor, INNThis literary drama mixes adventure/mystery with a trip into the Inferno, and the whales are just the beginning of a bizarre terrorist invasion of the USA. The action pits Vietnam veteran English teacher Gwynn Camsron, the American descendant of a fourteen-century Scottish warrior poet, against jihadist invaders led by his former comrade in arms and friend in Vietnam, Saladin Keayrn, a direct descendant of the great Muslim leader Salah ad Din. THE FIRST NOVEL WITH MUSICWhile writing Tears of Allah I kept hearing music, and it was driving me crazy. Throughout history, novelists have used poems or songs or quotes from other sources to provide mood or context for an entire book, a chapter or a section. It seemed like a natural progression to actually compose and perform my own music as part of the process. The soundtrack sets the tone for this tale of a centuries-old clash of religions and cultures bubbling back to the surface of history.
About the Author: Timothy Brannan was born and raised in Raleigh, North Carolina. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and Philosophy and a Master of Arts in Literature and Writing from NC State University. Both as an undergraduate and a graduate student he was mentored by the late Dr. Guy Owen (Ballad of the Flim-Flam Man, Season of Fear) and submitted the first creative writing Masters thesis ever accepted at NC State University. Timothy later earned a Juris Doctor from Florida State University. After serving in Viet-Nam in Army Military Intelligence and Psychological Operations and traveling around the country and Mexico, he met his life soul mate while working for a publisher in New York. They left the city and traveled all over the US in a yellow International Travel-All -- their own version of the Merry Pranksters bus. After marrying in 1972, they pursued Masters Degrees and then moved to the mountains of NC where Timothy taught GED in a youthful offender prison. In 1978 they moved to St. Thomas, USVI where Timothy served as the Chief of Staff for the USVI Senate Democratic Caucus. In that position, he was instrumental in the Virgin Islands being included in President Reagan's initial Caribbean Basin Initiative and in developing legislation that rescued the Virgin Islands economy. Since, he has served as chief of staff, legal counsel, and political consultant for a wide range of political figures and interest groups. Timothy's fiction and poetry have been published in a variety of magazines and small press publications over the years. In 2008, they established Gemini Publishing and Gemini Studios in 2012 as projects to assure publication and production of his creative works.