Our Work
Cynthia Jean Brown Literary, LLC presents books shaped by distinctive voices, cultural memory, faith, place, and lived experience. Our growing catalog will feature poetry, fiction, and other literary works that honor courageous storytelling and language that stays with the reader.
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Bone Honey
Poems of Motherhood, Survival, and the Raising of Dry Bones
Through shifting voices and porch-talk cadences, Bone Honey explores motherhood, faith, survival, and generational memory. These poems gather sweetness from difficult places and ask what can be carried, healed, and raised again.
Cynthia Jean Brown | Poetry
Forthcoming Spring 2027
02
Chara Sings the Blues
A lyrical story of color, belonging, and the courage to be heard
Chara, a girl growing up in Germany with German and African American roots, discovers the power of her own voice through color and song. Blue becomes more than her favorite color; it becomes a language for identity, belonging, and self-expression. This lyrical picture book celebrates the beauty of embracing what makes us unique.
Cynthia Jean Brown | Children's Book
Forthcoming Winter 2027
03
Silk Pressed Streets
A novel of hair, land, memory, and what a community refuses to surrender.
Daytona Beach, summer 1992. As Hurricane Cerberus closes in, salon owner Isla Harper discovers that Roots & Edges, and the neighborhood it anchors, are threatened by a redevelopment scheme. Set inside a Black-owned beauty salon where hair, faith, memory, and survival intertwine, Silk Pressed Streets follows a community fighting to protect what has always held them together.
Cynthia Jean Brown | Literary Fiction
Public status:
Novel in Development
04
TARRY BONE
A novel of inherited silence, performed faith, and the courage to tell the whole truth.
In Cane’s Rest, Shae lives beneath the weight of family testimony, church expectation, and truths generations of women have learned to carry in silence. When the polished faith of Mt. Haven Apostolic begins to fracture, she must decide whether tarrying is holy waiting or another name for hiding. Tarry Bone is a Southern novel of motherhood, inheritance, and spiritual reclamation.
Cynthia Jean Brown | Literary Fiction
Public status:
Novel in Development
