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As a Federal Prisoner, GC Brown Won a Ben Franklin Gold Writing Award

Los Angeles, CA

June 27, 2024
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GC Brown was never one to shy away from a challenge. While he was serving 16 years in federal prison on tax offences, he read a newspaper article that said that writing a novel is the third hardest thing to do. 

GC Brown picked up a pen. That was in 2014. He hasn’t stopped writing since. That’s how he completed two series, SNIFF, SMOKE, SHOOT, and The Mason Storm Series prior to his release late last year.  

It’s also how he won a gold award in The Ben Franklin contest. His then-agent had entered his initial novel, Wake of Storm. 

“I was shocked and surprised when I received a letter telling me I’d won,” GC stated, “I did not even know I was being considered.” 

Just released in November 2023, he’s been busy living life since then, determined to make up for lost time. GC Brown and his new bride, Carla, expect identical twin boys, Tristan and Trevor, in September. SNIFF is the first novel to be published on November 1. The other books will follow.  

He’s also one of three partners in UpCup Koffee, a mushroom coffee company. His partners are also felons. Alex Diaz was released in 2015 and Dr. William McArthur III was released in 2011. 

SNIFF will be published by Story Merchant Books and is GC’s first novel. It is exciting, action-packed, hard-hitting and plain-speaking with some tough language and wild scenarios.  

Learn more about GC Brown at gcbrownbooks.com/.net/.org. 

 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:

Devon Blaine
devon@blainegroupinc.com

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“From the worst of places to the best of intentions.” That’s GC Brown’s motto. Remarkably, despite being a felon who’s just finished serving 16 years in multiple federal facilities, GC Brown believes this sentence was the best thing that ever happened to him. How so? He became a writer during his confinement. It was the only thing he could do that had the potential of making money. And he loves it. So much so that he has two series ready for publication. He’s also one of three partners in UpCup Koffee, a mushroom coffee company in which he’s partnered with two other felons, Alex Diaz, who was released in 2015, and Dr. William McArthur III, who was released in 2011. Coincidentally, SNIFF publishes November 1 and the Koffee company launches on the same date. GC Brown, originally from Indiana, excelled at playing baseball. So much so that he was offered but declined baseball scholarships. After graduation in 1991, he spent a few years working for other companies, including as the General Manager for a mobile home company in Dallas. Yet GC Brown was destined to be an entrepreneur. He made a good deal of money in many different enterprises…buying and selling mobile homes, real estate fixer uppers and real estate development, the night club business, a software company, online flower company, a sushi chain, then, in 2004, the African diamond trade.

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