Our newest book club member is Author Brian Silverman. Brian is a career writer who began his career out of college as screenwriter. He has written several short stories and loves the mystery genre. HIs first novel Freedom Drop has gained praise and wonderful reviews. It is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and others. You can find in for Kindle, Audible, Paper or Hardback.
More about Brian
Before his career in writing crime fiction took off, Brian Silverman honed his trade as a journalist covering a diverse range of subjects. Working first as a sport’s writer for various magazines, Silverman also wrote a number of books including a collaboration with his father, the late Al Silverman, on The Twentieth Century Treasury of Sports.
Another book he authored, Going, Going Gone: The History, Lore, and Mystique of the Home Run, an early look at the home run fixation in baseball, was published with acclaim. During his sport’s writing career he has also written numerous young adult sports books and covered basketball and football, both college and pros.
From sports, Silverman ventured to other subjects including food, where his work often appeared in Saveur magazine. His restaurant reviews appeared in New York magazine and his groundbreaking and quirky blog, Fried Neck Bones…and Some Fries, was the ultimate New York City cheap eats restaurant guide, running from 2002 through 2017.
Brian Silverman’s travel writing has appeared in magazines such as Caribbean Travel & Life, Islands, American Way, the New Yorker and others. Following his magazine work, Silverman was a senior writer for Frommer’s Travel Guides. From 2004 through 2013, he authored the Frommer’s guides to New York City in its many forms including the complete New York City guide books, New York Day to Day, and New York City for Dummies, also published by Wiley Books.
