Hey y’all! Thanks for stopping by. I’m glad you’re here!
First things first. I know you’re expecting the obligatory resume information, so who am I to disappoint?
My name is Brandy Woods Snow, and I’m a writer and journalist living in beautiful Upstate, South Carolina. I have a Bachelor of Arts degree in English with a minor in Writing from Clemson University. My first novel MEANT TO BE BROKEN, a Southern YA contemporary romance, was released from Filles Vertes Publishing on July 2, 2018 and my second novel AS MUCH AS I EVER COULD is forthcoming from Filles Vertes Publishing on May 26, 2020. I also have a YA romantic short story featured in a charming Filles Vertes anthology, LOVE ON MAIN, available February 11, 2020. I am currently querying an emotional "book-of-my-heart" as well as plotting a few other new WIPs.
In addition to writing, I am the Marketing Manager and an Acquisitions Editor with Filles Vertes Publishing, a mentor with the WriteMentor program, and a member of RWA and YARWA. While creative writing is my first love, the media has been my home for more than nineteen years during which time I have built a strong platform that includes articles in Delta Sky, Greenville Business Magazine, Columbia Business Monthly, Home Design & Decor Charlotte, and Home Design & Decor Raleigh. Previously, I have also worked in corporate communications, public relations, and business development for international and regional companies.
Are we done with the formalities now? Good!
It’s time for the fun part because I’m Southern, and in the South, we can’t just have the sausage biscuits. We’ve got to dress it up with some gravy, too. (And if it wasn’t for the gravy, y’all would think I was all business and no fun!)
I’m a lover of naked Jeep riding (you Jeep enthusiasts know what I mean!), catching lightning bugs, going barefoot and eating fresh shrimp and grits. About 75% of my t-shirts have either a Clemson Tiger Paw or a SC Palmetto and Crescent, and that’s the way I like it.
My husband is my very best friend. I could write a thousand books and have boy-crushes on every one of my main fictional guys, but no one (living, dead or imagined) will ever stack up to him. He’s my all-time crush. We have three children, the oldest two of which are in the throes of tweendom, so I foresee many years of inspirational fodder for my YA tales.
As for this passion of mine, writing a book was never a fly-by-night dream. I knew it was my calling in life from the very first book I read on my own at age four, and when I got a typewriter two years later, the destiny was certain. My main objective in writing is to unify people by drawing on the one thing we all have in common. Emotion. I want my readers to feel ALL the feels—the highs, the lows, the excitement, the despair. This is why writing YA is my perfect niche. It’s such a special time of life, a blooming time, a discovering time. Most of us will never forget the first time our knees knocked together when we saw “her” or “him” or how the knife sliced through our guts when it all didn’t work out. The emotions of youth are raw and powerful and delicious. But most of all, they’re real and honest, and that’s what I always strive to capture in my stories.