Meet Brandy

Award-winning author. Journalist. Editor. Mil-spouse. Mama. Gigi. Southerner. Fur-Mom. ADHDer. Wannabe health enthusiast. Christmas decorating guru. True romantic.

Brandy has been an avid reader since she picked up her first book (The Pokey Little Puppy) at age four and a writer since age six when she got her first typewriter. She always read well beyond her years, and while some may frown on the fact that she read The Bermuda Triangle, Helter Skelter, and VC Andrews’ My Sweet Audrina before even reaching her preteen years, Brandy believes her long days of reading an eclectic variety of genres on her own Southern porch are what solidified her dream to become an author.

The road wasn’t straightforward. Everyone told her that creative writing majors would starve, so she picked a more prudent route upon entering Clemson University and went for a degree in English and Journalism. A handful of years out of college, though, while spending her days in a blue jail cell… er, cubicle… she knew she’d made a dreadful error.

That’s when she “retired” from the corporate world, began freelancing for magazines and small publishing houses, and eventually followed the dream that still lingered in her heart.

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Around here, the only thing deeper than the Southern accents are the emotions you’ll feel with every turn of a page. And hoo-boy, is there going to be some family drama, angst, and yearning to boot.

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Brandy Woods Snow is an author who takes “write what you know” to heart. With Southern landscapes, slow drawls, complicated families, and a dash of small-town scandal, she’s penning life as she’s lived it in her own corner of the world. Born, raised, and still living in Upstate South Carolina, Brandy likes her tea sweet and her stories steeped in emotion, love, and the kind of truths that take a while to come into focus. As an INFJ, she also takes that “J” seriously, especially when it comes to making sure her antagonists eventually get what’s coming to them.
Called dramatic and emotional more than once in her life, Brandy finally decided there’s nothing wrong with feeling things deeply, and she pours every bit of that heart onto the page. She’s also the kind of person strangers single out in a room to tell their life stories. These days, she counts that as a gift. It means people trust her, and it gives her a front-row seat to what makes people tick. That curiosity, fueled by a desire to dig deeper, is at the core of every character-driven story she writes.
Before turning her attention to fiction, Brandy spent two decades in corporate communications and media, where she learned exactly how people say what they mean and, more often than not, how they don’t. That knack for reading between the lines shows up in her stories, where what’s left unsaid carries just as much weight as what’s spoken. The way she sees it, the best stories aren’t told all at once; they unfold slowly, like a good conversation on the porch.
Brandy is a proud mil-spouse, mother of three, Gigi of two, and cat-mom to one obstinate tabby. When she’s not writing, Brandy is probably striking up a conversation with a stranger (her husband has come to accept this as a lifelong condition), spending time with her family, or chasing a good view from the front porch, football stadium, or a country back road with the Jeep top down and the music turned up. A proud Clemson alum, she’ll answer to many things, but “Go Tigers!” will always get the quickest response.