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Ryan Bracha

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Born

in Doncaster, The United Kingdom

Website

https://www.miseryprizeband.co.uk

Twitter

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Genre

Crime, Humor and Comedy, Contemporary

Influences

Irvine Welsh, Christopher Brookmyre, Chuck Palahniuk, Elmore Leonard ...more

Member Since

December 2012

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Ryan Bracha is the Amazon-bestselling author of eleven novels, a novella, and a collection of short stories. In his early twenties, he made a brief foray into independent filmmaking. At 24, he wrote and directed his debut feature Tales From Nowhere, a limited-release cult oddity he once described as “Pulp Fiction meets Kes.” Though the film’s lifespan was short, it ignited a passion for bold, unorthodox storytelling.

Ryan spent the next several years honing his voice as a novelist. His debut, Strangers Are Just Friends You Haven’t Killed Yet, took nearly four years to complete, and was followed by a relentless output of raw, genre-defying fiction. Over the course of his writing career, he’s self-published eleven novels, a novella, and a shor ...more

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Average rating: 4.14 · 698 ratings · 153 reviews · 33 distinct works

	Strangers Are Just Friends You Haven't Killed Yet 3.60 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paul Carter is a Dead Man 4.48 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Twelve Mad Men by Ryan Bracha (Goodreads Author), Paul D. Brazill (Contributor), Gerard Brennan (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.02 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Switched 4.04 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Phoebe Jeebies and The Man Who Annoyed Everybody 4.28 avg rating — 50 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tomorrow's Chip Paper (Strangers Are Just Friends You Haven't Killed Yet #2) 4.29 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	After Call Work: Verbal Warning (After Call Work #1) 4.14 avg rating — 44 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Banjo String Snapped but the Band Played on 3.72 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ben Turner is a Dead Man 4.23 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Thirteen Lives of Frank Peppercorn by Ryan Bracha (Goodreads Author), Dominic Adler (Goodreads Author), Jason Beech (Goodreads Author) 4.48 avg rating — 31 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Phoebe Jeebies and The Man Who Annoyed Everybody

So, it's been almost four years since I wrote a blog post. A lot has happened in that four years. A lot of knowledge has been gleaned. A lot of skills developed, in both my writing and in my approach to trying to sell my stuff.

Let's focus on the writing skills. Since I released my debut in 2012, I've written and published a further eight novels, a collection of stories, and a novella. In those, t Read more of this blog post »

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“I love to eat lettuce for breakfast, they call me bunny.”
― Ryan Bracha, The Banjo String Snapped but the Band Played on

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“vibe.”
― Ryan Bracha, Bogies, and other equally messed up tales: The Director's Cut

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Polls

January/February 2013 Group Read

Jet/Russell Blake

48 votes, 14.0%

The Racketeer/John Grisham

39 votes, 11.4%

The Likeness/ Tana French

31 votes, 9.0%

The Hard Way/Lee Child

31 votes, 9.0%

Defending Jacob/William Landay

24 votes, 7.0%

Basket Case/Carl Hiaasen

16 votes, 4.7%

Case Histories/Kate Atkinson

15 votes, 4.4%

Kill Shot/Vince Flynn

12 votes, 3.5%

A Child is Torn “Innocence Lost”/Dawn Kopman Whidden

11 votes, 3.2%

The Charm School/Nelson DeMille

10 votes, 2.9%

Creep/Jennifer Hillier

9 votes, 2.6%

Rivers of London/Ben Aaronovitch

9 votes, 2.6%

Death at Bishop's Keep/Robin Paige

8 votes, 2.3%

The Charter/Gillian Hamer

8 votes, 2.3%

A Deeper Darkness/J.T. Ellison

8 votes, 2.3%

Strangers Are Just Friends You Haven't Killed Yet/Ryan Bracha

8 votes, 2.3%

Cop Hater/Ed McBain

8 votes, 2.3%

Quite Ugly One Morning/Christopher Brookmyre

7 votes, 2.0%

Fear Collector/Gregg Olsen

7 votes, 2.0%

Hunter: Intrepid 2/Chris Allen

6 votes, 1.7%

The Return of Captain John Emmett/Elizabeth Speller

5 votes, 1.5%

Viral/James Lilliefors

5 votes, 1.5%

Missing: Presumed Dead /Hawkins James

3 votes, 0.9%

The Barbed-Wire Kiss: A Novel/Wallace Stroby

3 votes, 0.9%

The Fix/Keith Nixon

3 votes, 0.9%

Memoria. A Corporation of Lies/Alex Bobl

3 votes, 0.9%

In Her Shadow/August McLaughlin

2 votes, 0.6%

Quiet Ops/Bob Burton

1 vote, 0.3%

Green Power/Charles Vrooman

1 vote, 0.3%

Candlemoth/R.J. Ellory

1 vote, 0.3%

Coming Home/Roy E. Stolworthy

1 vote, 0.3%

Brass Knuckles Larry Matthews

0 votes, 0.0%

The Oligarch: A Thriller/G.W. Eccles

0 votes, 0.0%

Fallout /Karla Forbes

0 votes, 0.0%

Line in the Sand/C Isaac

0 votes, 0.0%

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