It’s always exciting being in at the start of a book’s life and it’s my pleasure today to feature The Making of Brio McPride by R.A Ruegg. I’m delighted that this book is on my TBR and would like to thank Debbie at Cameron Publicity and Marketing for sending me a copy. What I think is so important about The Making of Brio McPride (aside from the fact that it is the inspiration for the movie Spiked, coming out in 2025) is the fact that 30% of royalties from the book are being given to mental health charities.
Let’s find out more:
The Making of Brio McPride
Sometimes to mend a broken heart, they have to blow your mind.
No matter how many shrinks they throw at him, fifteen-year-old Brio’s going to prove to his beloved Izzy that it’s not him who’s mentally ill, it’s the rest of the world.
Logie’s a different kind of psychotherapist, though, and a despairing Brio thinks that maybe this weird ‘narrative therapy’ actually could help him find the father he never knew. It might even stop him grieving for his mum and worrying he’s gay.
But behind Logie lurks a big-data giant that’ll stop at nothing to win approval for its Al-driven mental health platform, and all Brio really knows as he disappears into the hypnotic haze of his ‘deepmind parable’ is that it’s going to be a life-or-death mission like no story he’s ever written.
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That sounds very intriguing to me!
Billed as The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time meets Life of Pi, The Making of Brio McPride is available for order from all good bookshops and is also available for purchase here.
If you’d like to find out more, do visit the website for The Making of Brio McPride, where you’ll find extracts from the book, author interviews and so much more, including film information.
About R.A. Ruegg
R.A Ruegg is a professional ghost writer and advertising copy writer who grew up in Britain, read law at King’s College, London, then spent several years in the US and East Asia before emigrating to Australia.
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