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Brian L. Porter

Books, Bestsellers and Rescue Dogs

Formerly a member of the Royal Air Force, Brian L Porter is an award-winning author, and a dedicated dog rescuer, with the distinction of having more than twenty Amazon #1 bestsellers to his name. He has written under three pseudonyms, with bestsellers coming under each of his writing guises. The majority of those have come under his Brian L Porter name with four coming under his Harry Porter and Juan Pablo Jalisco names.

Nowadays, he divides his time between writing his popular Mersey Murder Mystery series of books, and his immensely successful true-life Family of Rescue Dogs series, all featuring the dogs that form part of his own family, and all having been Amazon #1 bestsellers.

His books have been the regular recipients of many awards, most recently book 5 of his Family of Rescue Dogs series, Remembering Dexter being voted the Readfree.ly Best Indie Book of 2019, as well as winning the Critters.org Best Nonfiction Book of 2019. Other books in the series have received awards, with Sasha winning the Preditors & Editors Readers Poll Award for Best Nonfiction Book, 2016, with Sheba and Cassie’s Tale winning the prize in subsequent years.

Sasha, Sheba, and Cassie’s Tale have also featured in the Top Ten of the Readfree.ly Top 50 Best Indie Books of the Year. After Sasha took 7th place in 2016, and Sheba 4th in 2017 Cassie’s Tale was the overall runner-up for the prize in 2018 before Remembering Dexter took the first-place award in 2019.

His novels have also collected a number of awards, most notably when A Mersey Maiden won the ‘Best Book We’ve Read all Year Award’ from Readfree.ly in 2018. The Mersey Monastery Murders was the Best Mystery Novel and was placed 4th overall in the Top 50 Best Indie Books of 2019. Previously, A Mersey Mariner, A Very Mersey Murder and Last Train to Lime Street picked up Best Mystery Novel awards.

His military background is celebrated in the bestselling poetry collection, Lest We Forget, based on his interviews with various veterans of all nations who were involved in the conflicts of the twentieth century, and who shared their experiences with him so he could turn their stories into the incredibly poetry found within its pages.

In a complete change of direction, he was approached by US Historical Romance author, Diana Rubino, and asked to co-write her new novel, Sharing Hamilton. Diana, as a successful author in her own genre, wanted to add a new element to her book, a serial killer! Diana was a long-time admirer of Brian’s work and he was her choice to add this new element to her book. Subsequently, Brian introduced readers to the handsome, debonair yet deadly, Dr. Severus Black, and between them Brian and Diana produced a book that won much critical acclaim, bestseller status soon after publication and going on to win a place in the Preditors & Editors Top Ten Romance novels in their 2017 Readers Choice Awards.

Early in his career Brian won the Best Author Award 2009 in his own name, and Best Poet Award 2009, as Juan Pablo Jalisco in the Preditors & Editors Readers Awards. The same awards also saw his first novel, A Study in Red, The Secret Journal of Jack the Ripper win the Best Thriller Award in 2008, and Requiem for the Ripper took the Best Thriller Award in 2010, when Glastonbury also won the Best Mystery Novel Award.

His children’s books, written under his Harry Porter pseudonym, have proved equally as successful as his novels and dog rescue books. His Teen/Young Adult short story book, Wolf, is an Amazon bestseller, as are his two books for younger children, Alistair the Alligator and Charlie the Caterpillar, both written in simple poetic form and illustrated to help attract the attention of younger readers

When not engaged in his various writing activities, Brian and his wife Juliet spend their time with their family of ten rescue dogs. All the dogs have been abused/abandoned before joining Brian and Juliet’s incredible canine family and it’s no surprise that he has managed to turn their life stories into a series of bestselling books. Brian is an avid reader, and indeed attributes much of his success to a lifetime love of the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Clive Cussler, and Alistair MacLean, all of whom he lists as inspirations for his work. He’s a former amateur football player, (he was a goalkeeper), and a qualified hockey coach, having once coached the colts for a National League Hockey Club. He is also a member of the Royal Air Forces Association.