Blog Tour: Accelerant by T.L. Simpson
Briar Stokes watches his best friends get attacked at a Pride demonstration, and he does what feels logical in that moment: he grabs a pipe, puts on a demon mask, and goes looking for the white supremacists who did it. The impulse seems to make sense. What Accelerant by T.L. Simpson explores is what happens when you follow it. The hate Briar is chasing has roots inside his own family, and his stepbrother is being pulled toward the same group Briar wants to destroy. Violence doesn’t stop violence, the book argues. It accelerates it. We’re thrilled to be part of the blog tour for this one on pub day, from the Printz Honor-winning author of Cope Field.
Accelerant
by T.L. SimpsonPublished by: Flux Books
on October 20, 2026
Genres: Contemporary, Thriller, Young Adult
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From the Printz Honor-winning author of Cope Field
After his best friends are attacked at a Pride demonstration, anime nerd Briar Stokes grabs a length of pipe, dons a Japanese demon mask, and hops on his street bike with one goal: to enact violent revenge against the white supremacists infesting his rural Missouri community.
What he doesn’t know is how deep the roots of hate grow, nor how much they’ve entangled his own family. But when his quest for vengeance pits him against his own stepbrother, who faces radicalization by that same hate group, Briar soon learns the hard way that violence doesn’t stop violence . . . It accelerates it.
About T.L. Simpson
T.L. Simpson is a nationally acclaimed novelist and journalist whose YA novel Cope Field was a 2026 Michael L. Printz Honor Book. A longtime newspaper editor in Arkansas, Simpson draws on his experience covering sports, crime, and community life in his fiction.
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