And the rise of a great African nation on the East Coast — Well, actually, I didn’t just sit and write it today. It has taken me two years of research and writing to invent a world in which the British defeat the colonials in the Revolutionary War and emancipate the slaves in 1778. The result is a novel called Restive Souls. I’ve…

But there’s only one way to read it — I don’t know about you, but I hate being asked to subscribe to newsletters. Especially by those annoying website pop-ups. But in order to encourage people to download and read this sneak peek into Restive Souls, guess what I did? I made it available exclusively to readers of my newsletter. …

Fiction for a Broken Country — When I went to sleep last night, everything was normal. When I woke up, everything was different. Everything was Black. But not like, hip hop Black, really. Just, well, Black. Black culture, everywhere. With lots of Native American culture mixed in. And people referred to Native Americans as First Settlers. …

In “The Trial of Summary James”, Joshua Gibson’s Major League status was never in doubt — In my novella, The Trial of Summary James, a bat with Josh Gibson’s signature plays a prominent role, sadly, in the death of the character that triggers the trial on which the title of the novella is based. So I thought it was cool that Major League baseball conferred Major…

The alternative history behind Restive Souls (subject to change) — This is the timeline for the Restive Souls series. It is a work in progress and is subject to change as the novel and/or series develops. Let’s see if you history buffs can notice when the changes begin! Book One of the trilogy is centered around John Honeyman and the…