General L.W. "Fig" Newton
General Newton wrote the foreword in "First Dark: A Buffalo Soldier's Story - Sesquicentennial Edition."
Sergeant Monica Brown
Sergeant Monica Brown was awarded the Silver Star for valor.
Sergeant Isaac Rice
Sergeant Rice, 19th century 10th Cavalry soldier in the novel "First Dark."
Francesca Dumas
Francesca is a teenage detective looking for a serial murderer in "The Laced Chameleon."
A Love Story
Dena and Will fall in love in "Hitting Life's Curveballs."
…telling our stories – lest our stories are co-opted and told for us by revisionists.
In America, Race Matters
Books that entertain to educate…
Passing Our Stories
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In America, race matters. Within the artificial construct of race, color and class have mattered for centuries, and still matter today. I write novels for the purpose of expanding the opportunity for more discourse needed in America about how we use false ideas to divide ourselves; and to demonstrate that we are more alike than different.
Mission: “Entertain to educate” by telling America’s story as seen by ordinary people in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. My characters are nineteenth and twentieth century heroes and heroines; ordinary laborers, clerks, innkeepers, farmers, lumberjacks, laundresses, spies, and soldiers. They are black, white, Apache, Cheyenne, Mexican, and of other origins – but, Americans all. Their stories are told through conversations among themselves and dialog with historic figures. Their struggles are not different from ours: making ends meet, love found and lost, hatred, violent acts, revenge, acts of kindness, and redemption. Mine is a voice telling our stories (1861-1976), including history, horror, and humor – lest our stories are co-opted and told for us by revisionists.
Visit my portfolio. Novels are available from online booksellers. Visit Park Road Books, Charlotte’s favorite bookseller since 1977, or Waterstones in London, UK. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________