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June 24, 2014
Interview With Author Jeffrey Brooks
One of the things that has come along since I launched the Stonewall Goes West trilogy are chats with other authors, including folks like Jeff Brooks who are doing work similar to my own. Brooks is the author of Shattered Nation, a lengthy novel exploring what might have happened if Joe Johnston had been left […]
June 9, 2014
Was Andrew Johnson The Right Choice For Veep?
150 years ago this weekend saw the national convention of the “National Union Party” in Baltimore. An alliance of Republicans (excepting the disgruntled Radicals who had nominated John Fremont about a week before in Cleveland) and War Democrats, the National Union Party’s major task was not renominating Abraham Lincoln. That master politician had sewn up […]
June 5, 2014
D-Day Amazon Sale
To commemorate the 70th Anniversaries of the Normandy Landings, Stonewall Goes West will be on sale on Amazon for today, June 5th, and tomorrow, June 6th, in both paperback and Kindle. The paperback version is $9.89 and the Kindle version is $2.99.
May 29, 2014
So You Don’t Like What Ifs?
Every once in a while, I get an e-mail or a comment on the Facebook group to the effect of “But I don’t like what if stories.” These things are (so far, anyway) always polite, so I don’t mind. Besides, I don’t like a lot of what passes for alternate history myself, and for the […]
May 25, 2014
Special 150th Anniversaries on Memorial Day Weekend
While every July 4th coincides with the surrender of Vicksburg and the aftermath of Gettysburg, Memorial Day is the final Monday of May and 2014 is a Civil War Sesquicentennial year. This Memorial Day we have the special treat of having the weekend overlap with the Battle of North Anna and the Battle of New […]
May 19, 2014
Last Map Delayed
Hey folks — I do the maps for the Stonewall Goes West trilogy on my own. Since I’ve been moving, I haven’t been able to get to preparing that last map for the Battle of Lewisburg as of yet. Many of my readers have commented I do my battles well enough that they didn’t actually […]
May 12, 2014
Official Launch For Mother Earth, Bloody Ground
Today is the official launch date for Volume Two of the Stonewall Goes West trilogy. The book is currently out on Amazon in paperback and e-book, and on Kobo in e-book. iTunes and select bookstores will follow shortly. Two new maps have been added to the maps page on this website and on Facebook. The […]
May 10, 2014
What Day 3 Of Spotsylvania Tells Us
Today is the 150th Anniversary of the third day of the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, and I have always thought that this day provided an excellent illustration of what worked with the Army of the Potomac, what didn’t work, and the problems that posed for U.S. Grant. The Day’s Events Grant began the day […]
May 5, 2014
Sequel Update
Mother Earth, Bloody Ground is now scheduled to launch on Amazon, Nook, Kobo, and iTunes on Monday, May 12.
April 12, 2014
Thoughts About Fort Pillow
As today is the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Fort Pillow, and I’ve spent a lot of time researching and thinking about Nathan Bedford Forrest so as to use him as a character in my book, I thought I would dwell on what is unquestionably the most infamous event of Forrest’s career. During his […]
