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MEMBER BLOG TAG: cuba

Saturday, July 30, 2011 9:40AM
 
While I've Been Gone
Tags: Old West, romanticism, Empire, rebellion, mudsill, slaves, sovereignty, education, health care, marriage, sex, Cuba, Philippines
 
While I’ve Been Gone I have neglected this blog for a while to write a novel “Jade:The Law.” The book is now finished except for editing and the cover. Once those are finished, I will be back to blogging. “Jade:The Law,” my ninth novel is scheduled for e-book publication in September and print publication in November. Print takes longer. Jade:The Law is in some ways a sequel to “Jade: Outlaw” as both books share many of the same characters. However, “Jade:The Law” is broader in scope covering the coming of law to the West, the romanticization of the West, the beginning of the American Empire, rebellion against the Union continuing underground, and the survival of antebellum Southern ideas such as: A “mudsill” people of inferior quality, a...
 
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