My loyal readers, as I write this my beta reader is reading Blood on Poinsettia that I finished writing last week and did an initial edit this week.
My next project which starts a new series is a Cowboy western with a lead character called Nate Turner. As many people don’t realize, African American cowboys were more popular than first thought. Hollywood of course didn’t want to portray a black man as anything but a train porter or hotel baggage handler. Nate Turner was a run-away slave from Mississippi who among other things is a long shoreman on the Ohio River in Cincinnati, a Union calvary soldier during the Civil War and a wrangler and cowboy doing the cattle runs from Texas to Kansas on the Chisum Trail .
I haven’t decided how many books will come from this series but suffice to say it’s all in my head at the moment. I’ll need to do more research and go from there. The history of an African American cowboy would be quite fascinating.
I’ll also be using a pen name, Hyrum Guilderbund, as I will pen my actual name as the editor. As many of you know, Chrystal Guilderbund, one of the main characters in my books is Hyrum Guilderbund’ s granddaughter.
On the marketing front I am going to be trying to get a book signing or two going here in Spokane. I’ll use both my recently published books, A Man’s Passion, and I Albert Peabody.
Jerry Schellhammer 