Jack: Book 2 is a rollicking high-seas adventure. Schoolmaster Jerome Whittemore – a former ‘preacher’ on slave ships – quits teaching after a devastating classroom humiliation at the hands of Jack and […]
Teachers: Promotion for “Jack, Part 1” – My New Novel That Will Have Students Hungering For Parts 2 & 3
Below are two deals: But first I want to tell you that, as a New York City high school teacher of English and history from 2000 to 2013, I have a strong […]
Why I wrote the novel, Jack

This is an explanation that I had never intended to write. Truth is, I had hidden the underlying inspiration for the book and, only today, after reading something on building an author […]
Jack: A rebel’s rebel in antebellum Charleston

Well, I finally am nearly ready to publish my antebellum Charleston, S.C., novel, Jack, after about a dozen years. Actually I will be coming out with the Part 1 in the trilogy […]
Inga Shalvashvili’s Cover for the Antebellum Charleston Novel, Jack, Pt. 1 in the Trilogy

Seeking comments on my book cover illustration by Inga Shalvashvili. Please respond below. Much appreciated.
The Continuing Serialization of the antebellum Charleston novel, “Jack.”
Book One (end) Chapter 34 The Story of the Runaway Slave (Click on “Jack the Novel” in the banner photo above to read many of the earlier chapters in this planned three-part […]
Master’s Slavery Lesson: Continuing the Serialization of “Jack,” the Charleston Antebellum Novel
Chapter 33 “Good morning girls and boys. Well let’s see what do we have here? Look at this why don‘t you, I see that Jeremy is with us today as is Jimmy, […]
Ginny: Continued Serialization of the Antebellum Charleston Novel, “Jack”
Chapter 32 It was decided after talkin’ to Leroy that Jack and me would continue to keep our ears alert for any more talk about runaway slaves between Molly and her friend, […]
Ginny: Continued Serialization of the Antebellum Charleston Novel, “Jack”
Chapter 32 It was decided after talkin’ to Leroy that Jack and me would continue to keep our ears alert for any more talk about runaway slaves between Molly and her friend, […]
Jack Gets a Job: The Next Chapter in the Serialized Antebellum Charleston Novel, “Jack”
Chapter 32 Jack Get’s A Job Jack and me went back to Molly that afternoon and I was shocked when Jack told her that he had done stolen a pile of fruit […]