As I wrote Harper’s Donelson, I wanted to get an accurate description of the weather during the months of January to March, 1862 in the vicinity of western Kentucky and western-central Tennessee. Of course, I had descriptions available from writers of the histories of...
Much of Harper’s Donelson and all of Harper’s Rescue take place in the town of Paducah, Kentucky. Because the city sits near the junction of the Cumberland, Tennessee, and Ohio Rivers, Grant designated Paducah to be the supply depot for his operations up the...
There is a tendency among potential readers to skip past books of war fiction in the belief that such books are male-dominated and devoid of interesting female characters. I am pleased to note that this is not the case with my works. With multiple female protagonists...
When preparing the back-story for the characters in the Shiloh Trilogy, I needed to identify a particular fictional Union regiment as the home for Jamie Harper, Joshua Featherstone, Gus Magnusson, Johnny Cooke, and the others. I wanted to identify a unit which could...
While planning to write a series of historical novels set in the American Civil War (ACW) I needed to decide what would be the firearm of choice for the main character, James (Jamie) Harper. Although he serves in an infantry unit, I wanted Harper and his battalion to...
When I write, I use the close third person point-of-view (POV) to tell the stories in The Shiloh Trilogy. I actually have three POV characters. First, is Jamie Harper, an officer in the Union army and nominally the lead protagonist in all three books – he is the title...
