I finally have a pub date for my new literary-historical novel. Gettysburg by Morning will officially be released by Addison and Highsmith on November 2, 2021. Pre-sales available on the usual platforms.
Here's the pitch...
There are over two hundred documented cases of women dressing as men to fight in the Civil War. Gettysburg by Morning places you on the battlefield and behind the scenes with George Custer, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mary Todd Lincoln, and Abraham Lincoln, as a patriotic young woman fights arm-in-arm with her fellow soldiers.
This is an evocative, touching book. I grew up in Tennessee just a ways down the road from the hard-luck main character, Skid, offset by just a few years. Randy O’Brien knows the 70s in the South – what’s going on, the shifting attitudes, politics, being poor, and what it’s like to be a kid who’s good at some things but not others. Through the tumult of young love, misfortune and downright unfairness, Skid struggles to do the right thing – sometimes succeeding and sometimes not – while wrestling with the wild emotion of youth and self-discovery. It all builds to a climax that breaks your heart even as it holds out a bit of hope. I recommend it.

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