NEW NOVEL Launching JUNE 2026!
AVAILABLE June 11th!
L'IL SIS and NOOJ
Published by Jeff Houlahan
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L'il Sis and Nooj is about a gifted guitarist and a transcendent blues singer in 1930s Harlem, who rise from the violent underworld of numbers runners to electrify the Chitlin’ Circuit - until fame, betrayal, and a devastating accident force them to confront an indifferent society determined to erase black women. L’il Sis and Nooj is a literary historical novel loosely inspired by a story published in 2014 in The New York Times magazine called The Ballad of Geeshie and Elvie about two lost blues singers of the early 1900’s. It’s a reminder that our lives are smaller for the works of genius lost to prejudice, ignorance and feckless time. It will appeal to readers of Half-Blood Blues and The Final Revival of Opal & Nev, combining lost musical genius with a fierce portrait of a black female artistic partnership. |
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NOW AVAILABLE!
SINGER'S CIRCLE
Published by Histria Books
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What if seeing the suffering of others made your own life intolerable? For Peter Singer, it's a lonely road but the only one his heart will allow.
Things are going well for Pete Singer – he’ s happily married with two healthy sons and a job that more than pays the bills – until he receives the first email. It is a list of 247 names. Just the list – no salutation, no signature, no explanation. When Singer receives the second email, he cannot resist tapping the link at the top of the page. It shows a young girl unconscious, malnourished and laying on a rough dirt floor. It ends with a disembodied voice – “ Peter, twenty-five dollars will save her life.” At first, he follows the advice of friends and family and resists the plea. However, he soon receives a second video of the same young girl struggling to take a breath – her last. He begins to donate. But he can’ t stop – even when it means lying to his wife and putting his family’ s financial future in jeopardy. Eventually, the financial sacrifices that Singer is willing to make on behalf of strangers strays so far from social acceptability that he loses his friends, his job, his marriage, and his family. On a day that feels as if it may be among his last, he meets the architect of the mission that he has been supporting. She shows him the way to a life he had never imagined. Read more... |
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