I finally found a product that does a decent job at AI voicing a muti-character story so audio versions of SOME books may be in the future. Currently, Apple Books carries the...

As they did with "A Stone's Throw" our beta readers came through and finished early. As a result, we are releasing Book 2 of Legacy's Child, "Out of Touch" over a week early!

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I am excited to announce that we were able to beat our planned launch date and get book one of the Legacy's Child series released early! This means if you finish the prequel you...

The national birth-registration area was established in 1915 with ten states and the District of Columbia; not until 1933 were all forty-eight states participating in it.

A birth certificate is a strange kind of proof. It is not a memory of the birth; it is a record made at the time by somebody required to write it down. For most of the nineteenth century, on both sides of the border, nobody was required to write it down. What happened to the people that left behind has a detailed answer.

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On 3 October 1950 California gave every public employee thirty days to swear a loyalty oath, and the penalty for not signing was not a hearing but the loss of a paycheck.

The loyalty tests of the early Cold War are remembered as hearings: a committee, a witness, a microphone. California built something quieter and far larger. In the autumn of 1950 the legislature put a printed form in front of every person the state and its counties and cities paid, and made signing it a condition of being...

From 1920 until June 1944 an Army nurse wore a lieutenant’s bar and held no commission behind it: relative rank gave her the grade, the insignia and the title, and little else.

Rank is usually the simplest fact about a soldier. For Army nurses it was, for twenty-four years, the most complicated one. A woman could be addressed as Lieutenant, wear the bar, and be carried on the rolls in a grade, and still hold no commission. The Army called this relative rank: a legal category invented to give...