Play About Alex Haley and the ROOTS Hoax

As researchers have shown over the past several decades, Alex Haley's ROOTS was largely a shameful hoax.

I have just finished a play about that hoax called EPIC STORIES.  It is set in 1976-77 and concerns a young black journalist who loves the book and what it represents who realizes, to his horror, that the story is a hoax.

If anyone would like to read this play with a view toward publicizing and possibly promoting it, I would be glad to send you an electronic copy.

For over two decades, I have been planning and working on a novel about the American Civil War, specifically about the war's most terrible series of battles--the 40-day Overland Campaign of May and June 1864 and the nine-month siege of PETERSBURG that followed it.  Countless novels have been written about the Civil War, and a few have touched on parts of this story, but no one, as far as I know, has ever written a novel about the whole thing.

I finished it recently and had submitted a query to a publisher, but was frantic to get it out in time for the sesquicentennial of the events it depicts next spring and summer.  So I published it via Amazon Create Space.  It is available in paperback in the US, the UK, and Europe, and will soon be available in Kindle format.

Here is the UK link:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Forty-Days-Nine-Months-Pennsylvania/dp/1493695827/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1387159903&sr=8-1&keywords=Forty+days+and+nine+months

The description:

In the early days of the Civil War, a group of very different young men gathered in Philadelphia to become members of the 95th Pennsylvania Volunteers--one of those very special units of fighting men called the Zouaves. Twenty five members of that group recognized that they shared a special bond, and called themselves the Original Twenty Five. Now it is May of 1864. The war that would be over soon is now in its fourth year, and the Original Twenty Five is now down to twelve. They are moving South yet again, under a new commander with a new strategy for finally ending this endless war. But to end the war, these surviving friends must endure a forty-day orgy of slaughter that History's greatest butchers could not have conceived--and nine endless months of a new type of warfare that carries with it mind-numbing boredom, the constant threat of sudden death, their all-consuming fears and dreams--and the madness growing within them all . . . An epic in the oldest, truest sense of the word, this is an unflinching look at outward butchery and inward suffering--and the hard-won compassion that sustains, even in defeat.

After over two decades of work, my Civil War novel, FORTY DAYS AND NINE MONTHS:  A NOVEL OF THE 95TH PENNSYLVANIA IN THE OVERLAND CAMPAIGN AND THE SIEGE OF PETERSBURG, a Civil War novel unlike any other, has been published!  It is available in paperback (and soon in Kindle) from Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/Forty-Days-Nine-Months-Pennsylvania/dp/1493695827/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1386966848&sr=8-2&keywords=Forty+days+and+nine+months.

In 2005, my one-act play about Jack the Ripper and his last victim, the young Irish prostitute Mary Kelly, MILLER'S COURT, was premiered by Actors Scene Unseen of Charlotte, North Carolina, and released as an audio CD.

It is still available as an audio CD and an audio download from all the major outlets.

The text has also just been published in paperback (finally!).  It is available in paperback and Kindle from all of the Amazon outlets.

Here is the Amazon-US link to the book:

http://www.amazon.com/MILLERS-COURT-RIpper-Victim-ebook/dp/B00F1XYQEC/ref=sr_1_46?ie=UTF8&qid=1382466474&sr=8-46&keywords=james+jeffrey+paul

And the Amazon-US link to the audio version:

http://www.amazon.com/Original-Radio-Drama-Millers-Court/dp/B000CA8JLU/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1382466871&sr=1-1&keywords=miller%27s+court

Here is the Amazon-UK text link:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/MILLERS-COURT-RIpper-Victim-Tragedy/dp/1492308722/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1382466934&sr=8-1&keywords=miller%27s+court

And the Amazon-UK audio link:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/An-Original-Radio-Drama-Millers/dp/B002ETXV5Q/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1382466968&sr=8-8&keywords=miller%27s+court

Buy and read and listen and spread the word, please!

After over a decade's work and a lifetime's research and planning, my novel about the search for the Loch Ness Monster, WONDER OF NESS, has finally been published.

It will be reviewed by Kirkus Reviews soon, and profiled in Nessie's hometown paper, the Inverness Courier, soon.  But let the book get a head start now and buy it now!  And if you like it, please like and review it, and otherwise help spread the word!

Here is the Amazon-US link:

http://www.amazon.com/Wonder-of-Ness-ebook/dp/B00DF9XUEQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1382466111&sr=8-1&keywords=wonder+of+ness

Here is the Amazon-UK link:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wonder-Ness-James-Jeffrey-Paul/dp/1490411798/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1382466302&sr=8-1&keywords=wonder+of+ness

It is also available from Amazon-Europe and is (or soon will be) available in Kindle from all Amazon Kindle outlets worldwide.

Spread the word!  Start the fires burning!