NOVELS-by Jackson Tel
1908, Ida Crenshaw’s cottage in Baltimore
The night after Ida’s father died, his despondent Saint Bernard, Eight, lying at the foot of her bed, farted. The dog jumped up and spun around to look as if something had nipped at its butt. Ida, grieving and unable to sleep, rose to open the window. The relationship was new.
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Here is the new book cover for The Black Jellybeans EPISODE ONE, along with the description. What do you think?
A Chestnut Point Story
by Jackson Tel
1906, Jim Crow, Baltimore
When Jim Eberton, the heir apparent to the Eberton family fortune in Baltimore, finds out that he is part-Negro he asks himself, “Who am I truly?”
IN EPISODE ONE:
Jim is facing imminent bankruptcy if he doesn’t get rye whiskey tycoon Craig ‘Money Bags’ Bigg to sign his John Hancock on the bottom line of the investment contract that very afternoon. But events are conspiring against him.
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