Memoirs of a Texan: Redemption is a continuation of the Jim Cobb saga began with Memoirs of a Texan: War which won the Fast Pencil 2009 Best of Category Award. Experience reconstruction in post-war Texas through the lives of

Jim Cobb who builds a financial empire in cattle, cotton, wood processing, and shipping while contesting treacherous carpetbaggers and scalawags

Andy Blaylock, the Regimental First Sergeant who becomes Jim's right arm and finds his soul mate with a young widow who joins the newly formed cotton consortium

Missy Cobb escapes humiliation in Virginia in marrying the man she loved since he came to her family's plantation as a VMI cadet

Pansy Gerlach, an Octoroon married to Jim's uncle who gains a new life when Andy and Jim build the sprawling, undeveloped Gerlach Estate into a profitable plantation

Robert Savage, twice unlucky in post-war romance finds love with a shy school teacher who understands his postwar trauma from her own capture and rescue from a Comanche raiding party

Author of the Memoirs of a Texan historic fiction trilogy, the saga of a young VMI cadet caught up in the Civil War who leaves Virginia with a stolen Union payroll and builds an empire in post-war Texas. The first book, subtitled War, is out now. The second book, Redemption, will be out in late 2009 or early 2010. The third book, Empire, will take longer.

I am launching two new ventures

New Horizons Entertainment, an Austin based participative film making company, and

Aleutian Air, a Seattle based regional airline serving the Pacific Northwest.

Please visit my website, http://www.memoirsofatexan.com, for more information on me and the books.