The author of Color Blind must confess that he did not witness the numerous trials and tribulations that John Webber and Sylvia Hector battled to survive the harsh environment of central Texas in the early eighteen hundreds. No one is sure if Sylvia met John in Albany, New York or Timbuktu, but Color Blind is the author’s sincere effort to present all sides of their incredible story in a fair and equitable manner, leaving it up to the gentle reader to render the ultimate verdict on the narrative.

“For immediate release. Anvil Press is proud to announce the late summer publication of B. B. Kemp’s, The Trojan Stiff. Read or listen to the audio version of The Trojan Stiff, where you’ll meet Michael N. Marino, a bold and irreverent, unforgettable protagonist who gets away with murder, or does he? According to Kirkus Review, The Trojan Stiff is a lovingly crafted tribute to the Mafia blockbusters of the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s: The Godfather trilogy, Goodfellas, Once Upon a Time in America. It’s hard not to root for the mob from Zipporah, Missouri, when being bad looks so good (and is so much fun)! The Trojan Stiff is for those who love elaborate murder plots and how the bad guy convicted of murder avoids jail. Inspired by a true story, the names of characters, places and incidents in The Trojan Stiff are used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual event is purely coincidental.”

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In 1899 ten-year-old Olivia Truluck’s home in Missouri is torched by the Ku Klux Klan. Olivia and her family leave the Show-me state to settle in the Greenwood District, north of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Starting with the 1905 Tulsa oil boom, both Blacks and Whites prosper, but tragedy comes with World War I, followed by the 1918 influenza epidemic. During two disastrous days in 1921 hundreds of Black people are slaughtered, Olivia Truluck’s house is destroyed for the second time and nothing is left of Black Wall Street.