Rigor Hill Press: 5 books

"They're all dreamers, Lil' Jim, with an unshakable belief that their luck will change." When Lil’ Jim moved back to Memphis, the children stopped coming by to play. While he blamed his isolation on religion, everyone else knew it had everything to do with money, politics, and race. This third...

Warfield, is a historically accurate, coming-of-age novel set during the Civil War depicting the tortured lives of the young narrator, Thomas, and his family before, during and after the gods “declare war on them.”  Major motifs include: race, ill treatment of the oppressed, loss, and...

"We pierced the thick, black veil of the fever fires and entered hell." As the guns fell silent at Appomattox the gods were already shaping the next battlefield. No one living in Memphis realized the target would be narrowed this time to just eight square miles overlooking the Mississippi River. This...

Todd steams into Memphis just as the blues begin oozing up out of the juke joints into the white establishments lining Beale Street. During the next week he seeks out the latest sounds in the honky-tonks and gentlemen's clubs. But after hearing the ragged, personal lyrics of a lone guitarist sitting...

Based in part on the triangular relationship between Johannes Brahms and Clara and Robert Schumann, this sixth book in the Your Winding Daybreak Ways series opens as a nervous but relieved graduate student, Sam, races down the marble staircase and exits Redman Hall. The first interview with his graduate...