Read Book One Free

Beginning the first Sunday of Advent, twelve chapters of The Black Awakening arrive free, one each Sunday, by email and read aloud by me on YouTube. To get them, subscribe free to my Substack with the form at the bottom of this page, and each chapter will arrive in your inbox on its Sunday. If you like it, the complete ebook is just 99 cents on Amazon in February, and the paperback is available at a low price. (I wanted to make it entirely free to develop a following for the book series, but Amazon insists on a minimum to do what they do.)

Free: The Black Awakening — The Twelve Weeks

Get it here: Week 1 · November 29 — Lost at Sea

A brother, a sister, and the stories the dead tell in Trinity Cemetery — until the night the moon rises red.

Free for everyone — read and listen here. No email needed.

Download the PDF here: TBD

Week 2 · December 6 — You Are His

The ride home crosses every border in Harlem, and a blind priest is waiting outside the church with a warning in a dead language.

Week 3 · December 13 — The Song of the Golden Calf

Inside the ruined church, the king of Harlem sings opera, keeps a hammer named Discipline, and makes Jonas an offer with no way out.

Week 4 · December 20 — Permission

Cornered beneath Angela's window, Jonas meets his rescuer for the second time. This time, the stranger names his price.

Week 5 · December 27 — Protected

A cross redrawn in blue ink, a gift of beads, and a promise Jonas has no idea how he will keep.

Week 6 · January 3 — Masses Cancelled

Across town, a girl who hears what others miss walks into St. Patrick's at dawn — the morning the city begins to lose its mind.

Week 7 · January 10 — The Veil Is Open

The prophet who was mad is suddenly sane, and what he says God told him about Jonas's machine cannot be unsaid.

Week 8 · January 17 — The Gold Bracelet

A Mercedes, a gift from Tiffany's, a voice like velvet: someone else has noticed Angela. And a dying man's last words name a thing that does not exist yet.

Week 9 · January 24 — The Song He Didn't Hear

Jonas finally hears what everyone says about his sister's voice — from across the street, where no one can see him listening.

Week 10 · January 31 — The Terror of the Night

A subway car goes dark between stations, and beneath a moon gone wrong, Jonas runs the most dangerous errand of his life.

Week 11 · February 7 — The Longest Monday

The morning after, Harlem counts its dead — and Jonas counts the cost of everything he cannot feel.

Week 12 · February 14 — We Will Rise Together

At a funeral in Trinity Cemetery, Jonas is handed a black cube. He gives it a name. It answers.

Finale - then the complete ebook goes live on Amazon for 99 cents, and the list hears first.