Today, August 25, 2009, my suspense/thriller A Savage Wisdom reached #6 in its Amazon.com Kindle category (Murder & Mayhem). For comparison, Truman Capote's In Cold Blood is at 4 and Columbine is at 1.
The novel is based on the life of Toni Jo Henry, the only woman executed in Louisiana's electric chair.
I am a professor of English at Southeastern Louisiana University with 30 years of successful writing experience. My award-winning short stories have been published in respected literary and commercial venues, including Shenandoah, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Salt Water Sportsman, and Sport Fishing Magazine.
About Me
- Norman German
- Dr. German has degrees in history/pre-law, philosophy, and English from McNeese State, the University of Texas, and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. A specialist in twentieth-century American literature, he has also published award-winning short stories, novels, poems, and literary criticism. Ernest Gaines awarded his novel No Other World first prize in the 1992 Deep South Writers Contest. The work fictionalizes the life of Coincoin, the ex-slave who became a slaveholder and founded Melrose Plantation, near Natchitoches. Reviewed as "a work of exceptional literary merit," his third novel, A Savage Wisdom, based on the life of the only woman executed in Louisiana's electric chair, was published in August of 2008. As a Kindle book on Amazon.com, the novel has reached #6 in the competitive True Crime category.
