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May 2026

Literary Fiction · Media Well Done, LLC · 2026 

Library of Congress Control Number:  2026938443 

ISBN (Hardcover): 978-1-80764-269-3

ISBN (Paperback): 978-1-80764-268-6

In Mississippi, a Black man named Henry Logan is arrested for being out after dark in the fictional sundown town of Greenville, MS. What follows is not a single act of violence or hatred — it is something more difficult to name, and far harder to escape.

Nuremberg, Mississippi is a work of literary fiction set in the mid-twentieth-century American South, tracing the procedural machinery through which legal systems deliver harm without ever announcing themselves as harmful. Logan's encounter with Myrtle County's courts unfolds across fractional chapters — increments of bureaucratic time that mirror the experience of living inside a system designed to exhaust, confuse, and defeat.

The novel draws its title from a precise historical argument: that the architects of the Nuremberg Laws studied American Jim Crow statutes as a model for codified racial hierarchy. German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer observed that moral failure most often disguises itself as discipline, professionalism, and obedience. Nuremberg, Mississippi asks what that observation looks like when applied not to Nazi Germany, but to an American courthouse on an ordinary afternoon.

Written with the procedural authority of a legal document and the moral weight of witness testimony, this debut novel belongs to the tradition of Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys and Richard Wright's Native Son — books that refuse to let legality stand in for justice.

Award Submission Update:
Nuremberg, Mississippi has now been submitted for consideration for the Pulitzer Prize, the PEN/America Faulkner Award and the PEN/America Open Book Award, continuing its push for recognition among major literary and cultural institutions. 

Other Awards Submissions for 'Nuremberg, Mississippi' - Independent Publisher Book Awards, Best Indie Book Awards, Anisfield-Wolf, Readers' Favorite, Booky, PenCraft. 

August 2026

History/Genealogy · Media Well Done, LLC · 2026 

Library of Congress Control Number:  TBD

ISBN (Hardcover):  979-8-9969330-0-6 

Heirloom Edition

The Names They Kept is a definitive Black Texas family chronicle tracing the author’s maternal and paternal lines from slavery, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow to public service, memory, and inheritance. Centered on ancestors including Isaac Bladen, Elvira Smith Bladen, Penn Edwards, and Sampson Edwards, the book blends documented genealogy, public records, oral tradition, family testimony, and literary reconstruction to recover lives that official records often reduced, misspelled, or ignored.

Originally published in earlier forms as The Eyes of Texans and The Strength of a Thousand Sons, this definitive edition brings the family story into one volume. It follows a Republic of Texas family across generations, from bondage in Leon County to the Texas Capitol, while also exploring fathers, sons, faith, survival, baseball, and the burden of remembering. At its heart, this is a work of recovery: a tribute to the names history failed to preserve, and to the family that kept them alive.

November 2026

Military History · Media Well Done, LLC · 2026 

Library of Congress Control Number:  

ISBN (Hardcover):  979-8-9969330-1-3 

The story begins with the discovery of a rare hand-typed unit history in an old binder, then expands into a full account of Baker Battery’s path through World War II: training with the Fighting 69th, deployment to Europe, combat across France, Belgium, and Germany, artillery operations, the drive toward the Elbe, and the anticlimactic end of the war in occupied Germany.

Structurally, the book works in two parts. Part I follows Baker Battery chronologically, placing the men’s writings within the larger movement of the 69th Infantry Division, the 881st Field Artillery Battalion, and the European campaign. Part II shifts to the men themselves—gun crews, wiremen, medics, mechanics, clerks, radio operators, cooks, replacements, promotions, awards, and individual stories—so the battery is remembered not only as a unit, but as a community of soldiers.

At its heart, this is a rescue mission for memory: a small-unit World War II history pulled from obscurity, contextualized, and returned to public life. It is also personally framed by Patrick W. Naughton Jr.’s own struggle with cancer while writing the book, giving the project an added sense of duty, endurance, and tribute.