Featured Author Conversation

 Melvin E. Edwards is an author, journalist, podcaster, and founder of Media Well Done, LLC. A former newspaper columnist with more than twenty writing awards, he is the author of Nuremberg, Mississippi, The Names They Kept, and host of Stories from Real Life. Through Media Well Done, Edwards publishes and promotes serious, story-driven work that preserves memory, elevates overlooked voices, and connects personal experience to larger historical and cultural meaning. 

Patrick W. Naughton Jr. is a retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel, military historian, and author of the upcoming release, Baker Battery Goes to War. He recently retired after 30 years in the Army and has published widely on military history and national security. His work examines war not only as strategy and combat, but as history, inheritance, and human experience.