Years ago, Bryen was a proud father with nothing but happiness before him. Now he was a doctor and a published author struggling to remain relevant in his daughter's life. The struggle was real, the struggle to not be another baby daddy, but to be a father.

My book, Soul of the South, includes thirty short stories ranging from general fiction; military, everyday drama, to children’s stories some of which use animal characters. My premier story ‘The Pecan Tree’ is a fictionalized account of a soldier in General Andrew “Old Hickory” Jackson’s army returning home from the Battle of New Orleans through west Tennessee in 1815. There has stood a huge pecan tree in Natchez Trace State Park for many years supposedly planted by a soldier of the returning army. It was reputed to be the largest and oldest pecan tree in America. Sadly, a few years ago one of our many tornadoes destroyed it. There is another story I read as a boy that stated a sixteen year old volunteer with the militia Jackson headed in his many Indian wars refused his sergeants order to pick up biscuit crumbs that he had thrown on the ground in front of his tent. Because of the soldier’s refusal Old Hickory had him shot for insubordination. Using these two events I have woven a story of a ghost that made his presence known at various times during the years following the army’s trek through the forest that became Henderson County, Tennessee. The story basically follows the Beacum family that settled the land where the boy was buried with a pecan in his pocket that grew into the large tree. The family settled there during the 1830’s and the last surviving member died in the 1930’s. The family farm is offered for back taxes and is purchased by a young teacher who has a wife and son. The ghost continues his visits and only after the teacher enlists in the army and survives a Japanese prison camp does the story come to an end when he returns home. There is a story of Billy the Kid who surfaces on a farm in west Tennessee when he is an old man and adds a fictional account of how his death and burial were staged by the man who, history says killed him; sheriff Pat Garrett. I try to include a moral in each of the children’s stories as well as making them interesting.

In Soul Babies, Mark Anthony Neal explains the complexities and contradictions of black life and culture after the end of the Civil Rights era. He traces the emergence of what he calls a "post-soul aesthetic," a transformation of values that marked a profound change in African American thought and experience. Lively and provocative, Soul Babies offers a valuable new way of thinking about black popular culture and the legacy of the sixties.

Tired of meeting the same old guys? Do you just go from bad to worse until you start settling for the bad? Would you like to be wined and dined for a change instead of stoppin' off to get somethin' to eat? Is it you--or them? Find out as author J.P. Ransom dishes up a savvy serving of straightforward advice on love relationships in Colla'd Greens Fuh-ya Soul! Learn how to raise your standards and find somebody decent! Break the choke chains and empty your dog pound of disrespectful men! Then unleash your new attitude and start packing in some first-rate, female-friendly fellas! Don't be skird! All decent men aren't L7 squares! There are some cool decent men out there too! Learn how to spot a potential baby-daddy who would lay up with you and then leave you high and dry with a souvenir baby. When you see him coming, you'll know to take two steps back, turn around, and start pedaling like the Flintstones! Mash some cornbread in ya greens and let's talk about love in J.P. Ransom's simmering Colla'd Greens Fuh-ya Soul!

"The last thing Sara Carter remembers is driving to the hospital in the middle of a snowstorm just as she was going into labor. Skidding... then crashing. When she wakes up, she's no longer pregnant. More astonishing, the man she loved and lost is still alive. Has Sara been given a second chance to rescue Jack Morgan from his tragic destiny? To save them both? From the moment Jack meets Sara, he has the feeling he knows her from somewhere. Her first touch awakens long-dormant emotions and arouses a fierce wave of desire. But how does Sara seem to sense he's in danger? Whatever twist of fate brought them together, Jack knows he has only one shot at a future: keep them both alive long enough to find out if their love is strong enough to withstand the forces threatening to drive them apart."--P. [4] of cover.