My latest book, Kid Sterling, is my first novel and one that I so enjoyed researching and writing. It is about an African American boy who is struggling to become a musician of fame. He wants to play My latest book, Kid Sterling, is my first novel and one that I so enjoyed researching and writing. It is about an African American boy who is struggling to become a musician of fame. He wants to play as well as his hero--the genius horn player, Buddy Bolden, inventor of jazz. The year is 1906. The city is New Orleans at the height of the Jim Crow era, when racism was rampant. Can Sterling follow his dream or will bigotry, the prison system and the shady underworld of the mob get in his way?...more