Every Sunday the rumberos in Havana gather and play in the Callejon de Hamel, an alley in Central Havana covered with wild decorations by a brilliant Cuban artist named Salvador. Here's a short video of the fun.

Anthony Flacco and Jen Newens of Martin Literary Management have agreed to represent my Civil War crime novel, Scoundrel!To plug the novel, a cinematic character study has been developed of Vanesse St. Domingue, the main character's quadroon mistress in New Orleans.