Big-time publishers were afraid to publish it, so we had to do it ourselves.

Our agent pitched The Split to 36 editors. They returned 36 rejections, accompanied by comments that can be reduced to: “I can’t possibly publish a book that advocates chopping up our precious nation!” That these highly educated publishing professionals failed to see that the book is a satire (advocating only that we need to pay more attention to the idiocy of what’s going on around us) can mean only one thing: we are the victims of a nefarious, pseudo-woke book banning conspiracy! 

That said… our story begins about fifteen years after the United States peacefully divided itself into two countries, the Confederation of Conservative States of America (CCSA), the former red states, and the USA, the former blue states.

In the heart of the CCSA, Lorinda Moon—a twenty-something bartender—discovers that she is pregnant. But her plans don’t include spending months in a government breeding center followed by a forced marriage. 

On the lam from CCSA authorities, she is taken up by a scraggly army of volunteers dedicated to helping women like her get to the USA for medical attention.

What? You’d like a free sample?

Here ya go!