Just in time for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, I’m proud to announce my novel, The Children of Liberty, an alternate history / fantasy of the American Revolution, has been published by Sordelet Ink.
Driven from their homes by war, prejudice and violence, four young strangers are swept up into the rising storm of rebellion. As musket fire echoes across a fractured continent, and magic stirs in the shadows of history, they find themselves fighting not just for the country’s independence—but for true freedom and equality for all.
“This book tears down all the statues.”
Michael Bronksi, author, A Queer History of the United States.
The Children of Liberty is available as an ebook for $6.99 at:
Kindle ; Barnes and Noble (NOOK) ; Apple ; Kobo ; Smashwords; Bookshop
It is available as a paperback for $18.95 from:
or by ordering from your local bookstore.
Our main heroes:
• Sarah Washington, queer daughter of George, expert with sword and pistol, yet trapped in an impending marriage to her best friend’s brother.
• Mattie Hemings, daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, who finds freedom in a hidden community of runaways.
• Hodaysot-own, a Seneca who struggles to control the supernatural powers he’s been granted.
• Eamon O’Reilly, a fugitive Irishman and the son of a selkie, a mermaid-like sea creature.
Together they cross swamps, forests and battlefields, clash with slavers, soldiers, and sorcerers, forge unexpected romances, and master arts of war that may change the fate of a revolution. But their dreams reach far beyond independence from a king. They dare imagine a country built on the true ideals of liberty: the abolition of slavery, sovereignty for Native Americans, and equality for women and LGBTQ people.
Adventure, magic, humor, romance, and revolution collide in The Children of Liberty, an alternate history epic, woven with some magic, that re-imagines the American Revolution not as it was, but as it should have been, creating a country where all PEOPLE are truly equal.
I’m very proud of this work and I hope you will buy a copy. And if you do read and like it, please remember to go back to where you bought it and give it a review. Enjoy the adventure.
Thanks,
Richie
Praise for The Children of Liberty
Joe Morton, actor (Scandal, Justice League), director, writer, activist:
“Richie Chevat’s saga is a brilliant, well-crafted, smash-up of eighteenth-century American history and twenty-first century feminism, with a large dose of richly flavored imagination that is thrilling, full of wit, embodied by powerful female, First Nation, and free black characters. These characters display powers–spiritual, physical, and intellectual–that are used to combat the subjugation that tries to limit, incarcerate, or enslave them. Reading The Children of Liberty is akin to feasting on Christmas morning, you are filled with a satisfaction that lasts all through the meal.”
Michael Bronski, author, “A Queer History of the United States:”
“The Children of Liberty is a kaleidoscope of fact and fantasy that conjures the origins of America in ways you never imagined. Deftly and ingeniously building on the bare scaffold of what you learned in history classes, he compellingly draws us into a world in which a multi-ethnic set of pansexual and gender fluid people are fighting for personal and national freedom. These sensitively drawn heroes fight for an America that should have been and still might be, one in which the principles of liberty and justice for all are realized from the very founding. This book tears down all the statues.”