African rice knowledge
How historical fiction can restore expertise and agency to people often treated only as labor in the traditional narrative.
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Charleston before the Revolution
The colony’s first century, its competing worlds, and the historical figures who have largely disappeared from popular memory.
Writing morally complex history
How to create drama without flattening exploitation into scenery or turning the past into easy nostalgia.
From research to saga
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AuthorE.G. Sturgis
BookThe Rice Kingdom
SeriesThe Saga of Carolina · Book One
ISBN979-8-2957-3057-3
PublisherTalk+tell
PublicationApril 28, 2026
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