If you are like me, you hear the news and wonder. Maybe you get angry. My next novel, A Fallen Sparrow: A Novel of the American Revolution, August 2022, was written during a difficult time--Covid, the election, and subsequent political turmoil. But there is nothing new under the sun, and so the 21st century mind eased into the 18th quite nicely. My characters sympathized with my own angst. Even J. R. R. Tolkien may have been influenced by current events. It was a dark time fo