About the Author

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Neil was born in Mississippi; his father who had been a US Navy veteran of World War II joined the US Air Force. This gave Neil the opportunity to travel the United States and Europe. He attended high school in Florida and then obtained college degrees in Political Science and Accounting. He then spent three years in the US Army finishing his service as a 1st Lieutenant in the military police. Finishing his service at Fort Stewart, Georgia he had many experiences which serve as the basis of his fictional novel A Stateside Tour of Duty. After careers as a teamster and as an tax preparation expert he has turned to his lifelong dream of writing. Now as a retired widower he enjoys retirement and time with his grandchildren while desiring to see the current 4-team college football playoff terminated and replaced with a true 16-team playoff.

Neil won the William Faulkner Literary Competition novel category in late 2020 for Where is the Glory - The Cader Daniel Mitchell Story. It was published by Pale Horse Publications in July 2022 with the title of: Where is the Glory - A Saga of Tragedy and Triump in the Western genre and is available on Amazon.

Where is the Glory: A Classic Western

Where is the Glory- A Saga of Tragedy and Triumph book cover. Cover art: A bookcover with a confederate civi war officer on horseback charging with a cannon firing in his direction


Where is the Glory-
A Saga of Tragedy and Triumph:
A Classic Western


From the back cover:

In 1861, Cader Mitchell lives in the Piney Woods of Mississippi. He has a large family and a prosperous business in Covington County. He owns no slaves in a society where slave ownership is seen as the ultimate show of status. However, he fears the future as political events have been spinning out of control for years. The new Confederate government promises a glorious future of low taxes and low prices. Cader is not optimistic. Two years later, after a conscription act, six sons are dead. The economy is in shambles and unbelievable disaster is unfolding. Rich men are exempted from combat duty, Confederate officials are collecting taxes in kind to support the war and no end is in sight. Now, some citizens are not only refusing to support the war, they are resisting violently. Some of these men are Cader’s neighbors and friends. In order for his family to survive, Cader Mitchell must carefully chart a course between the opposing forces tearing south-central Mississippi apart in the American Civil War. Based upon actual events and taken from political, church and family records, Where is the Glory: A Saga of Tragedy and Triumph is a sad, heartbreaking and poignant account of common citizens dealing with forces beyond their control and striving to survive in an insane world. While written as a novel, this is the story of my Paternal great-great-great grandparents: Cader and Sarah Mitchell.

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Paperback by , 471 pages
Publisher: Pale Horse Publications - July 13, 2022
Language: English
ISBN-13: 979-8840441558
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.04 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.71 pounds

Available from these booksellers: Amazon & Kindle

Price: $12.30


A Stateside Tour of Duty

A Stateside Tour of Duty book cover. cover art: title with black, white and dark grey geometric shaped background


A Stateside Tour of Duty


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Nick Moultrie is drafted into the US Army at the height of the Vietnam War. By dumb luck, the new lieutenant avoids being shipped to Vietnam and is assigned to Fort Benjamin McCulloch, Texas. As a pencil pusher for the military police on base, he is safe from the mortal perils of ambushes and booby traps in Southeast Asia, yet he faces other perils almost daily in his mostly desk job stateside. His poorly disciplined unit more resembles the Keystone Cops than professional law enforcement personnel. Lieutenant Moultrie finds himself surrounded by incompetent or corrupt commanding officers, and he never knows when the mind-numbing tedium of his job will suddenly erupt into a crazy, senseless episode in which people are killed and military careers are destroyed. Nick finds refuge and solace in a few friends and honorable commanders whom he can trust. Seeking relief from loneliness, he looks up a buxom girlfriend (Samantha Starr) with whom he had a fling in college, and, while on a few days' leave, proposes to her. Soon he finds himself enjoying the pleasures and tiptoeing through the minefields of matrimony. Gradually his lust for what he first regarded as a sex object turns into genuine love for a peer and an intelligent, intuitive friend. A terrifying dream six months into her first pregnancy convinces Samantha she will die if she gives birth in the ramshackle Army hospital. She goes to live with her parents, where the dream proves prophetic as she narrowly escapes death even in the better-equipped Phoenix hospital. When a callous Red Cross official refuses to inform Nick of these developments, he explodes in anger and retribution, resulting in persecution from his superiors in command. The final insult is his being relieved of duty for a very minor infraction committed while saving the lives of his men in a shootout with an antiwar terrorist group. Nick must somehow find a way to avoid ending his military service in disgrace. As he leaves Fort McCulloch a much wiser-and jaded-man, Nick looks back on the unbelievable events he has endured. His entertaining tale is humorous, eye-opening, and unexpectedly uplifting.

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Paperback by , 474 pages
Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc. - June 20, 2018
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1642985732
ISBN-13: 978-1642985733
Product Dimensions: 7 x 1 x 10 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds

Available from these booksellers: Amazon (paperback & Kindle)

Price: $30.95


The Great College Football Playoff Hoax

The Great College Football Playoff Hoax book cover. cover art: football players huddled, football field in background


The Great College Football Playoff Hoax


From the back cover:

In 2014 the powers that be claimed to have finally provided college football with a true playoff to determine a champion in the sport. ESPN, bowl committees, sports radio, and many pundits have extolled the new system. A careful and detailed examination of the new process, however, reveals that in reality very little has changed. The new system preserves the old organization, which ensured that only a few teams would ever be considered for the championship. It puts the Power Five leagues into the position of a closed shop, where no one outside their membership will ever be considered for the four slots the current college football playoff (CFP) allows. The other five leagues (known as the mid-majors) are a perpetual junior varsity that stands on the sidelines praying for a chance to stand briefly outside the shado of the big guys, who pat them on the head occasionally. ESPN and the bowl committees, along with the league commissioners of the Power Five conferences have had their way for far too long. It is time for fans around the country to demand a sixteen-team playoff. This slender volume details how the current situation came to be and how it is maintained, as well as how it is unfair, arbitrary, discriminatory, and downright corrupt. Despite what pro-CFP pundits maintain, college football remains the only sport played on college campuses that has no true national champion. The University of Central Florida is the latest victim of the CFP hoax to be excluded from a chance to prove themselves. Before them were Utah, Boise State, and Texas Christian University. It is time for college football fans to force the so-called Power Five to move over and allow others at the main table of college football. COMMON SENSE DEMANDS IT!

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Paperback by , 102 pages
Publisher: Brigham Distributing - October 1, 2018
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0692164936
ISBN-13: 978-0692164938
Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 0.4 x 8.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces

Available from these booksellers: Amazon & Direct from Author

Price: $9.95


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Small Silver Coins: A Classic Western

Small Silver Coins. A Classic Western book cover. Cover art: A bookcover with a cowboy with rifleman looming in the background.


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A Tale of the American West:
A Classic Western


From the back cover:

Jim Harris frequently broke into song as he returned to Texas. He was now on the last leg of the trek home, and it was clear he was anxious to finish the journey. David Hubbard and Ben Burris from neighboring Parker County accompanied him as they continued south. Ben shook his head and commented, “We left them doggies up in Abilene. So you don’t need to sing to us.” “I’m a very happy man, Ben. I’ll see Brenda shortly, and I can’t help but sing,” Jim had a good reason to be happy. He had four thousand dollars in his pocket from the sale of his cattle back in Abilene. Now, he was looking forward to providing his wife with the better life she had been demanding since their wedding day. That provided a cause to be jubilant. With a grin, Jim explained, “Brenda and I have only been married six months, and most of the last two I spent driving those cows to market. now she won’t have anything to complain about since I won’t have to be gone so much and have plenty of money to spend on her.” Dave Hubbard sighed. “If she’s like most women, she’ll find something to complain about.”

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Paperback by , 328 pages
Publisher: Pale Horse Publications - November 3, 2021
Language: English
ISBN-13: 979-8759104742
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.74 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.24 pounds

Available from these booksellers: Amazon & Kindle

Price: $9.65