Open Road Integrated Media has acquired the Quinn Saga – By Accident of Birth, The Last Quinn Standing, and No Promise for Tomorrow.
By Accident of Birth
By Accident of Birth spans the Atlantic, from the US during the Civil War to Cuba and France and, in the end, to Ireland and WWI.
A most incredible life and tragic end begins in 1915 as Bethany Quinn receives a call from the British Crown saying she is in possession of a cache of arms stored in her sugar mill warehouse in Cuba. An era she thought long past is resurrected in the last “special cargo” shipment to England to aid the allies in WWI. In preparation for the trip, she re-reads her mother’s and Dr. Perkins’ diaries which brings us to that fate-filled day in 1863, and takes us on a journey we will never forget…
Wars, love, friendships, tragedies, clandestine shipments and harrowing escapes—unforgettable. As unbelievable as it may sound, the events mentioned in this manuscript did actually take place.
The Last Quinn Standing
When the Lusitania is torpedoed and sunk, taking with it his beloved aunt, Beverly Bethany Quinn, Ansel Quinn finds he is the last of his family line. Her diary, coupled with Europe on the brink of WWI, sets off a chain of events, sending Ansel on an epic quest for honor and self. Wilson had vowed to keep America out of another war. Ansel had sworn to serve his country. Fate’s cards trumped them all.
From rural Mississippi to the trenches of Verdun, no one is who they say they are, nor will anything ever be the same again.
No Promise for Tomorrow
In 1917, when all the world was waiting with bated breath to see if the United States would come the rescue of Europe, Lt. Ansel Quinn is assigned to the French Army Headquarters in Paris as a neutral observer. This sets off an unimaginable chain of events affecting his new wife, Isabel, in international intrigue, and a family’s struggles across the twenty short years between the end of World War I, a period that includes the influenza epidemic, the roaring twenties, prohibition, the great depression, and the start of World War II.
Thomas E. Simmons took his last flight West in the company of his family on March 16, 2022. Award winning author, aviation enthusiast, sailor, aerobatic pilot, holder of the Wright Brothers Aviation Medal and home town raconteur, Tom Simmons lived life to the fullest.
Simmons grew up in Gulfport, Mississippi, attended Marion Military Institute, the U. S. Naval Academy, the University of Southern Mississippi, and the University of Alabama. Tom was once the commercial captain of a seventy-foot sailing vessel, has been a pilot since the age of sixteen, (3000 plus hours in the air), has flown professionally, and participated in air shows flying aerobatics in open-cockpit bi-planes. In the late 1950s, he served as an artillery officer in Korea. He is the author of The Man Called Brown Condor, Forgotten Heroes of World War II: Personal Accounts of Ordinary Soldiers Land, Sea and Air, Escape from Archangel, By Accident of Birth, The Last Quinn Standing, and No Promise for Tomorrow. He has also written numerous magazine articles, an example of which, “Growing Up with Mr. Faulkner,” was published in The Oxford American, a literary magazine founded by John Grisham. He is represented by Loiacono Literary Agency.
