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Joe Appears in the July 2025 Issue of Alabama Heritage
Author Joe Cuhaj has penned a fascinating article that will appear in the July 2025 issue of Alabama Heritage magazine, a journal of Alabama history. Joe's article focuses on the bread riots of 1863. Wartime requires sacrifice and instills hardship on all involved, but many people living within the Confederacy during the Civil War were startled by the relative scarcity of basic provisions. Fueled by the fury of women across the southeast, the Bread Riots marked a moment of open rebellion in which women from Richmond, Virginia, to Mobile, Alabama, raised their voices and demanded that things change.
Notable Alabama Women Update (7/7/2025)
For those waiting the release of Joe's latest book, Notable Alabama Women, hang tight! The release date is drawing near - October 25th.The book traces the lives of 50 women who made an outsized contributions to both the state and the nation including Claudette Colvin, a 15-year young woman in Montgomery who challenged segregation laws on a bus in Montgomery months before Rosa Parks; singer “Big Mama” Thornton who became the bridge between rock ‘n roll and the blues; and the 1951 Miss America, the “Basque Spitfire,” Yolande Betbeze, who took a defiant stand for women forcing changes in the pageant industry. Ordering information is coming soon.
Joe's Debut Cozy Mystery, "Dead Air," Under Review
This past spring, Joe submitted his debut cozy mystery, Dead Air, to several agents and it is now under consideration for representation. Dead Air takes place in a Gulf Coast radio station in 1943, the height of World War II. Two prominent actors at the station are found murdered, and our two amateur sleuths - script girl Judy Campbell and her boyfriend, Foley Artist Art Foley (he will tell you his name is just a coincidence) - find themselves embroiled in the mystery searching clues for the killer before there is another death. Further books in the series will continue the adventures of our sleuths who have a nasty habit of finding dead bodies. Fingers crossed for good news on the book and series soon.
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