Touchpoint Press takes on award-winning author Thomas E. Simmons’ By Accident of Birth an

IRVING, Texas - Feb. 21, 2015 - PRLog -- Touchpoint Press takes on award-winning author Thomas E. Simmons’ epic novels By Accident of Birth and its sequel, The Last Quinn Standing! http://www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com/touchpoint-press-takes-on-award-winning-author-thomas-e-simmons-epic-novels-by-accident-of-birth-and-its-sequel-the-last-quinn-standing

These two stories span the Atlantic, from the US during the Civil War to Cuba and France and, in the end, to Ireland and WWI.

As you aware, 2015 is the 150^th anniversary of the end of the Civil War where By Accident of Birth starts out, at the battle of Vicksburg in 1863. It is also the 100^th anniversary of the sinking of Lusitania which eventually led to America's entry into the WWI. And so begins the sequel, The Last Quinn Standing, which carries us further on through the eyes of Ansel Quinn, the last of the Quinn bloodline.

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…

During the siege of Vicksburg July 1863, sixteen-year-old Annielise Quinn is shot by a stray bullet which had passed through the groin of a confederate soldier and lodged itself in her pelvis nicking her uterus, thus impregnating her. The only persons to know of the “bullet baby” were her immediate family and Dr. Perkins. Two-year-old Beverly Bethany Quinn is the only survivor when a trio of crazed Yankees slaughters her family. Having been hid in a basket by her mother, Annielise, she is found by the Quinn’s nanny, Arabella, and taken to be raised by Dr. Perkins in Vicksburg, and subsequently her Uncle Jonathan who lives in Cuba.

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.

Thomas E. Simmons is the author of Escape from Archangel (University Press of Mississippi), The Man Called Brown Condor (Sky Horse Publishing) and Forgotten Heroes of World War II: Personal Accounts of Ordinary Soldiers Land, Sea and Air (Taylor Trade Publishing). 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. The Man Called Brown Condor was presented to the president of Ethiopia and Simmons was invited to Ethiopia in March 2013 for a week-long celebration and dedication to John Robinson, the man called ‘Brown Condor.’ Simmons was also honored by the Mississippi State Senate for efforts in bringing Robinson’s life to light, a man who deserves to be known for his achievements. In November 2014, three of the contributors to Forgotten Heroes of WWII sign copies of the book alongside Simmons in Biloxi, Mississippi – Harry Bell, Jerry O’Keefe and Oscar Russell.

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. Simmons has been a commercial captain of a seventy-foot sailing vessel, a pilot since the age of sixteen, (over 3000 plus hours in the air; having flown professionally and participated in air shows flying aerobatics in open-cockpit bi-planes), and in the late 1950s he served as an artillery officer in Korea.  www.thomasesimmons.net www.touchpointpress.comRepresented by Loiacono Literary Agency www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com.