Can you tell us what your research process is like? Reviewers have marveled at the historical detail and accuracy in News of the World. The girl has forgotten English and considers herself a Kiowa, but on the trip they grow to trust one another-and in the end he brings her back to some forbidding relatives who do not want her. Captain Kidd says yes, and the two have many improbable and even dangerous adventures on the way south.
He is asked by a black frontiersman, Britt Johnson, to return a little captive girl who has been rescued to her people four hundred miles to the south.
He reads from journals from distant places and along with 'news' he imparts a sense of the far world, things which seems almost imaginary. News of the World is about an elderly gentleman who travels North Texas giving readings from newspapers to audiences in small towns. True Texas history and fiction aficionados will savor News of the World, but can you tell our readers, in your own words, what your book is about? PAULETTE JILES: I'm from the Missouri Ozarks-all my people are country/farm/hills people, and I came to Texas because I married a Texan.
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