Pre-contact America and its people and cultures were my obsession since I could remember myself, long before I knew what I wished or could do about it.

Years later and after close to two decades of exhaustive research and  creative writing, poring through the available primary sources and sometimes modern-day scholars’ interpretation of those, I’m pleased to offer series of historical novels that cover the lively history of the American continent, tracing pivotal events that brought about the greatness of pre-contact North and Mesoamerica.

The Mesoamerican Saga is composed of three series – seventeen full-length novels all in all – and is covering the turbulent history of the 14-15th century Mesoamerica, the central Mexican Valley in particular, where the people we came to know as the Aztecs were busy carving their place among other local powers and empires.

The North American Saga is dealing with the creation of the famous Iroquois Confederacy, one of the oldest democracies of the world. Nine full-length novels are following the Great League’s creators and the aftermath of their work that saw this outstanding political body evolving into a major power around the Great Lakes and beyond them.

The Mound Builders Series is outlining possible interactions between the 13th century Mississippians and their less famous neighbors of the Ohio River’s mound builders known to us as “Fort Ancients”; as well as possible internal conflicts such fascinatingly autocratic great urban centers might have been facing from time to time.

The famous “Aztec Empire” is known to us mainly through its encounter with Cortez and his conquistadors.

But what was there before? How a great empire we heard mainly of its fall came to exist?

The intriguing world of pre-contact Mesoamerica, Anahuac/Mexican Valley in particular, I found staggering with its beauty, complicity, its colorful diversity and the intricate relationship between people and states.

It was a different world, as alien to ours as any place from the outer space. And yet, it was not different at all, populated with normal regular people, with their basic urges, needs, ambitions and desires. Different customs, different laws and traditions, but still the same men and women, struggling to make their lives better, to stay loyal or go with their hearts, facing contradicting choices, forced to chose sides from time to time.

It was a fascinating challenge and I enjoyed every minute of it, recreating this world through a series of action-adventure books, which are based on an extensive and a very thorough research but which are full of fictional characters busy making history along their real-life historical contemporaries.

The fierce democrats of the Great Lakes presented another fascinating challenge.

What made this confederacy special was their amazingly detailed, well-defined constitution. Recorded by a pictographic system in the form of wampum belts, the league’s laws held on for centuries, maintaining perfect balance between five powerful nations.

More than a few modern scholars believe that the USA constitution was inspired by the Iroquois’s Great League. To what degree, this is another question, but Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and some other Founding Fathers were undoubtedly very well-versed in the laws of the Great League as their personal communication testifies in several letters, with Franklin advocating a federal system akin to that of the Iroquois and Adams leading a faction that favored more centralized government but still citing some of the Iroquois laws in the process.

So what was this remarkable constitution, and how did it come to life?

The Peacemaker Series and The People of the Longhouse books are attempting to recreate these happenings, dealing again with historical and fictional characters struggling to make the Great Peacemaker’s vision come true while pursuing their personal goals and dreams along the way.