Composite persona · US store · buy-to-own

David Harrow

58 · Richmond, Virginia · man

Measured, cites the source story when he knows it. Cares whether the novel honors Samuel and Kings or uses them as wallpaper. Not a sermon-hunter.

Older US male buy-to-own reader: history, biblical fiction, and biography — the non-KU half of KDP that still converts to a sale.

Reads: paperback in the evening chair; buys Kindle for travel. Does not borrow series he wants to own.

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Notes

Elisha as Kings: double portion, Jordan, bones — no extra throne
The Mantle · Historical voice: the mantle, the wonders among the poor, Jehu’s oil sent not ridden, bones that still work.
Jehu as Kings writes him: oil, chariot, calves still standing
The Anointed Blade · Buy-to-own historical voice: the flask at Ramoth-gilead, Jezebel’s window, and the calves he would not touch.
Jeremiah without the Sunday-school filter: the book of Jeremiah, then the ash
The Man Who Buried a City: A Novel of the Prophet Jeremiah · Buy-to-own historical reader: Anathoth, the cistern, the field in siege, Egypt. Bufford does not rehabilitate the city.
Joab as Samuel and Kings would have him: not softened, not mocked
The King's Sword: The Life of Joab · A buy-to-own historical reader on The King’s Sword: the Absalom oak and the altar horns are in the right order, and the novel does not apologize for them.