Press & Media Kit

Short bio (for event programs, book pages)

Steven A. Phillips is the author of The Blood of the Crossing Saga, an eight-book historical fiction series tracing a single American family from colonial Virginia to Depression-era Oklahoma. He lives in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.

Long bio (for features and profiles)

Steven A. Phillips grew up in Sand Springs, Oklahoma, surrounded by family stories that didn't quite match the history books. He spent more than a decade in primary sources — colonial land records, Revolutionary pension files, Cherokee removal documents, Freedmen's Bureau records, and Depression-era oral histories — before writing a single chapter of fiction. The Blood of the Crossing Saga is the result: eight novels that follow one bloodline through every major rupture in American history, from Jamestown in 1607 to the Oklahoma Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Phillips is not a trained historian, but he reads like one. He lives in Broken Arrow with his wife and youngest daughter.

Series pitch

The Blood of the Crossing Saga is an eight-book historical fiction series following a single American family from colonial Virginia to Depression-era Oklahoma. Each novel stands alone but gains depth in sequence. The series spans 1607 to 1940 and covers colonial settlement, Bacon's Rebellion, the Appalachian frontier, the American Revolution, the Trail of Tears, the Civil War, the Oklahoma Land Run, and the Dust Bowl. Book One is available now.

Interview topics

Writing American history from the inside — why a family saga instead of a biography or straight history
Primary-source research: what it takes to write fiction grounded in real documents
The Blood of the Crossing Saga as a reckoning with American mythology — what the family gets right and what it gets wrong
Writing about the Trail of Tears, slavery, and the Land Run as a white author from Oklahoma
The long arc of a series: planning eight books before writing the first
Sand Springs and Broken Arrow, Oklahoma as a lens on American history — growing up surrounded by stories that didn't match the history books