How do you select the names of your characters? Being able to offer that service to my people would be my definition of success. There aren’t many avenues for the Black Community to communicate amongst ourselves and independently develop our own value system. Literary success for me will be when Spirit of 1811 Publishing becomes a powerful platform for the Black Community to forward our unique narrative, outside of the filter of the mainstream media. What does literary success look like to you? That said, those experiences/difficulties taught me lessons and were valuable in of themselves. Usually, there was a problem or a hole in the storyline that I wasn’t comfortable with, so I moved on and started from scratch.

One day I may revisit them, but there is a reason they are half finished and not published. I have at least four different books that are half finished and saved someplace on a thumb drive. How many unpublished and half-finished books do you have? Follow Spirit of 1811 Publishing on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and TikTok. Visit our website at and sign up for books specials, newsletter updates and exclusive offers. Josiah is the son of John Henry and Naomi Starr and the brother of Johnnie, Marcus, Jeremiah and Jedidiah Starr. Josiah is the husband to the lovely Brittani Starr and the father of his young son Azariah J. He currently operates vessels in the Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, Pacific Ocean, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. In the Coast Guard stationed aboard several USCG cutters and served in Bahrain, Kuwait and Iraqi during Operation Enduring Freedom.Īfter his military service Josiah decided to continue to follow his passion for traveling the world’s oceans and earned his Merchant Mariner’s license. After college, Josiah served in the United States Coast Guard as a Commissioned Officer. After moving to Baton Rouge, he earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Southern A&M University. Upon graduating High School, Josiah earned an athletic scholarship and attended Southern University in Shreveport for two years. Born to a military family in Erlangon Germany, Josiah was well traveled as a young child before ultimately settling down in the small town of Homer, Louisiana. He is a staunch proponent of black ownership and economic empowerment. Starr established Spirit of 1811 Publishing in 2019 in order to promote an agenda of empowerment within the Black Community through black owned and controlled media.

War Of The Heart by Josiah Jay Starr