Howdy. My name is William J. Jackson, and while many of you don't know me personally, I'd like to change that. While many of you fine folk express yourselves through attire, manners, convention hosting, and a whole litany of skills, I channel my eccentricities best via writing.

The Rail Legacy is about superhuman powers developing in America in the 1870s. It's about heroes. Mutation. Race division in the US. Militarism. It's about a nation grateful for the work of heroes, only to turn…