Bill Burkland
Award Winning Author
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The Splinter
Pre-Order: October 2026
Publish Date: January 27, 2027
It’s 2040, and things are not going well in America. Malindi Simwanza is about to change that.
Congress has abdicated its authority, The Art of the Deal has replaced the Constitution, and the economy is in shambles. Desperate to avoid defaulting on the national debt, President Frederick Behring puts California, Oregon, and Washington up for sale.
Fixated on restoring the glory of its former empire, the British prime minister submits the winning proposal. There’s just one problem: the British bid is funded by China, whose premier is secretly planning a military incursion into the West Coast. With more bluster than brains, the three leaders scramble for supremacy.
Only Malindi, a principled Zambian parliamentarian, refuses to let a new age of colonialism take root. She journeys from the White House to the British Archives to 10 Downing Street, seeking a long-lost piece of legislation from Britain’s colonial past that could alter the events unfolding in America. Hours before the British are to take ownership of the West Coast and as China’s military lurks in the shadows, Malindi uncovers the truth. She now must decide if revealing it will peacefully thwart their delusions of empire or trigger World War III.
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The Misconceived Conception of a Baby Named Jesus
“A fun, pithy sendup of one of the best-known origin stories.” – Kirkus Reviews
"Burkland packs immense humor and irony into his prose..." BookLife Prize 2025
The Misconceived Conception of a Baby Named Jesus is a religious satire; a fast-paced comedic re-imagining of the events surrounding the birth of Jesus with sensibilities similar to The Book of Mormon and Monty Python’s Life of Brian.
On a warm Galilean night, Mary and Joseph secretly rendezvous in the privacy of a secluded Nazarene garden where they get to know each other well. Very well. Nine months after their union, a series of events unfold that will forever define the meaning of the conception and birth of their child. When Mary’s pious mother sees that her young unwed daughter is pregnant, she enlists the help of a pompous High Priest to devise a plan to characterize the pregnancy as divine, of God’s seed. Mary refuses to go along with her mother’s scheme, insisting that Joseph is the true father. Joseph and Mary battle her parents for control of the birth narrative and the fate of their newborn baby. As word of a miraculous virgin birth spreads through Bethlehem, factions form and allegiances shift among unscrupulous shepherds, rakish Wise Men, members of the Magdalene family, an earnest but malodorous peasant, and an aging cat with a penchant for prophecy.
Is the baby named Jesus truly the Son of God or merely a mortal born of earthly parents?
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