Lawrence Jay Switzer, designer of the ongoing Walt Whitman Series (six volumes in print to date) and producer of illustrated biographies of history's most famous courtesans, published his first work of fiction in 2019, entitled Sayville Tales, a Novel of Traveler's Tales. In the tradition of The Canterbury Tales, Sayville Tales is comprised of more than a dozen stories told by modern-day passengers on a railroad journey. The following year he published the first of three planned books about a fictional American metropolis. The title of the first volume is Beacon City Confidential. The author can be contacted at the following e-mail address: sayville.tales@gmail.com.