1–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? FREEDOM’S GHOST invites the reader into the revolution of the human spirit that took place during the years before the Revolutionary War.   2–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? The Bone Rattler series tracks events that led to the war for independence from Britain, so that premise determines the settings. The year is 1770, and a catalyst for the plot is the Boston Massacre, which occurred at a very specific location and time. The overall action takes place in the most active venues of rebellious fever, the Massachusetts and New York colonies.   3–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? After seven books in the series, my protagonist Duncan McCallum is already a very compatible companion—he shares my love of nature, science and good Scotch whisky. Duncan sometimes visits my dreams.   4–What are three words that describe your protagonist? Resourceful, stealthy, defiant.   5–What’s something you learned while writing this book? I was astonished to discover that there was, and still is, a great mystery about the events that directly precipitated the Boston Massacre. The tension between troops and colonists was obvious,…