ABOUT THE PROJECT
UNJUST is an anthology franchise built around contrast. Each installment stands independently while remaining part of the larger UNJUST intellectual property. Sadly, there's no shortage of cases to examine.
Each installment places two real cases side by side to examine a different aspect of the American justice system. The cases are seemingly unconnected, allowing each book to explore a different set of circumstances, questions, and forces that shape how justice is experienced and perceived.
Monster is the first installment. It is completed and ready for adaptation.
Privilege (being written) places Barry Gibbs, a Brooklyn postal worker who spent seventeen years in prison for a murder he did not commit, alongside O.J. Simpson.
Scandal (being written) places Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle and Sean “Diddy” Combs side by side, more than a century apart.
The cases, circumstances, and questions change from one installment to the next. That is what allows UNJUST to move beyond any single case or type of injustice while remaining a cohesive franchise.
THE NARRATIVE APPROACH
UNJUST is grounded in the factual and legal records of the cases it examines.
In Monster, Sabrina’s narrative includes limited creative reconstruction where the historical record establishes what happened but does not provide every incidental detail. Those elements are used to bring narrative depth to moments for which the underlying events are known. Nothing has been changed that affects the legal aspects of her case or the circumstances surrounding her son’s death.
The JonBenét Ramsey chapters take a different approach because of the extensive public record surrounding the case. The narrative relies on documented information and, wherever possible, material that has been checked against multiple sources.
The individual stories stand on their own. The larger UNJUST project comes from what they reveal about justice, power, perception, and the forces that shape which stories are heard, remembered, and forgotten.