About

Wonderfilled is an independent creative studio and publisher founded by Stephen E. Dinehart IV, a professor, award-winning game designer, and storyteller with two decades of professional narrative work. Dinehart's Company of Heroes campaigns, The British, The Wehrmacht, and The Tiger Ace, earned a best writing nomination at the Game Developers Choice Awards in 2007 and set the standard for historical narrative in interactive media.

Wonderfilled publishes work that takes history seriously, builds from the record, and trusts the reader. Its first novel, Emperor of the Cherokee, is a 185,000-word literary historical novel spanning 1687 to 1979. It follows Moytoy of Tellico, declared Emperor of the Cherokee by British agent Sir Alexander Cuming in 1730, through three centuries of consequence. The novel ends in 1979 when the TVA's Tellico Dam floods the Cherokee Overhill towns, submerging Moytoy's grave under sixty feet of reservoir water. The last chapter is a government file. It is marked CLOSED.

Emperor of the Cherokee publishes April 3, 2026, the 296th anniversary of the Nequassee ceremony.

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