In the 1990s, he semi-retired from acting to pursue a writing career. His first work was a military history of the court-martial of 63 black American soldiers during the First World War, titled "Farewell to the Mockingbirds" (1995), which won the 1998 Benjamin Franklin Award. His next works, mainly fiction novels, included "The Heroin Factor" (1999), "Say Goodnight to the Boys in Blue" (2000), "The Great Canis Lupus" (2001), and "Tell me a Tale: A Novel of the Old South" (2003). He published "Pebbles in the Roadway" in (2003), a collection of short stories and essays which he describes as "a philosophical view of America and Americans". In 2005, McEachin produced the award-winning audio book "Voices: A Tribute to the American Veteran".