Edwin Page's Blog: Writing Life - Posts Tagged "slavery"
Free Kindle book
The Kindle edition of my new novella, The Hanging Tree, is free to download today and tomorrow. Here's the blurb and then the links to its US & UK pages:
Set in the mid 1800s, The Hanging Tree is a bittersweet tale of the love between two slaves. It weaves a story that evokes both happiness and sadness with threads of love, loss, superstition and threat.
Isaac and Oneesha live on a cotton plantation in Louisiana. They are afforded greater liberty than many of their people, but their lives still fall under the constant shadow of their position as slaves, a shadow that contains much which is fearful and perilous. Savouring fleeting rendezvous during the hours of darkness, they toil through the days and hope that their prayers for freedom will be answered.
US page link: http://www.amazon.com/Hanging-Tree-Ed...
UK page link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hanging-Tree-...
This book is available in Kindle and paperback formats, though due to its very recent release some Amazon sites may no have linked the two formats as yet.
If you download it, I hope you enjoy the read.
Set in the mid 1800s, The Hanging Tree is a bittersweet tale of the love between two slaves. It weaves a story that evokes both happiness and sadness with threads of love, loss, superstition and threat.
Isaac and Oneesha live on a cotton plantation in Louisiana. They are afforded greater liberty than many of their people, but their lives still fall under the constant shadow of their position as slaves, a shadow that contains much which is fearful and perilous. Savouring fleeting rendezvous during the hours of darkness, they toil through the days and hope that their prayers for freedom will be answered.
US page link: http://www.amazon.com/Hanging-Tree-Ed...
UK page link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hanging-Tree-...
This book is available in Kindle and paperback formats, though due to its very recent release some Amazon sites may no have linked the two formats as yet.
If you download it, I hope you enjoy the read.
New Slave Story
I have started a new story this morning about a slave who escapes from a plantation and finds friendship and acceptance on a small farmstead. Called Runaway, it is the tale of Joshua, who finds refuge in a barn and is discovered by six-year old Clara, a bond soon developing between them.
After writing The Hanging Tree I was very aware of the melancholy effect of the story. Runaway is intended as a foil to this and will hopefully touch readers in a positive way.
I hope it will be released in Kindle and paperback formats at the end of April.
As an aside, the Kindle edition of the historical novel The Shepherd of St Just will be available for pre-order from April 1st. It is the third in the series I loosely termed as my 'outcasts trilogy.'
After writing The Hanging Tree I was very aware of the melancholy effect of the story. Runaway is intended as a foil to this and will hopefully touch readers in a positive way.
I hope it will be released in Kindle and paperback formats at the end of April.
As an aside, the Kindle edition of the historical novel The Shepherd of St Just will be available for pre-order from April 1st. It is the third in the series I loosely termed as my 'outcasts trilogy.'
