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The Battle of Dove Creek. You've never heard of it have you? It was the largest battle fought between Native Americans and white men during the American Civil War. It was a great tragedy.

SIDESHOW AT HONEY CREEK tells of how that tragedy never should have happened yet came to be. It tells the very human story of those involved.

Men, women, good and evil, stumbling into these events as they struggled to survive the bitter winter of 1864.

Vivid characterization, accurate vision of the times - Hell, it's a good read. Be surprised and pleased. Support small business.

Click on my website (http://www.stevenspen.com) to learn more. Click on the amazon widget there so I make more royality.

In the freezing February of 1805, two young Englishmen met by accident in a Gloucestershire woodland. This is their story.

Jonathan Hopkins

Follows the adventures of two light dragoons sent to Portugal to fight Napoleon's troops in the Peninsular War.
Available in paperback, on Kindle and all other ebook formats.
More information at www.cavalrytales.co.uk

Hi, folks! My book, Heretic: The Life And Death Of Akhenaten is FREE for the next few days on Amazon. Would greatly appreciate any likes, downloads, reads, reviews, shares... http://www.amazon.com/Heretic-Life-De...

Thanks, Hazel, for opening up this venue for us!

I write prehistoric fiction, so if you're a fan of Jean Auel, or any of the others in that genre, I hope you will check out Daughter of the Goddess Lands and its sequel, Shadow of the Horsemen

If you more into science fiction and fantasy, and if you like your reading in bite sized pieces, my new book, In the Balance might be for you.

I look forward to meeting new authors and finding great new books on this thread!

Brijit wrote: "Hi, folks! My book, Heretic: The Life And Death Of Akhenaten is FREE for the next few days on Amazon. Would greatly appreciate any likes, downloads, reads, reviews, shares... http://www.amazon.c..."

Right ... downloaded (don't start me an Amazon/Kindle axis - I, like many, have an iPad) ... I'll report back (and plaster all the appropriate places with feedback) tomorrow.

Good to see what appears to be Ramses II's enemy in the mix :-)

Sandra wrote: "Thanks, Hazel, for opening up this venue for us!

I write prehistoric fiction, so if you're a fan of Jean Auel, or any of the others in that genre, I hope you will check out Daughter of the Goddess..."

Sandra, "Daughter of the Goddess Lands" looks really interesting. I love prehistoric fiction.

My historic novel, Knight of the Purple Ribbonis an adventurous and romantic book centering on the founding of New Bern, North Carolina in 1710, by my ancestor Baron Christoph de Graffenried. It is largely based on his memoir, "Relation of my American Project". There is a very strong romantic storyline in the book as well. You preview it on Amazonhttp://www.amazon.com/Knight-Purple-R...

I am also hosting a giveaway: http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

Andrew wrote: "Brijit wrote: "Hi, folks! My book, Heretic: The Life And Death Of Akhenaten is FREE for the next few days on Amazon. Would greatly appreciate any likes, downloads, reads, reviews, shares... http..."

That's very kind of you, Andrew-- thank you! And I'm an ipad addict myself. I wish I could use it for everything! So glad the Kindle app works on it so well. :)

Have a great evening!

--Brijit

Permanently free: Of Battles Past.
It's the first half of my 600-page novel Amgalant One: The Old Ideal. Genghis Khan, but not as you know him. My slogan at the moment is, There was more to the Mongols. Genghis tends to get action/adventure treatment. If you are a strict action/adventure fan you might want to skirt mine. I follow the material the Mongols themselves wrote, that gives the human story, people's lives and tragedies.

Links to shops on my site - http://amgalant.com/ - where I blog about Mongol things.

I've a discussion thread for Amgalant in this group if you're curious.

Thanks for the opportunity to mention my book.

The Breadwinners a family saga set in South Africa

A spurned lover marries for money and ignites a family feud lasting for three generations.

It is New Year’s Eve 1924 and the fiery and volatile Charles McGill is devastated when the woman he loves announces her engagement to Lucas Connelly, his friend and co-worker.
When Charles delivers the New Year stollen bread to the home of Manfred Richter, his daughter, Hilde mistakes Charles for a party guest and offers the handsome and seemingly unattached male a glass of spiced punch. Charles is soon drowning his sorrows in drink and later seduces Hilde. When she finds she is pregnant her father offers to set up the penniless Charles with his own bakery if he will marry her. Charles readily agrees and, unknown to Hilde, the two men draw up a contract. It is the beginning of a battle for supremacy between Charles, Lucas, and Miles Davenport, their former employer.

As the bakeries grow and prosper, acrimony begins within the families, pitting brother against brother, and Charles becomes increasingly dissatisfied, realising that success means nothing if he cannot have the woman he loves.

The story covers a period of sixty years and leads us through the successes and failures of the three families as they survive the great depression, the war years and the isolation of South Africa.

THE BREADWINNERS is an epic family saga that explores the adage, ‘from clogs to clogs in three generations’. Based on the baking industry where the author worked for several years, it gives revealing insights into the growth of Durban and the baking industry. It will appeal to readers who enjoy historical fiction set in exotic locations, and those who read authors such as Barbara Taylor Bradford, Catherine Gaskin and Belva Plain

Please allow me to announce my new POD version of my HF novel.

My Historical Fiction novel SIDESHOW AT HONEY CREEK is now available on Create Space. Want it as a real book made of paper?

Click here: https://www.createspace.com/4076550

Although But Can You Drink the Water? is set in the 1970s it will be 'historical' to the younger generation.

The book began as a sit-com and then developed into a novel.
This is part of the Publishers Weekly review that took But Can You Drink The Water? to the semi-finals of the 2010 ABNA contest.
“Droll, witty and utterly British. What sustains this book, however, is the narrative voice, the dry and self-deprecating humor, and the ability of this author to tell a story simply and well.”

When Frank Turner informs his wife and teenage son they are emigrating from Liverpool to sunny South Africa he is unprepared for their hostile response. His defiant son makes his own silent protest, and his wife’s assertion that “we never shoulda come” is parroted at every minor calamity.

The bewildered working-class scousers are thrust into an alien world of servants, strange African customs, unintelligible accents, and unexpected wild life (‘crocodiles’ on the wall).
Their uneasy interactions with Zulu servants, Afrikaner neighbours, and foreign officialdom exposes their naivety, but they each learn to cope in their own individual way; Mavis overcoming homesickness by hugging the knowledge that when Frank’s contract ends they can return home; Gerry’s sullen resentment giving way to love of the outdoor life, and Frank masking his own doubts with blustering optimism and bantering sarcasm.
Having overcome culture shock, the arrival of Mavis’s parents introduces a divided loyalty when Gert and Walter’s National Health glasses and ill-fitting dentures are seen through the eyes of the Turner’s new South African friends. And when Mavis’s sister ‘our Treesa’ and her opinionated husband Clive visit, Mavis surprises herself by hotly defending SA.
The turning point comes when the family return to Liverpool for a holiday. Gerry has outgrown his former feral friends, Mavis realises she is now an expat; a misfit in her former home, and Frank has fresh misgivings about their future.

If home means a sense of belonging –where do the Turners belong?

Set in the 1970s, BUT CAN YOU DRINK THE WATER? uses subtle observational humour, with an underlying pathos, to portray the upsets, hurt and changing family dynamics that emigration brings.
It will appeal to fans of Educating Rita and Shirley Valentine, and to expats, and potential expats worldwide.

Jennifer wrote: "Sandra wrote: "Thanks, Hazel, for opening up this venue for us!

I write prehistoric fiction, so if you're a fan of Jean Auel, or any of the others in that genre, I hope you will check out Daughter..."

Thanks, Jen! Always good to meet a fellow fan. Which books/authors do you like?

A Beautiful Glittering Lie

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to promote my new book. A Beautiful Glittering Lie has won two awards and has received several five star reviews.

In the spring of 1861, a country once united is fractured by war. Half of America fights for the Confederate cause; the other, for unification. Rebel forces have already seized Fort Morgan and Fort Gaines, a new Confederate president has been elected, and the Constitution has been revised. In north Alabama, a farmer and father of three decides to enlist. For Hiram Summers, it is the end of everything he has ever known.

After Hiram travels to Virginia with the Fourth Alabama Infantry Regiment, he is quickly thrust into combat. His son, David, who must stay behind, searches for adventure at home by traipsing to Huntsville with his best friend, Jake Kimball, to scrutinize invading Yankees. Meanwhile, Caroline – Hiram’s wife and David’s mother – struggles to keep up with the farm as her world revolves around the letters she receives from her husband, whom she misses dearly. As Hiram and his son discover the true meaning of war, they soon realize that their choices have torn their family apart.

In this historical tale, the naivete of a young country is tested, a father sacrifices everything to defend his home, and a young man longs for adventure – regardless of the perilous cost.

Another Civil War buff. Welcome, J.D.R. You and Steven should have a lot to discuss!

Thank you. I'm a new member and looking forward to hearing from you all about historical fiction. Besides the Civil War, I am interested in the Roaring 20's/Depression era and Irish history.

I'm an Irish history buff ;) Not quite so much as Scottish/English, but I do love the history and I have a little bit of the blood as well.

Me too! My husband and I traveled to Ireland last fall. It was my dream trip, and it was wonderful. Can't wait to go back! It inspired me to write a book, although I'm trying to figure out the angle.

J.D.R. wrote: "Me too! My husband and I traveled to Ireland last fall. It was my dream trip, and it was wonderful. Can't wait to go back! It inspired me to write a book, although I'm trying to figure out the angle."

Yes, but I do envy your trip and the seeds it gave you for a new story.

I'm big on the Irish, the Scots/Irish, and, of course, the civil war.

'Made me wonder, is your 'Glittering Life' tied to your family history? I'm certainly interested in knowing how the book grew into what it became.

No it doesn't have anything to do with my family history per say, except that the area I chose the series to center around has many distant family members.

That can't but add to the richness of your prose. I'm just Celt enough to believe there is some magic that fills writers that comes from both universal and genetic - well, let's call it some a sort of -aura (did I spell that right?) that joins with us as we write.

Of course, a little research helps too.

By the way, I did not mean to ignore the others promoting on this discussion. This is a good and interesting bunch of books

@Jonathan: I may have already talked with you about our interest in the Napoleanic Wars. I keep your book in mind for a future read.

@Jennifer: My mom-in-law is a great fan of prehistoric fiction and always encourage me to read there. 'So many books - so little time,' I'll tell her about your book.

@Jennifer: My mom's name was Virginia Dare and has always tempted me with the stories of the East Coast in colonial times. Virginia Dare was the first known Eurpean (sic) known to have been born in America. Her fate is unknown for she was born in Roanoke Colony.

@ Jan: The '70's as historical - well, I'm old enough to have lived the 70's, or atleast they tell me I did. If you remember it you weren't there, they say. It was interesting times. I know little of South Africa outside of the nautical fiction I've read of the sailors that docked there during the tall ships days and the movie 'The Endless Summer'. It seems a beautiful place.

Did I miss anyone? I love this group - all the creativity.

Posted by Steven "Did I miss anyone? I love this group - all the creativity"

Me, I think. But you mentioned prehistoric fiction in one comment to Jennifer, so maybe that covers us both :)

J.D.R. wrote: "Me too! My husband and I traveled to Ireland last fall. It was my dream trip, and it was wonderful. Can't wait to go back! It inspired me to write a book, although I'm trying to figure out the angle."

I would love to go to Ireland =) I have two planned books with Irish history. One is kind of steampunk based in the Victorian era so it's not entirely historical and I'm not using real people but some of the characters are going to be based off real people. It's also part of a series.

The other is also part of a series but is just historical and deals with the '98 rebellion with Robert Emmet and Michael Dwyer and all of them =)

They both sound interesting. Let me know how it goes!

Well the first book of my mystery series is my current WIP, you can read an excerpt of it on my profile in my writing, It's under "Anthony Maxwell Teaser" I believe =)

Sandra wrote: "Posted by Steven "Did I miss anyone? I love this group - all the creativity"

Me, I think. But you mentioned prehistoric fiction in one comment to Jennifer, so maybe that covers us both :)"

Sorry Sandra,

I get word to my mom-in-law on your books too.

Steven--Thanks!

I'm currently writing my first novel, a historical romance set during the First World War, and publishing it as I go on both Wattpad and Authonomy. You can find it at

http://www.wattpad.com/story/2526388-...

and

http://authonomy.com/books/50416/busy...

Hi all, I'm excited to announce that On a Foreign Field: A Story of Loyalty and Brotherhood has been chosen as a group read for February here: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/group_...

If you'd like to get a chance to read it for free, this is your opportunity! I'm providing ebook copies for everyone joining in and all you have to do is join the group if you haven't already and sign in to the 'read in' topic that you'll find on the link above. You can join in any time during February.

Congratulations, Hazel! That is SO cool!

Thank you again ;)

Just published last month ... brand new "author's cut" ebook of The Plot to Save Socrates with extended ending http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AMUDJNS

The Plot to Save Socrates

"...challenging fun" - Entertainment Weekly

"Da Vinci-esque thriller" - New York Daily News

"...a fun book to read" - Dallas Morning News

"resonates with the current political climate . . . . heroine Sierra Waters is sexy as hell . . . . there's a bite to Levinson's wit" - Brian Charles Clark, Curled Up With A Good Book at curledup.com

"a journey through time that'll make you think as it thrills ... so accessible, even those generally put off by sci-fi should enjoy the trip." - Rod Lott, bookgasm.com

"Levinson spins a fascinating tale ... An intriguing premise with believable characters and attention to period detail make this an outstanding choice... Highly recommended." - Library Journal, *starred review

"engaging time-travel yarn . . . neatly satisfies the circularity inherent in time travel, whose paradoxes Levinson links to Greek philosophy." - Publishers Weekly

"A thinking person's time travel story... I felt like I was there." - SF Signal

Hello everyone and thanks Hazel. My book is Irish history so I do hope it's of interest. Historical, but also a bit of an adventure. Sharavogue begins December of 1649 as Oliver Cromwell leads his army across Ireland to crush a violent rebellion.

Elvy Burke, daughter of a great warrior, wants one thing — to live her destiny as a leader and defender of her country. As the cavalry approaches, she knows she will not give up easily. After fleeing from his soldiers, she aligns with a Scottish outlaw whose schemes send them headlong into a tumultuous journey across the sea to the West Indies, where she learns to survive as an indentured servant on a fledgling sugar plantation until she can again confront her enemy.

More info on my blog:
http://blantonn.wordpress.com/

Sharavogue

Hi Nancy! I'm definitely going to have to check that out, is sounds like my kind of read =) Scottish outlaws and Celtic heroines ;)

I think the hobbits have the right of it when they give presents
on their birthday so here's mine! A copy of The Inbetween, my dark age story
of myth and magic. It's free just for today. The
Inbetween

If any readers are interested in the origins, reasons and causes for our politically and culturally divided country, they might have an interest in my novel, "The War Less Civil." This family saga spans from 1864 to 1991 and reveals how passionate men and even more intensely caring women are affected, altered and divided by the wars and societal trends they simply cannot avoid or control.

Sue wrote: "I think the hobbits have the right of it when they give presents
on their birthday so here's mine! A copy of The Inbetween, my dark age story
of myth and magic. It's free just for today. ..."

Happy Birthday, Sue! Looks like an interesting book

Bragging!

I just received my latest ( 5 ***** Star) review from Stan Jensen. Thank you Stan.

5.0 out of 5 stars Authentic and Real, February 19, 2013
By S.J. - See all my reviewsAmazon
Verified Purchase
This review is from: Sideshow at Honey Creek (Kindle Edition)

When I read a book, I want the characters to be real, I want to feel what they feel, see what they see, hear what they hear. I also want a strong sense of time and place. "Sideshow at Honey Creek" does all that. I learned more about Indians and their ways, and the hard life of the Settlers in Malone's novel than I learned in all the other books I've read about the Old West. Great praise to Author Steven Malone for putting in the long hours of research that made this novel so authentic and real.

I also want to add that I've been a student of the Civil War for decades, and Malone broke new ground for me. I, like so many who study the War, generally study everything from the Mississippi east...but now comes Malone to open up a new chapter in my study of a war that nearly divided a great nation. My thanks to Author Steven Malone!

Congratulations mate, very well deserved review

John wrote: "Congratulations mate, very well deserved review"

Thanks John. I appreciate your kind words.

Very awesome review, Steven! Congrats =)

Yup - there's nothing wrong with blowing your own trumpet. No one else'll do it for you :)

Nice review. Or as they say round these parts...Tidy!

Thanks Hazel & Johnathan'

I'm all aglow. That's my 5th 5 Star review. 'Tidy' indeed.

I've just posted a video on Youtube for the sequel to my first story. It's my first attempt at a book trailer, so if anyone wants to view and criticise (please), the link's here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADaQsn...

Jonathan wrote: "I've just posted a video on Youtube for the sequel to my first story. It's my first attempt at a book trailer, so if anyone wants to view and criticise (please), the link's here

http://www.youtub..."

Great book trailer! I've done one myself, so I know how hard they can be to pull off. This is very professional.

I think it's a good book trailer. I haven't even gotten around to making one yet.

Believe it or not was the first time l have saw a book trailer.
Good job mate, l will be one of your first customers, loved the first one.

Thanks, Sandra Hazel and John. I was trying to avoid a long 'story' type of trailer.

John - try the trailer for Bernard Cornwell's '1356' for a proper professional job :)