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Tuesday, 20 December 2016

Free Christmas book!

Back from three weeks in Morocco! More on that later. In the meantime, I wanted to mention that I'm having a giveaway on a Christmas book. It's called Christmas Truce and is about the famous truce on the Western Front during World War One. It's part of my Trench Raiders series but can be read independently.

You can get it for free at Smashwords, B&N, Kobo, the iStore and various other online vendors. It's at 99 cents on Amazon because they're Grinches. Here's the blurb:

Christmas 1914
In the cold, muddy trenches of the Western Front, there is a strange silence. As a crack English trench raiding team enjoy their first day of peace in months, they call out holiday greetings to the men on the German line. Soon both sides are fraternizing in No Man’s Land.
But when the English recognize some enemy raiders who only a few days before launched a deadly attack on their position, can they keep the peace through the Christmas Truce?

Friday, 25 December 2015

Merry Christmas! Have a free ebook!

Merry Christmas! I'm here in Morocco avoiding the holidays. This is the third year we've hid from the silly season by going to a Muslim country.

But I'm no Grinch, and to prove it I've made my novella Christmas Truce free until the end of the month. This is part of my Trench Raiders World War One series but can be read independently. It is a fictional take on the real-life miracle of a ceasefire during the war's first Christmas. A blurb is below.

Christmas 1914
In the cold, muddy trenches of the Western Front, there is a strange silence. As a crack English trench raiding team enjoy their first day of peace in months, they call out holiday greetings to the men on the German line. Soon both sides are fraternizing in No Man’s Land.
But when the English recognize some enemy raiders who only a few days before launched a deadly attack on their position, can they keep the peace through the Christmas Truce?

You can find Christmas Truce free at Smashwords (where you can get all formats), Barnes and Noble, Kobo, the iStore, and many other outlets. Unfortunately I could only put it as low as 99 cents at Amazon. They don't let you put it for free unless you go exclusive with them. Grinches.

Happy Holidays!

Thursday, 10 December 2015

No Man's Land out now! Have a free novella!

No Man's Land, the third in my Trench Raiders series of WWI novels, has just been released. It's available on Amazon, Smashwords, and is going through Smashwords premium distribution and will soon be available everywhere. The blurb is below:

No Man’s Land—a hellscape of shell craters and dead bodies. Soldiers have fought over it, charged across it, and bled on it for a year of grueling war, but neither side has dominated it.
Until now.
An elite German raiding party is passing through No Man’s Land every night, attacking the British trenches at will. The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry need to reassert control over their front lines.
So the exhausted men of Company E decide to set a trap, a nighttime ambush in the middle of No Man’s Land, where any mistake can be fatal. But the few surviving veterans are leading recruits who have only been in the trenches two weeks. Mistakes are inevitable.

To celebrate the launch, as well as the approaching holidays, I'm putting a related novella, Christmas Truce, out for free. You can get it for free on Smashwords and most other sites. Unfortunately Amazon doesn't allow me to put it for free unless I go exclusive with them, so it's at 99 cents there. Offer ends December 31!

Christmas 1914:
In the cold, muddy trenches of the Western Front, there is a strange silence. As the men of a crack English trench raiding team enjoy their first day of peace in months, they begin to call out holiday greetings to their enemies on the German line. Soon men are fraternizing in No Man’s Land.
But when the English recognize some enemy trench raiders who only a few days before had launched a deadly attack on their position, can they keep the peace through the Christmas Truce?

Sunday, 26 July 2015

Get my ebooks for half off!

Over at Smashwords I'm participating in their great summer/winter sale. Whether you're sweltering in the summer of the Northern Hemisphere, or chilling out somewhere south of the Equator, it's always a good time to read an ebook. Through July 31, all my ebooks at Smashwords are 50% off. You can see an entire list on my Smashwords page.

The books include my Trench Raiders World War One action series, each now $1.50; older works such as the short story collection The Night the Nazis came to Dinner and the historical fantasy The Quintessence of Absence, both $1.50; and my Civil War horror novels A Fine Likeness and The River of Desperation.

Use the coupon code SSW50 at checkout to save 50%!

Monday, 15 December 2014

Happy Holidays! Have A Free Ebook

I'm headed to Tangier on Friday for a couple of weeks so this blog will probably go quiet until the new year. In the meantime, enjoy a Christmas story on me. I just published Christmas Truce, a novella in my Trench Raiders series of WWI books. It looks at how the men of Company E react during the real-life Christmas Truce of 1914, when British and German soldiers skipped the war for a day and met as friends in No Man's Land. The blurb is below.

Christmas 1914: In the cold, muddy trenches of the Western Front, there is a strange silence.
As a crack English trench raiding team enjoy their first day of peace in months, they call out holiday greetings to the men on the German line. Soon both sides are fraternizing in No Man’s Land.
But when the English recognize some enemy raiders who only a few days before launched a deadly attack on their position, can they keep the peace through the Christmas Truce?

You can get it as a free ebook on Smashwords or, if you have a spare $2.99 you not doing anything with, you can buy it on Amazon.

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