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Showing posts with label Civil War novels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Civil War novels. Show all posts
Saturday, April 18, 2015

A new Civil War horror novel, and a bargain on an old one!

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I've just released my latest Civil War horror novel, The River of Desperation . It's the sequel to A Fine Likeness . While the fi...
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Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Spirits of St. Louis Anthology out now!

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Missouri publisher Rocking Horse Publishing has just come out with Spirits of St. Louis , an anthology of ghost stories set in Missouri. ...
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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Helping out with National Novel Writing Month

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I've started a thread on the National Novel Writing Month website for writing a Civil War novel during NaNoWriMo . If you're wri...
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Thursday, October 24, 2013

Finished my next novel!

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Whew! I just finished the sequel to A Fine Likeness , tentatively called The River of Despair and the next in the House Divided series of C...
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Thursday, October 17, 2013

Broke the 100,000 word mark on my next novel!

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Yesterday I broke the 100,000 word mark on my next Civil War horror novel, tentatively titled The River of Despair . I think I have about ...
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013

The end is in sight for my next Civil War horror novel!

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As I mentioned in a previous post , I've been forging ahead with the sequel to A Fine Likeness . I had more than 60% done, had the endin...
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Thursday, October 3, 2013

Forging ahead with my next Civil War novel

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As I've mentioned before, I've been working on a sequel to my Civil War horror novel A Fine Likeness . I took a hiatus from writing ...
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Saturday, September 21, 2013

I got a short story accepted!

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I recently signed a contract with Rocking Horse Publishing , a Missouri-based small press, for one of my short stories to appear in an antho...
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Friday, September 6, 2013

Civil War Photo Friday: An 1864 Silver Dollar

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When I was writing my Civil War novel A Fine Likeness , I had a scene where the protagonist pulls a silver dollar out of his pocket. Then...
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Friday, January 25, 2013

Interview with men's adventure author Hank Brown

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Today we're chatting with action author Hank Brown , who is doing a blog tour for his most recent release, Tier Zero . Hank has come o...
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

A good book review and a strange one

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Last week my Civil War novel A Fine Likeness received to more reviews. A new four-star review on the novel's Goodreads page says th...
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Saturday, January 5, 2013

A Fine Likeness named "Favorite novel of 2012"!

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It's always nice to receive acclamation from a fellow writer, especially one as talented as G.R. Yeates . On his blog he did a roundup o...
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Thursday, January 3, 2013

My Writing Year: A Look Back and a Look Forward

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It's a new year, the traditional time to take stock of what you've done and what you're planning on doing. Yes, it's compl...
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Sunday, December 9, 2012

A fine review for A Fine Likeness

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My Civil War novel A Fine Likeness has garnered another five-star review. Under the title, "A rip-snorting historical horror story...
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Thursday, November 29, 2012

I'm giving away two copies of my Civil War novel!

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Goodreads Book Giveaway A Fine Likeness by Sean McLachlan Giveaway ends Dec...
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Sunday, November 4, 2012

Iraq Victory Lap: my fiction is on sale!

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For the month of November I've reduced the prices on my ebooks. My Civil War novel A Fine Likeness is reduced to $2.99 and my short s...
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Guest blogging about Weaving Military History Into Fiction over at Osprey Publishing

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My military history publisher Osprey Publishing has been kind enough to let me do a guest post about Weaving Military History Into Fiction ....
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Thursday, September 13, 2012

Rewriting a battle scene

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I got back into the next novel of the House Divided series, of which A Fine Likeness was the first. As I mentioned before, travel and a n...
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Thursday, August 30, 2012

It's the penultimate day of my birthday sale!

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I celebrated my 43rd birthday on August 16 and to celebrate, I dropped the prices of my ebooks for the rest of the month. My Civil War nov...
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Thursday, August 16, 2012

Birthday sales and the Battle of Lone Jack!

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Today is my birthday. Yes, this grizzled old writer has turned 43. To celebrate, I'm dropping the prices of my ebooks for the rest of th...
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