Monday 31 October 2011

New E-BHW available on Amazon.

Interestingly this week 2 of the top 4 spots in the amazon bestseller charts (see below) are Kindle titles, these being the only two E-BHWs Hale have released so far.


The latest release is The Kansas Fast Gun by Arthur Kent and it's available on amazon.co.uk and amazon.com at the competitive price of £3.19 and $5.09.

The book was released in hardback in Dec 2009, although the title itself was published originally in 1958.

Dave Frome was a man with a secret past, which only a few friends knew. Holding himself responsible for the death of his family, he had vowed never to carry a gun again. He wanted to be left alone to raise cattle on his Broken Arrow spread, but mining interests were in the hills, contaminating the water which brought life to Frome's cattle.

Hesta Le Roy, daughter of a neighbouring rancher, was horrified when Frome refused to carry a gun against the miners who had, she thought, killed her own brother. It is not until he sees an innocent man brutally lynched that Frome buckles on his gun to battle with the bad men of both factions and eventually win the hand of the girl he loves.


I'll post the links to the many E-BHWs titles that'll be appearing over the next few months when they become available to purchase.

Bestsellers on Amazon - 31 October

1. The Kansas Fast Gun by Arthur Kent (Kindle Edition - 31 Oct 2011)
Buy: £3.19

2. Trail of the Burned Man by Thomas McNulty (Hardcover - 30 Nov 2009)
From £1.24

3. Desperate Men by Corba Sunman (Hardcover - 30 Nov 2008)
From £0.01

4. The Black Horse Westerns: Collection No. 1 by Abe Dancer, Dean Edwards, Tyler Hatch and Scott Connor (Kindle Edition - 1 Jan 2011)
Buy: £6.86

5. Gun Law by Lee Walker (Hardcover - 31 Dec 2009)
From £1.37

6. Battle at Gun Barrel Canyon by Wolf Lundgren (Hardcover - 31 Aug 2011)
Buy new: £13.25

7. Comanchero Trail by Jack Dakota (Hardcover - 30 Sep 2011)
Buy new: £13.25

8. Guns of Wrath by Colin Bainbridge (Hardcover - 30 Nov 2011)
Buy new: £13.25

9. The Drummond Band by William Durey (Hardcover - 29 Jul 2011)
From £8.94

10. In the High Bitter Roots by William Durey (Hardcover - 30 Nov 2011)
Buy new: £13.25

Sunday 30 October 2011

Black Horse Westerns - October 2011


Captain Talbot's Reckoning by A. Doran Leishman

Captain Nathan Talbot lost just about everything in the late Civil War, including his self respect and his honour. But he had begun to think that his days of notoriety were over, his life in a quiet backwater unremarked until an unexpected bequest brought him to the Saville ranch, to a family in deep trouble. But they were a family who had already suffered a crippling loss because of Nathan Talbot and it seemed only a matter of time before they found out who he really was. And the closer Talbot gets to the truth about who is trying to destroy Saville, the closer he comes to his own personal reckoning.


Cut-Price Lawman by Tyler Hatch

They wanted a sheriff they could control, to run the town their way. Chris Cade seemed to fit the bill - a drifter, drunk, stupid with toothache, and broke. It was easy to pin a badge on him. However, after that it got harder. Cade has his own agenda, his own set of rules, a pair of hard fists and a fast gun. They figured they'd got him for a cut-rate, but the price they had to pay put them deep in the red - and the well-turned soil of Boot Hill.


The Shadow of Iron Eyes by Rory Black

Blinded after an accident the infamous bounty hunter known as Iron Eyes roams south aimlessly hoping his sight might return when his instinct leads him to the scene of brutal murder. Flames lick the sky as bodies burn within the confines of a small cattle ranch. As Iron Eyes dismounts and tries to learn more, he hears and feels rifle fire. Wounded, he falls, and then lies helpless as someone attempts to finish the job. What happens next leads the injured bounty hunter further south to a place where only the Devil would feel at home. A place where the law has never ventured, a place where Iron Eyes will kill anyone who stands in his way.


The Hired Ace by Clay Starmer

For seasoned gunslinger Reno Valance, trouble is a trade. It's just as well when he reaches White Falls. This place seethes, and soon mayhem reigns. With bullets flying, Reno must act. He'll take a sheriff's oath and his Remington six-gun. Add twenty years delivering the cards of death to bad men, is it enough? Murder, bank robbery and carnage - Reno must battle all. Amid all this, evil killers kidnap the woman he loves. Can Reno restore order? Can he rescue Anna May? Over two decades he's known only victory. Can he prove again that hell is in the hand of The Hired Ace?


Ghosts of Bluewater Creek by Terry James

Josh McCabe is a man hunter with one thing on his mind; to bring in Abe Lawton, the last and most vicious member of a gang who killed his wife and son. Now that time has arrived, but what Josh doesn't count on is a smart-mouthed kid out for revenge and a girl in the wrong place at the wrong time. When the showdown comes it's quick but far from decisive and leaves all three facing a new, more dangerous future.


Payback at Valley Forge by Emmett Stone

John Mitchum arrives in Sagegrease straight into a heap of trouble. Someone is stalking him. To get some answers he must ride the long trail to Black Valley and towards his own past. The race is on. Who will get there first? Mitchum must contend all the way with Turkey Joe Mulligan and his vicious gang of outlaws. But there are others with a stake in the eventual outcome: the rich owner of the Quarter Circle and the mysterious stranger Challoner. It's payback time for somebody, but who?


Fort Revenge by Ralph Hayes

When buffalo hunter O'Brien is wrongly accused of rustling by ranch hands and has to kill the rancher's son to defend himself from hanging, he thought his life had already taken a bad turn. However, within a day's ride from that violent scene, he happens upon Sarah Carter. Together they follow the dangerous road to Fort Revenge, where Sarah is due to wed Jake Latimer. It becomes clear that Latimer is not the man for Sarah, but can O'Brien save Sarah as well as dealing with his own troubles from the past...


Let the Guns Decide by Shane Archer

Death comes to Macallister in the form of a milk-drinking baby-faced killer who leaves bodies in the dust. Lone Lee Kirby rides into a town desperate for help, but the body count grows as Kirby is forced to face his own demons.

Thursday 27 October 2011

Amos Carr's new website

New Black Horse western writer Amos Carr's (AKA Gillian McDonald-Constable) website is now on-line at http://womanwholeads.webs.com/.

Gillian's first BHW The Ghosts of Poynter will be published June 2012.

Wednesday 26 October 2011

Review of The Last Mann by Hank J. Kirby


Cattle breeding is just the backbone to this story, it plays little part to the main thrust of the plot, this being a bounty placed on Jubal Mann by an unknown enemy, which leads to a number of well written violent confrontations. The pace of the book is superb, as one would expect from this author...

Read more at Western Fiction Review.

Monday 24 October 2011

Bestsellers on Amazon - 24 October

1. Desperate Men by Corba Sunman (Hardcover - 30 Nov 2008)
From £0.01

2. The Black Horse Westerns: Collection No. 1 by Abe Dancer, Dean Edwards, Tyler Hatch and Scott Connor (Kindle Edition - 1 Jan 2011)
Buy: £6.86

3. Gun Law by Lee Walker (Hardcover - 31 Dec 2009)
From £1.39

4. Battle at Gun Barrel Canyon by Wolf Lundgren (Hardcover - 31 Aug 2011)
Fom £10.27

5. Comanchero Trail by Jack Dakota (Hardcover - 30 Sep 2011)
From £9.96

6. Guns of Wrath by Colin Bainbridge (Hardcover - 30 Nov 2011)
Buy new: £13.25

7. The Drummond Band by William Durey (Hardcover - 29 Jul 2011)
From £8.95

8. In the High Bitter Roots by William Durey (Hardcover - 30 Nov 2011)
Buy new: £13.25

9. Kato's Army by D.M. Harrison (Hardcover - 31 Aug 2011)
From £11.29

10. Range War Hell by Ryan Bodie (Hardcover - 31 Aug 2011)
From £11.92

Saturday 22 October 2011

Linford Westerns - October 2011


Renegade's Legacy by Rick Dalmas

ISBN: 9781444808407
Large Print (Soft Cover) - 256 Pages
Published - 01-10-2011
Genre - Western
Price - £ 8.99

The mystery man rode into town the day that they buried Big Al McCord. Some people suspected he was 'Dan McCord', a runaway kid returning after twenty years - and out for vengeance. His arrival shook the townsfolk, bringing turmoil and gunsmoke to the rangeland, panicking the corrupt officials and folk with a bad conscience. But he had his own agenda - and when they found out what it was, that part of Dakota would never be the same again.


A Coffin For Santa Rosa by Steve Hayes

ISBN: 9781444808414
Large Print (Soft Cover) - 320 Pages
Published - 01-10-2011
Genre - Western
Price - £ 8.99

Outlaw Gabriel Moonlight makes a promise to a dying friend. Ingrid Bjorkman wants him to bury her beside her late husband in Santa Rosa. However, she wants a Pinkerton to escort her coffin to Santa Rosa: the hanging rope awaits Gabriel in New Mexico. Forced by his love for her though, he takes on the whole sad task of her burial himself, accompanied by Ingrid's daughter, Raven. But Gabriel, living in the shadow of the rope, also faces betrayal...


Long Blows The North Wind by Owen G. Irons

ISBN: 9781444808421
Large Print (Soft Cover) - 256 Pages
Published - 01-10-2011
Genre - Western
Price - £ 8.99

Brian McCulloch's only friend and partner is gunned down by Jason Grier and his prowling gang. They had set upon the pair, hoping to steal a cartload of valuable furs. Brian, wanting to avenge his friend and to prove himself a man, needs to track down Grier...but the trail is long and cold, and the storms he must pass through are more violent than he could have ever expected.



The Vengeance Trail by J.D. Kincaid

ISBN: 9781444808438
Large Print (Soft Cover) - 224 Pages
Published - 01-10-2011
Genre - Western
Price - £ 8.99

After saloon girl Kitty O'Hara shoots Billy Tranter in self-defence, she flees town and heads north out of Texas. Billy's brother, Texas Ranger Captain Johnnie Tranter, pursues Kitty - and he wants revenge for Billy's death. Johnnie's plans are thwarted, however, when Wolf Brennan's gang hold up Kitty's stagecoach and she escapes with the outlaws. Meanwhile, the famous Kentuckian gunfighter, Jack Stone, is on the case, and they don't come tougher or deadlier than Jack Stone.


Hell In The Mesquites by Daniel Rockfern

ISBN: 9781444808445
Large Print (Soft Cover) - 352 Pages
Published - 01-10-2011
Genre - Western
Price - £ 8.99

The name he gives is Green. Seemingly, just another drifting puncher. But you look again...and notice the whipcord frame - eyes that can change to icy menace in seconds. You'll see the matched Colts in the tied-down holsters, their butts smooth with use. Capable, and perhaps dangerous, you would be glad to have him on your side. He looks like a man who would know what to do in a tight spot and do it in a flash.


The Hunting Of Lope Gamboa by Jack Sheriff

ISBN: 9781444808452
Large Print (Soft Cover) - 240 Pages
Published - 01-10-2011
Genre - Western
Price - £ 8.99

Texas Rangers Frank Carson and Eddie Brand have been unsuccessfully hunting outlaw Lope Gamboa for some time, but their luck seems to change when they ride into Yuma. A consignment of US gold is to be transported along the Oxbow Route by Conestoga wagon and the Rangers are convinced that Gamboa will attempt to steal the precious metal. As all factions close in on the lumbering Conestoga wagon, the trail leads inexorably to the Gila desert...and a bloody climax.

Wednesday 19 October 2011

Review of Siege at Hope Wells by Scott Connor


Scott Connor creates a wonderful air of fear throughout this book, a terror that sees even the toughest of men and women fear for their lives. How to fight a water born disease becomes a battle over the need for fresh water. As the reader gets further into the story it seems someone wants this plague to carry on and is helping it to do so, but who, and why...?

Read more at Western Fiction Review.

Monday 17 October 2011

Bestsellers on Amazon - 17 October

1. The Black Horse Westerns: Collection No. 1 by Abe Dancer, Dean Edwards, Tyler Hatch and Scott Connor (Kindle Edition - 1 Jan 2011)
Buy: £6.86

2. Gun Law by Lee Walker (Hardcover - 31 Dec 2009)
From £1.41

3. Battle at Gun Barrel Canyon by Wolf Lundgren (Hardcover - 31 Aug 2011)
From £11.33

4. Comanchero Trail by Jack Dakota (Hardcover - 30 Sep 2011)
From £12.28

5. Guns of Wrath by Colin Bainbridge (Hardcover - 30 Nov 2011)
Buy new: £13.25

6. The Drummond Band by William Durey (Hardcover - 29 Jul 2011)
From £8.98

7. In the High Bitter Roots by William Durey (Hardcover - 30 Nov 2011)
Buy new: £13.25

8. Kato's Army by D.M. Harrison (Hardcover - 31 Aug 2011)
From £11.37

9. Range War Hell by Ryan Bodie (Hardcover - 31 Aug 2011)
From £11.93

10. Hell Stage to Lone Pine by Jack Dakota (Hardcover - 31 Jan 2012)
Buy new: £13.25

Sunday 16 October 2011

Dales Westerns - October 2011


Pecos Trail by Mace Edwards

ISBN: 9781842628164
Large Print (Soft Cover) - 192 Pages
Published - 01-10-2011
Genre - Western
Price - £ 11.99

Jim Hooper's peaceful life in his 'hideaway' overlooking the Rio Grande is shattered when Fernandez Diaz's brother is killed and the Mexican bandit, by kidnapping Jim's wife, forcing him to hunt the killers. Jim finds himself on the trail of three men who had sworn to kill him for arresting them for a bank robbery three years ago when he was Sheriff of Rosewell County. But Jim's task is only part completed when he catches up with them for now, to save his wife, he must deliver them alive to Diaz.


Robbery At Glenrock by Lance Ellison

ISBN: 9781842628195
Large Print (Soft Cover) - 208 Pages
Published - 01-10-2011
Genre - Western
Price - £ 11.99

After serving two years of a prison sentence for armed robbery Red Collins is terrified when he is sent to the dreaded Rock Springs gaol from which few men return. But en route he is captured by four mysterious men and taken to landowner, Matt Palmer who needs the services of an expert dynamite man - Red's brother Wes - who has now gone straight. Determined not to be sent back to Rock Springs, Red agrees to find his brother. But when Red murders the judge who sent him to the Penitentiary, Wes faces a tough fight to escape unscathed.

Friday 14 October 2011

Review of The Way Station by Owen G. Irons


June 2009 saw the publication of an Owen G. Irons book called The Outpost. That book ended with a question mark over the future of two of its leading characters. The Way Station picks that story up and answers that question and once more Cameron Black and Virginia find themselves fighting to stay alive...

Read more at Western Fiction Review.

Tuesday 11 October 2011

An extract from Ghosts of Bluewater Creek by Terry James


CHAPTER 1

Josh McCabe pushed open the door of the sheriff’s office and dropped the burden from his shoulder. It made a dead, heavy sound as it hit the rough boards and around the room everything from the glass in the windows to the gun rack on the wall rattled. Only the sheriff, a big sweat stained man with a long moustache and a flabby paunch seemed undisturbed by the commotion. If it hadn’t been for the gentle rustle of the newspaper as he turned to the next page, a casual observer might have thought the man with his feet up on the desk was asleep on the job.

But Josh didn’t underestimate anyone.

‘Sorry,’ he said, closing the door gently before helping himself to a cup of hot coffee from a pot on the stove.

With a sigh, the sheriff finally looked up. Removing his glasses, he folded the wire arms flat before slipping them into his shirt pocket. Then he kicked his feet to the ground and peered over his desk at the body on the floor before giving Josh a full head to toe once over.

‘I could probably arrest you for that,’ he said, without a hint of humour.

Josh chuckled and tossed a folded piece of paper onto the lawman’s desk. ‘John Travis. The dodger says dead or alive. I thought I’d save you some time and the town the expense of keeping him while you wait for a judge to come through and hang him.’

The sheriff grunted, digging a toe into the corpse as he passed to refill his coffee cup. ‘I was talking about you making a Goddamn mess on my floor.’

Josh nodded, his initial good humour fading under the sheriff’s continuing apathy. ‘Of course you were. The poster says $500. I’m in a hurry. Have you got the money in the safe?’

‘Five hundred?’

‘It says it there in black and white.’ Josh pointed to the untouched dodger.

‘What did he do; steal candy from a five year old?’

The sheriff’s contempt continued to erode Josh’s temper. ‘He killed his family then rode into town spraying bullets and killed another five people before high-tailing it with the banker’s daughter,’ he reported without emotion.

They stood a moment or two in silence while the sheriff inspected the wanted poster and Josh stared at the corpse. He had been a boy, only sixteen, the peach fuzz on his chin confirming his tender years. Even with the cuts and bruises Josh’s fists had inflicted, in death his face took on an angelic innocence that belied the evil inside.

‘Did you find the girl?’

‘Nope. I don’t think I would have wanted to.’

The sheriff seemed curious as he glanced sideways and narrowed his eyes at Josh, but if he had intended to probe further, something changed his mind and Josh was glad of it. If Travis’s dying confession was true...

Josh’s anger flared as he wished he could kill the twisted son-of-a-bitch again.

The stove hissed as he tossed the dregs of his cup into its belly. ‘About that reward money...’

The sheriff pursed his lips and inflated his chest, working up to something. Josh had a pretty good idea what. He had been stonewalled more than once by a lawman who didn’t like bounty hunters and resented paying out more than his own yearly wage to someone he considered no more than a saddle tramp with a gun.

Before he could attempt a refusal, Josh pointed to a wanted poster pinned to the notice board behind the sheriff’s desk. ‘I heard a rumour Abe Lawton’s headed this way. Some bummer saw him in Bluewater a couple of weeks ago. The guy said he was tearing down the town: drinking, beating and killing men, raping women.’

‘Bluewater? That’s less than fifty miles away from here. Do you reckon he’s headed this way?’

‘He could be.’

‘Is that why you’re in a hurry to get out of town?’ The sheriff’s comment dripped with scorn.

‘I was more thinking about you. I wouldn’t want to get in your way when you make your play.’

The sheriff’s jowls wobbled as he gulped. He obviously hadn’t thought about his own involvement and now Josh mentioned it, he didn’t like the prospect.

‘Do you fancy your chances trying to bring him in?’ the lawman asked, sounding more desperate than conversational.

‘I always like to finish a job when I start it.’

Josh’s remark made the sheriff turn and scrutinize him, his brow furrowing before his eyes widened. The news seemed to light a fuse under the apathetic sheriff and he rattled the keys on his belt as he almost tripped over the corpse in his haste to get to the safe. His fingers fairly shook as he pulled out a stack of bills and counted off $500 into Josh’s rock steady hand.

‘You’re him, aren’t you?’ he said, shoving the remainder in the safe and locking the door. He handed Josh a receipt slip, waited for him to sign it using a pen from the desk, then stared at the neat signature. ‘I knew I was right. You’re that bounty hunter who brought in the other four Lawtons. Well, Mr McCabe, I can’t say I like what your kind does but you...you’ve got my respect for that at least.’

Josh headed for the door, barely able to contain a smirk of satisfaction. True he’d been trying to put the fear of God—or the Devil into the sheriff, but it didn’t hurt to have smoke blown up your ass now and again. It beat the alternative. But he didn’t have time for chit chat and definitely couldn’t force himself to trade empty niceties with an official who had probably been elected by default and would probably look the other way if trouble did make an appearance in his town. Besides, if Abe Lawton was nearby, Josh didn’t want to miss the son-of-a-bitch again.

‘I’m keeping his horse,’ Josh said, nodding towards Travis. ‘Have you got a problem with that, Sheriff?’

‘No, sir, anything that takes you closer to keeping Abe Lawton away from this town is fine by me. Do you think you’ll be able to? Stop him before he gets here, I mean.’

Josh grunted, leaving the lazy old man in no doubt about his disdain for him. Looking somewhat put out, but now too nervous even for caustic sarcasm, the lawman shook his head as he pulled out his spectacles and returned to his desk. ‘On your way to the livery stables, ask the undertaker to come over and collect this body, will you?’

Josh stepped outside, bracing himself against an onslaught of lashing rain. Deliberately, he left the door open, noting the puddle that quickly spread inside. ‘Ask him yourself,’ he called over his shoulder as he collected the horses from the hitch rail before heading back along the street.

Book now available from Amazon.

Monday 10 October 2011

Bestsellers on Amazon - 10 October

1. Battle at Gun Barrel Canyon by Wolf Lundgren (31 Aug 2011)
From £11.33

2. The Drummond Band by William Durey (29 Jul 2011)
From £8.99

3. In the High Bitter Roots by William Durey (30 Nov 2011)
Buy £13.25

4. The Black Horse Westerns: Collection No. 1 by Abe Dancer, Dean Edwards, Tyler Hatch and Scott Connor (1 Jan 2011) - Kindle eBook
Buy £6.86

5. Comanchero Trail by Jack Dakota (30 Sep 2011)
From £13.25

6. Guns of Wrath by Colin Bainbridge (30 Nov 2011)
Buy £13.25

7. Kato's Army by D.M. Harrison (31 Aug 2011)
From £11.42

8. Range War Hell by Ryan Bodie (31 Aug 2011)
From £11.93

9. Hell Stage to Lone Pine by Jack Dakota (31 Jan 2012)
Buy £13.25

10. Riders from Hell by Lee Lejeune (30 May 2008)
From £0.01

Saturday 8 October 2011

Black Horse writer pens new Lone Ranger adventure


More details about Howard Hopkins' (aka Lance Howard) new novel on Amazon.

Thursday 6 October 2011

Review of Doomsday Mesa by Chap O'Keefe


Chap O’Keefe has created an excellent set of characters for this book, from tough, hard men to equally as strong women. All out to get what they want whatever the cost. As expected from a Chap O’Keefe book nothing is quite what it seems. As the story develops so do the schemes and doubt is thrown on the identities of some of the characters – are they who they say they are...?

Read more at Western Fiction Review.

Monday 3 October 2011

Bestsellers on Amazon.com - 3 October

The US Amazon site this week.

1. The Black Horse Westerns: Collection No. 1 by Abe Dancer, Dean Edwards, Tyler Hatch and Scott Connor (Jan 1, 2011) - Kindle eBook
Buy new $10.90

2. Shotgun Messenger by Colin Bainbridge (Jun 30, 2011)
From $20.85

3. The Predators. Owen G. Irons by Owen G. Irons (May 2011)
From $21.17

4. Showdown at Snakebite Creek by Thomas McNulty (Jul 29, 2011)
From $21.22

5. A Bullet for Ben McCabe by Peter W. Wilson (Jun 4, 2010)
From $20.99

6. Wind Rider (Black Horse Western) by Thomas McNulty (May 6, 2010)
From $5.70

7. Trail of the Burned Man by Thomas McNulty (Feb 1, 2010)
From $16.98

8. The Black Mountain Dutchman by Steve Ritchie (Jan 1, 2011)
From $18.24

9. The Raiders by Greg Mitchell (Feb 1, 2010)
From $14.74

10. Arkansas Smith by Jack Martin (Apr 13, 2010)
From $13.80