Wednesday 31 October 2012

Black Horse Westerns - October 2012



A Necktire for Gifford by Ethan Flagg

The bounty hunter known as 'Montero' learns that his brother is to be hanged for murder in the New Mexico town of Alamagordo. A single clue left by the dead man - the two letters 'MA' - ensures that a guilty verdict is inevitable. The two brothers had parted some years before under hostile circumstances, but Montero is convinced that Mace Gifford would never shoot a man in the back. He plans an ingenious escape, but saving his brother's neck is only the beginning. He has to find the real killer. And to make matters worse, a notorious Mexican outlaw has escaped and is hell-bent on taking revenge on the bounty hunter who caught him: Montero...


Trooper Dalton by Ed Law

After getting involved in a saloon-room brawl in Fort Lord, Dalton is arrested. His situation worsens when an unsympathetic judge sentences him to a year in jail unless he takes the alternative of signing up with the Plains Cavalry. Dalton reckons that anything will be better than breaking rocks, but when he joins Company H - known as Company Hell - he soon regrets his decision. The troopers are a motley collection of prisoners recruited from jailhouses, or gunslingers running from arrest warrants. As his fellow troopers are more determined to destroy the peace than to keep it, Dalton will need all his survival skills to serve out his term and all his ingenuity to defeat their plans.


Crazy Man Cade by Amos Carr

'Crazy Man Cade' has done it all. Foiled a stagecoach robbery, stopped a vicious beating of an elderly man, and halted the kidnapping of a pretty young girl from a crooked sheriff and his gang. But his life is changed forever when an Arapaho brave walks out of the trees and into his camp to tell him that Cade's oldest friend, Bear, the trapper, is dying. A perilous journey and a bloody battle with a gang of thugs delay their progress but earn Cade the respect of the Indians and they reach Bear in time to get him some help. Knowing that he would never be able to settle, will Cade deny his attraction to one of the Indian girls and ride away from his old friend and the possibility of a new life?


The Man from Cheyenne by Jack Edwardes

The last man to wear a sheriff's badge had finally been driven out of Jackson Creek. Jake Pierce was aiming higher than the profits from his Silver Lode saloon and, backed by a group of vicious gunfighters, he was planning to take over the town. So when Clay Harding rides from Cheyenne to bring back the rule of law he is sucked into a whirlpool of killing and the lure of gold. Knowing that he might never get back to Cheyenne he could console himself with one thought: with his faithful Colt in his hand he might just shoot his way out of trouble...



Double Cross Trail Drive Chet Cunningham

The journey begins as an ordinary trail drive from Texas to the railroad in Kansas. But it soon turns strange - and then deadly - as the camp-fire becomes a shooting target and rustlers try to steal the whole herd of steers. The crew beats them off and completes the drive, but back at the ranch in Texas the violence continues. The ranch owner seems to have become a sitting target and there are rumblings that the owner's son and his sister's husband do not get along. Whoever is out to ruin the ranch and kill the owner must be discovered, especially as a final deadly cattle stampede threatens to settle the matter once and for all...


Wild Bill Williams by Jack Martin

Official records show that some 80,000 Welshmen made their home in the place now known as the Wild West, though the true figure is likely to have been much higher. This is the story of one of those men. William Williams, otherwise known as Wild Bill Williams, is no stranger to trouble. It seems to follow him like a shadow. But even as a survivor of the Little Big Horn, as he claims, he has never before had to face the kind of trouble that he finds in the town of Stanton. When the bullets start to fly and the blood begins to run, Wild Bill is never far behind -


Judgement Trail by Rob Hill

At the outbreak of Civil War, regiments stationed along the Oregon Trail are posted back East to fight for the Union. Hastily assembled militia units seize control of the trail forts and wagon-trains are left vulnerable to exploitation and attack. Halted with a broken axle, westbound pioneers Eve Maddison and Wesley Jackson encounter a mysterious frontiersman known simply as 'Stranger'. They also run up against the vicious Viperine brothers, in charge of a local militia and plotting to extort money from the stranded pioneers. Stranger insists that everyone is judged by their actions on the trail. His philosophy of courage and self-reliance inspires Eve and Wesley to make a stand against the Viperines - and face up to some difficult truths...


Duel of Shadows by Billy Hall

Eli Lowenstein has been murdered, and Sam Murray wasn't the man who took his life. But when the accusers threaten to look in his saddle-bags he remembers the strange noises he heard that morning, and the talk of the planted evidence that had condemned Ephraim Harris to an untimely lynching. If the evidence is in his saddle-bags, he's sure it can only have been planted by Gar Newberry and he's also sure that if they find anything he'll swing from the end of a rope, just like old Ephraim. And there's no way Sam Murray is going to sit back and let them slip that noose over his head...

Monday 29 October 2012

Bestsellers on Amazon.co.uk - 29 October

1. The Black Horse Westerns by Abe Dancer, Dean Edwards, Tyler Hatch and Scott Connor (1 Jan 2011)

Kindle Edition Available for download now £6.71

2. A Coffin for Santa Rosa (Black Horse Western) by Steve Hayes (30 Sep 2012)

Kindle Edition Available for download now £2.74

3. Savage's Quest (Black Horse Western) by Sydney J Bounds (30 Sep 2012)

Kindle Edition Available for download now £2.74

4. Wild Bill Williams (Black Horse Western) by Jack Martin (31 Oct 2012)

Hardcover  £12.38

5. Longhorn Country (Black Horse Western) by Tyler Hatch (31 Jul 2012)

Kindle Edition Available for download now £3.43

6. The Goose Moon (Black Horse Western) by Caleb Rand (31 Jul 2012)

Kindle Edition Available for download now £3.43

7. Ghost Ranch (Black Horse Western) by C.J. Sommers (30 Sep 2011)

Hardcover £7.94

8. Beyond Redemption (Black Horse Western) by I. J. Parnham (31 Aug 2012)

Hardcover £4.99

9. All Guns Blazing by Doug Thorne (30 Dec 2011)

Kindle Edition Available for download now £3.43

10. Arkansas Smith (Black Horse Western) by Jack Martin (30 Apr 2012)

Kindle Edition Available for download now £2.74

Saturday 27 October 2012

Amos Carr's new blog



I am a writer of Western novels, but am also working on a contemporary Romance at present, (hence blog title).

My Westerns are written under the pen name of 'Amos Carr' (an amalgam of two great-great grandparents) although my real name, is Jill McDonald-Constable. I am one of only four women in the U.K, who write Westerns for Robert Hale, under the imprint of 'Black Horse Westerns'.

I also have a website you can visit, which carries 'blurbs' and excerpts of my published works, and works in progress. Go to www.womanwholeads.webs.com

Sounds like a strange title, but there is a reason. I tell you that reason on my site.

As this is my first page, I'm not really sure just what to put on, I need to do a bit more research on other blogs, to give you something exciting to read. I'm really looking forward to chatting to some of you, and talking about my work, and that of other authors, and craft workers, as I also create hand crafted cards, charted cross stitch pictures, gift boxes, and other craft items.  

Read more at Bullets and Hearts

Wednesday 24 October 2012

Linford Westerns - October 2012


Ghost Riders at Shotgun Bluffs by Robert Anderson

ISBN: 9781444812725
Large Print (Soft Cover) - 224 Pages
Published - 01-10-2012
Genre - Western
Price - £ 8.99

Zak Carter was a boy when the Ghost Riders arrived on the bluffs, shot down his parents and hustled him out at gunpoint. Now he's returned for his inheritance. Zak starts romancing the lovely Sarah Jo, who has also caught the eye of the renegade gang's sadistic leader. When she is kidnapped, Zak promptly straps on his gun and sets out to find her. Now he must break the outlaws' grip on the town...or die in the attempt.
 
 
Showdown At Dirt Crossing by Jack Dakota

ISBN: 9781444812749
Large Print (Soft Cover) - 240 Pages
Published - 01-10-2012
Genre - Western
Price - £ 8.99

Hal Kramer rides into Dirt Crossing to discover that things have changed drastically. Why is the saloon closed down? And what's behind the mysterious tracks in the snow? Aided by one old-timer and his wife, Kramer takes on local despot Zebulon King and his ruthless gang. But faced with overwhelming odds, can he help a group of outcasts taking refuge in the high mountains, as well as the town itself? Who will help him in the final showdown?


Valley Of The Guns by Rick Dalmas 

ISBN: 9781444812756
Large Print (Soft Cover) - 248 Pages
Published - 01-10-2012
Genre - Western
Price - £ 8.99

Zack Clay is looking for a quiet life, but he hasn't reckoned on range-grabbers Dutch Haas and Burt Helidon bringing in sundry gunfighters to hassle him. Clay meets fists and boots with the same, gunsmoke with gunsmoke. In the end, they hang a badge on him. Then things really hot up in Benbow. But the hustlers, gunslingers, the wild trail-men and townsmen who put dollars before citizens all find that stubborn Zack Clay won't go down without a fight...


Violent Men by Corba Sunman

ISBN: 9781444812770
Large Print (Soft Cover) - 272 Pages
Published - 01-10-2012
Genre - Western
Price - £ 8.99

Hilt's fury comes from frustration. A nasty leg wound prevents him from resuming his hunt for the outlaw Buck Dunne. With his pursuit for the killer interrupted, Dunne will be long gone before Hilt can get his hands on him. But whilst Hilt believes that all the trouble in the county is over, unbeknownst to him, there are more rotten apples in the barrel with big trouble still imminent. A gun-crackling showdown with Buck Dunne is surely looming...

 
The Secret Of Devil's Canyon by I.J. Parnham

ISBN: 9781444812763
Large Print (Soft Cover) - 240 Pages
Published - 01-10-2012
Genre - Western
Price - £ 8.99

When Mayor Maxwell and his daughter are brutally murdered, feelings in Bear Creek run high. And when the killer is caught and sentenced to life in prison, the townsfolk demand a lynching. So Sheriff Bryce calls in Nathaniel McBain to spirit the killer away through Devil's Canyon to Beaver Ridge jail. Nathaniel, just one step ahead of the pursuing mob, loses ground, then realizes that he's facing an even bigger problem: his prisoner may be innocent after all...


The Skull Of Iron Eyes by Rory Black

ISBN: 9781444812732
Large Print (Soft Cover) - 216 Pages
Published - 01-10-2012
Genre - Western
Price - £ 8.99

In a remote valley, led by Will Hayes, six miners strike pay dirt. A fortune in golden nuggets is hidden in the dense landscape. The only obstacle to prevent their taking it back to civilization is a small, isolated tribe of natives, but Hayes has a dastardly plan... However, after they ruthlessly kill a child, her body is found by the infamous bounty hunter Iron Eyes. And he vows to discover who killed her - and see justice done...

Monday 22 October 2012

Bestsellers - Amazon.com - 22 October

1. Two-Gun Trouble by Gillian F. Taylor (Feb 29, 2012)

Kindle Edition Auto-delivered wirelessly $4.40

2. Darrow's Badge (Black Horse Western) by Gillian F Taylor (Jul 31, 2012)

Kindle Edition Auto-delivered wirelessly $4.42

3. Gone to Texas (Black Horse Western) by J. D. Ryder (May 6, 2010)

Hardcover  $3.10

4. Tennesssee Renegade (Black Horse Western) by Hank J. Kirby (Jul 31, 2012)

Kindle Edition Auto-delivered wirelessly $5.53
5. Gun Law of Phoenix Cline (Black Horse Western) by Terrell L. Bowers (Dec 1, 2011)

Hardcover  $15.61

6. Blood of Iron Eyes by Rory Black (Feb 29, 2012)

Kindle Edition Auto-delivered wirelessly $5.51

7. Trail of the Burned Man (Black Horse Western) by Thomas McNulty (Feb 1, 2010)

Hardcover $7.64

8. Wind Rider (Black Horse Western) by Thomas McNulty (May 6, 2010)

Hardcover  $0.02

9. Arkansas Smith (Black Horse Western) by Jack Martin (Apr 13, 2010)

Hardcover $0.01

10. The Black Mountain Dutchman (Black Horse Western) by Steve Ritchie (Jan 1, 2011)
Hardcover $14.22

Friday 19 October 2012

Review of Domingo's Trail by Greg Mitchell


This book doesn’t really have a standout hero or heroine figure as Greg Mitchell tells his story from the viewpoint of various characters in the ransom parties, none of whom seem able to completely trust each other, these mistrusts becoming stronger when the two parties team up to fight a common enemy...


Read more at Western Fiction Review

Wednesday 17 October 2012

Dales Westerns - October 2012


Adam Gann, Outlaw by Ray Hogan 

ISBN: 9781842629062
Large Print (Soft Cover) - 180 Pages
Published - 01-10-2012
Genre - Western
Price - £ 15.99

Cowhand Adam Gann had accidentally killed the friend of circuit judge and then found himself sentenced to Yuma prison. On the way to Yuma, Apaches attack and Gann escaped,joining a wagon train heading out of Arizona territory. Trouble has followed him, however, and outlaws attack the wagon train. Gann can run no further. He must stand and fight, for himself, for his new friends, and for one person in particular - a pretty young woman named Sharon McLeod.



The One-Way Trail by Max Brand
ISBN: 9781842629048
Large Print (Soft Cover) - 338 Pages
Published - 01-10-2012
Genre - Western
Price - £ 15.99

This is an original collection of three short stories. The One-Way Trail finds two men meeting on a trail in the mountains. The trail is so narrow that neither man's horse can be turned around, so the two men must determine which is to be pushed aside to certain death. Forgotten Treasure shows what can happen when an ancient Kentucky feud is moved to the open wilds of the West. And The Man Who Forgot is a powerful story of two escaped prisoners hiding in the mountains who discover that they are in love with the same woman.

Tuesday 16 October 2012

New author website for D.M. Harrison



I write about the Wild West.

The cowboys were larger than life characters living in a splendid backdrop of snowcapped mountains and endless prairies.

A spectacular stage for real folk heroes.

There was a beauty and grandeur waiting for those brave, or foolish enough to cross from east to west of America. But it was a tough land only to be conquered by those not afraid of hard work and willing to shape a new life for themselves.

Although the pioneers of the Western frontier forged new boundaries, the Indian Nations were displaced. It heralded a battle only one side would win.

Men led the way in pursuit of gold but the women followed. They took a large part in the making of the West.

The Western genre covers a short period from the gold rush of 1849 through to the time the West was tamed in the late 1800’s.

A short, but action packed time in history.

Read more at http://dmharrison.com/dmharrison.com/Welcome.html

Monday 15 October 2012

Bestsellers on Amazon.co.uk - 15 October

1. Crazy Man Cade (Black Horse Western) by Amos Carr (31 Oct 2012)

Hardcover £12.38

2. Arkansas Smith (Black Horse Western) by Jack Martin (30 Apr 2012)

Kindle Edition - Available for download now £2.74

3. Longhorn Country (Black Horse Western) by Tyler Hatch (31 Jul 2012)

Kindle Edition - Available for download now £3.43

4. Blood Gold (Black Horse Western) by Scott Connor (31 Jul 2012)

Kindle Edition - Available for download now £2.74

5. The Black Horse Westerns by Abe Dancer, Dean Edwards, Tyler Hatch and Scott Connor (1 Jan 2011)

Kindle Edition - Available for download now £6.71

6. Savage's Quest (Black Horse Western) by Sydney J Bounds (30 Sep 2012)

Kindle Edition - Available for download now £2.74

7. The Ballad of Delta Rose (Black Horse Western) by Jack Martin (29 Jul 2011)

Hardcover £9.11 

8. Wild Bill Williams (Black Horse Western) by Jack Martin (31 Oct 2012)

Hardcover £12.38

9. A Thunder of Guns (Black Horse Western) by Clay Starmer (1 Apr 2013)

Hardcover - Available for pre-order £13.75

10. Hell Come Calling (Black Horse Western) by Josh Lockwood (30 Dec 2012)

Hardcover - Available for pre-order £12.38

Thursday 11 October 2012

Review of High Noon in Snake Ridge


Filled with twists and turns this book has plenty of intrigue and suspense that will keep anyone glued to the pages. Who’s the mysterious gunman? Who killed Matthew’s brother? Will his father ever speak to him, let along welcome him back into the family? Will the townsfolk accept an ex-jailbird as a lawman...?

Read more at Western Fiction Review

Tuesday 9 October 2012

Gillian F. Taylor to publish Blakes 7 story

My hazy mix of profic and fanfic takes another twist. Like not a few writers, I started with fan fiction, writing Blakes 7 stories back in about 1980. No one else ever saw those, and for a good reason. Still, we all have to start somewhere.


After watching 'Young Guns', I wondered what the three surviving characters did next, and so wrote their story. My first grown-up full-length novel was effectively fanfic. I knew it couldn't be published as so obviously Young Guns inpsired, so I made some changes (filed off the serial numbers, in fan terms) and submitted it to Robert Hale. It was too long, but they were encouraging, so I kept the central characters and wrote a new story which became my first published book, 'Rocking W'...

Read more at http://san-valentine.livejournal.com/148290.html

Monday 8 October 2012

Bestsellers on Amazon.co.uk - 8 October

1. The Ballad of Delta Rose (Black Horse Western) by Jack Martin (29 Jul 2011)

Hardcover £9.12

2. Longhorn Country (Black Horse Western) by Tyler Hatch (31 Jul 2012)

Kindle Available for download now £3.43

3. Hell Come Calling (Black Horse Western) by Josh Lockwood (30 Dec 2012)

Hardcover Available for pre-order. £12.38

4. A Thunder of Guns (Black Horse Western) by Clay Starmer (1 Apr 2013)

Hardcover Available for pre-order. £13.75

5. Gunrage at Calder Wells by Robert J. Evers (30 Sep 2012)

Kindle Available for download now £2.74

6. Wild Bill Williams (Black Horse Western) by Jack Martin (31 Oct 2012)

Hardcover Available for pre-order. £12.38

7. Ghost Ranch (Black Horse Western) by C.J. Sommers (30 Sep 2011)

Hardcover £8.94

8. The Black Horse Westerns by Abe Dancer, Dean Edwards, Tyler Hatch and Scott Connor (1 Jan 2011)

Kindle Available for download now £6.86

9. Crazy Man Cade (Black Horse Western) by Amos Carr (31 Oct 2012)

Hardcover Available for pre-order £12.38

10. High Gun at Surlock by Terrell Bowers (29 Feb 2012)

Kindle Available for download now £2.74

Sunday 7 October 2012

Review of Johnny Dollar by Tony Masero


Tony Masero has created an excellent hero in Johnny Dollar. A man whose legend comes about through untrue tales about his activities, giving him an unwanted notoriety and even when Johnny thinks he may be escaping those myths someone manages to spill those untruths again and Johnny’s life takes a turn for the worse...

Read more at Western Fiction Review

Tuesday 2 October 2012

Black Horse Westerns - September 2012



Domingo's Trail by Greg Mitchell

Vicious Mexican bandit, Estrada, is holding an American to ransom in the Sabinas Valley and has arranged for two different expeditions to come and shower him with gold in return for a safe release. But vengeful Apaches appear and also a mysterious Mexican, named Domingo, who warns that the captive is dead and that Estrada means to slaughter them all. With the combined ransom parties now joined in their mission, they are ready for bloody battle with both Indians and bandits. Can Domingo's advice be trusted? And will all who follow his perilous trail survive?



Kill Slaughter by Henry Remington

When a California train is robbed of $30,000, and two Pinkerton detectives killed, bounty hunter James Slaughter rides to investigate. But a cloud of fear hangs over the railroad town of Visalia and even the judge is running scared.


Choking Gap by John Joseph McGraw

Luther Hayes, brutal boss of a gang of jayhawkers, is plenty sore at Daco Ward for giving the evidence that put him behind bars for thirty years. When he is sprung from jail he goes looking for Daco, to settle the score, but failing to find him, Daco's wife gets the bullet instead. Prepared to follow Hayes all the way to hell to get his revenge, Daco's trail is hard and long, but a partnership with big Tondu Adams lightens the load and the pair are soon on course to wreak havoc on Hayes and bring the brute to justice.



High Noon in Snake Ridge by Scott Connor

After serving ten years in jail, a reformed Matthew Jennings returns to Snake Ridge to reconcile with his respectable family, but he finds his brother lying dead and his father won't speak to him. To track down his brother's killer, he secures a position as deputy town marshal, but when he follows the evidence it leads to a man who must be innocent - his own father. Worse is to follow when a feuding outlaw gives him an ultimatum to leave town by noon or die. Facing a race against time to uncover the truth and with a mysterious gunslinger haunting his every move, Matthew's resolve to turn his back on his past will be tested to breaking point before he faces a high noon showdown.



Wild Justice by P. McCormac

When five men, led by notorious killer Ernest Jones, flee from a posse, they cause untold havoc and destruction. After killing a farmer and ravishing his daughter Gwendolyn, they flee. The ordeal has left Gwendolyn with a thirst for vengeance and, concealing her gender, she rides out in hot pursuit. Finding a job with Sheriff Humphrey Quigley, Gwendolyn is persuaded to infiltrate the Jones gang in order to deliver them to the sheriff and to the gallows. But violence and death dog every step as Gwendolyn fights to survive among the brutal outlaws, whose motto is shoot first and fast. Can she keep her identity secret long enough to bring these thugs to justice?


The Phantom Rider by Walt Keene

A mysterious killer is roaming the plains, an albino rider full of hatred, riding into each town hell bent on killing as many men, women and children as he can. In the blood of his victims is scrawled the same message ... The Phantom.

Johnny Dollar by Tony Masero

They called him Johnny Dollar. An orphan child raised by a preacher and destined to run foul of the law it's bloody murder that keeps Johnny running, with trouble on his tail. Riding shotgun into Julesville, he finds a pretty schoolteacher set to win his love. But in the shadows, the Hellblazing Gang are waiting, determined to steal something a sight more valuable than a man's heart. The gang holds a secret which is part of Johnny's past and the key to his future, and to gain his freedom Johnny Dollar has to pay a murderous price, one which is delivered in hot lead instead of greenbacks...



Fargo's Legacy by Tyler Hatch

Craig Fargo was barely fifteen years old when he killed his first man. By doing so he saved his father's life - but only for a few more minutes. And in those minutes he was committed to a quest that would take him eight brutal years to complete. The road is long when you're alone, and that first dead man had a lot of company as Fargo's legacy kept his fists ready and his guns blazing. But when he reached the end of the trail and the gunsmoke cleared, his legacy was not what he expected...

Monday 1 October 2012

Bestselling BHWs on Amazon.co.uk - 1 October

1. Wild Bill Williams (Black Horse Western) by Jack Martin (31 Oct 2012)

Hardcover £12.38

2. The Black Horse Westerns by Abe Dancer, Dean Edwards, Tyler Hatch and Scott Connor (1 Jan 2011)

Available for download now £6.86

3. Crazy Man Cade (Black Horse Western) by Amos Carr (31 Oct 2012)

Available for pre-order £12.38

4. The Ballad of Delta Rose (Black Horse Western) by Jack Martin (29 Jul 2011)

Hardcover  £9.13

5. High Gun at Surlock by Terrell Bowers (29 Feb 2012)

Available for download now £2.74

6. Raven's Feud (Black Horse Western) by Corba Sunman (31 Jul 2012)

Available for download now £2.74

7. Drive to Redemption (Black Horse Western) by Mike Deane (31 May 2011)

Hardcover  £9.13

8. Blood Gold (Black Horse Western) by Scott Connor (31 Jul 2012)

Available for download now £2.74

9. Hour of the Black Wolf (Black Horse Western) by Mark P. Lynch (31 Jul 2012)

Hardcover  £12.38

10. All Guns Blazing by Doug Thorne (30 Dec 2011)

Available for download now £3.43