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First three Jacob Blade, Vigilante series

jacob blade 3 book series Jacob Blade, a half-breed with a desire to avenge the murder of his parents, cuts a wide swath across the west in the first three books of the Vigilante series. After a long journey to find those who slaughtered his family, Jacob decides that it will be his life’s mission to rid the west of as much evil as he can.

This series, published by Dusty Saddle Publishing, came to fruition thanks to the encouragement of my publicist and friend, Nick Wale, an Englishman who knows more about the western genre than any man alive, and who has a natural (almost preternatural, in fact) instinct for what readers will like.

If you like your western adventure with diversity, but with the same hard as flint style of stories from the early 40s and 50s, this is a series you’ll want to read. Of course, as the author, I’m biased. I’d be real tickled to hear from readers. Tell me what you like about the series, and what you’d like to see.

Books one and three are also available in paperback, and book four is currently in the early stages of being written.

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A new take on a Dickens’ Classic

There are few people who are not familiar with A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. The story of Ebeneezer Scrooge, and how he learned to love Christmas, has delighted readers for generations. Sitting at my keyboard one day a few weeks back, I had this brilliant idea; this tale has been parodied, adapted, and otherwise used and misused dozens, if not hundreds, of times, but I’ve never seen anything in the western genre on it. So, why not me. I played around with it for a few days, developed a list of characters and a general plot, and started writing. Out of all that came A Cowboy’s Christmas Carol, the story of Ed Summerfield, a man with a heart of stone who hates Christmas, and how visits from three spirits changed his life. It’s now available on Amazon for the amazingly low price of 99 cents (for the Kindle version), and will be available in paperback before Christmas, just in case you want to give that book lover on your gift list a special treat.

Here’s the link for the Kindle version:  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KV81H84  

and the paperback is at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1790310253

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Look for a new name in westerns

I’ve been writing since my teens, and I’ve always used my real name (without the middle initial usually) on what I write. When I was in government, it was a way of showing that I wasn’t breaking any rules, or disclosing information I wasn’t suppose to. It was also, I suppose, a form of rebellion.

Well, life catches up with us all. I’ve been doing westerns lately, more even than my mainstay, mysteries–lots and lots more–and when I did a kind of experimental western, The Cowboy vs the Sea Monster, the publisher suggested that I sue a pen name. Seems my list of westerns is getting quite long, and I suppose he worries that it might confuse western fans–I do a series on the Adventures of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal, as well as short stories for anthologies, all your typical western.

I believe in being a cooperative writer, as long as I don’t have to sacrifice my integrity or warp my artistic vision, so I went along. The name I chose, Ben Carter, happens to be the main character in my Buffalo Soldier series, which I thought quite appropriate, and the publisher agrees.

So, if you’re a western fan, and you’ve read any of my other stuff, look for Ben Carter’s books, and you’ll be treated to even more good stuff.

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Available for 99 cents at https://www.amazon.com/William-Coburn-Monster-Western-Adventure-ebook/dp/B07H4Y8631/

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Get my newest from Outlaws Publishing

I decided to take a short break from writing about Deputy US Marshal Bass Reeves, and revive a couple of characters I wrote about several years ago. Esau Brown and Jacob Hardin are a couple of bounty hunters who have trouble adapting to the changes in the west, so they go off to hunt treasure in the mountains. But, town calls, and they’re tired of sleeping on the ground. The only problem is, the closest town is Purgatory, New Mexico. Not an auspicious name, but what choice do they have?  Get a copy of the eBook and see how they deal with it.

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Keeping track of my free books

As part of my marketing plan, every month, I offer 4 – 5 of my books free for Kindle users. If you’d like to keep track of what’s available, check out the Uhuru Press Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/UhuruPressbooks/. Happy reading.

Cover final 2 This one, for example, is available free from February 25 to March 1 at https://www.amazon.com/bp/B075RT9G6H

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Free books in February

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Free books to curl up before the fire with in February.

Feb. 4 – 8:  Murder on the Menu.  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01M3QFTYJ

Feb. 11 – 15: Buffalo Soldier: Range War. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00SLR0FJU

Feb. 18 – 22:  Mountain Man.  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0165TJYOM

Feb. 25 – Mar. 1:  DC Street Art.  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075RT9G6H