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.

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.

cowboy and sea monster

 

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

Interview on Nick Wale’s ‘Novel Ideas’

Follow the link below for an interview I did with Nick Wale on his blog, ‘Novel Ideas,’ relating to my western writing.

http://nickwale.org/2018/07/24/writing-to-set-the-staff-straight-meet-learn-and-discover-the-secrets-of-future-western-million-pager-charles-ray/

Adventures of Bass Reeves

 

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