Jeffrey Keen, President and CEO of USA Book News, said this year’s contest yielded over 1,500 entries from mainstream and independent publishers.
USA Best Book Award
Jeffrey Keen, President and CEO of USA Book News, said this year’s contest yielded over 1,500 entries from mainstream and independent publishers.
New Release: The Gray Ghost of Civil War Virginia
The Gray Ghost of Civil War Virginia: John Singleton Mosby, is currently available in e-book format. It will be released in print in November, 2013.
No name in the annals of the Civil War conjures a more
romantic and awe-inspiring image than that of Confederate Colonel John
Singleton Mosby of Virginia.
The epitome of the Southern cavalier, Colonel Mosby was a
charismatic officer whose small band of partisans outwitted and outfought the
Union army on the fields and farmlands of northern Virginia. So great was the
panic inspired by this one officer’s military ingenuity, so prominent was the
threat he created to the Union forces, that he came to be known in the north as
more of a myth than a man.
Jessica James penned a unique look at this iconic figure as a way to share this
real-life soldier's story with her fiction fans. John Mosby was the model for
her fictional character Colonel Alexander Hunter in her novel NOBLE CAUSE
(originally called Shades of Gray).
Rather than a dry biography of the Confederate hero, this
book takes readers on a journey with a ragtag group of Rebels who threw aside
the established rules of warfare, effectively using fear as their weapon of
choice and surprise as their watchword.
Available now at all Internet retailers.
Above & Beyond reviewed in Publishers Weekly
Congratulations to author Jessica James for the recent review of her new novel ABOVE AND BEYOND in Publishers Weekly!
New release: Above and Beyond
Now available!
Update: Above and Beyond was released in e-book format in May and already hit #1 on Amazon in three categories.
A bond impossible to deny.
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| Above and Beyond Released in August, 2013 |
A bond impossible to deny.
A love impossible to ignore.
A destiny impossible to escape...
Above and Beyond by Jessica James
$14.99
August 1, 2013
ISBN: 9780979600098
Noble Cause softcover release July, 2013
"Noble
Cause is a riveting piece of historical fiction, very much highly recommended
reading."
- Midwest Book Review
Hardcover edition also available: $26.99
ISBN: 978-0-9796000-4-3
This award is presented annually
to encourage writers of fiction to portray characters and events dealing with Southern
history and the War Between the States in a historically accurate fashion.
Other John Esten Cooke Award winners
include New York Times bestselling authors Donald McCaig for Jacob’s Ladder, Robert Macomber for Point of Honor, and Harry Turtledove for
The Guns of the South.
Released in Charleston, S.C., on
the 150th anniversary of the firing on Fort Sumter, NOBLE CAUSE has garnered a number of other prestigious national
awards, capturing the attention of Civil War authors and historians, as well as
avid romance readers. It won the Next Generation Indie Award for Regional
Fiction, and was named a Finalist in the Historical Fiction category in the USA
“Best Books of 2011” Awards.
The
Midwest Book Review calls Noble Cause,
“riveting historical fiction,” while other reviewers have compared it to Gone with the Wind in scope, grandeur
and quality.
The
fine line between friends and enemies is revealed in this epic love story that
captures the emotions and fears of the country as war sweeps the land. Though
laced with historical detail, it is less about the clash of armies on the
battlefield, as it is about the clash of loyalty and love with honor and
conviction.
A
Yankee by birth, the author takes readers on a journey south of the Mason-Dixon
Line to the rolling hills of Virginia in this historically accurate love story
that is capturing national attention for
its attention to detail and unique blending of romance with historical fiction.
James’ first novel, SHADES OF GRAY also won numerous national awards, and temporarily moved ahead of GONE WITH THE WIND on Amazon’s bestseller list in its category. The author was featured in the book 50 Great Writers You Should Be Reading, published in 2010, and was a featured author at the Amelia Island Book Festival in Florida in 2012.
NOBLE CAUSE is available through Ingram as well as the publisher by emailing patriotpressATliveDOTcom.
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AWARDS
2012 Foreword Magazine Bronze winner
Book of the Year in Romance
2011 John Esten Cooke Award for Southern
Fiction
2011 USA "Best Books 2011"
Finalist in Historical Fiction
2011 Next Generation Indie Award for
Best Regional Fiction
2011 Next Generation Indie Finalist in
Romance category
2011 Next Generation Indie Finalist in
Historical Fiction category
2011 NABE Pinnacle Book Achievement Award
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