I’m hosting the starter day party today for the book tour for historical fiction “One Hundred Days”. The tour runs from November 1 to December 1. Stay tuned for my review on November 17.
Tour Schedule
November 1st: Starter Day Party @ I Heart Reading
November 2nd: Book Excerpt @ Stormy Night Reviewing
November 3rd: Book Excerpt @ Indy Book Fairy
November 5th: Book Excerpt @ Hollow Readers
November 7th: Character Interview @ The Book Daily
November 9th: Book Excerpt @ Bedazzled Reading
November 11th: Author Interview @ Majanka’s Blog
November 13th: Book Excerpt @ 365 Days of Reading
November 15th: Book Excerpt @ I’m an Eclectic Reader
November 17th: Book Review @ I Heart Reading
November 19th: Book Excerpt @ Bookaholic Ramblings
November 21st: Book Excerpt @ Editor Charlene’s Blog
November 23rd: Author Interview @ The Single Librarian
November 25th: Book Excerpt @ Bookish Madness
November 27th: Book Review @ Books are Forever
November 30th: Book Excerpt @ Bleeding Heart Book Blog
December 1st: Author Interview @ Avenue Books
About the Book
Title: One Hundred Days
Author: Mark Morey
Genre: Historical Fiction
In 1917, the mud of Flanders soaked up the blood of a quarter of a million men. If the war continued like that, the Allies would lose. One battle turned that around and was the beginning of a hundred days of advances to victory. This is a story about how that was done.
Two Australian soldiers experience the last two years of the Great War. Martin Ward is a lieutenant working alongside Major-General John Monash, and he sees the transition from slaughter at Passchendaele to breaching the Hindenburg Line. Alec Morey is a gunner severely injured in Flanders, and he returns to Australia to watch on in amazement as the Australian Imperial Force plays the major role in victory.
This is a fictional account of a story not well known; using real events, fictional characters and real-life characters to tell the tale of how the Great War was won.
Author Bio
I am part-time in the workforce and a part-time author, and writing technical documentation and advertising material formed a large part of my career for many decades. Writing a novel didn’t cross my mind until relatively recently, where the combination of too many years writing dry, technical documents and a visit to the local library where I couldn’t find a book that interested me led me consider a new pastime. Write a book. That book may never be published, but I felt my follow-up cross-cultural crime with romance hybrid set in Russia had more potential. So much so that I wrote a sequel that took those characters on a journey to a very dark place.
Once those books were published by Club Lighthouse and garnered good reviews I wrote in a very different place and time. My two novels set in Victorian Britain were published by Wings ePress in July and August of 2014. These have been followed by my story set against the background of Australia’s involvement on the Western Front. Australia’s contribution to the battles on the Western Front and to ultimate victory was well out of proportion to the size of the nation and the size of their force. Once you read this story you will appreciate the great things that our nation achieved.
Links
Mark Morey: http://markmorey.blogspot.com.au/
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/572207
Kobo: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/one-hundred-days-2
Amazon Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/One-Hundred-Days-Mark-Morey-ebook/dp/B014GNCLZS/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1442618757&sr=1-1
Createspace estore: https://www.createspace.com/5727185
Majanka has done a great job in organising this tour for me. Every novel that I know which covers the Great War does so from a perspective of mud, death, destruction and futility. This happened 100 years ago now, and in this anniversary period I wanted to tell a different story. In my story there is mud and suffering, but also there’s a surprise ending which really happened. Read this novel because in the journeys of two men, one real and one fictional, you will discover something fascinating.