Congratulations to Historium Press author Larry Kelley for his new release today of "An American Slave in Barbary" - available in ebook, hardcover, & paperback where books are sold - please view the QR codes below to purchase the book!! BOOK BLURB: A Homeric American Novel An American Slave in Barbary: The Odyssey of Winston Prescott Jones is the story of a first-generation American student whose commercial ship is captured in the summer of 1801 by Moslem pirates. He spends

Congratulations to David J. Jepsen for the fabulous new cover for his novel "Unbelonging in the City on the Sound", coming spring of 2026 from Historium Press. BUY HERE: Coming soon! Cover design by White Rabbit Arts at The Historical Fiction Company To have your historical novel's cover designed by our team, please visit www.thehistoricalfictioncompany.com/author-services/book-cover-design

Book Blurb: Psychologically abused Helena escapes her peasant upbringing in the olive groves only to become a slave in the house of General Sulla. When her natural genius is spotted by Sulla’s ailing spymaster, Demophon, he trains her to be his eyes and ears in Rome. After the only man who treats her with respect is crucified by Sulla, Helena is set on a path of vengeance. Always riddled with self-doubt, she manipulates hand-picked agents to make herself rich and powerful. In

Book Blurb: A true story. A forgotten heroine. In a time when women were told to stay silent, could she become the saviour her people need? 12th-century England. Nicola de la Haye wants to do her duty. But though she’s taught a female cannot lead alone, the young noblewoman bristles at the marriage her father has arranged to secure her inheritance. And when an unexpected death leaves her unguided, the impetuous girl shuns the king’s blessing and weds a handsome-but-landless k

Book Blurb: Margaret Dashwood, the youngest sister of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, has grown up in the shadows of her two siblings, and is thought by her family, when we first observe her in Sense and Sensibility at the tender age of thirteen, to be ‘a good humoured well-disposed girl; but as she had imbibed a good deal of Marianne’s romance, without having much of her sense, she did not, at thirteen, bid fair to equal her sisters at a more advanced period of life.’ But Marg

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BOOK EXCERPT: I walked quickly to the hotel. It was just two blocks away, but by the time I got there, I was struggling to catch my breath. Like Teo on that last day, the small voice inside whispered, gasping for air at the top of the loft ladder. In the apartment, Nonna was packing, a handwritten list on the bed beside her valise. She’d brought only a few things to Palermo—a blouse, a pair of bloomers and stockings, her prayer book and rosary. Too few items, I thought, to wa

Congratulations to Luv Lubker for her fabulous cover for the upcoming release of "The Sea King's Daughter" coming early spring of 2026 from Historium Press! He left Windsor an innocent child. The sea would make him a man… and test the depths of his soul. In a world ruled by power, passion, and obsession, can a boy survive the storms? Queen Victoria’s scholarly second son, Affie, loves family, art, technology – and most of all, the sea. Rejecting his German destiny, he embarks

Congratulations to Irene Latham for her fabulous new cover for "Some Starry Night" coming spring of 2026 from Historium Press! Some Starry Night  imagines the story behind Vincent van Gogh's most famous painting, Starry Night, and the secret love affair with American poet Emily Dickinson that inspired it.   Featuring an imaginative dive into the lives of famous figures like Once Upon a Wardrobe by Patti Callahan Henry and an uplifting/live-life-to-the-fullest message like Th

Congratulations to Mary Thurlow for the fabulous new cover for her new novel "Sandro & Simonetta" coming spring of 2026 from Historium Press! Within the cloistered walls of a convent, art student Sandro Botticelli steals a kiss from a beautiful schoolgirl.   It’s a moment that will ignite an obsession. As Sandro hones his craft, the enigmatic girl transforms into a woman trapped by societal expectations, her desire for dance stifled. Years later, their paths cross again, and

Congratulations to Aaron T. Knight for the fabulous new cover for his novel "A Modern Odyssey"! Frank Fowler has been stuck in a middle management position with a large conglomerate while his estranged wife is having fabulous success in her professional life.Frank in a breathtaking series of events survives a plane crash, loses his job, and his wife is leaving him. Satan introduces himself to Frank offering him an opportunity to be the human he needs to help redeem his rightf

Book Blurb: 1932. Natalia is 16 and a bootlegger's daughter, playing the mermaid mascot on a rundown paddlewheel used to entertain brewers and distributors. A sequined costume hides her scarred and misshaped legs, but it can't cover up the painful memories and suspicions that haunt her. An eccentric healer who treats patients with Old Country tonics, tries to patch wounds, but only adds to the heartache. A fierce storm threatens to destroy everything, including a stash of sto

Book Blurb: An Echo of Ashes is a story lost to time, then found again in century-old letters that lay in a tattered box. Based on actual events taken from the pages, this story tells of when the Great War and the Spanish Influenza forever altered the lives of millions, including a family of subsistence farmers who also worked the oil fields of Pennsylvania. Ella and Almon make their home in the backcountry. Almon and his sons work in the oil fields, just as their forefathers

Book Blurb: What Remains is a haunting dual-timeline mystery that bridges centuries-and secrets-between ancient Rome and the modern world. Forensic anthropologist Tori Benino has just landed the opportunity of a lifetime: leading a dig at a long-buried Roman village lost to the eruption of Vesuvius. But when she uncovers the remains of a Praetorian guard hidden in an ancient latrine-clearly murdered-Tori realizes she's stumbled onto something far more sinister than a routine

Congratulations to Joseph Kovler upcoming release of "The Fight for Miami", a novella ebook from Historium Press! A gangster. A dreamer. One city up for grabs. In The Fight for Miami, award-winning author Joseph Kovler delivers a pulse-pounding historical thriller set in the glitter and grit of 1920s–30s Miami Beach — where the American Dream goes to war with the American Underworld. Al Capone, fresh from Chicago’s bloody empire, sees Miami as his next conquest. Carl Fisher,

Congratulations to Juliane Weber for her upcoming release of "Archie's Tale", a novella in the Irish Fortune Series! A chance encounter, a shocking murder. And an unforeseen entanglement of the heart. Archibald Bellinger doesn’t believe in entanglements of the heart. All the greater is his surprise when a chance encounter at a disreputable locale leaves him strangely captivated. Having gone there in search of a pleasant evening, he leaves with his mind in turmoil instead. Who

BOOK EXCERPT Chapter 2 - Australia, 1939 - 1941 General Nursing and Obstetrics qualifications clutched firmly in gloved hand, Annie waited for Iris and Verna on Oxford Street, Paddington, so they could walk along to Victoria Barracks together. She smoothed down her waisted floral dress, then touched her hat. Not often intimidated, Annie felt a flutter of nerves. What had seemed an easy decision did not feel so comfortable now. “G’day.” Startled from her doubts, Annie turned a

Book Blurb: In 1792, an escaped slave, raised and living as white, is discovered and forced to flee into the Great Dismal Swamp. Barely escaping a bounty hunter, a Maroons community of fugitive slaves rescues him. Over time, Nathanial comes to accept his true identity while fighting to overcome the suspicions of his new community. Because of his pale skin, he becomes a conductor on the underground railroad, slipping runners onto ships going north. On one of his missions, fate

BOOK EXCERPT April 1471: Dawn on Easter Day, Barnet Heath. Eighteen-year-old Richard of Gloucester, brother of Edward IV, takes confession and prepares for his first taste of battle. They wake, those who have dared sleep, to a grey and muffled world. Overnight, heavy mist has fallen, and the air of early dawn is like a breath of winter. Beneath his coif, Richard’s hair sticks to his skull like goose grease, his cheeks sore and clammy. Worse is the effect of the sodden grass;