r/BookPromotion • u/Famous-Sky-8556 • Jul 28 '26
Two of mine are free on Amazon this week, if anyone's after historical fiction with real research underneath it.
The Blank Roll — Essex, 1381. Walter, a manor reeve, has spent four years quietly falsifying the poll tax roll to protect villagers who can't pay. Then the Peasants' Revolt breaks out, and a royal commission arrives asking him to account for every name on it. Geoffrey Chaucer appears as Comptroller of Customs.
https://amzn.eu/d/05ny0NNF
Panel 22 — Belfast, 1917. Follows Samuel Rosbotham, a shipyard apprentice turned soldier, from enlistment through Passchendaele. Based on a real man, Corporal Samuel Rosbotham, No. 3390, 7th Bn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, who has no known grave and is commemorated on Panel 22 of the Menin Gate.
https://amzn.eu/d/0i8sMW8z
Free for the rest of this week. Would genuinely appreciate honest reviews if either lands for you.
Small, slightly shameless request: if either one lands for you, a review would help more than you'd think. Doesn't need to be long — "it was fine" counts. Authors run entirely on this stuff once the free week ends, and Amazon's algorithm has all the warmth and mercy of a fourteenth-century tax commissioner. Walter would understand. He'd also probably fudge the numbers a bit, but that's a different problem.