San Diego author C. L. Hoang receives recognition for his debut novel "Once Upon a Mulberry Field," a love story during the Vietnam War published in February this year by Willow Stream Publishing.
The Fourth Annual Global Ebook Awards pronounced "Once Upon a Mulberry Field" by C. L. Hoang the Gold Medal Winner in Historical Literature Fiction (Contemporary). This is one of the biggest eBook awards, organized by Dan Poynter and decided by a panel of 200 judges ranging from book bloggers to book reviewers, librarians, book club & reading circle members, publicists, book shepherds, as well as professional critics and subject-matter experts in the category they prefer. Dan Poynter is a well-respected authority in the publishing industry who has authored more than 130 books and has received numerous awards over his long career. Since 1979, his book "The Self-Publishing Manual" and its subsequent editions have been considered by many independent authors as the bible of self-publishing. Set at Bien-Hoa Air Base near Saigon in 1967, the height of the Vietnam War and the Tet Offensive, as well as decades afterward, "Once Upon a Mulberry Field" follows one man's journey of self-discovery, fraught with disillusionment and despair but ultimately redeemed by the power of love.Videos