San Diego author C. L. Hoang receives new recognition for his debut novel "Once Upon a Mulberry Field," a love story during the Vietnam War published in February 2014.
The 22nd Annual Self-Published Book Awards, hosted by Writer's Digest Magazine, awarded "Once Upon a Mulberry Field" by C. L. Hoang an Honorable Mention in the Genre Fiction category. This competition, co-sponsored by Book Marketing Works, LLC and Meryl L. Moss Media Relations Inc., spotlights today's self-published works and honors self-published authors. Set at Bien-Hoa Air Force Base near Saigon in 1967, the height of the Vietnam War and the Tet Offensive, as well as decades afterwards, "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. Prior to receiving an Honorable Mention in the Writer's Digest 22nd Annual Self-Published Book Awards, "Once Upon a Mulberry Field" had also been awarded the Gold Medal for Historical Literature Fiction in the 2014 Global Ebook Awards and the Fiction Grand Prize in the 2014 LuckyCinda Book Contest.Videos