Photo From Western Writers of America!
I look goofy in this picture, but here’s yours truly getting his Western Writers of America Spur Finalist certificate from President Melody Grove. I look like someone put a cold hand on my butt.
Robert Hanlon and Scott McCrea Team Up
Delighted to report that my first venture into co-writing a book, Strike Flint with best-seller Robert Hanlon, is up and running! In Strike Flint, Hanlon’s Jake Timber teams up with my Ezra Flint for a rollicking western adventure. In the book, U.S. Marshal Ezra Flint is called in by William Burroughs of the Burroughs Bank, […]
Story About My Spur Award In HB News
Here is a recent story about yours truly and being a Spur Award Finalist in Huntington Beach News!
I’m a Western Writers of America Spur Finalist!
I just got some spectacular news and I wanted to share it with you: I am a Finalist for the Western Writers of America Spur Award, Best Western Juvenile Fiction for my book Tom Mix and the Wild West Christmas. The Spur Awards, given to the best in “western” fiction, were established in 1953 by […]
Stay And Die By Jeff Arnold
Western fans are familiar with Jeff Arnold through his wonderful blog, Jeff Arnold’s West, where he deconstructs western films, novels and historical incidents. It’s an essential spot on the Web for western fans (or Westernistas, as he calls us). Arnold has now turned his formidable talents to the novel and his first, Stay and Die, […]
HARD LUCK: STORIES BY JEREMY PERRY
Here’s a review of Jeremy Perry’s champion collection of short stories, Hard Luck.
Finding Bradigan’s Mountain Cover Reveal
Here’s the cover of the first book in my new mountain man trilogy, Finding Bradigan’s Mountain. I’m very proud of this book and the good folks at DSP have done a fabulous job on the cover! Wow!
Bradigan’s Mountain III: In Search of Home
Delighted to announce that Book III of the Bradigan’s Mountain trilogy, In Search of Home, has just been released! When Adam and Pillian are attacked by hired killers in the woods of Bradigan’s Mountain, the young Caddo is injured by a shotgun blast. They take refuge in the church of St. John the Baptist, where […]
The Old West, Pirates, Politics and Hidden Treasure
It’s almost impossible to parse the pleasures of Bowie’s Gold by Evan Lewis. In an age when many true-life Western heroes are on the verge of being forgotten, Lewis brings Jim Bowie back to lusty life. And is it life! The Bowie in this book is a full-throttled adventurer. It’s almost impossible to read without […]
A Few Words on Zane Grey
There are several authors of our great American Western Myth. Certainly the fountainhead of it all was William Frederick “Buffalo Bill” Cody (1846-1917), the great frontiersman, scout, Indian fighter, actor, showman and mythologist. We have written about Bill in these pages previously, and he remains one of the few historical personages whom we would have […]