Westerns, thrillers, adventure and a whole lot more
Hello Everyone – Delighted to share my recent Wrong Place, Write Crime interview with host Frank Zafiro. (He’s dynamite!) We talk about thrillers, westerns, Targets West and even (somehow!) get into the weeds of Star Trek. It was great fun to do and we came in at around 30 minutes! Give a listen! http://wrongplacewritecrime.com/2025/07/02/episode-194-scott-mccrea/
So proud! Just received my certificate as a Peacemaker Finalist for Best Western Short Story of 2024, Hurricane at Hogg’s Holler! Thank you, Western Fictioneers! Get a copy of Through Western Storms, a terrific anthology!
BreakingNews: Burn Flint, my 2nd collaboration with Robert Hanlon is a TOP 50 #bestseller on #Amazon! Join as Flint and Timber battle gunmen for tons of Western action!
A quick note of thanks to Western writer Richard Prosch for his profile of me on Facebook today. It’s to celebrate the upcoming anthology, Through Western Storms, and I’m honored to have a short story in it. You can find it here: https://www.facebook.com/1780197436/posts/pfbid029HNdrfigeLNJXUkGkjXzVhZV7gH6eiCYK1KQdAfEyAV6sVsFZsVTGAnDZqjVABFql/
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, […]
Delighted to be part of the Through Westerns Storms anthology. Great writers, many buds through the @westernwriters, and stories ranging from the tragic to the comic, the personal to the epic. Available for pre-order now! Pre-order here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D2FJTVXY?ref_=pe_93986420_775043100&dplnkId=003faab3-b60d-4a5e-bd9f-c545ddee1e89&nodl=1
Here is the cover of Hard as Flint, the first book in my new series about Marshal Ezra Flint. Hard as Flint is a noir western with an especially hardboiled marshal. It’s a story of the violence of the West and of the passions that make men do dirty deeds. I hope you’ll like it. […]
Here’s a review of Jeremy Perry’s champion collection of short stories, Hard Luck.
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 […]
