STRANDED
A STORY OF FRONTIER SURVIVAL
• 2018 Western Heritage Wrangler Award for Outstanding Western Novel by the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
• 2018 Spur Award for Best Western Juvenile Fiction Novel by the Western Writers of America
• 2018 Peacemaker Award for Best Young Adult Western Novel by Western Fictioneers
• 2018 Willa Award for Best Historical Fiction by Women Writing the West
• 2018 High Plains Book Award for Young Adult Book
• 2018 Will Rogers Medallion Award for Young Readers
• 2018 Moonbeam Children’s Book Award for Young Adult Historical Fiction
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FEATURED EXCERPT …
THE OUTFIT (BOOK 3):
OUTLAWED!
Talbot Timmons climbed aboard the westbound train thirty minutes before it pulled out of the station at Santa Fe. He smiled, puffed with pride at his life’s recent twists. Not only was he warden of Yuma Territorial Prison, but after the War of Northern Aggression, he’d managed to revive and ride point on the Brotherhood of the Phoenix, the mightiest group of die-hard Confederates the world had yet seen. And soon, he thought, soon I will be a governor, then a senator, then—and why the hell not?— President of the United States….
THIS JUST IN …
Cowboys & Indians and Phantoms … Oh my!
Not sure how this one slipped by my kill-crazy pack of mutant webcrawlers, but back in August HAUNTED OLD WEST got a nifty little review in COWBOYS & INDIANS magazine's blog: "Who doesn’t love a good ghost story? The Old West has inspired quite a few, and Matthew...
SIX-GUNS and SLAY BELLS!
Just in time for Halloween, and getting a jump on Christmas, HENRY'S WESTERN ROUND-UP just published a fine piece about the brand-new supernatural Western Christmas Collection, SIX-GUNS AND SLAY BELLS: A Creepy Cowboy Christmas by Western Fictioneers. Henry Parke...
OH, THE HORROR!
My latest book, HAUNTED OLD WEST, is scaring young and old alike, just in time for Halloween! In fact, it's been written up in the Oklahoma Gazette's "Chicken-Fried News" section. Now that's freaky: http://www.okgazette.com/oklahoma/article-16624-haunting-101.html
Sourdoughs Gets the Kudos!
My most recent book in my "Grittiest Moments" series, SOURDOUGHS, CLAIM JUMPERS & DRY GULCHERS: Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of Frontier Prospecting, is racking up positive reviews, and I couldn't be happier. I hold a particular fondness for this...
WINTERS’ WAR Gets a Big Thumbs-Up!
Writer James Reasoner has reviewed my latest release, via Gritty Press, WINTERS' WAR, and found it to be "… a fine hardboiled revenge Western." He also says, "WINTERS' WAR is a fine traditional Western that's well worth reading, and I'm glad it's available again in...
