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 …
My Friend Howard
It is with sadness that I write about the unexpected death of my friend and fellow Maine writer, Howard Hopkins, gone too young at 50. He was a prolific author of more than 60 books, including horror, Westerns (under his own name and the pen-name Lance Howard), YA,...
Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year!
While we’re busy whipping up a batch of cocoa and cookies for Santa, and looking forward to a fine new year, I take a moment to thank readers and other friends for their support this year. It’s been a full one, and next year promises to be even busier. And if anyone...
It’s the Season for …
Christmas Campfire Companion! Yes, sireebob, this is the jolliest jingle-iest collection of Western-themed short stories to gallop down the trail since (well, since this summer's blockbuster doorstop anthology from Western Fictioneers, The Traditional West, which, at...
Bootleggers Spotted …
in Newport, Vermont, at the fine bookstore, Twice Told Tales, in fact. So if you find yourself up north in the Green Mountain State, do stop in and support this fine independent bookstore (189 E. Main Street, Suite A, Newport, VT; 802-334-5506;...
Bad, Badder, Baddest
Earlier in the year I had the good fortune to have a Jane Austen parody I'd written accepted for inclusion in the new anthology, Bad Austen: The Worst Stories Jane Never Wrote, by Adams Media. Well, it's out now and my story, "The Horrors of Expectation," is but one...
