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….
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Chicago Tribune Review & A Sighting!
Yesterday my wife visited Longfellow Books in Monument Square in Portland, Maine and spied our Maine Icons book for sale on their Great Gifts shelf! Longfellow Books is a terrific independent bookstore, definitely worth a visit if you're ever cruising around Portland....
Maine Icons, Anyone?
There's excitement in the air here at Casa Mayo. We just found out that the first book my wife, photographer Jennifer Smith-Mayo, and I did together, Maine Icons: 50 Classic Symbols of the Pine Tree State, is no longer up for pre-order at Amazon and Barnes &...
Weird in the West….
Building on the success of its superfreaky antho., How the West Was Weird, Pulpwork Press presents How the West Was Weird, Vol. II. That's right, the Weirdest Western anthology of the year will claw its way through the saloon doors on July 1, 2011. The book is filled...
Deal for The Dead Man
A few weeks ago, I mentioned I'd been invited to contribute to the new action series, The Dead Man. I know, talk about whippa! (That's Maine-speak for "nifty beyond all reasonable belief.") But it gets better…. I can hear you saying, "How, Matt? How does it get...
Nominated!
I just found out that my Western steampunk short story, "Scourge of the Spoils," from the DAW Books anthology, Steampunk'd, is one of five finalists in the 2010 Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Awards, Best Western Short Story category! Cool beans, I say…. Click here...
