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
Click here for the full lowdown on this barnstorming, award-winning novel!
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 …
Hot New Antho!
My Western Steampunk short story, "Scourge of the Spoils," is due for release in early November, 2010, in the DAW Books anthology, Steampunk'd. But why wait? The book's available for pre-order RIGHT NOW! Woo hoo! (You know you need it.... ) Here's a sneak preview of...
B, L & L Goes Digital!
Bootleggers, Lobstermen & Lumberjacks will soon be available (October 5) as an e-book! Click here to pre-order your very own Kindle copy of what is sure to be the season's hottest-selling book about Bootleggers, Lobstermen and Lumberjacks.... Oh my!
A First Sighting!
My lovely wife, Jennifer Smith-Mayo, was out and about this weekend, photographing for the upcoming Vermont and New Hampshire books we're working on. She dropped in at The Yankee Bookshop, in Woodstock, Vermont, and saw my new book on the shelf! Ayuh, Bootleggers,...
Hot Off the Presses!
Although the official release date isn't until October, Amazon is already shipping my newest non-fiction book, Bootleggers, Lobstermen & Lumberjacks: Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of Hardscrabble New England! It's 300 pages of gritty grimness and...
I Heard That….
A while ago I was asked to participate in a mini e-panel for Jeff Vandermeer's excellent site, Booklife, about how music affects one's writing, and vice-versa. Click here to read all about Birds, Breathing & the Song of Passing Cars: Writing & Music #5.
