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 …
I’ve been excerpted!
In its new 2010 Arts issue, Big Sky Journal, a lifestyle and culture magazine of the Northern Rockies, has run an excerpt from my book, Cowboys, Mountain Men & Grizzly Bears. The excerpt appears as the issue's "Images of the West" column. The chapter chosen is...
Smokin’ Hot Shorts!
SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME My short, short story found a home at the fine e-zine Beat to a PULP.
New Interview & New Sighting!
Gary Dobbs, mastermind of The Tainted Archive—and one heck of a writer—talked with me over his virtual campfire one night recently and he's posted the transcript here (you'll have to add your own crackling-log sounds). We talk writin', Westerns, the gripping future of...
New Cover!
Here's a sneak preview of the semi-final cover art for my next non-fiction book, Bootleggers, Lobstermen, and Lumberjacks: Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of Hardscrabble New England, due out October 5, 2010 (but available for pre-order now!): In...
Big News!
I received word this week from my agent that she struck a deal with Dorchester Publishing to reprint my three Black Horse Westerns as mass-market paperbacks available all over the US (and beyond!) as part of the Leisure Books line. This is grand news for me, as it...
