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 HEARD THAT….
My 2013 novel, THE HUNTED, just came out as an audiobook, and the sample I’ve heard sounds mighty fine—and the cover’s a corker, too. Here’s a link in case you’re tempted to give it a listen: http://www.amazon.com/The-Hunted/dp/B01CUWHXAA/ Big Charlie Chilton knows...
SWINDLERS GET SOME LOVIN’….
A fine review by Erin H. Turner in the Winter 2015 issue of Big Sky Journal of my recent non-fiction book, HORNSWOGGLERS, FOURFLUSHERS & SNAKE-OIL SALESMEN: True Tales of the Old West’s Sleaziest Swindlers…. HORNSWOGGLERS, FOURFLUSHERS & SNAKE-OIL...
HANGIN’ WITH HUGH GLASS….
I’m looking forward to seeing the new flick, THE REVENANT, about explorer and mountain man Hugh Glass, starring Leonardo DiCaprio. From all indications it sounds like a winner. Heck, any movie with a whiff of mountain man action in it gets a thumbs-up in my book. This...
These Fine Autumn Days
Here I am in the midst of a cool but sunny day in fall, my favorite time of year. In our rural pocket of Maine, everyone is busy with the tasks of the season, gathering and storing and tightening and tidying and buttoning up. Our garden is all but put to bed. The...
Available Now: SHERLOCK HOLMES & THE FOLLY OF FLIGHT
I am pleased to announce that Gritty Press (ahem!) has just released my novelette, SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE FOLLY OF FLIGHT. Check out that amazing cover art by Jennifer Smith-Mayo her own self! This aeronautical adventure of high-flying proportions teams master...
