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 …
The Before-, During-, and Afterglow….
We made it back from the Southwest largely intact. Though it is entirely possible we left a few empty wine and bourbon bottles bobbing in our wake…. We began our trip in Vegas for a night a couple of weeks ago. We then rambled on out of there just as the Electric...
Hey Baby, You See All Them Lights?
In a few short days, we're headed to the pulsing heart of true American commerce, vice, and villainy. Naw, not Washington, DC (Now why would you think that?). I'm talking Vegas! I've never been, but I hear tell it's chock full of swingers and bandits and lightbulbs...
Reviewed and Interviewed!
Ron Scheer, at his always excellent blog, Buddies in the Saddle, has honored me with a fine, in-depth review of my novel, DEAD MAN'S RANCH. And he followed it up with an interview in which I may or may not reveal secret locations of buried treasure….
Roped & Interviewed
Fellow author, Peacemaker-nominee Tom Rizzo, interviewed me for his "StoryTeller's 7" series. He asked seven questions and I did my level best to sound as though I know what I'm doing (ahem). We touch on a number of themes, from spurs to volcanos and megayachts to...
Tucker’s Reckoning Wins a Spur!
When I checked the mail yesterday, I never imagined I'd find a letter from Western Writers of America (WWA) telling me my novel, TUCKER'S RECKONING, has won the 2013 Spur Award for Best Western Short Novel … but it did! I like this novel a whole lot, so it pleases me...
