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Under Heaven’s Own Blue has the subtitle of Classic Stories of the American West. This collection consists of one short story and three novellas. It was published by Thorndike Press in November of 2024. The first story, “Truth and Principle,” has as its narrator a character named Henry Tresh, who is the narrator and sleuth […]

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Riders of the Skull is my thirty-fifth western/frontier novel. I wrote it in the spring of 2023, and it was published in December 2024 as a large print original (first edition) by Thorndike Press. This novel is unlike most of my others in that it does not follow the point of view of one main […]

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Summer’s Lease is my thirty-fourth western/frontier novel. I wrote it in the fall of 2022 and finished it right after New Year 2023. It was published in June 2024 as a large print original (first edition) by Thorndike Press. In Summer’s Lease, I tried to do something a little different from my other novels in […]

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Rose of Greenwood is my thirty-third western/frontier novel. I wrote it in the spring of 2022, when the Five Star western/frontier line was still going, but submission of the manuscript was delayed, and when Five Star discontinued its western line later in 2022, this novel went in search of a home. Thanks to the efforts […]

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Diamonds and Doom is my thirty-second western/frontier novel. I wrote it in the fall of 2021, and it was published by Thorndike Press in September of 2023. It was on the schedule to be published by Five Star, but Five Star discontinued its western line, so it was released as a large print original by […]

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Bright Skies and Dark Horses is a collection of western short stories. I wrote most of these stories in 2021, and the collection was brought out by Five Star in February of 2022. The stories in this collection range from flash fiction to novella and from somewhat domestic stories such as “In the Breaks” and […]

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“Blue Is Not the Word” and “Buckskin Trail” are two separate short stories that I wrote when I was in between novel projects. I offered them to the publisher, Speaking Volumes, with the idea that they might be published as individual short stories in e-book form, as I have had several stories published that way […]

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Trails and Crossings is an audio collection of poems on CD, read by my humble self. This work intersects with my other work in writing poetry and song lyrics, so it is something of a companion to my printed collection of poetry, Thorns on the Rose, and the CD of songs composed by me and […]

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Coldwater Range is my thirty-first western/frontier novel and my twelfth book with Five Star. I wrote it in 2020, and it came out in April of 2022. For this novel, I wanted to write something on a par with some of my other recent novels such as Great Lonesome. For the premise of this story, […]

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Double Deceit is a novella of 21,000 words that was published in November 2020 by Five Star Publishing. I wrote this story in the late fall of 2019, and it appeared in a quartet of frontier crime novellas entitled Perilous Frontier. I have written a few other works in the novella range. As I mention […]

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