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Nicholas Lyon

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Historical Fiction, Romance, Horror

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Dennis Lehane

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Oklahoma native Nicholas Lyon is the author of the award-winning novel The Baptist Bootlegger, a historical fiction novel set in the time of prohibition in Oklahoma. He’s been writing since taking a creative writing class in college. He’s been a member of the writing groups Red Dirt Writers and Rose Rock wRiters, as well as a member of the Oklahoma Writers Federation, Inc. He’s served on the board of the OWFI since 2018 in the positions of PR Director, President, Past-President, and First Vice-President. Currently, he’s keeping up with his blog and putting the finishing touches on a horror novel.
When he’s not writing, he’s teaching high school English and Speech, he’s a dad and husband, he’s a guitar player in the band The Dead Armadillos, ...more

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I’ve been on a couple of podcasts over the past couple of years. Two of them were because I was an officer in OWFI, and I needed to try to get information out about the conference. You can find those episodes on Spotify here and here. This year, I’ve managed to be a guest on … Continue reading Podcast(s) Read more of this blog post »

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The Rednexorcist

by Frank Sloane

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The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #6)

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Knife of Dreams (The Wheel of Time, #11)

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