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Clark Hays

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Spearman, Texas, The United States

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I'm an ex-poet, lapsed cowboy and whiskey enthusiast living in Portland, Oregon, with my life-, writing- and backgammon-partner Kathleen McFall.

We've written 13 books together so far.

The most recent is Cake and Eat It, the third book in our Restaurantland series, romance novels set in a funky, fictional Portland restaurant in the 1990s. Kitchen Heat is book one and Poetic Justice is book two.

We also have:

A three-book sci-fi series:
Gates of Mars
Scorched Earth
Mars Adrift

A three-book alt-history series about Bonnie and Clyde:
Resurrection Road
Dam Nation
Radioactive

A four-book award-winning paranormal action/romance series, the Cowboy and Vampire Collection:
A Very Unusual Romance
Blood and Whiskey
Rough Trails and Shallow Graves (named to K ...more

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	A Very Unusual Romance by Clark Hays (Goodreads Author), Kathleen McFall (Goodreads Author) 3.75 avg rating — 555 ratings — published 1999 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blood and Whiskey (The Cowboy and the Vampire, #2) by Clark Hays (Goodreads Author), Kathleen McFall (Goodreads Author) 4.38 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Resurrection Road (Bonnie and Clyde Book 1) by Clark Hays (Goodreads Author), Kathleen McFall (Goodreads Author) 4.17 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rough Trails and Shallow Graves (The Cowboy and the Vampire, #3) by Clark Hays (Goodreads Author), Kathleen McFall (Goodreads Author) 4.28 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Sunset by Clark Hays (Goodreads Author), Kathleen McFall (Goodreads Author) 4.61 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Just West of Hell: An accounting of curious incidents occurring in LonePine, Wyoming Territory, in the years spanning 1881 to 1890 when the notable Early Hardiman was sheriff by Clark Hays (Goodreads Author), Kathleen McFall (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.18 avg rating — 28 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dam Nation (Bonnie and Clyde Book 2) by Clark Hays (Goodreads Author), Kathleen McFall (Goodreads Author) 4.57 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Red Winter (The Cowboy and the Vampire, #0) 4.23 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Radioactive (Bonnie and Clyde Book 3) by Clark Hays (Goodreads Author), Kathleen McFall (Goodreads Author) 4.50 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cowboy and the Vampire Collection Boxed Set by Clark Hays (Goodreads Author), Kathleen McFall (Goodreads Author) 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Just Released: Poetic Justice

Excited to announce the release of our 12th book together (shout out to Kathleen McFall).

Poetic Justice is the second book of our Restaurantland romance series. It’s set in the Rose and Thorn, the same fun and funky Portland restaurant where Kitchen Heat took place. Poetic Justic follows a new and thorny romance between Roz, a poet with a dark secret, and Hudson, who just got out of jail for some Read more of this blog post »

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Clark’s Quotes

“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
― Mark Twain

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“Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: enjoy-life, fearlessness, live-in-the-moment

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“This is the world. Half of it is lit by the sun and the other half remains in darkness. It is the same with life. There is good and bad and it's our duty to remain in the light, be good.”
― Anita Nair

tags: life-and-living

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“The music is not in the notes,
but in the silence between.”
― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

tags: music

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“No," said Oceola simply. "This is mine. . . . Listen! . . . How sad and gay it is. Blue and happy -- laughing and crying. . . . How white like you and black like me. . . . How much like a man. . . . And how much like a woman. . . . Warm as Pete's mouth. . . . These are the blues. . . . I'm playing.”
― Langston Hughes, The Ways of White Folks

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message 3: by Majenta

Aug 02, 2016 11:42AM

Howdy Hell....o, Clark! Thanks for contacting me, good to hear from another author! Happy genre-mixing, good to add a little science to art. I hope you're having a great week. Happy reading, writing, and everything else. Blessings!

Best wishes from Majenta

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Nov 10, 2012 04:41PM

Any fan of vampire freaks is a friend of mine!

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Nov 10, 2012 04:38PM

Thanks for the friend add :)

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