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Four-time winner of the coveted Western Writers of America Spur Award--for a novel, for poetry, and twice for short fiction --twice winner of the Westerners International Fred Olds Award for Poetry, winner of the Academy of Western Artists award for Best Poetry Book, and winner of a Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award for a novel, Rod Miller is a versatile writer. His books include fiction, history, and poetry, his short stories and poems appear in several anthologies, and he writes for a number of Western magazines.

Born and raised in Utah, Miller is a graduate of Utah State University where he earned a degree in Journalism and rode bucking horses for the intercollegiate Rodeo Team. He works as an advertising agency copywriter and creative
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Rod Miller Capitalizing on the ambiguity of “fictional couple,” I’ll ignore romance and go with the prickly pair of Augustus McRae and Woodrow Call from Larry Mc…moreCapitalizing on the ambiguity of “fictional couple,” I’ll ignore romance and go with the prickly pair of Augustus McRae and Woodrow Call from Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove.

Gus and Call share very little in terms of philosophy or personality, but their differences are in many ways complementary and add up to a combination that gets things done. The strength of their relationship is most evident after Gus’s death, when Call faces down every challenge to returns Gus’s whittled-up carcass to Texas for burial.

No kisses or hugs or even handshakes for this couple, but it’s a relationship stronger than the romantic kind.

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Rod Miller I don't know what writer's block is. For nearly forty years I have written advertising copy, a very deadline-driven career. When something has to be w…moreI don't know what writer's block is. For nearly forty years I have written advertising copy, a very deadline-driven career. When something has to be written, you write it. The same is true of writers who come up through journalism. The same applies whether I am writing fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or magazine articles--when there's writing to be done, you write. Writer's block, to my way of thinking, does not exist.(less)
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“Old Joe”is a rendering of a buffalo skull that has been the logo for WesternersInternational since the 1940s. A three-dimensional version of the skull gracesthe handsome award plaques handed out every year by the organization.

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