The 11th Annual Tucson Festival of Books will be held at the University of Arizona on Saturday and Sunday, March 2-3, 20…
Tag: Rough Drafts
Rough Drafts Fans of some of the Old West’s greatest legends will enjoy the following recent novelizations of the thrilling lives of their favorite heroes (or villains) of yesteryear.
Like film and television producers and screenwriters, Western book publishers and authors love to mine the lore and live…
Rough Drafts Western art and artists are major topics for publishers each year, and 2018 is a stellar year.
Western art and artists are major topics for publishers each year, and 2018 is a stellar year, as reflected in a selecti…
Rough Drafts Summer vacations are a great time to catch up on reading!
Summer vacations are a great time to catch up on reading, so why not pack a few good Western novels and Old West histori…
Rough Drafts 9/15
In June, I attended the Western Writers of America annual conference in Lubbock, Texas. The thriving city of the Souther…
Rough Drafts 8/15
A century ago, World War I was raging across Europe. Revolution had erupted in Mexico and China, and Ireland and Russia …
Rough Drafts 7/15
Congratulations to the Western Writers of America annual Spur Award winners in biography, nonfiction and fiction present…
Rough Drafts 6/15
The Western Writers of America annual conference this month in Lubbock, Texas, will honor a writer I hold in great estee…
Rough Drafts 5/15
Over the decades, numerous pundits and pessimists have announced the end of the West, Western films, Western novels, Wes…
Rough Drafts 4/15
Fans of Western publishing enjoyed a banner year in books in 2014. In 2015, I am convinced that fans of the Old West wil…