Forgotten Rose is my thirty-eighth western/frontier novel. I wrote it in the late fall of 2024, finishing just before New Year, and it was published in April 2025 as an e-book and paperback by Wolfpack Publishing. It is the third novel in a three-book series featuring Jess Delaine.
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Broken Horn is my thirty-seventh western/frontier novel. I wrote it in the summer of 2024, and it was published in February 2025 as an e-book and paperback by Wolfpack Publishing. It is the second novel in a three-book series featuring Jess Delaine.
Lost Canyon is my thirty-sixth western/frontier novel. I wrote it in the spring of 2024, and it was published in January 2025 as an e-book and paperback by Wolfpack Publishing. It is the first novel in a three-book series featuring Jess Delaine.
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Boy from the Country is an autobiographical work of nonfiction, not quite my life story but a part of it. As I have said more than once about writing this kind of work, one of the biggest challenges is in having to decide what to leave out. I discuss this consideration in the Preface to the work:
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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 in “Return to Laurel,” a story that did well for me a few years ago. In this later story, which was published in an anthology by Five Star, Tresh undertakes to solve the mystery of the death of the son of an older woman who has some apprehensions but wants to know the truth. Along the way, Tresh meets the deceased’s ex-wife and subsequent paramour, and he sticks to principle in his dealings with them.
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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 character but includes a couple of other sub-plots that converge with the main character’s story in the town of Guest. The main character is Jord Blaine, a rider for the Skull ranch who falls out of favor when he does not want to participate in the persecution of Creole (non-white) homesteaders. In one of the sub-plots, a detective named Motte is assigned, along with his amiable colleague Lorna, to try to find a girl who was abducted from an Indian boarding school. In the other sub-plot, Tyler McBroom, a traveling salesman of farm and ranch equipment, runs off with the mistress of a shady businessman in Billings, Montana.
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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.
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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 of my agent, Cherry Weiner, the novel was accepted by Speaking Volumes and was published in October of 2023.
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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 Thorndike. (All of my previous Five Star titles were reprinted as large print editions by Thorndike, as both companies were owned by Cengage.) This novel had a bit of a delay in its release, but it made its appearance in durable format with an intriguing cover.
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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 2023.
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