Bluster’s Dozen
In researching Bluster’s Last Stand, I read close to a hundred books on Custer and the Little Bighorn in search of historical details and odd facts I could use in my novel. The nice thing about writing fiction is that you can use the accounts that serve your story best without having to confirm their […]
Lomax Is Back!
With the release of Bluster’s Last Stand by Wild Horse Press this fall, my loveable scoundrel H.H. Lomax has returned with another misadventure, this time culminating at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. The story of Lomax goes back to the mid-1990s when the editor of Bantam approached me about working with Book Creations Inc. […]
A Camel Born at Sea
My latest young adult novel, Just Call Me Uncle Sam, has now been published by Wild Horse Press. This is my third juvenile novel, but the first where I had actual kids help me write it. The book is the third in my Animal Legends series which looks at our Texas heritage through the eyes […]
O.K. Corral
Thanks to Wild Horse Press of Fort Worth, the third of my novels in The Memoirs of H.H. Lomax series is now back in print and available from on-line retailers. This is how Mix-Up at the O.K. Corral begins: Things might have turned out different in Tombstone if I hadn’t had a toothache […]
Picture Books
As a writer, I am always fascinated by the differences in techniques for various forms of entertainment media. Over my career I’ve written numerous articles, 30 published novels, two produced playscripts (performed far, far from even off Broadway), one screenplay (unproduced and unlikely to see the big screen) and even a published poem. So, I’ve […]
Gentleman of Letters
I am proud to report that my western caper The Fleecing of Fort Griffin has received the Elmer Kelton Award for best creative work on West Texas from the West Texas Historical Association. It is always an honor to see your work rewarded but this recognition is especially meaningful. First, it comes from an organization […]
Old-Timer
You know you are getting old when you read a history book and realize you knew nine of the people mentioned. Encountering those names was an unexpected pleasure when I got a review copy of Rounded Up in Glory: Frank Reaugh, Texas Renaissance Man by Michael R. Grauer. Reaugh (1860-1945), pronounced “ray,” was a Texas artist […]
Ideas Aplenty
Probably the most frequent question I have gotten as a published author is this: Where do you get your ideas? My wife once asked me where I came up with all that stuff, though “stuff” was not her exact phraseology. Even my daughter gave me a Father’s Day Card one year that read, “Fatherhood: the […]
O.K. Song
Over the weekend I had occasion to re-watch Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, the 1957 movie that I first saw at the Yucca Theater in Midland, Texas, when I was a kid. It was a wonderful movie that holds up well even today for pure entertainment. What I remember most about the showing that night […]