PRESTON LEWIS

Award-Winning Author

Way Up North

North To Alaska - Cover Art - Featured Image

I am excited to share the cover of my latest H.H. Lomax historical novel North to Alaska, another beautiful front by artist and novelist Tony Masero.  This is his third cover for me in the Lomax series, and I love them all. His previous Lomax covers include Bluster’s Last Stand, which I adored for its […]

Short Stuff

Will Rogers Medallion Award

The highlight of the Independence Day Weekend for me was receiving official notification that two of my short stories—“The Hope Chest” and “A Grave Too Many”—were finalists for Will Rogers Medallion Awards, which will be presented in October in Fort Worth. “A Grave Too Many” was published in the Five Star Anthology Contention and Other […]

Western Collection Redux

Escape from Silverton Cover

I am pleased to announce the release today of the second volume in the Preston Lewis Western Collection, which includes five of my early westerns. Thanks to the fine folks at Wolfpack Publishing for bringing out this e-book anthology that includes my first two novels, Hard Texas Winter and New Mexico Showdown.  Other books in […]

Western Collection

A day after its Kindle release, Volume 1 of the Preston Lewis Western Collection was ranked on four Amazon Best Seller Lists: No. 4 in Classic Fiction Anthologies & Collections, No. 7 in Classic American Fiction, No. 8 in Louis L’Amour Westerns, and No. 29 in Westerns The anthology includes five of my previous novels, […]

Rio Ruidoso

Rio Ruidoso Cover

I’m excited to announce that Rio Ruidoso, the first book in my Three Rivers Trilogy on the Lincoln County War, was released this week as a Five Star Western from Gale, a Cengage Company.  In many ways, this book was six decades in the making from the time I first visited Lincoln, New Mexico, as […]

First Herd No. 1

As of 3:30 p.m. today, barely 24 hours after its release, my new comic western First Herd to Abilene is No. 1 in Amazon’s Western Science Fiction category; No. 5 in Classic Humor Fiction; and No. 7 in Classic Historical Fiction. While I remain flummoxed about the Western Science Fiction category and its criteria, it’s […]

Western Science Fiction?

First Herd to Abilene was just released today as a Kindle Book and started out as No. 20 on Amazon’s Western Science Fiction list.  Now I have no idea how it got on the Western Science Fiction list or exactly what Western Science Fiction is, but as of this writing it has moved up to […]

Lomax Hits the Cattle Trail

I’m delighted to announce the release of First Herd to Abilene, the fifth volume in my Memoirs of H.H. Lomax series, by Wolfpack Publishing in e-book format on Amazon.  This is my first original western from Wolfpack, and I am excited to continue the adventures of H.H. Lomax with this up-and-coming publisher. The cover by […]