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More Honors for Bariso Press
Three of our Bariso Press books have earned top honors in their respective categories in the 2026 Independent Author Awards (IAA) announced this week. The
Bariso Press Strikes Again
Bariso Press Editor and Publisher Harriet Kocher Lewis is pleased to report that Pintsized Pioneers at Play: Homemade Frontier Fun and Danger was a double winner in
Pintsized Plaudits
Pintsized Pioneers at Play: Homemade Frontier Fun and Danger received a nice review in the April issue of Western Writers of America’s The Roundup magazine. Thanks to reviewer
Gold in Them There Beverly Hills
Since I’ve started trying my hand at screenplays based on some of my novels, my most significant accomplishment to date is my Fleecing of Fort
Pintsized Kudos
This month starts the award season for writers, and Harriet and I have already been blessed with recognition. It was announced at the Tucson
Gentry, Grifters and Greed
The Fleecing of Fort Griffin was the first comic western I wrote, but it didn’t see print for more than a decade until I retired
Catfight at the No‑Pay Saloon: New Western Short Story in Saddlebag Dispatches
Like most authors, the question I get more than any other from non-writers is where do I get my ideas. The answer is the ideas
Matters of Life and Death
When you write novels you are the creator of your own universe, the god of this self-made world. You have the power of life and
Mount Rushmore of Texas Western Writers
Check out pages 30-37 of the January Lone Star Literary Life Magazine online, which features my article on Texas novels essential to understand the Texas