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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
As of mid-December Amazon’s No. 1 Bestseller for historical fiction anthologies was the The Spoilt Quilt and Other Frontier Stories: Pioneering Women of the West, which includes my tale “The Hope Chest” among 16 short stories. As a result, I … Continue reading →
I’m pleased to post the cover for my upcoming Five Star novel Rio Ruidoso, the first book in my Three Rivers Trilogy on the Lincoln County War and Billy the Kid. The cover has a retro feel to it, like … Continue reading →
One of pleasures of doing genealogy in addition to learning about your forebears is that you come across such interesting family stories. One of those family legends provided the genesis for a short story I wrote for The Spoilt Quilt … Continue reading →
In the life of a writer certain moments are particularly rewarding, such as seeing the cover art for the first time, getting your author’s copies or receiving a royalty check. For me the most gratifying event of them all is … Continue reading →
We just returned from a trip to Ruidoso and the obligatory visit to Lincoln, N.M., where Billy the Kid rode into legend. I’ve been there many times over the years to walk what President Rutherford B. Hayes once called “the most … Continue reading →
Writing is a creative, yet solitary endeavor. What makes it worse is that writers, unlike painters or sculptors, don’t really have anything to frame or display when they are done other than a thick stack of typing paper, which is … Continue reading →