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 […]
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 […]
Billy the Kidder
Some 135 years after his demise, Billy the Kid has made me a published poet, proving once again the long reach of the buck-toothed New Mexico outlaw. My trail to writing poetry began in October 2015 with a National Geographic documentary narrated by Kevin Costner and claiming to have found a new tintype of Billy playing […]
Killing Custer
I have just sent to my publisher, Wild Horse Press, the manuscript for the fourth book in The Memoirs of H.H. Lomax series. This book explores Custer and the Little Bighorn with Lomax right in the middle of things. In fact, if Custer had only listened to Lomax, things might have turned out differently that […]
The Times It Never Rained
I have a long history with True West so it is always nice to get a byline in the magazine. The October issue carries my story “The Deadliest Enemy” on how Texas ranchers survived the two major droughts of the late 19th century. It was a fun story to research and shows how serious droughts […]