Richard S. Wheeler's Blog, page 25
April 12, 2012
New Life for Old Titles
I've been steadily moving my reverted titles to electronic form, this giving them new life. In recent weeks I've posted Badlands on Kindle and Nook, as well as The Two Medicine River, and Goldfield. All are big historical novels.
Badlands is about an early Smithsonian expedition to the Dakota Badlands to dig up giant fossils, but the scientists discover they are disturbing sacred ground of the Sioux. Badlands was my best-selling novel of all time.
The Two Medicine is about two mixed-blood young people caught in the Indian wars in northern Montana in the vicinity of the Blackfoot reservation.
Goldfield is the story of a Nevada bonanza town, and the people who rush to it to make their fortunes--or lose their shirts.
Badlands is about an early Smithsonian expedition to the Dakota Badlands to dig up giant fossils, but the scientists discover they are disturbing sacred ground of the Sioux. Badlands was my best-selling novel of all time.
The Two Medicine is about two mixed-blood young people caught in the Indian wars in northern Montana in the vicinity of the Blackfoot reservation.
Goldfield is the story of a Nevada bonanza town, and the people who rush to it to make their fortunes--or lose their shirts.
April 7, 2012
Portrait
I've posted a portrait of myself here, done by Benjamin Bruce, of Key West and Livingston. He painted this from a photo he took of me when I was deep in conversation with an actress at the Deep Creek ranch once owned by Tom McGuane, and now owned by Keith Lawrie.
Dink, as he is known to all his friends,is a gifted artist and entrepreneur.
Dink, as he is known to all his friends,is a gifted artist and entrepreneur.
April 6, 2012
Gatz is Back
My friend William "Gatz" Hjortsberg is back from a grueling 4,000-mile book tour to promote his new biography of Richard Brautigan, Jubilee Hitchhiker. The book runs 880 dense pages, and sells for $42.50, and is largely the bible for Brautigan fans.
Ever since I came to Livingston, I've been hearing wild Richard Brautigan stories, each one more improbable than the last. He was close to Tom McGuane, Jim Harrison, Peter and Becky Fonda, Margot Kidder, Russell Chatham, as well as Hjortsberg, and they all tell great tales about him, many of which have wound up in this vast labor of love, which was twenty years in the making.
The book got too fat for its original publisher, Knopf, and they rejected it, but it was picked up by a regional press, Crossroads. Gatz's reading at City Lights in San Francisco was jammed, and the line of people waiting for a signed copy stretched a block and a half, until the bookstore ran out of books. Off to a fine start, then.
Ever since I came to Livingston, I've been hearing wild Richard Brautigan stories, each one more improbable than the last. He was close to Tom McGuane, Jim Harrison, Peter and Becky Fonda, Margot Kidder, Russell Chatham, as well as Hjortsberg, and they all tell great tales about him, many of which have wound up in this vast labor of love, which was twenty years in the making.
The book got too fat for its original publisher, Knopf, and they rejected it, but it was picked up by a regional press, Crossroads. Gatz's reading at City Lights in San Francisco was jammed, and the line of people waiting for a signed copy stretched a block and a half, until the bookstore ran out of books. Off to a fine start, then.
March 31, 2012
NPR Interview
Cherie Newman of Montana NPR did this interview of me. It deals with my new novel about Butte, Montana.
http://www.mtpr.net/program_info/2012...
http://www.mtpr.net/program_info/2012...
