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May 28, 2019
Good Water Commentary
Good Water is my twenty-fifth western/frontier novel and my sixth book with Five Star Publishing. I wrote it in the first part of 2015, and it came out in the latter part of 2016. For this novel, I tried a couple of approaches with which I had not done much, and so it took me […]
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May 21, 2019
Death in Cantera Commentary
Death in Cantera is my twenty-fourth western/frontier novel, my fifth book with Five Star, and my second Dunbar story. I wrote it in 2013, and it came out in early 2016. By the time I wrote this novel, I had an established relationship with Five Star, so I could think about writing a story with […]
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May 14, 2019
Justice at Redwillow Commentary
Justice at Redwillow is my twenty-third western/frontier novel and my fourth with Five Star in its hardcover frontier line. It was published in August of 2015. I began working on ideas for this story line in 2011, but I struggled quite a bit with some of the elements. I think some of my uncertainties may […]
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May 7, 2019
Don’t Be a Stranger Commentary
Don’t Be a Stranger is my twenty-second western/frontier novel, published by Five Star Publishing in February of 2015. It was published before Justice at Redwillow, although I wrote them in the opposite order. I wrote them both while things were getting under way with Five Star and its frontier line. During that time, Dark Prairie […]
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April 30, 2019
Robert Roripaugh Commentary
Robert Roripaugh is a booklet in the Boise State University Western Writers Series. This slim volume came out in 2004, and it gives an overview of the career of Robert Roripaugh, who has been a major literary figure in Wyoming for many years. Roripaugh has had a long career as a writer of fiction, non-fiction, […]
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April 28, 2019
Across the Cheyenne River Commentary
Across the Cheyenne River was my second novel with Five Star Publishing and my twenty-first traditional western. Although that sequence may sound routine, this novel did not make its way into the world without obstacles. This was the manuscript I was working on in August of 2010 when I received a phone call from a […]
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April 19, 2019
Understanding Fiction Commentary
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Understanding Fiction is a textbook/manual I have put together for my college classes in introduction to literature and studies in the short story. Like Writing for Real, it evolved out of materials I developed for a distance course.
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Writing for Real Commentary
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Writing for Real is a textbook I have composed for my classes in college composition. It first began to take shape many years ago, when I was putting together a manual for a distance course in composition.
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Done by Friday Commentary
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In a separate post, I mention that I developed a collateral text, consisting entirely of supplemental exercises, to go along with the Blue Book of Basic Writing, a textbook I have developed and used for several years in my basic writing courses. This secondary text is entitled Done by Friday (reference to Robinson Crusoe explained […]
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Blue Book of Basic Writing Commentary
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The Blue Book of Basic Writing is a textbook I developed for my basic writing classes. I first started working on it in the late 1980's, when I had become more and more dissatisfied with basic writing textbooks on the market
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