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Tag Archives: Montana Vigilantes
Technology and Story-Telling
Novel-writing bothers me, even though I’ve written three novels of my Vigilante Quartet and I’m working on the fourth. My problem with writing novels is that the chain of cause and effect is so linear. A causes B which leads … Continue reading
A Pinch of Dust
My first ever Christmas story, “A Pinch of Dust,” is nearly ready. This is the story. It’s Christmas Eve 1864 in Montana Territory. When a young girl, the daughter of a gambler, begs Daniel Stark for “a pinch of dust,” … Continue reading
Posted in historical fiction of the West
Tagged Dan Stark, God's Thunderbolt, Gold, Gold Under Ice, Montana Vigilantes, The Devil in the Bottle
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The Montana Festival of the Book (October 4 – 6, 2012)
This annual celebration of literature typically has something for nearly everyone, and this year I met writers from as far away as Los Angeles and Chinook, MT, a distance greater in culture than in miles. The event had self-publishers like … Continue reading
The Ghost at Beaverhead Rock
Those of you who follow me on Facebook or Twitter, or this blog, may remember that awhile back I was trying to decide if Beaverhead Rock would be a good title for the fourth book about the Vigilantes of Montana. … Continue reading
The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
On Facebook today a friend cited an article from The Globe and Mail written by an established British author named Ewan Morrison who insists that with the current trends in writing and publishing, “There will be no professional writers in … Continue reading