THAT OLE BOY HAS ‘GONE TO TEXAS’ A fella who owns a gas station and mini-mart down the road has an interesting habit. Every time a customer’s check bounces, and he can’t find the person who signed it, he posts the check on his bulletin board and writes across it with a red Sharpie: “Gone to […]
Jawbone Credit Western Slang Devotional by Stephen Bly On February 15th, 1894, Milton Porter, without a penny to his name, walked into the White Pine County Bank in Ely, Nevada, and carried out $12,000 cash. He used jawbone credit. He didn’t have a mask over his face or a six-gun in his hand. The tellers didn’t […]
BETHLEHEM PINE, a cowboy Christmas poem by Stephen Bly I was camped out in the Dakota snow When Christmas Eve rolled around. Me and Slim and a dog named Flop, Three days ride from town. Not a tree in sight for thirty miles, As we huddled in the draw. The chips ran out […]
See How They Run Look up! Look up to the left. There’s Noah … he ran a rough race. He faced a crowd of ridicule. He ran his race almost alone. Are you running alone? Look up to brother Noah. I can hear him say, “Stick with it. Don’t give up. It’s worth it.” Look to […]
HELPS ON THE FAMILY LIFE TRAIL We all need trail tips now and then. Being a parent is more than rushing around in a frenzy of work. Or earning the money. Good dads take time to know themselves, their wives, and especially their children. We want to be good dads, but sometimes we run out […]
TOP TEN REASONS STEPHEN BLY’S THANKFUL FOR USA Our son, Aaron, studied government, history, and political science in college. He followed a long line of Blys with political opinions on every issue. Each one could state top ten reasons about any topic. The summer I turned twenty, a year from being allowed to vote, I […]
Hard Winter at Broken Arrow Crossing, Cowboy Christmas Western Novel by Award-Winning Author Stephen Bly, Book 1 The Stuart Brannon Series. Limited time Holiday discount now available! Excerpt from Christmas western story, Hard Winter at Broken Arrow Crossing: “About midnight, the baby came. Lisa had been in horrible pain until then. Cleaned things up a […]
Western Author Stephen Bly Talks Movies The main drawback to some western movies is what I call “Shane’s Disease.” This is a cinematic illness that’s not just common to western movies … and it’s non-fatal. However, it weakens a tad an otherwise decent movie. For instance, in a couple different scenes of one of Tom Selleck’s […]
One Step Over the Border Cowboy Romance Comedy by Stephen Bly Limited Time Special! .99 cents (plus p&h) “Have you seen my Juanita?” That’s what rodeo cowboy Hap Bowman asks from Wyoming to the Mexican border. His rodeo partner, Laramie Majors, joins him in this comedy cowboy romance search. Hap becomes obsessed to find his […]
5 Reasons I Needed Fantastic Fiction Retreat After more than 120 published books–Stephen’s, mine, and ours–why would I need a fiction retreat? That’s what several folks asked me last weekend. A dozen fledgling as well as a few established writers attended the first annual Fantastic Fiction Retreat. Here’s why it was so important to me. […]
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