This mincemeat pie recipe was western author Stephen Bly’s favorite Christmas dessert. OLD-FASHIONED MINCEMEAT PIE You’ll need to start four weeks ahead to prepare the very special ingredients for this mincemeat pie with meat filling. Makes fifteen quarts that you can keep all year long in the root cellar or any pantry. Here’s what it […]
DECEMBER IS A GOOD MONTH TO COWBOY Here’s some Christmas cowboy poetry by award-winning western author Stephen Bly. December is a good month to cowboy, if you’re fond of the wind, snow and cold. It ain’t that I don’t like winter, boys, it’s just tougher when a man grows old. Snow whipped down off […]
Five Christmas Tips To Celebrate Christmas Like The Shepherds Did by Stephen & Janet Bly Here’s Christmas tips taken from Luke 2:8-20 . . . Christmas Tips #1: Get busy. Do your job. Like the shepherds guarding their flocks in their field , complete the next thing appointed to get done. God may surprise you […]
Here’s five ways to research fiction by western author Stephen Bly To research fiction, writers have to be gold miners at heart. Any story worth its gems has the sweat of pickax hard work behind it. In the historical novel, Cowboy For A Rainy Afternoon, I discovered these jewels of info that played out in […]
Most Everything I Know I Learned From Rodeo Rules by western author Stephen Bly Robert Jack lived right down the road. He called me Butch and I called him Junior. We discovered we agreed on almost everything … Dwight David Eisenhower and the New York Yankees, Dodge pickup trucks and quetta nectarines, Coca Cola and […]
Bury Me With My Boots On by western author Stephen Bly Whenever I hear the phrase, “Bury me with my boots on,” I’m reminded of a scene … The lady seemed restless, like she wanted to ask me something important. The pastor and his well-dressed wife had met me at the airport and she hadn’t […]
First Draft Synopsis of Stuart Brannon’s Final Shot, Book 7 of Western Book Series by coauthor Janet Chester Bly My three sons and I began July 1st, 2011. We had four months to complete the novel, Stuart Brannon’s Final Shot, the last in the Stuart Brannon western book series. Though we had offers of […]
This Man Called Stuart Brannon, A True Western Hero, Cowboy Poetry by Stephen Bly He drove a herd from Texas, Did what none had ever done. He stocked his ranch and took a chance In the Arizona sun. His Lisa died, the baby, too, The pain was quite severe. The cattle dropped, his whole […]
Stuart Brannon’s Final Shot by Stephen Bly & Janet Chester Bly … the early 1900s research When my three sons and I determined to finish the novel my late husband Stephen Bly began, we had quite a challenge. Could a committee create fiction? We had the passion to find out. And that required extensive research […]
Casting Characters by Auditions, Creating the Story World for Stuart Brannon’s Final Shot … by Stephen Bly with Janet Chester Bly The call for casting characters for the fiction project, Stuart Brannon’s Final Shot, came as a fun challenge to me and my three sons. My husband, award-winning western author Stephen Bly, dictated these sketchy notes […]
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