Author Interview with Widow and Sons of Western Author Stephen Bly On June 9, 2011 award-winning western author Stephen Bly passed away due to a 5-year battle with prostate cancer. He had begun a new novel, Stuart Brannon’s Final Shot, part of his most well-known western book series. His family determined to finish it for […]
Western Novel Hero Stuart Brannon Writes Again by Stephen Bly I began to think about my next western novel and sorted through some ideas. Then, I ordered a triple tall, iced espresso. That’s cold coffee with about ten times the caffeine content as regular coffee. No flavoring, milk, or anything added. A modern hyper drink. […]
Called Together, Forced Apart by Janet Chester Bly, coping with loss as writing & marriage partners I started the writing craze. Then I got my husband, Stephen Bly, involved. We combined as a team. Then his fiction got so prolific that it consumed us both, to keep up with the process before and promotion afterward. […]
Stuart Brannon Series Completed Award-winning western author Stephen Bly passed away June 9, 2011, after a 5-year battle with prostate cancer. His wife, Janet Chester Bly, and 3 sons determined to finish the western book series with Book #7 he began, Stuart Brannon’s Final Shot. Here’s the second and final part of a western author […]
Final Western Book Series Novel Family Deadline by Janet Chester Bly We started the project July 1, 2011. Our deadline for Stuart Brannon’s Final Shot, Book 7 in the Stuart Brannon western book series, was November 1st. My husband, western author Stephen Bly, left us 7,000 words (one chapter), a one-page synopsis, some scribbled, penciled […]
Janet Chester Bly to participate in 2013 Montana Festival of the Book Montana Festival, October 10-12, 2013, hosted by Missoula, Montana’s 14th annual Humanities Montana Festival of the Book. This is one of the biggest cultural events in the Northwest. This year includes a special edition of the popular storytelling event Tell Us Something and […]
Bly Books news report: a fan letter, award announcement and links to The Dabbling Mum Speaks blog … Bly Books news #1: What to do when you lose your (writing) partner? Intro and book trailer at The Dabbling Mum Speaks blog: http://thedabblingmum.blogspot.com/2012/10/interview-with-janet-bly.html Bly Books news #2: How one widow is forging a new path for […]
Western Heroes – Stuart Brannon Factoids & Quotes Stuart Brannon, one of the fiction western heroes in the Stephen Bly western book series, was a western philosopher of sorts. Before he adopted 12-year-old Littlefoot Brannon in 1888, he lost his wife on Christmas Day 1875 in childbirth. The baby boy died too. A year later […]
Narcissa Kinney: The Heroine Legend Behind Stuart Brannon’s Final Shot by Janet Chester Bly Most of Stuart Brannon’s Final Shot happens around Gearhart, Oregon in 1905. The railroad opened up more tourists for this seacoast village, tucked between crashing surf and Pacific forests. One of its most prominent citizens, Narcissa Kinney (1851-1901), serves as a […]
RAZOR CLAM CHOWDER & BEAR STEAK RECIPES In Stuart Brannon’s Final Shot, Brannon is forced by his friend, Lady Harriet Reed-Fletcher, to do a bit of razor clamming. Then she makes him promise to try eating at least one bite of razor clams fixed in various dishes: a plain clam dip, a smoked clam dip, […]
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