Old West Romance and Mail Order Brides Countless stories have been told about bachelors in the Old West. We hear of mail order brides. It did happen fairly often. And with good reason. After the Civil War, few eligible men existed in the East for the surplus of women and widows. And the wild West had […]
Don Runcie might as well have beaten Reba with a tire iron and left her for dead. The effect wrenched the same. Her joy wadded up in a bloody rag at her feet. “Reba Mae,” Jace began and stopped. A gust of wind dashed over them, whipping Reba’s hair and spinning ground debris like devil […]
Squash blossom necklace provides pivotal evidence in new release contemporary western mystery novel Wind in the Wires While most turquoise jewelry is crafted and set in silver, in Wind in the Wires a squash blossom necklace made of gold and turquoise assesses at almost priceless value. It also plays a prominent part of the mystery […]
Square Butte scene excerpt from western romance novel Creede of Old Montana by author Stephen Bly: They made it to Square Butte at sunset and filled the canteen at the springs. But they didn’t camp until they reached the eastern tip of the Highwood Mountains. Rocky, treeless hills blended with buckskin brown prairie. Supper consisted […]
First Novel Family Project by Rebecca DeMarino June 2010, my dad, age eighty-seven, lay on a hospital bed, prepped for an angiogram. His aortic valve about closed, his cardiologist ordered the test as a first step to open-heart surgery. The heart surgeon would not want any surprises when he went in to replace the valve. […]
Finding the Romance in Novel Research by western author Stephen Bly When a cowboy writer does novel research, the sight of a landmark can spark an idea for a full-fledged novel … or just a poem. Southeast of Four Corners, New Mexico is Shiprock, an impressive example of a volcanic neck or a […]
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