Murder in Dogleg City (21 page)

I am a longtime journalist and
freelance writer living in Carmel, IN. I was a newspaper
correspondent for several years for a large daily newspaper before
turning to writing novels full-time.

JERRY GUIN

I was born in Arkansas
then migrated to the high country in Idaho and now live on the edge
of Big Foot country in Northern California. My wife Ginny
proofreads and coaches everything I write. I’ve always lived in or
near the woods, so it was no surprise to friends and family when my
first book,
Matsutake Mushroom,
a nature guidebook, was printed in 1997. Since
then I have written 28 articles and western short stories for
various magazines such as
Western Digest,
The Shootist, Roundup
and others. I have
stories in several western anthologies and my novel
Drover’s Vendetta
was
released in 2011.

After I became a member of
Western Fictioneers, the organization provided plenty of new
opportunities for me to write alongside some of the best western
authors in the business. I now have stories in
The Traditional West, Six-Guns and Slay Bells, A Creepy
Cowboy Christmas
and the first chapter of
Wolf Creek book 3,
Murder in Dogleg
City.

MATTHEW P. MAYO

My short stories have been
nominated for the Spur Award and Peacemaker Award, and appear in a
variety of anthologies, including
Six-Guns
and Slay Bells
,
Beat to a Pulp
,
Out of the Gutter
, Moonstone Books
anthologies, and the DAW Books anthologies
Timeshares
and
Steampunk’d
.

My novels include the
Westerns
Winters’ War
;
Wrong Town (Roamer, Book
1)
;
Hot Lead,
Cold Heart
;
Dead
Man’s Ranch
; and
Tucker’s Reckoning
, and I write for
a popular series of “all-action” Westerns. My critically acclaimed
non-fiction books include
Cowboys,
Mountain Men & Grizzly Bears
;
Bootleggers, Lobstermen &
Lumberjacks
;
Sourdoughs, Claim Jumpers & Dry
Gulchers
; and
Haunted Old West
.

My wife, photographer
Jennifer Smith-Mayo, and I operate Gritty Press
(
www.GrittyPress.com
), the
flying spin-kick of the publishing world, and can frequently be
found roving the highways and byways of the West with our wee pup,
Nessie. Drop by my e-ranch for a cuppa mud and a chinwag at
www.MatthewMayo.com
.

CHUCK TYRELL

I was born and raised in
Arizona and worked stock and farmed until I ran away to college and
never went back.
I decided I wanted to
make my living as a writer in 1975. Up until that time, I’d been a
marketing and advertising person. I took a correspondence course on
writing for magazines, and sold my first article in 1976, when I
was working at a newspaper and DJ-ing on nighttime radio at the
same time. Since that first sale, I’ve had very few articles turned
down. Now, of course, I write them only on assignment. Also in
1976, I won the Editor and Publisher Magazine award for the best
direct mail campaign for a small newspaper in the United States.By
1977, I earned my entire living with my typewriter, writing ads,
annual reports, newsletters, magazine articles, and sometimes a
newspaper article.

I’ve read westerns all my life. The first one
I remember was Smokey, by Will James. I read everything I could
find, living far away from the west in Japan. In 1979, I wrote a
western novel for a Louis L’Amour write-alike contest. Didn’t win.
Decided I could not write fiction. The typewritten manuscript
occupied a bottom desk drawer until 2000. I dusted it off and
edited it as I input it into a computer file. Sent it off to a
publisher, Robert Hale Ltd., in London. They bought it providing
I’d cut it down to 40,000 words. The novel is now known as
Vulture Gold
, the first of the Havelock novels.

Besides awards in advertising and article
writing, a short story won the 2010 Oaxaca International Literature
Competition and my novel
The Snake Den
won the 2011 Global
eBook Award for western fiction. Other than that, I just write
westerns and fantasy. My home is in Japan, where I live with one
wife and one dog and one father-in-law, visited quite often by
daughters and grandkids. I write most of my fiction by longhand,
usually at Starbucks. Other writing I do on the laptop. My website
is
www.chucktyrell.com
and my blog is
www.chucktyrell-outlawjournal.blogspot.com
I
have a number of short stories lying around in various
anthologies.

L. J. (LIVIA J.)
WASHBURN

I have been writing
award-winning, critically acclaimed mysteries, westerns, romances,
and historical novels for thirty years. I began to write in
collaboration with my husband, author James Reasoner, and soon
branched out into telling my own stories. We have had a long career
working together, tweaking and editing each others stories. I live
in the Texas countryside with James, one of my two daughters, and
my dogs. Even though I have an office, I do most of my writing in
our living room sitting in a recliner with a laptop perched on the
arm of the chair and two small Chihuahua/ Min Pins in my lap. It’s
a great life. My website is
www.liviawashburn.com
,
and my blog is
http://liviajwashburn.blogspot.com
.

TROY D. SMITH

I am from the Upper
Cumberland region of Tennessee. My work has appeared in many
anthologies, and in journals such as
Louis
L'Amour Western Magazine, Civil War Times,
and
Wild West.
In addition, I’ve written novels in several genres—from
mysteries like
Cross Road Blues
to the Civil War epic
Good Rebel Soil
. My other Civil War
epic,
Bound for the Promise-Land,
won a Spur Award in 2001 and I was a finalist on
two other occasions. Two of my short stories are finalists for this
year's Peacemaker Award for western fiction. In a massive lapse of
collective judgment, the membership of Western Fictioneers elected
me president for 2012. I received my Ph.D. from the University of
Illinois, and teach American Indian history at Tennessee Tech. My
motto is: “I don’t write about things that happen to people, I
write about people that things happen to.” My website is
www.troyduanesmith.com
,
and my blog is
http://tnwordsmith.blogspot.com

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Book 1: Bloody Trail

Book 2: Kiowa Vengeance

Book 3: Murder in Dogleg
City

Book 4: The Taylor County
War

Book 5: Showdown at Demon's
Drop

Book 6: Hell on the
Prairie

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Dying

Book 8: Night of the
Assassins

Book 9: A Wolf Creek
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RAW DEAL AT PASCO SPRINGS by Clay
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LEAVING KANSAS by Frank
Roderus

JUDGE ON THE RUN by Clay
More

RANGER'S REVENGE by James J.
Griffin

REACHING COLORADO by Frank
Roderus

DEATH STALKS THE RANGERS by James
J. Griffin

A ROPE FOR SCUDDER by Clay
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DEAD MAN'S GUN AND OTHER STORIES
by Ed Gorman

GUN FOR HIRE by Jory
Sherman

FINDING NEVADA by Frank
Roderus

THE TRAIL BROTHERS by Troy D.
Smith

THE CAST-IRON STAR AND OTHER
WESTERN STORIES by Robert J. Randisi

STAMPEDE AT RATTLESNAKE PASS by
Clay More

A DISGRACE TO THE BADGE AND OTHER
WESTERN STORIES by Ed Gorman

BUZZARD BAIT by Jory
Sherman

RED TOMAHAWK by Jory
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