I know Halloween’s still a few days off, but it’s not too early for some yuletide cheer, right? Good, because the eight-hour (!!!) audiobook of my short story collection Naughty: Nine Tales of Christmas Crime is now available on Audible! Check it out!
The 10-hour (!!!) audiobook of my Western adventure Hired Guns, read by the great Chuck Galco and with a cover by the also-great Emmit Scott, is available on Audible now! Check it out!
Diehl, Hoop and Eskaminzim, the “hired guns” of the A.A. Western Detective Agency, are back in action. This time they’re chasing a gang of bank robbers across Missouri…or so they think. It turns out the “robbers” are part of a deadly conspiracy to reignite the Civil War! Check out No Hallowed Ground now!
You wouldn’t think Westerns and mysteries have much in common with New Wave pop/ska. But I see a connection between my favorite band, the still-thriving ’80s English institution Madness, and what I write. Now the fine folks at the Stateside Madness blog have kindly opened their cyber-doors to this old Nutty Boy so I could explore how a group of North London popsters could inspire (in a roundabout way) Holmes on the Range and more. Check it out!
Western Fiction Review has weighed in on Hired Guns. Their verdict: “If you like traditional westerns that are packed with tough, brutal action, mixed with elements of humour and have plots that will keep you guessing until the end, then look no further than Hired Guns.” Huzzah! Sounds like a rave to me! Hired Guns comes out Sept. 17.
No Hallowed Ground, the sequel to Hired Guns, is now available for pre-order! What kind of danger have A.A. Western Detective Agency operatives Diehl, Hoop and Eskaminzim gotten themselves into this time? Oh, only the kind that could plunge the country into a second Civil War! Both the paperback and ebook are now available for pre-order (with a publication date of Oct. 8). Head over to Amazon to reserve your copy today!
The “Holmes on the Range” Western action-adventure spinoff Hired Guns comes out Sept. 17 … and you can buy your copy today! Both the paperback and ebook are now available for pre-order. Head over to Amazon and get clickin’!
The “Holmes on the Range”-iverse is getting bigger! Coming Sept. 17 from Rough Edges Press: the first “Holmes on the Range” spinoff novel, Hired Guns. Big Red and Old Red aren’t the A.A. Western Detective Agency’s only operatives, you know. It’s time for Ira Hoop, Oswin Diehl and Eskaminzim to step into the spotlight. Pre-order the ebook today (or wait another week or so for the paperback)!
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I’ve been tapped to contribute a story to a new anthology of Western stories by fledgling publisher Silverado Press. Silverado honcho Jeffrey J. Mariotte is funding the book (which includes contributions from tons of great Western writers) through a Kickstarter campaign that just went live. Check it out!
I had a great time chatting on “The Creative Writing Life Podcast” about outlining, Westerns, “Planet of the Apes,” my unlicensed “Star Trek” vs. “Alien” crossover and why so many movies today feel so danged long. Behind-the-scenes bonus for those in the know: You get to hear me stop the podcast to take a call about my kidney stones. Check it out!
My crime fiction short story “i,” which originally appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine in 2017, was recently republished in issue #140 of Black Cat Weekly. The fine folks at Black Cat have also made the story available on its own as a 99-cent download. Check it out!
Wanna hear how the “Holmes on the Range” series ended up coming back and what might be in store for its future? I reveal all in a Q&A on the Black Gate website. Check it out!
Over on the Black Gate website Bob Byrne has published a follow-up to his comprehensive overview of the “Holmes on the Range” series. This time he’s arranged all the stories and novels in chronological order, both in terms of the internal continuity of the series and its publishing history. Check it out!
The audiobook for the newest “Holmes on the Range” story collection, Black List, White Death, is now available on Audible and Amazon. Just sayin’. You know — in case you’ve been waiting. Check it out!
Bob Byrne has published an amazingly comprehensive introduction to the “Holmes on the Range” series over on the Black Gate blog. Check it out!
The just-released anthology Lawless: New Stories of the American West includes stories by an amazing array of Western writers…and me! My contribution, “Maverick County,” features a cameo by two characters up-to-date “Holmes on the Range” readers will know well. Check it out!
For the next week, the ebook of Dear Mr. Holmes: Seven Holmes on the Range Mysteries is on sale on Amazon for just 99 cents. If you haven’t sampled the series yet, this is a good place to hop on: The title story, originally published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine in 2003, is Big Red and Old Red’s very first adventure! Check it out!
FYI, I’ve popped by the blog of author George Cramer to chat about my writing process and plans. Interested? Check it out!
We’ve given you a lot of new “Holmes on the Range” to read this year, and we’re not done yet. Black List, White Death: Two Holmes on the Range Novellas is on sale now. Check it out!