New Q&A interview!
Curious about the story behind Hired Guns and No Hallowed Ground? Bookseller/writer Scott Montgomery gets the scoop over on his blog, The Hard Word, in an in-depth Q&A! Check it out!
New "Hired Guns" ebook sale!
For one week the Hired Guns ebook is on sale for a mere 99 cents! Now you can get the novel Western Fiction Review called “terrific” for less money (way less!) than a Starbucks coffee! Check it out!
Yet another new audiobook now available!
No Hallowed Ground, the rip-roaring Western adventure sequel to Hired Guns, is now available as an audiobook. Diehl, Hoop and Eskaminzim are trailing a gang of bank robbers…or so they’ve been told. The truth could get them killed — and tear the whole country apart! Check it out!
Another new audiobook now available!
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!
New audiobook now available!
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!
"No Hallowed Ground" is out today!
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!
New blog post (on someone else's blog)!
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!
New review for "Hired Guns"!
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.
Another new book available for order!
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!
New paperback available for pre-order!
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’!
New novel coming soon!
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)!
New newsy news (and a new giveaway)!
There’s big book news coming soon! Some I’ll be revealing on this page, some I’ll save for my newsletter. Not a subscriber? No prob! Sign up and I’ll send you a free “Holmes on the Range” short story. Click here to enter your info and get the freebie!
New Kickstarter for new publisher!
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!
New podcast interview!
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!
Old story available in a new way!
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!
New Q&A!
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!
New "Holmes on the Range" chronology!
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!
New audiobook!
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!
New "Holmes on the Range" overview!
Bob Byrne has published an amazingly comprehensive introduction to the “Holmes on the Range” series over on the Black Gate blog. Check it out!
New story!
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!