One Bite at a Time

  Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 & 4   5. The Anderson Ranch, southeast of El Paso, near the Rio Grande   John Anderson spe...

  Chapter 1 Chapter 2   3. Northern Texas or southern Oklahoma Territory   Angel lay on his belly at the crest of a hog’s back a...

  Chapter 1   2. Bisbee, Arizona Territory   The handsome roan was in good condition, though in need of grooming. The same applied...

  Well, Pilgrim, I finally finished a Western.   Not a novel, and therein lies the rub. It’s a short story, and markets for Western shor...

  James D.F. Hannah and his protagonist , Henry Malone, knocked on the door of the Private Eye Writers of America’s Shamus Awards last year ...

  The virus not only disrupted things we had scheduled; it caused the unexpected not to receive its due. Today I’ll try to make amends for o...

 My reading life has been good of late. Not all winners, one massive disappointment from a top-flight author, but a lot of good stuff I’m ha...