Short Listers for the LARAMIE 2017 Book Awards for Western, Civil War, and Prairie Fiction
Congratulations to the LARAMIE AWARDS 2017 Short Listers! Good Luck to all as they move forward in the final judging rounds!
INTERVIEW with Grand Prize LARAMIE AWARD-WINNER, JACQUIE ROGERS!
Writing craft methods and tricks of the trade are shared by Jacquie Rogers, award winning Western fiction author, in this informative blogpost. Her books are known for being smart and sassy with a nod to Shakespearean comedies.
The LARAMIE Awards for Western Fiction 2016 First Place Category Winners
Congratulations to the 2016 Laramie Awards First In Category Award Winning Western Fiction authors and their novels!
The LARAMIE Book Awards for Western Fiction – 2016 Official Finalist Listing
The Laramie Awards FIRST IN CATEGORY sub-genres are: Western Romance, Adventure/Caper, Classic Civil War/Prairie/Pioneer, Contemporary Western, & Western Young Adult. The Finalists listed will compete for the 2016 Laramie Awards First in Category positions and for the 2016 Laramie Grand Prize.
ALONG the WAY HOME by Christi Corbett — a harrowing cross-country journey in 1843
Adventure, heartwarming romance, daring deeds, and a vividly portrayed landscape within this stirring debut Western series.
July Contest Spotlight: The Laramie Awards Prove Writers are People with Guts and a Pen
There is an old frontier saying "A cowboy is a man with guts and a horse" and we are pretty sure that "A writer is someone with guts and a pen."
HIGHER GROUND by McKendree Long, third novel in Western series
From the daily adventures of the men, to an edge-of-your-seat, blow-by-blow account of the Battle of Little Big Horn, (aka Custer’s Last Stand), the author combines his wonderful talent for storytelling with in-depth historical research, placing the reader right beside these men in their final days.
DOG SOLDIER MOON by McKendree Long – Historical Post-Civil War Western
Heart-warming and at times hilarious Western adventures are juxtaposed with gritty and emotionally wrenching moments such as Custer’s 1868 attack on Chief Black Kettle’s Cheyenne camp at Washita.
NO GOOD LIKE IT IS, Book One by McKendree Long, a post-Civil War Western
Long’s gifted ear for the true vernacular of the time and his detailed descriptions of the Old West place the reader right in the middle of the action on a journey to the Civil War era and to the far-flung outposts of the Old West.
Editorial Review of “Legend of the Wyakin” by David G. Rasmussen
As chapter one begins, Rasmussen takes us back to June 1865 when the Gold Rush was in full swing, as Captain Phillip La Mar, in the wheelhouse of his stern-wheel riverboat, Jupiter, enters the day's events in the logbook. His major concern is that three crewmen have cholera—the deadly scourge of the riverboats that ply the Missouri River, carrying freight and passengers destined for Fort Benton (Montana) and the goldfields beyond.