Blog Talk Radio with Red River Writers

I will be on BlogTalk Radio's Red River Writers Live with Peggy and Jon on Monday, May 11, 10 a.m. Pacific and noon Central time. Drop on by the chatroom or dial in and ask questions... you can even listen later, since the shows are recorded, by checking out http://www.blogtalkradio.com/rrradio. Find the listing and the audio will begin.
After I'm done, Peggy Greene and Jon Magee will be interviewing author Nancy E. Turner, so you get two writers of the "Victorian American West" in a single hour!

Salida's Book Haven Aug. 5; then to Leadville

... Am typing away up here in Salida's very cool Carnegie library. My whereabouts the next few days:

• The Book Haven August 5 (today), 5 - 7 p.m., to sign books and chat with whoever drops in. Hope to see lots of friendly faces!
• August 6, I'll be up in Leadville (at last!) at The Book Mine from 4 p.m. until whenever.
• August 7, noon to 2 p.m. in Leadville, at the Healy House/Dexter Cabin gift shop.... and then...
  
• August 7, 3 - 5 p.m., at the Lake County Public Library.
• August 8, 9 a.m.- 2 p.m. (or so) at The Book Mine once more.

After that, it's time for me to say "good-bye" to Colorado (for now) and head on home briefly before tackling Arizona.

Appearing in Pleasanton on April 4

... If you happen to be in Pleasanton for the Pleasanton Poetry, Prose & Arts Festival this weekend (April 4 - 5), drop on by Literary Row on Saturday, April 4, 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. I'll have chocolate, bookmarks, and magnets to hand out and copies of Silver Lies and Iron Ties for sale. (Leaden Skies isn't available until July ... )

In L.A. on Sunday ... A Rodeo of Writers

On Sunday, December 9, I'll be at the Gene Autry National Center as part of their Rodeo of Writers event from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Consider it a little cross-genre experiment ... and I'm really not too far afield here. After all, Silver Lies was a finalist for the Spur Award, way back when, and it also won a Willa Literary Award in 2004 from Women Writing the West. Plus, Wes Lukowsky of Booklist called Iron Ties "a well-crafted novel that will appeal to readers of mysteries, historical fiction, and genre westerns." So yee-haw, heigh-ho Silver, and away to L.A. I go.

I'll be sitting at a table with my friend Laurie Powers, who wrote/edited a heckuva nonfiction/memoir-style book--Pulp Writer: Twenty Years on Grub Street. The book concerns her search for information about her grandfather Paul S. Powers, a Western pulp fiction writer during the 1930s and 1940s. A goodly chunk of the book includes her grandfather's never-published-until-now memoir. Pulp Writer got a STARRED REVIEW from Booklist, and excellent reviews from L.A. Times and elsewhere. She's put up a great website ... right here. Check it out.