That was my tribute to John Ford and John Wayne, and I had a lot of fun doing it To repeat that first clich I mentioned, apply the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair and write. And for Shane and Jonah dealing meant hot lead from their Colt .45s. They dont always work, but the bouncing is fun. These are avaliable in Kindle from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk; Smashwords Apple iBookstore, Barnes & Noble, Sony Reader Store, Kobo, the Diesel eBook Store, Baker & Taylors Blio and Axis360 (libraries!) For Benedict and Brazos, it was the start of another bullet-fast adventure. But Pinner took his squaw and baby and that meant war on the white-eyes! And a way to deliver it: a bi-plane. But Stark was determined to stay aliveand smash the international crime organisation that lived off human degradation. His talent for killing was up for hire. But, this time, it was different. And as if that wasnt enough, he also wrote a number of quite exceptional stand-alone westerns under the names Richard Meade and Ben Elliott. And he wasn't going to appease the outlaws not without a fight. May 2013 marks our first anniversary into the foray of digitial publishing and we want to make sure you know about it. Just as theres no reason why cinematic characters shouldnt swap over I was three quarters through my very first Jubal before I realised the rancher I was describing was Charles Bickford, though mostly its far more conscious than that. But he couldnt stop Bannister from heading across the Rockies with a beautiful young woman worth her weight in gold in the Frisco white slave market. The much-loved characters created by best-selling Western writer, J.T. 4. Dead. Only Gatling had the skill to eliminate him and his rabble. Then, in writing my first Western, I was also reading Westerns, albeit my own. This brings us back to my early point about writing of what one knows little. Many years ago Mike and Dave were involved in the George G Gilman Appreciation Society, which segued into The Westerner.
Something like GRINGOS is a different kettle of fish altogether, or a different plate of tamales. Rainey goes where the fighting is, no matter what the odds. This taught me how to sweat as I wrote five pages a night every night after completing a full days work on one or another fringe of journalism. McAllister had to do somethingfast. An outlaw gang shadowed the wagons - thinking they were easy prey. The closer he got to where his outlaw quarry was, the more guns were turned on him. (You might even send outlines for one or two more books in the series when you submit your first one.). Nancy and Michael died on the scene. 
Copyright 2022 Smashwords, Inc. All rights reserved. Then ten years ago Briganti quit this life, moved to Connecticut, and opened a sporting goods store there. He reached for his gun . A band of outlaws saw easy pickings - McLain saw death, ready to use his Colt Dragoon or Sharps buffalo gun. Today (23rd) it remained at the #4 spot. We kick off the schedule with the first SUNDANCE, OVERKILL, in May (to help celebrate our first year anniversary) and follow up with FARGO in June. That much-needed rest would just have to wait Robert Briganti is the Assassin. It was a new way of making war, a way to deliver death from the sky. Blake Durant had no choice but to kill the two young men hed never seen before. The various inhabitants of Garrison came with the narrative development of the town; Janey Page came in because we wanted some kind of feminine interest for McLain, though weve always planned to offset that with another lady of, perhaps, more direct intent. It killed everyone Stark held dear and now hes out to take his own kind of bloody vengeance on the murderers concerned. The only way to prove his innocence, and stop a range-war, was to find the real killer A cruel world sets little store by dreams and as Jubal Cade moved westwards he found himself on a killing trail. His orders: take no prisoners. You will have to get your own inspiration and keep your fingers crossed that Lady Luck will smile on you. For fifteen long years, I wrote mystery novels that were published twice yearly and sank without trace at the same tale. McAllister had hunted many hard men in his time. And that would be worse than any death known to man. He was smart, tool and cynical. For instance, the characters in a BREED tend to be more grotesque than those in a PEACEMAKER, simply because the basic approach of the BREED series is more flamboyant. JONAS STRONG - Top Sergeant, damned by his color. Cuchillo was a warrior to be feared, but he was not a man easily driven to war. At the end of each working day I read through the work I have done, and then at the end of the book I read the entire typescript. RIO CONCHO 1: SHOWDOWN IN ABILENE by Alfred Wallon John Stark was in France on the run from the British police, a wanted man fighting a single-handed war against the international crime syndicate. JAMIE DURHAM - The needle of morphine was the only answer to his ruined face. Instead they came charging down on him, screaming and brandishing their rifles, and an even more fearful thought than that of death hit him hard. and more. But he was accused of being part of a gang who had raided the town, and thrown into jail. Now he approached the culmination of his long pursuit-vengeance! Backed by Irish revolutionaries and the crackpot Annex Canada Committee, Gatling was out to create an international incident that could explode into a World war.
Our good friend Gary Dobbs over at The Tainted Archive, has launched his latest Wild West Monday with an article on Piccadilly Publishing. They wanted it to remain lawless, tough and brutal. And the publisher gives me contracts for these eight books. Issuing New and Classic Fiction from Yesterday and Today! On the books that go less easily. THE essence of my advice to would-be writers of any kind of category fiction, i.e., Westerns, romances, crime novels, or any sub-division of these, is related to the fact that I wrote successful Westerns before setting foot in the U.S. 8. (Nowadays I write eight such outlines each spring four each for Edge and Steele, the two series I presently do. Its always easier to dream them up with a co-author as you can bounce ideas off one another. At his command he had more firepower than a cavalry regiment, and more guts than a Cheyenne war party. In the end there would be violencea lot of it. The trail had been hard, but nothing more than hed expected. 1. The FARGO series will boast all-new cover art by Edward Martin and SUNDANCE will have covers painted by fan favourite Tony Masero.
On books that go well, I need only to correct typing and spelling errors. So your are spoilt for choice. There was more going on in that corner of Arizona than met the eye, and one of the dead Indians had been a friend of Shanes from his army days, so that made it personal, too. 5. Robert Briganti is the Assassin. But they agreed to escort a new emissary to town. 2. Although Piccadilly Publishing does not actually publish those books by Terry Harkett/George G Gilman, without him there would be no Piccadilly Publishing. Pay no attention to people whether your next-door neighbour or the most high-brow critic on the Sunday book section who smile or even sneer at you for being a writer of Westerns. He was violent, anti-social and chauvenistic, and only survived in his harsh, Spaghetti-western style environment by being twice as mean as his opponents. These will not inevitably be for large amounts, but they will certainly be regular. Night-riders wiped out an entire tribe of Navajo Indians. For, I can assure you, sitting down at a typewriter with a virtually pre-sold project in mind is much more fun than working in limbo with a hope and a prayer for company. Pursuing him came the town marshal, a noose at the ready for Durant's neck! American English. Under the name Thorne Douglas he penned the five-book RANCHO BRAVO saga. And when the gun smoke cleared, twelve dead men would be bound for Boot Hill . And what did I get from the trip that will be of use to me in writing future Westerns? Never set a Western in the East. In BLOOD DEBT, for example, I decided right from the start that Breeds path was going to intertwine with that of Ethan Allen, out of the all-time great THE SERCHERS. A whole pile of source books to add to my reference library. Sudden Strikes Back via this direct link: Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. Deep in dangerous terrain, Iron Eyes closes in on outlaws Joe Hyams and Buster Jones. That was part of having had that forty-nine percent of luck. In this capacity he did odd jobs for the CIA.
On Sunday 21st October it was great to see that SUDDEN STRIKES BACK by Frederick H Christian,hit the coveted #1 spot on Amazon.co.uk Top 100 Western titles for Kindle. But he is mistaken. In Vegas only the amateurs buck the big odds, and Tom Kincaid was a professional. Imagination is such a big word: in this case it encompasses the whole process bf conception through development to definition on paper.
Well, I can only speak with authority on my own experience. Thus, my years writing and publishing program is scheduled.). I may have to rewrite ten or a dozen pages before Im finished. Then to offset the altruism of Onslow and Strong, we wanted two weaker characters. Yellow Rain (A Soldier of Fortune Adventure #4), Outlaws (A Peacemaker Western - Book Two), Benedict and Brazos 36: Marshal of Abilene, Spoils of War (A Soldier of Fortune Adventure #3), Hell to Pay (A Tom Kincaid Crime Mystery), Montana Abbott 10: The Three McMahons (A Montana Abbott Western), Benedict and Brazos 35: The Legend of Scarlett and Jesse, Savage 13: Jagged Spur (A Clint Savage Adult Western), Benedict and Brazos 34: Dreadful Sorry, Clementine, McAllister Says No (A Rem McAllister Western), Historical / United States / 19th Century, Back in the Saddle (An All New Shane and Jonah Western), The Killing Ground (Benedict and Brazos 33), Montana Abbott 9: The Tail Dies at Sundown, New Orleans Holocaust (The Assassin Book 02), Murder in Vegas (A Tom Kincaid Crime Mystery), McAllister Gambles (A Rem McAllister Western), The Deadliest Game (A Soldier of Fortune Adventure #2). There followed twenty years as a manager with Scottish Borders Council, from which Ed eventually took early retirement. Gatling was a master armorer, a dead shot and an expert in his fieldwhich was death. His mission: to bring law and order to a violent land. Personally, I dont keep files, preferring to rely on the resources of my imagination and memory a proud boast that means I dont have to bother making notes. And why have not Adam Steele, Jubal Cade, and Apache (three more Western series I created) achieved the same best-selling status? The Westerns are set at the end of the American Civil War with the hero thrown into many gun-blazing adventures. John and I got the idea of doing a Mexican Revolution series first (all right, sales show it wasnt a very good one, but it was interesting) and that led inevitably as were both avid movie fans to thoughts of THE WILD BUNCH. That was when Fate stepped in and blew the whole deal to shreds. Theres an old Western saying that the tail dies at sundownmeaning that no matter when a rattlesnake is killed, it never fully expires until the setting of the sun. Signing on to take pilgrims to Paradise, Shane and Jonah had doubts about some of the new converts. A BRAND NEW WESTERN ADVENTURE. Refusing to submit to the lethal lead that would halt his progress, he forged on toward Cheyenne Falls and the violent fate that he knew would await him come showdown-time. Do you think I am putting you on while my tongue is lodged firmly in my cheek? Montana Abbott had seen too much blood-running in his day to tangle with any more trouble. Montana Abbott, a quiet man whose gun did the talking for him. John T McLain learnt the deadly trade of killing in the Civil War. When an American mob backed by Mafia money muscles in on the colonys lucrative rackets, offering their own brand of protection, they trespass on Chief Superintendent John Crown's patch.
Edge really was, as the cover copy promised, "a new kind of western hero." You can check it out by clicking right HERE. Settled, growing, thriving. Piccadilly Publishing Free Sampler Various. Breed is half Apache; Hawk has a crippled hand; Jubal, is a doctor; and so on. 2) Writing is ninety-eight percent perspiration and two percent inspiration. Briganti recuperated in the hospital and slipped out from under his police guard. I start out with an outline of the projected story a chapter-by-chapter breakdown of the plot, which may be as few as three or as many as eight pages long. But Sally isnt so easily abandoned, and promptly sets out after him. Shane Preston and Jonah Jones are two gunfighters riding the American wilderness with no guarantees of success, but once they took a man's money they never quit a job until it was complete. Then one day Ryker sold a man a Deringerthat later killed a President. PICCADILLY PUBLISHING is dedicated to reissuing classic series fiction from the 1970s, 80s, 90s and Beyond! Any way he could. He had been taught to heal, his destiny was to kill. Tired of life driving cattle, Duke Benedict quit the trail; and headed for Abilene to indulge in cards and women. If youve got any running characters (Marshal Nolan in GUNSLINGER, for example) they also need some personally identifying element.