Women Writing the West Book Corral

President's Message

It is my honor to share the new Women Writing the West Book Corral with you! In this online catalog format, you will find the latest books written by best-selling and awardwinning authors along with books by first-time authors, all members of Women Writing the West.

Women Writing the West is a warm, supportive community of writers and writing professionals who share a passion for the stories of women and girls and their contribution to the history, culture, and growth of the North American West.

The 30th Anniversary of Women Writing the West will be celebrated at the 2024 Conference, "Through A Woman's Eyes," on October 10-12 in Colorado at the Hilton Garden Inn Denver Tech Center.

A highlight of every conference, whether in-person or virtual, are the literary award presentations. The WILLA Literary Award, named for Willa Cather, recognizes the best in literature featuring women's or girl's stories set in the North American West in eight categories.

The LAURA Short Fiction Award, named for Laura Ingalls Wilder, showcases the talents of Women Writing the West members in short stories featuring a female protagonist. The DOWNING Journalism Award, named for WWW's first president, Sybil Downing, recognizes western-themed nonfiction articles.

The recent addition to the awards is the High School Writing Contest which has three categories reflecting the WWW WILLA, LAURA and DOWNING Awards. Please visit the Women

Writing the West website for more information. http://WomenWritingtheWest.org

Sincerely,

Gayle Gresham

2024 President

Women Writing the West

Mission & Goals

Women Writing the West supports and promotes the work of writers and other professionals in the evolving publishing field whose work is set in the North American West. Through its award competitions, Women Writing the West inspires and honors literature featuring the contributions and experiences of women or girls in the North American West. WWW provides opportunities for education for beginning writers to advanced writers through the annual conference and online workshops and speakers throughout the year.

Welcome to Women Writing the West’s Book Corral

In the boundless realm of literature, there exists a treasure trove of stories waiting to be unearthed, dreams waiting to be realized, and adventures waiting to be embarked upon. It is within these pages that we invite you to step into the wondrous world of our Book Corral a reading nook of imagination, knowledge, and emotion.

Our Book Corral is not just a collection of books; it is a tapestry woven with passion, inspiration, and boundless creativity. It is a testament to the power of storytelling and the profound impact that words can have on the human soul. Each book featured here is a testament to the author's dedication, a labor of love that now awaits your discovery.

Our purpose is simple: to connect you with stories that resonate, characters that linger in your thoughts long after the final page is turned, and ideas that ignite your intellect. Whether you seek escape, enlightenment, or entertainment, our catalog is a gateway to a multitude of worlds, each crafted with precision and care by talented authors, many who have received awards for their storytelling.

Thank you for entrusting us with the privilege of guiding you through this world of literary wonders. Step into a realm where discovery beckons a journey primed to ignite your imagination, evoke deep emotions, and carve its presence indelibly upon your soul.

Kathy Sechrist Coordinator WWW Book Corral

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Contents

WWW Board of Directors

2023-2024

Board of Directors

Gayle Gresham. President

Lynn Downey, Past President, Chair, WILLA Literary Award

Vicki Felmlee, 2024 President-Elect, Chair, LAURA Award

Laura Drake, Treasurer

Carolyn Dufurrena, Secretary

Standing Committee Chairs

Ann Edall-Robinson, Chair, Marketing and Social Media

Mary Coley, Compliance Chair

Sue Spitulink, Conference Chair

Directors at Large

Stephanie West Allen

Doris Eraldi

Karen Jones

Special Committee Chair

Linda Wommack, Chair

The Downing Journalism Award

Project Leaders and Staff

Doris Eraldi, Web Manager

Alice Trego, Administrator Coordinator, WWW High School Writing Contest, Co-Moderator, Groups i.o

Roni McFadden, Co-Chair, Groups.io

Kathy Sechrist, Coordinator, Book Corral

"And one day she discovered that she was fierce and strong, and full of fire and that not even she could hold herself back because her passion burned brighter than her fears." –

Women Writing the West Contests and Awards

The WILLA Literary Award recognizes the best in literature, featuring women’s or girls’ stories set in the North American West, that are published each year.

2022 Awardees and Finalists

The LAURA Short Fiction Award, is open to WWW members to enter their previously unpublished story featuring a female protagonist, and set in the North American West, past, present or future.

2022 Awardees and Finalists

The DOWNING Journalism Award recognizes western-themed nonfiction articles or essays published in a commercial or literary North American publication.

2022 Awardees and Finalists

High school students worldwide (grades 9-12, ages 13-19) can submit unpublished short works (nonfiction, fiction, poetry/songwriting) to the Women Writing the West High School Writing Contest. Entries in English should highlight women’s and girls’ contributions to North American West's history, culture, anywhere on the North American continent west of the Mississippi River, including Alaska, Hawaii, Canada (west of Ontario), Mexico. Top Winners and Finalists acknowledged at October Conference.

Anthology

Author: Teresa Whitehawk

The American Pepperpod is an Anthology of works including Journal Entries, Short Stories, Autobiographical Stories, Poetry and Plays. The book is autobiographical in that the works span the writer's life into senior years. The awardwinning play "The Legacy of Sunset Blvd" was written in 1983.

For more information or to purchase, visit Amazon.

Format: Paperback; eBook

“Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, ‘No, I’m not interested.’ I believe that each reader creates his own film inside his head, gives faces to the characters, constructs every scene, hears the voices, smells the smells. And that is why, whenever a reader goes to see a film based on a novel that he likes, he leaves feeling disappointed, saying: ‘the book is so much better than the film.”

Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

Children’s Fiction

Author: Nancy Oswald

“Ruby’s Christmas Gifts,” set in Cripple Creek, 1896, highlights the adventures of Ruby, her donkey Maude, and her cat named Trouble. On Christmas Eve, Maude's baby donkey gets lost and leads Ruby on a goose-chase through Cripple Creek. On her journey, Ruby reveals the spirit of Christmas by helping others.

For more information or to purchase, visit Nancy Oswald

Format: Paperback

Author: Ann Edall-Robson

When the rough-around-the-edges barn cat meets the new Hereford calf called Norman, the day turns into one Buttons will not soon forget. How was he going to explain the shenanigans his new friend had persuaded him to take part in, especially when he knew better?

For more information or to purchase, visit Ann Edall-Robinson Format: Hardback; Paperback

Author: KB Taylor

2022 Will Rodgers Medallion Finalist; 2020 WILLA Award Winner

1898. After Daddy is spotted on a schooner to Alaska to dig for gold, twelve-yearold AGGIE and her two younger sisters set sail aboard their sixty-foot steamboat, the IRENE, to find him.

For more information or to purchase, visit Amazon Format: Hardback; Paperback; eBook

Children’s Fiction

Author: Una Townsend

Two Choctaw boys discover an injured pony. They hide him and take care of him. They find the horse may be a special breed a Heritage Horse of Oklahoma. They want him but must make a decision to find the owner and get medical care for him. Multicultural Choctaw and English.

For more information or to purchase, visit Amazon.

Format: Hardback; Paperback

Author: Janet Fox

2022 Women

Writing the West WILLA Literary Award Finalist

Twelve-year-old Lulu and her sister Serena are living with their Daddy in a car. But one morning they wake to find Daddy missing. Lulu must learn to trust in the kindness of strangers to save those she loves and to finally find her true home.

For more information or to purchase, visit Amazon

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Author: Frances Bonney Jenner

Indie Award - IPPY Bronze Medal

When young Savannah travels west with her family in 1850, she meets adventure head-on and becomes an unlikely hero.

For more information or to purchase, visit the book’s page at Frances Bonney Jenner.

Format: Hardback; Paperback

Children’s Fiction

Author: Dani Nichols

Buzz is a quirky, lovable quarter horse who is frightened by everyday occurrences on his ranch, hilariously believing things like hoses and tarps to be threatening. When asked to do a job which makes him tremble with fear, Buzz’s human encourages him, helping him learn to be brave after all.

For more information or to purchase, visit Dani Nichols

Format: Hardback; eBook

Author: Nancy Jurka

Reader’s Favorite Five Star Award

Every holiday season in the small town of Palmer Lake, Colorado, townspeople and children eagerly look forward to the annual Magic on the Mountainside-the lighting of the Palmer Lake Star. This year as two children, Charlotte and Henry, wait by the frozen lake, nothing happens! Uplifting story in dyslexic friendly font.

For more information or to purchase, visit Satiama Publishing.

Format: Hardback

Author: Debra Whiting Alexander

The Reader Views 2023-2024 Best Children’s Book

Eliza Jane is stronger than she thinks. And full of surprises! She may be a quiet girl with Tourette syndrome, but with the help of her beloved Chihuahua she dares to be a heroic friend and becomes her own best superhero. Even one spark of kindness can change everything.

For more information or to purchase, visit Amazon.

Format: Paperback, eBook

Children’s Fiction

Author: Mary Fichtner

Help your cowgirl settle in for the night as you say goodnight to all the cowgirl loves. Each stunning illustration reminds us of our blessings and that we are safe until the sun rises again. Written and illustrated by a mother-daughter team under the big Western Skies of Wyoming.

For more information or to purchase, visit Rusty’s Reading Remuda. Format: Hardback

Contemporary Fiction

Author: Mary E. Trimble

Eric Buckley dreads moving...again. His foster family must move, but he’s determined to finish high school in Chewack. When the Cahills, cattle ranchers, hear of his plight, they wonder if they can fulfill his needs. It’s tough enough running a ranch. Are they up to adding yet another responsibility?

For more information or to purchase, visit Amazon.

Format: Paperback; eBook

Author: B.K. Froman

2023 WILLA Award Finalist, Contemporary Humorous. Contemporary. This thought-provoking mystery unravels a young woman’s journey to heal her life. Change and murder have dropped into her Oregon community with a landscape as vast and dramatic as the quirky supporters and detractors who live there.

For more information, or to purchase,, visit Amazon.

Format: Paperback; eBook

Author: Jamie Lisa Forbes

WWW 2011 WILLA Literary Award

Ranch wife Gwen, disenchanted by drudgery, befriends Meg, a single mom. The two find solace in each other's company. But relationships among family members fracture, resentments surface and their friendship is tested as they find themselves struggling against the elements and each other.

For more information or to purchase, visit Amazon.

Format: Paperback; eBook

Contemporary Fiction

Author: Holly Quan

Calgary Herald Best Seller List

What if everything you knew fell apart? And what if you then reimagined yourself? Through humor and evocative descriptions of the Alberta foothills, the Sow's Ear Cafe is about romance, selfdiscovery and the transformative power of landscape, horses, friendship and love in the face of adversity.

For more information or to purchase, visit Amazon Format: Paperback; eBook

Author: Johnnie Bernhard

A timely novel set along the I-10 corridor of Texas as the ultimate decision of life and death is made by two strangers' fate has bound together-an Anglo-widow and a Mexican girl, who must decide to either follow the law or their conscience to survive.

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Contemporary Fiction

Author: Kathleen M. Rodgers

2021 WILLA Literary Award Finalist

Decades ago in Pardon, NM, the Cutterbuck women formed a code of silence to protect each other from an abusive man after AF Major Shep Cutterbuck goes MIA. When national politics triggers a buried family secret in 2016, the women stick together.

For more information or to purchase, visit Amazon.

Format: Paperback; eBook; Audiobook

Author: Laura Drake

2023 WILLA Literary Award

Jacqueline is an uptight indie perfumer who bitterly resents the hippie grandmother who abandoned her. But when the Universe conspires to set them on a Route 66 road trip, what Jacqueline discovers might not only heal her past, but open her to a brighter future

For more information, or to purchase,, visit Amazon.

Format: Paperback; eBook

Author: Teddy Jones

2014 Finalist, WILLA Award

Marva Cope, the fourth Jackson’s Pond, Texas novel, introduces the new postmaster, Marva, who brings with her a series of hard experiences from her past and resulting hesitancy to open herself to others. Living with and learning from her Aunt Violet, she comes to appreciate the value of true friendships.

For more information or to purchase, visit Amazon.

Format: Paperback

Contemporary Fiction

Author: Barbara Marshak

Set amidst the tapestry of Wyoming's rugged landscape, “Painted Skies”tells the story of one woman's journey to find healing through her most cherished relationships an only daughter, a newfound friend, and the charismatic cowboy asking her to trust him.

For more information or to purchase, visit Amazon Format: Paperback; eBook

Author: Gloria Mattioni

The heart-wrenching story of two sisters, different and separate by worlds apart, but remained very connected by heart and soul. Claire rushes to Italy halting her life and career in Los Angeles after her older sister, Ondina's, brain stroke, determined to restore her health or help her die with dignity.

For more information or to purchase, visit Amazon Format: Paperback; eBook

Author: Elise Atchison

Winner, Eludia Award

Crazy Mountain chronicles a rapidly changing place through the diverse stories of the people who live in a Montana valley over nearly half a century, forming a rich tapestry of place exploring how we treat the natural world and how we treat each other, especially the most vulnerable among us.

For more information or to purchase,, visit Barnes & Noble. Format: Paperback

Contemporary Fiction

Author: Mary Camarillo

Shortlisted for Hawthorn Prize

It’s the summer of 2017 in Wellington Beach, California, a suburban coastal town increasingly divided by politics, protests, and escalating housing prices divisions that change the lives of five neighbors as they search for home and community in a neighborhood where no one can agree who belongs.

For more information or to purchase, visit Bookshop.org

Format: Paperback; eBook; Audiobook

Author: Margaret Emerson

Fictional stories about people whose dream for a life of contentment, autonomy and tranquility clashes against unexpected challenges and conflicts. All set in the same small town in southwest Colorado, these stories have a psychological twist that will leave you captivated and mystified.

For more information, or to purchase, visit Amazon.

Format: Paperback

Author: Julia Brewer Daily

A fifth-generation heiress to the largest ranch in Texas stumbles upon an ancient people living on her property. Will she survive her attempts to return home, or will she accept her fate and remain hidden away from her family forever?

For more information visit Amazon Format: Hardback; Paperback; eBook; Audiobook

Contemporary Fiction

Author: Elise Atchison

Winner, Eludia Award

Crazy Mountain chronicles a rapidly changing place through the diverse stories of the people who live in a Montana valley over nearly half a century, forming a rich tapestry of place exploring how we treat the natural world and how we treat each other, especially the most vulnerable among us.

For more information or to purchase,, visit Barnes & Noble. Format: Paperback

Why join Women Writing the West?

We offer our membership many opportunities:

• Marketing books through the Book Corral.

• Annual conferences with industry leading Keynote Speakers, workshop presenters and panels.

• Webinars and workshops offered throughout the year.

• Connect with other writers of WWW through our active online community, including the WWW email group, Facebook page, Twitter feed and blog.

• Learn how other writers work and keep up with publishing industry news and trends.

• Most importantly you will receive encouragement and support from members of WWW.

Contemporary Fiction

Author: Margaret Mizushima

Finalist SPUR Award, Western Writers of America

After her mother disappears and a dead man is found tied to a standing dead pine near Timber Creek, Mattie Cobb is forced to play cat and mouse with a killer. In a last-ditch gambit, she goes undercover into the killer’s lair to try to save her mother or die trying.

For more information or to purchase, visit Amazon Format: Hardback; Paperback; eBook; Audiobook

Author: Sue Boggio, Mare Pearl

Maddie and Grace meet in a psychiatric unit after each has committed desperate self-injurious acts. Caring staff support their healing journeys as they navigate the surreal world of their fellow patients. With intensive therapy, Maddie and Grace discover the inner fortitude required to create futures filled with empowerment and hope.

For more information, or to purchase, visit Amazon Format: Paperback; eBook

Author: Dalyn Weller

Unless Stormy Rosmund meets the demands of an inheritance clause in her great-great-great grandfather’s will, it’s by bye ranch. Prodigal cowboy, Dawson McClure has a way of finding bad girls, good times, and more than his share of trouble. The trouble is, he needs redemption. They have two options...

For more information or to purchase,, visit Amazon. Format: Paperback; eBook

Contemporary Romance

Author: Lucy Naylor Kubash

In spite of a broken heart, Allison carved out a life for herself and her young daughter. Then a sudden threat puts her back in touch with Shane, the man she never thought to see again. Trusting Shane may be her only choice, but she fears losing her heart again.

For more information or to purchase, visit Amazon

Format: Paperback; eBook

Author: Carmen Peone

Sophie Cayes is on the road to success as an artist. Chad Davis loves starting colts on the Seven Tine Guest Ranch. When Sophie's young son comes up missing, can they find him in time?

For more information, or to purchase, visit Carmen Peone Books

Format: Paperback; eBook

Author: C.L. Craig

A love that transcends time

A veteran haunted by the dog he left behind in Afghanistan And a woman determined to change the past But will her search dredge up old secrets better left buried?

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Format: Paperback; eBook

Contemporary Romance

Author: LoLo Paige

2021 Indie B.R.A.G. Medallion (Book Readers Appreciation Group)

Wildland firefighter Tara, troubled from a tragedy on a Montana wildfire, is reassigned to Alaska, where she tries to resist the chemistry with her sexy smokejumper colleague, Ryan. But as their desire for each other smolders, a mysterious adversary endangers their chance at love. Romance, fire, and sabotage...one explosive mix!

For more information or to purchase, visit Books 2 Read. Format: Paperback; eBook; Audiobook

Creative Nonfiction

Author: Kathy Sechrist

2021 International Impact Award: Female Empowerment

The novel culminates with Sara reclaiming her power, finding her voice, and confronting the truth that she is not responsible for her past trauma. She emerges as an empowered individual, no longer a victim. This story emphasizes the importance of community, healing, and resilience in the face of adversity.

For more information or to purchase, visit Amazon.

Format: Paperback; eBook; Audiobook

Author: Jan Cleere

A collection of historical narratives that explores the lives of early military women who became an integral part of military posts and played an important role in civilizing the untamed frontier. These women earned to cope with the spareness, the heat, the sickness and danger, including wildlife they never imagined.

For more information, or to purchase,, visit Jan Cleere Books

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Author: Linda Wommack

Colorado Author’s Hall of Fame 2023 Inductee

Women were a rare breed in the field of mining. Read about 36 women who made a difference in Colorado's mining industry.

For more information or to purchase, visit Amazon.

Format: Paperback

Creative Nonfiction

Author: Kathryn Wilder

2022 Colorado Book Award in Creative Nonfiction

Desert Chrome is the story of a woman lost in grief who finds her way out by following mustangs. “Testimony to the healing power of wildness . . ." Kirkus Reviews

For more information or to purchase, visit Torrey House. Format: Paperback; eBook; Audiobook

Author: Julie Tully

A cowgirl falls into Africa as Alice fell into Wonderland, unveiling the little-known world of an American military spouse serving amongst the world’s diplomatic corps. Part travelogue, and part midlife coming-of-age story, DISPATCHES FROM THE COWGIRL takes you to the Africa Julie grew to love and found hard to leave.

For more information, or to purchase,, visit Books2Read Format: Hardcover; Paperback; eBook

Author: Margaret G. Hanna

Mary Appleton emigrates to western Canada in 1912 and faces every immigrant’s dilemma: where is home? Her heart is still in England, but her life is now in Canada. In 1952, she does return, and what she learns surprises her. Based on the Author’s maternal Grandmother’s story.

For more information or to purchase, visit Amazon Format: Hardcover; Paperback; eBook

Creative Nonfiction

Author: Mary B. Kurtz

2023 Women Writing the West WILLA Award, Finalist

This collection of contemplative, lyric essays, focuses on the seasonal rhythms of ranch life, the murmurings of a natural world, and the mysteries of aging and mortality. Rooted in place, it is a tribute to the beauty and power of a Western landscape to hold and inspire one’s daily living.

For more information or to purchase, visit Shanty Arts

Format: Hardcover; Paperback; eBook; Audiobook

Author: Sandra McGee

RENO, 1947. Step into the world of the famous Flying M E… an exclusive divorce ranch for wealthy divorce seekers. Former Flying M E wrangler Bill McGee talks about life on the hideout for Eastern socialites with names like Astor and du Pont, and Hollywood movie stars Gable and Gardner.

For more information or to purchase, visit Amazon. Format: Paperback; eBook

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.

-Willa Cather

Creative Nonfiction

Author: Marsha Arzberger

2022 2nd Place,

Arizona Authors Assoc. Literary Contest

One Hundred Sixty Acres of Dirt tells the true stories of pioneers in Arizona Territory in 1909. They were farmers, cowboys, pioneer women homesteading on their own, and schoolmarms. They dealt with rustlers, droughts, Apaches, and straying husbands. These stories tell how they persevered and survived.

For more information or to purchase, visit Wandering Owl Tales.

Format: Paperback; eBook

Author: Eunice Boeve

A memoir of the author's experiences from childhood on with some extra sensory perception. Frightening in childhood, but a beautiful blessing when her husband of sixty-two years passed and began to contact her in a variety of wonderful and amazing ways, eventually leading her to write this book.

For more information or to purchase, visit Amazon

Format: Hardcover; Paperback

Author: Colleen Adair Fliedner

For over four centuries, California has been an ever-changing landscape of innovation and revolution, triumph and tragedy. This book is a collection of over fifty tales of famous Californians and their escapades from California's early years. Readers will be entertained as they take a trip through California's colorful past.

For more information or to purchase, visit Amazon

Format: Paperback; eBook

Creative Nonfiction

Author: Eilene Lyon

This is a true story about Indiana farmers using shady financing to get to California during the gold rush, with devastating impacts. It shares the stories of their poverty-stricken families at home. And it reveals how the cold calculus of transporting miners became a deadly game for profit.

For more information or to purchase, visit Bookshop.org

Format: Hardback

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Author: Miranda Martinez-Herbert

The average age a child encounters pornography is eleven, and by fourteen, most children have already been exposed. MartinezHerbert was a part of that statistic. A Church Girl’s Recovery is an introspective excavation of pain and hope throughout a fourteenyear recovery journey while set in the mountain state of Colorado.

For more information or to purchase, visit Amazon Format: Hardback; Paperback; eBook

Author: Deb Donley

Deb Donley trained horses for a living for forty-two years. Beginning with making house calls to help people with their horses, she evolved to win World and National championships. She loved, married, and lost her cowboy. This is her story.

For more information or to purchase, visit Blurb.com

Format: Paperback

Creative Nonfiction

Author: Kathryn Winogard

Through its photographs, poetry, and prose, This Visible Speaking: Catching Light Through The Camera's Eye gives rise to meditations on love and loss and beauty and on the voices of those early explorers of the daguerreotype and the photograph who, dazzled and wary, learned to fix the world in light.

For more information or to purchase, visit Amazon

Format: Paperback; eBook

Author: Michelle Eames

Riding Lessons, Things I Learned While Horsing Around, is a mostly humorous memoir that tells the story of Michelle Eames’ journey with horses, and the numerous lessons the horses taught her. Michelle describes her horsemanship adventures, mistakes, and mishaps with humor, humility, and even a bit of poetry.

For more information or to purchase, visit Amazon.

Format: Paperback; eBook

Author: Elizabeth Terese Marr

A shared interest in genealogy and family lore leads a mother and daughter to write a captivating memoir and five-generation saga centered on farming and family life in Platte County’s Missouri River bottoms from the brutal Civil War along the Missouri-Kansas border to the Great Depression and World War II.

For more information or to purchase, visit Bookbaby.com

Format: Paperback; eBook

Historical Fiction

Author: D.H. Eraldi

2011 WILLA Literary Award Finalist

Sett Foster was hoping life would get easier. With his Blackfeet wife, Ria, and income from taming wild mustangs, things might finally be going his way. Then a stray Indian pony wanders into his herd, carrying an unexpected gift; a child.

For more information or to purchase, visit Amazon.

Format: Paperback; eBook

Author: C. J. Noonan

In August 1909, Mary Edwards, her sisters, and brother stand before a Model T, the first car in the railroad town of Truckee, high in the Sierra Nevada of California. The owner gives the children his old mare, and that begins their drama, both comic and tragic, but never forgotten by the long-lived good woman who tells the story.

For more information or to purchase, visit Amazon

Format: Paperback; eBook

Author: Karen Klink

A bisexual young man grapples with questions of integrity and masculinity as he and his unconventional sister and slave brother struggle for respect and a future between dark secrets and unbridled passions of two plantation dynasties.

For more information or to purchase, visit Karen Klink’s Website.

Format: Paperback; e-Book

Historical Fiction

Author: Ashley E. Sweeney

Arizona Territory, 1899. Once the Girl Wonder on the Wild West

circuit, Ruby Fortune faces a split-second choice: murder her abusive husband or else. One bullet is all it takes. Set in a rough mining town north of Tucson, Ruby battles misogyny and challenges as she provides for her family.

For more information or to purchase, visit Amazon. Format: Hardcover; Paperback; eBook

Author: Linda Ulleseit

2023 Bronze Medal, Historical Fiction, Independent Book Publishers

Samantha, Day Sets, and Harriet Robinson come to Fort Snelling from different backgrounds. It’s 1835, the world is changing, and they are struggling to keep up. As their cultures collide, each of these women must find a way to direct her own future and leave a legacy for her children.

For more information or to purchase, visit Amazon. Format: Hardback; Paperback; eBook

Author: Pat Benedict Jurgens

Winner: Colorado Authors League

Louisa, a young woman in the early 1900s, defies her strict Eastern traditions and follows her heart to Colorado. Inspired by the author's grandmother, it's a strong woman story in which a working woman on her own faces the challenges of a man's world in the West.

For more information or to purchase, visit Amazon. Format: Paperback; eBook Women

Historical Fiction

Author: K.T. Blakemore

1905 Kansas. When ex-dancehall girl Ruby’s ex-friend Pip shows up with a message that an old enemy wants them dead, they take to the road to kill him first. But their trip is filled with mishaps, blunders, con artists and the circling noose of the law.

For more information or to purchase, visit Books2Read. Format: Paperback; eBook

Author: Jane Coletti Perry

Inspired by true events, Marcello’s Promise is the heartfelt journey of a loving husband’s promise to his wife for the American dream. Set in an immigrant coal-mining town in Wyoming, 1915, the Corsi family faces blizzards, labor disputes, brawling cowboys, ethnic tension, and the dangers of coal mining during Prohibition.

For more information or to purchase, visit Amazon Format: Hardback; Paperback; eBook

Author: Ann Parker

In 1882 San Francisco, one-time Colorado saloon owner Inez Stannert strives to keep a respectable home for her ward, Antonia. But when a skeleton tumbles from the wall of Inez's latest business investment, she determines to uncover the secret behind it... a secret someone has already killed to keep buried.

For more information or to purchase, visit Books2Read Format: Paperback; eBook

Historical Fiction

Author: Kate Anger

Reading the West Longlist for Debut Fiction

Jessa Campbell thrives on her family’s homestead in 1890s Texas. When, without explanation her father sends her away to settle a family debt, everything unravels. A story of coming-of-age and betrayal, THE SHINNERY is inspired by the author’s family history and a trial that shook the region.

For more information or to purchase, visit Amazon. Format: Paperback; eBook

Author: Theresa Nichols Schuster

A time travel adventure set in Granite, Montana during the 1893 Silver Panic. Vic will do whatever it takes to survive in this strange world from the past. Unsettled by Jago, the young Cornish Miner, her shrewd deception is threatened. A tale immersed in rich authentic events and landscapes.

For more information or to purchase, visit Amazon. Format: Paperback

Author: Venetia Hobson Lewis

1871. Tucsonans retaliate against raiding Apache Indians by slaughtering them at Camp Grant. Nest Feather, a young Apache girl, is abducted. In Tucson, Valeria Obregon, a seamstress, questions her husband's possible involvement in the raid, while Nest Feather tries to remain true to her Apache heritage. Based on true events.

For more information or to purchase, Nebraska Press Format: Paperback; eBook

Historical Fiction

Author: Leslie Nyman

1849 was an exciting time. Lena Benjamin and her husband journey to the California Gold Rush. Along the way she faces adventures that test her fortitude, and she turns misfortune into success. Her life is filled with music, danger and love. This action novel is rich in details and characters.

For more information or to purchase, visit Amazon

Format: Paperback

Author: Linda Weber

Five Star Rating from Reader Reviews with Featured Author Interview. Inspired by true events, Finding Utopia is a story of deep love, and deep sorrow both heartwarming and haunting. It is a poignant and moving tribute to a life cut short by tragedy. “Beautifully Crafted and moving, the perfect book for fans of historical fiction.” Jenny Baliff, UTube Science Mom.

For more information or to purchase, visit Bookbaby

Format: Paperback; eBook

Author: Cindy Hiday

First Place Fiction, Willamette Writer’s Kay Snow Award She had a ranch to run. He had a debt to pay. Together they struck a deal. Neither of them planned on the consequences.

Discover the historic trail west to Oregon when young, strong-willed Alice Calder refuses to stand by and watch another family member taken from her.

For more information or to purchase, visit Cindy Hiday

Format: Hardback; Paperback; eBook

Historical Fiction

Author: Julie Weston

Photographer Nellie Burns, Sheriff Asteguigoiri, Nellie's black Lab dog Moonshine, and Sammy Ah Kee seek the killer of a murdered Chinese man in Vienna, a ghost town in the Stanley Basin of 1920's Idaho. Murder and mayhem follow as they search in a landscape lurking with greed and evil.

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Author: Tamatha Cain

Eugene O'Neill's only daughter. Café Society's only shining star. Charlie Chaplin's only true love.

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Author: Teresa H. Janssen

This coming-of-age novel tells of the unforgettable journey of a young woman whose life is shaken by world events economic boom-and-bust, war, and pandemic. Set in the early twentiethcentury Southwest, where water means everything, it is a testament to the meaning of family and the strength of the human spirit.

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Historical Fiction

Author: Milana Marsenich

2020 WWW Laura Short Fiction Award

During the fall of 1918, the influenza pandemic crosses the nation and reaches the mining town of Butte, Montana. Marika works to save friends and neighbors from the ravages of the flu. Kaly waits for her husband to return from war and tries to keep their daughter and son safe.

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Author: Sandra Dallas

Colorado Book Award

1916, the High Plains of Wyoming. Ellen Webster and her cowboy husband face the challenges of blizzards, starvation, and death. In the end, it is not Ellen and Charlie face together but their love for each other that endures through it all.

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Author:

Johny Weber

Wyoming Territory in the 1800’s, three families band together to form a ranch, raising livestock and garden produce. The Welles family takes livestock to the Oregon Trail to trade with pioneers. This is their story and the story of their children, growing up in the mountain wilderness.

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Historical Fiction

Author: Shelley Read

Instant Sunday Times Best Seller

Set amid Colorado’s wild beauty, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story of a resilient young woman whose life is changed forever by one chance encounter. A tragic and uplifting novel of place and displacement, love and loss, family and survival and hope. An international bestselling debut translated into over thirty languages.

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Author: Sheila Quinn

Willie Tollett has her future figured out until she meets a stranger in the dark. Then a town controversy, a midnight Howler, and Zane Grey Westerns come together to challenge everything she knows about the world.

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Author:

Roccie Hill

In this unforgettable literary saga of a woman and a place, growing and enduring under multiple flags and through the sorrows and turbulence of early Texas, a woman fights for her life as a refugee, slave, mother, and farmer. Inspired by the life of the author's greatgreat grandmother, a Melungeon.

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Historical Fiction

Author: CK Van Dam

Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards: Book Series

Civil War widow Katie Rose Kelly was drawn to the Dakota frontier where she claimed 160 acres and became a sheep herder. Alone on the frontier, she fought nature as well as powerful cattle ranchers. With grit and determination, Katie built a new life, fostered new friendships, and kindled new love.

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Author: Kimberly Burns

SPUR Award, Western Writers of America Finalist

Based on a true story, this is the tale of Denver's most successful madam and her feud with notorious con man.

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Author: Amanda Churchill

Moving between late 1990s small-town Texas to pre-World War II Japan and occupied Tokyo, an emotionally engaging literary debut about a grandmother and granddaughter who connect over a beloved lost place and the secrets they both carry.

For more information or to purchase, visit Harper Collins Publishers Format: Hardback; e-Book; Audiobook

Historical Romance

Author: Jane Kirkpatrick

2023 WILLA Literary Award Finalist, Historical Fiction

Based on the true story of Western pioneer Mollie Sheehan Ronan, her remarkable life and journey from the gulches of Montana to California and back to serve the people of the Flathead reservation. An ordinary woman who lived an extraordinary life.

For more information or to purchase, visit JK Books

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Author: Susanna Lane

2022 Spur Award

“Imperfect Promise" delivers a powerful story of redemption in 1870's Nebraska. Widow Sienna Harris stops at nothing to keep her ranch alive, including brokering a deal to keep her foreman, Cortland Enders, out of prison. Captivated by Sienna's hired companion, Cort and Lark make perilous choices between honor and danger.

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Author: Karen Witemeyer

He came to stop a gang of rustlers and wound up tangled in a murder plot. The boy next door holds the key to the truth, but it's the boy's aunt who might end up holding the Horseman's heart.

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Historical Romance

Author: K.S. Jones

A tale of early California, set against the grandeur of the Sierra Nevada range raw in its scenic beauty and pristine in its wild nature this 1849 frontier story reveals the enduring spirit of a woman who took a rowdy Gold Rush camp and turned it into a town.

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Author: Sarah Hendess

Nurse Josie Donovan fled her home in Kansas for Hollywood, California, and winds up on actor Robert Coolidge's Western television show in 1959. Both of them wary of a relationship, they're drawn to each other anyway, until a goodnight kiss goes wrong. Now it's Tinseltown's magic versus two broken hearts.

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Historical Romance

Author: Deborah Swenson

Trapped in a violent marriage, Boston socialite is devoted to her son’s escapes on an arduous journey to the Arizona Territory in search of her brother and a better life. A chance meeting on the train with a handsome time-traveling gentleman changes both their lives, bringing them renewed hope.

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Author: Shanna Hatfield

2023 WILLA Literary Award Winner

Henley Jones has spent her life tagging after her gambling father. His unexpected death leaves her destitute. Out of options, Henley agrees to travel across the country to marry a stranger. In a town flush with possibilities, will taking a chance on love bring heartache or a winning hand?

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Author:

Tammy Lough

Amazon #1 Int’l and National Best Seller

Will Lacey fancy the muscle-ripped cowboy of her dreams more than hot possum stew on a frigid winter night? Will Brandon's seductive lips meet up with the object of his desire? The year is 1873 and the Wild Wild West is the ideal setting for a hellcat tomboy!

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Historical Romance

Author: Louise Lenahan Wallace

The Civil War over, Ethan and Larissa plan their future on their Ohio farm. Fate had other ideas. Daughter Rose survives a deadly illness with tragic consequences. Someone from Larissa’s earlier life appears. The roots stretching deep into the couple’s separate pasts yield heartbreak, threatening to destroy their new-found happiness.

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Author: Andrea Downing

Seventies America: Deeply attached to Wyoming ranch life, no one is more surprised than Cooper Byrnes when he falls for vagabond hippie Cassie Halliday. But Coop cannot express his feelings and Cassie moves on. As years pass, will one eventually reach out to say, “you were always on my mind”.

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“From then on, my sense of smell swelled beyond reason. Mostly ordinary odors, but sometimes I imagine I can smell the stink of a lie. Or the perfume of a pure heart. Or the heartbreaking smell of what could have been.”

Rebecca

Rosenberg, Champagne Widows: First Woman of Champagne, Veuve Clicquot

Poetry

Author: Laura L.B. Border

Poetry chapbook of poems based on moon watching in the Rocky Mountains.

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Author: Sheila Quinn Delony

Suitable for gift-giving, This Year, Lord: Teachers’ Prayers of Blessing, Liturgy, and Lament is a collection of honest prayers that emerged from two decades of teaching and working beside teachers.

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Author: Susan Cummins Miller

2023 WILLA Literary Award Finalist

The poems in Susan Cummins Miller's Making Silent Stones Sing capture a geoscientist's contemplation of, discoveries in, and wisdom gained from the changing landscape of her life and history. Individual poems explore universal themes and the healing power to be found in the solitude and silence of the desert West.

For more information or to purchase, visit Finishing Line Press

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Poetry

Author: Janice E. Kirk

2022 Bronze Award Poetry, Reader Views

From Ft. Rock to Hovenweep, redwoods to Rockies, ocean to high desert, an invitation to connect with the natural world. Psalms, prayers unfold from early morning dew to night watch. Delight in the dawn, the forest fellowship, savor solitude, lament losses, celebrate life, hear the robin singing

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Author: Lisa Hase-Jackson

Converse MFA Alumni Book Prize

These poems, cloaked in memory and the unmaking and re-making of family, travel us through the harvest of a poet's life. Like the farms she made grow, this book tills the soil of a human soul and all the many experiences that make it.

For more information or to purchase, visit Clemson University Library.

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“A reader takes poetry deep within him or her by accommodating it within his/her range of consciousness. So, there is a possibility that the poems are received and understood differently when they enter into readers’ sphere.”

Suman Pokhrel

Scholarly Nonfiction

Author: Cynthia Leal Massey

Pioneer cemeteries provide a wealth of information about the people who settled Texas during its years as a Republic and after it became the twenty- eighth state in 1845. This book exhumes the stories of these pioneers, revealing the intriguing truth behind the earliest graveyards and demystifying early burial traditions.

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Author: Lynn Downey

The dude ranch is America's original western vacation. "American Dude Ranch" opens up a new perspective on this buckaroo getaway, demonstrating deep links to many aspects of culture: the role of women, food, clothing, race relations, literature, and film.

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Author: Beverly Lionberger Hodgins

Spokane, Washington’s first female physician, Mary A. Latham, sought a better climate for her health and worked tirelessly for the health of all of Spokane’s citizens, but particularly women and children and especially the poor. Read why she was accused, arrested, and convicted of arson, then sentenced to the penitentiary.

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Scholarly Nonfiction

Author: Laura Arata

Born a slave, Sarah Bickford became the first African American female public utilities owner in the nation and Montana tourism promoter. Winner of the 2021 Spur Award for Best First Non-Fiction Book from Western Writers of America and the 2021 Gita Chaudhuri Prize from Western Association of Women's Historians.

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Author: Carolyn Grattan Eichin

2021 WILLA Literary Award Finalist

This is a meticulously researched, insightful and scholarly documented study of theater in the American West during the 1800s. Focusing on the mid-1800s, the theater was a reflection of the American melting pot. The book has been called ”the best, most thoughtful-provoking study of the subject to date.”

For more information or to purchase, visit University of Nevada Press Format: Hardback; eBook

Author: Jane Little Botkin

2022 WILLA Literary Award Finalist

First to chronicle Jane Street's defiant efforts as a leader of the so-called housemaid rebellion, award-winning author Jane Little Botkin paints a fascinating and ultimately heartbreaking portrait of one woman's courageous fight for equality in the wake of Colorado’s violent labor disputes

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Women Writing the West

Scholarly Nonfiction

Author: Caroline Arlen

Every time miners started a shift, they knew they might be the next to die or be maimed from a cave-in, explosion or falling slab. But it was much more than just a dangerous job. The mining life created a close, loyal community; and sometimes laughter was the best medicine.

For more information or to purchase, visit Western Reflections Publishing.

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Author: Amy Law

Trail Ridge Road follows ancient trails across the Continental Divide, offering visitors breathtaking views and a privileged glimpse at unique ecosystems. It is the country's highest continuous paved road, peaking at over twelve thousand feet. Join author Amy Law on a tour through the history of Colorado's most famous byway.

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Author: J.v.L Bell, Jan Gunia

Explore the lives of ten unforgettable women who called Colorado home during the turbulent years of the Pikes Peak Gold Rush. Read about the unsung heroism of Native American, Hispanic, Anglo, and African American Women whose perseverance, hard work, and wisdom helped lay the foundation for the state of Colorado.

For more information or to purchase, visit Filter Press Books

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Scholarly Nonfiction

Author: Tempe Javitz

Featuring over one hundred of Jessamine Spear Johnson’s photographs, this volume is the first publication to showcase her work in detail. Essays and captions by granddaughter Tempe Javitz, with an intro by historian Mary Murphy, situate Johnson’s life and career in relation to broader shifts in ranching, tourism, and photography.

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Thriller & Suspense

Author: Marty Eberhardt

Bea Rivers’ euphoria over her new job at Shandley Gardens is shattered by the death of the Gardens’ founder. Bea struggles to maintain the life of a single parent as she decodes odd botanical clues and discovers just how tangled the relationships among the staff and board members really are.

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Author: Judy Alter

Irene is back in town. And Henny’s life is a mess. The diva chef is searching for her good friend, dead or alive, but for Henny the search threatens her TV job and her new, idyllic marriage to Patrick. What really did happen to Florence? Will they find her?

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“There was one night in the past six months she had no recollection of. One night where she woke up the next morning covered in someone else's blood. One night she was most vulnerable.”

Amy Crandall, Delusions

Thriller & Suspense

Author: Eva Moran

Intentionally, some are marked at birth

Nineteen-year-old Chloe Winter considers herself an adult now, but the cult she grew up in doesn’t allow independence. Can she escape Badger Creek United? Run with Chloe as she tries to break the chains of the past and find a new life.

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Author: Marcia Rosen

A body is tossed into the lion’s habitat at the zoo where Miranda is the senior vet. A fan since childhood of Christie, Raymond, and Sherlock, they live in her head telling her what to do…and not do. Murders and a gangster father often get in the way of romance

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Author: Jayme H. Mansfield

Olivia Danford’s life unravels when she, an acclaimed expert in art forgery detection, investigates a purported Modigliani portrait and discovers there is far more than what lies beneath the layers of paint.

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Thriller & Suspense

Author: Randi Samuelson Brown

Emory Cross is a young, tough, no nonsense brand inspector in Colorado's cattle country. She's intent on preserving her legacy ranch's traditional way of life at all costs...even if it means crossing lines. Decisions lead her down a road fraught with danger, exposing an uneasy past and an uncertain future.

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Author: Kathryn Dodson

Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Goldrush Award Finalist

Two women. One missing, one hired to find her. When the hunter becomes the hunted, she’ll need more than tequila to survive the night. Jessica won’t let anyone hurt her again, but the tough as nails woman softens when a Mexican tycoon with shady connections begs her to locate his missing daughter.

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Author: Mary Coley

2022 Oklahoma Book Award for Fiction Winner

Journalist

Claire Northcutt plans to write a newspaper story about the famous Mother Road (Route 66) but her investigation of one small Oklahoma town uncovers a disturbing secret. With the help of a waitress, 'Rhonda' who is hiding under Witness Protection, she tries to stop the criminals' deadly plot.

For more information or to purchase, visit Mary Coley

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Thriller & Suspense

Author: JoAnn Conner

Susanna Warren was taught to love the mountains and respect the Native American customs. When she stumbles on thieves stealing artifacts, she engages in a battle of wills with the local sheriff, who can't decide whether to lock her up or protect her in the quest to stop the thieves.

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Author: Claire Naden

A forty-something woman inherited a bookstore in her aunt's will. Bungalow Books came with a cache of valuable artifacts. Is what lies hidden under the stacks of Bungalow Books deter Cate from finding the cache of valuable artifacts with historical implications?

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Author: Kathleen Donnelly

Until an avalanche ripped down a mountainside, exposing a serial killer’s dumping grounds, Antler Valley, Colorado, was a quiet town. Now Forest Service officer Maya Thompson and her beautiful K-9, Juniper, must catch the murderer before they become the next targets.

For more information or to purchase, visit Kathleen Donnelly

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Young Adult Fiction

Author: Corinne Brown

2023 Colorado Independent Publishers Silver Award

An award-winning edition of six art lessons inspired by horses for children ages six to ten. Young artists’ work grace the pages along with equine art from the past. Not a “how to” book, but rather a “why not?” book, each lesson offers directions, materials and tips for group leaders.

For more information or to purchase, visit Corinne Brown Website

Format: Paperback

Author:

Vicki Felmlee

Autumn and The Silver Moon Stallion is a story of love, hatred, and death set in Wyoming. Book 3 of The Abandoned Trilogy.

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Author: Betsy Randolph

What if a weird, 12-year-old boy could talk to animals and they warned him that a terrible flood would sweep his town away in less than 24 hours...would you listen to him? Not many did...

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Young Adult Fiction

Author: Sally Harper Bates

A young reader selection. Takes the reader through the life of a young man on ranches through the eyes of many who watched his struggles and victories. Each chapter is a different "speakers" voice. It's unique, personable, and rich with the traditional lifestyle of the working cowboy and his family.

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Format: Paperback

Author: Roni McFadden

Finalist Western Writers of America, Children’s Category

How one brave girl rose up from a wheelchair onto the back of a horse.

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Format: Paperback

Author:

E.S. Jameson

It’s 1925. The small cabin deep in the San Juan Mountains is the only home seventeen-year-old Lenora Giovanni has ever known But when her father dies from tainted moonshine, leaving her alone, she is forced into a life of danger

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Young Adult Nonfiction

Author: Sarah Byrn Rickman

2023 WILLA Literary Award Finalist

A youthful pioneer spirit and love of adventure led Jean Landis to volunteer to fly trainer and fighter aircraft for her country in wartime –when skilled pilots were desperately needed. Jean Landis WASP Pilot is Sarah Byrn Rickman’s twelfth book about the Women ferry pilots of WWII.

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Author: Joyce Lohse

WILLA Literary Award Silver Finalist

Baby Doe Tabor, the Silver Queen of Leadville, went from rags to riches and back to rags, earning fame as an unforgettable character in Colorado history She faced life in mining camps and early Denver with pioneer spunk and spirit.

For more information or to purchase, visit Filter Press Books.

Format: Paperback

Author: Heidi Thomas

Electra Lucci hides her self-destructive heart behind a dark, Goth-girl persona. On vacation at a Montana dude ranch, she meets a nearly-dead horse, and it’s love at first sight. Now, she has something to care about, and someone who cares for her. She learns the powerful healing capacity of horses.

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Cookbooks

Author: Natalie Bright

Recipes and much, much more! Trail-weary cowboys, cattle barons, and railroaders collided in Cowtown where the dining table became central to savory food and business deals. Archival photographs, old-time remedies, firsthand accounts, and the Old West lore of Cowtown come together in this unique book.

For more information or to purchase, visit Amazon. Format: Paperback

When you're down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams there's nothing like a campfire and a can of beans" Tom Waits, “Lucky Days”

Join us in Denver, Colorado on October 10 - 12, 2024, for the 30 th Anniversary of the Women Writing the West Conference.

Th e theme, "Through A Woman's Eyes," will honor both w omen writers and women's stories along with the Founding Members of Women Writing the West.

Workshops will be offered for writers from beginners to pros. Learn about writing and publishing through author panels and agent and editor panels.

Highlights include the presentations of The WILLA Literary Award, The LAURA Short Fiction Award, The DOWNING Journalism Award and the High School Writing Contest Awards.

We look forward to seeing you there! Women

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