My latest novel, The Accidental Sheriff, is now available on Amazon Kindle. I always seek to provide something a little different for my readers, and I hope this book does that. The male protagonist, Grant Coolidge, is a dime novelist who writes westerns without ever having been west of the Mississippi River. He proceeds to remedy his travel deficiencies in this book and encounters a basketful of surprises in Lockwood, Wyoming,
If you have read my other books, you have visited Lockwood in the Coyote series andLooking for Trouble, and you will meet many of the inhabitants again. I also include two strong female characters, Hannah Locke and Bright Moon Dupree. Romance? Count on it. A few tears? Could be. Humor? I have tried.
You will meet Trouble Yates, Sammy Morris and Enos Fletcher again. I think readers will like a new character, Obadiah “Bushwa” Sparks, as well as several other newcomers.
I hope my readers enjoy this novel. It has been fun to write. My next book will be a sequel with a storyline based upon a range war. Since I don’t outline or plot ahead, my readers now know as much as I do at this point. My working title is Beware a Pale Horse. By release time, my publisher may want to change this, but I like to have a title when I do my writing. I hope to have this completed for November release.
For those who may not be aware, permit me to brag a bit. In June Old Dogs was honored by Western Fictioneers, an organization of western fiction writers, with the Peacemaker Award as the Best Western Novel of 2021. I was interviewed on the Western Fictioneers blog a few weeks ago. If any reader is interested, you may click this link to read the interview.
Thanks for your interest in my novels.
Best wishes and good reading.
Ron