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Monthly Archives: January 2012
Your inner gunslinger
If you know me, you’re probably aware that I enjoy the sport of Western Fast Draw. I’m a life member of the Cowboy Fast Draw Association and the current Vice-Chairman for Area 6 in the World Fast Draw Association. And in Oregon, I’ve started or helped to start three Western Fast Draw clubs. Cool huh?
Publishing has changed a lot in the last twenty years
I’m about to make the right decision. Or the wrong one, I’m not really sure. From what I can tell, the publishing industry has changed a lot in the last twenty years. I earned a Doctorate in Ministry degree in 1983 and a well-meaning man on my examination committee suggested that I rewrite my thesis project for publication elsewhere. (It was a hot topic at the time; it’s no longer.) So I did. A friend introduced me to his agent. …
Posted in Writing and Publishing
Tagged East Jesus, East Jesus Nevada, Gregg Townsley, Kindle, Publishing, Western Fiction
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The third in the Ronin series of Westerns
It’s not an easy history to recite, given that at one time the Pinkertons were the cause of a great amount of heartache in American history. But the fact is, there’s a interesting and admirable past to America’s first detective agency.
Posted in The Pinkerton Years
Tagged Gregg Townsley, Kidnapping, Kindle, Nevada, Pinkertons, policemen, posses, robberies, Western Fiction, WW Ronin
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A word from my publicist
The daughter of a Native American wise man goes missing from a white man’s Christian Gospel Mission, and two fast friends—brought together by passion and persistence during Nevada’s 1880s western expansion—are hell-bent on finding her, and possibly others.
Good research makes good fiction
I like to write. Make no mistake about that. Putting words down on paper was a big part of my weekly effort, as a pastor and later as an educator, businessman and entrepreneur. But what I enjoy most about writing is the learning that goes with it.
Lake Tahoe never gives up its dead
Let me be frank. Hands down, my favorite Western movie of all time is Larry McMurtry’s, Lonesome Dove. I loved the characters, appreciated the expansive scenery and was moved by the clearly mythic journey of Western heroes Woodrew Call and Augustus McCrae. And I enjoyed the book as much as I enjoyed the film. Maybe more so.
Hold on partner…
Hold on partner! The book you’re looking for, the first in the Ronin series of Westerns East Jesus, Nevada, isn’t ready for publication yet. It’s being edited. No, I mean seriously edited.
An excerpt from my new western novel, “East Jesus, Nevada”
“Ronin hated crowds and generally didn’t go to town if he could avoid it. If nature abhors a vacuum, he recalled Ralph Waldo Emerson having said once, he hated whatever the opposite of a vacuum was. People-filled rooms, busy stages and train stations all made him uncomfortable. It was a control thing. He wasn’t about to let life take him anywhere again, as his father’s anywhere had turned out to be so damn painful. And his own experience in the …