old west | old west
Apr.14.2012
My friend Laird and his family visiting last night. Predictably, both music and scotch flowed. He played us the three tunes he'll be performing before my reading and earned high marks from an appreciative audience. One of the songs is a piece we wrote together called "The Last Juliet". ...
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Mar.22.2012
As the 100 year anniversary of the sinking of Titanic nears, hope you read my sentimental love story, LOVE ABOARD THE TITANIC, along with BILLY THE KID'S WIFE. Both are sure to tug at your heart strings. Now in Kindle, Nook, and iTunes as an eBook and audio in Audible, iTunes, and Amazon.
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Mar.14.2012
I suppose it's the closest to an actual birth experience I'll ever get.
Yesterday the proof of my new book arrived, a western titled The Last Hunt. Now, this isn't the first book I've published, this is something like number ten, including chapbooks and what have you. But I have to say...
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Mar.08.2012
Anxious days around the Burns residence of late. Nervously awaiting the arrival of the proof of my new book, plus I've arranged for Kindle and e-book versions to be released and, naturally, there are the usual chores that accompany a pending book release, including promo, distribution, shipping,...
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Mar.01.2012
I spent all morning messing around with the formatting for the first 20 pages of my novel of the Old West, The Last Hunt. I thought it would be a simple thing to carve out a section, slap it into a Word document, save it as a PDF...
Unfortunately, I'm useless with computers and ended up...
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May.28.2011
The wonderful thing about being an independent author is having the freedom to choose what projects to work on and not having to countenance arguments from moron editors and greedhead agents, who would much rather you write the same old same old and just shut up and cash the checks.
Unfortunately,...
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May.12.2010
The business of America, it has been said, is business. Business suffers during wars, although there are exceptions to this rule. There is and always has been a military industrial complex that goes hand in hand with war. Dwight Eisenhower warned against it when he left office in 1961. The...
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Sep.25.2009
I wonder how much history I have learned through the simple western novels I have read by the greatest western storyteller that ever lived. If asked who my favorite western novel writer is/was, I'd be in trouble. How can I say who my favorite is? I began reading the works of L'Amour, and never...
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Aug.27.2009
John F. Kennedy was assassinated when I was 18 months old. I was six when his brother Robert was killed. I have no memory of the first incident and only a very hazy recollection of the second; mainly that something bad had happened. In the couple of days since the death of Teddy Kennedy, I have...
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