Read an excerpt from my new western novel, THE LAST HUNT
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 wasting a lot of time, indenting each paragraph by hand, etc. I know there must be all sorts of shortcuts for doing this stuff but I don't know any of them.
Nonetheless and all that nastiness set aside...you can now pop over to my main blog and read a sizable chunk of my new novel or check out my Scribd page (where you'll find other examples from my work).
Your comments and thoughts are always welcome.
Some of you have expressed surprise that I've written a western. Not exactly a popular field these days. But is the genre truly dead or are there signs of a renaissance? What think you?
Cliff Burns is a literary pioneer, going independent two decades before it became fashionable. For Burns, it was never about the money; it’s always been about artistic integrity and connecting with his audience.”
—Robert Runte, Canadian critic and academic
About Cliff
I've been a professional author for more than 25 years and an independent publisher since 1990, when my first book, Sex & Other Acts of the Imagination, was released through an imprint my wife and I created. That little publishing concern, which...
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Cliff’s Favorite Books
Ah, now this is a tough one. "Favorite" books or "best" books? Because that's two entirely different things... Still, here are a few of the ones that have...