Straightforward steps to:• Getting started the right way • Avoiding common pitfalls • Eliminating rejection slips • Getting checks in the mailSlim Randles has been a journalist, editor, author, sportsman, and speaker. After years of making a living from the pen, he is passing on advice to those who want to write for a living. Slim’s advice is spiced up with his signature view of what the world is and could be. This book is filled with an award-winning author’s gentle but firm words to live...

His background is shadowy, his presence commanding. He brings law and order to a frontier town and wins the love of a pretty schoolteacher from the East. He is the Virginian—the first fully realized cowboy hero in American literature, a near-mythic figure whose idealized image has profoundly influenced our national consciousness. This enduring work of fiction marks his first appearance in popular culture—the birth of a legend that lives with us still.

From 2004 to 2009, the Albuquerque Journal North ran the ¡ÓRALE! SANTA FE column by Santa Fe native and veteran journalist Arnold Vigil. The editor gave carte blanche to Vigil in his selection of topics ranging from encounters with locals and tourists to social commentary about changes that have taken place over the years. Vigil’s local perspective and humorous insights about Santa Fe, its inhabitants, and visitors struck a chord with readers—native Nuevomexicanos and long-time residents a...

There's eight million stories in the naked city but billions more around the world from the COVID-19 pandemic. This is one of a man stripped down to nothing to realize what matters most.Escape to Butterfly Ave is a coming-of-age dramedy that highlights a skateboarder-turned-father striving to maintain a bond with his teething daughter during the Covid era. Throughout this fateful weekend, numerous challenges ramp for Al, including a brawl with his drug-dea...

The bawdy and moving story of two contemporary bronco busters, The Rounders, originally published in 1960, was Max Evans's first novel and is still his best known work, thanks largely to the success of the 1965 movie version starring Henry Fonda and Glenn Ford. Acclaimed for its realistic depiction of modern cowboying and for its humor, it is also a very serious work, described by the author as a tragicomedy.It is a book to read if you are in need of a good laugh or if you...

Legendary western author Max Evans has spent his entire life working with cows and horses. These rangeland animals, and other creatures both domestic and wild, play pivotal roles in his stories. This magnificent collection, beautifully illustrated by cowboy artist Keith Walters, showcases twenty-six animal tales penned by Evans during his long and celebrated career.Both fiction and nonfiction, the stories in this collection get us inside the heads and hearts of numerous four-legged...

Almost as famous for the legendary excesses of his personal life as for his films, Sam Peckinpah (1925–1984) cemented his reputation as one of the great American directors with movies such as The Wild Bunch and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Max Evans, one of Peckinpah’s best friends, experienced the director’s mercurial character and personal demons firsthand. In this enthralling memoir we follow Evans and Peckinpah through conversations in bars, family gatherings, binge...

Mildred Clark Cusey was a whore, a madam, an entrepreneur, and above all, a survivor. The story of Silver City Millie, as she referred to herself, is the story of one woman's personal tragedies and triumphs as an orphan, a Harvey Girl waitress on the Santa Fe railroad, a prostitute with innumerable paramours, and a highly successful bordello businesswoman. Millie broke the mold in so many ways, and yet her life's story of survival was not unlike that of thousands of women who went West onl...

Legendary Western writer Max Evans takes you into the heart of Hi Lo Country to spend a little time with cowboys who work hard, play hard, live hard— and have a great time being cowboys in this collection of all three of Evans' classic novels.The Rounders: Two stove-up cowboys, Dusty Jones and Wrangler Lewis, set out to break a wild roan named Old Fooler— part horse, part devil— if he doesn't break them first!The Great Wedding: Dusty figures their troubles...

Short stories and three novellas by award-winning chronicler of the American West, Max Evans.Prolific writer Max Evans produced a wide-ranging body of work representing several genres. From among his numerous publications, Evans selected personal favorites for this collection, which spans most of his writing career. In addition to an essay about a maverick film director— "Sam Peckinpah: A Very Personal Remembrance"— this collection includes three short novels

The Newbery Medal–winning author of The Hero and the Crown brings the Robin Hood legend to vivid life.Young Robin Longbow, apprentice forester in the King's Forest of Nottingham, must contend with the dislike of the Chief Forester, who bullies Robin in memory of his popular father. But Robin does not want to leave Nottingham or lose the title to his father's small tenancy, because he is in love with a young lady named Ma...

Stories from the world of The Hero and the Crown and other magical places by a New York Times –bestselling Newbery Medal winner.Robin McKinley returns to the mythical setting of The Hero and the Crown and The Blue Sword in this "thrilling, satisfying, and thought-provoking collection" featuring two stories set in the world of Damar, plus three other fantasy ta...