MAY 2008

Thomas Longo is the featured author in this month's issue of Black Petals: Online Horror and Science Fiction Magazine. His three fiction pieces are "Shards," "Devil in the Details" and "The Door in the Wall." Congratulations, Thomas.

Truman State University Press (TSUP) has just released the autogiography of Joseph B. Fussell (edited by E. R. Fussell). The book, Unbridled Cowboy is "a riveting firsthand account of a defiant hell-raiser in the wild and tumultuous American Southwest in the late 1800s." TSUP was established in 1986 to provide research works for readers and scholars.

APRIL 2008

Kae Cheatham has a new SF book, Child of the Mist; it's cultural Science Fiction and one of her Gem of the Galaxy books. The second printing of Daughter of the Stone (also SF) is also out this month. Child of the Mist is Cheatham's eleventh published title. Excerpts and ordering information are at the book sites.

Elaine Long has just released a new work. But it is a bit different from her previous novels. Lone Wolf Suite is a musical, biographical novel, featuring Long's words and music. The CD was produced at the Western Jubilee Warehouse and is available through The Book Haven, Salida Colorado. Visit Long's Web site

Congratulations to Deirdre McNamer whose book Red Rover has won the 2007 Montana Book Award. Award presentations and a reception will be on 10 April during the Montana Library Association Conference, Great Falls, Montana.

Author/historian Lenore Puhek, has been invited to participate in a memorial tribute to Civil War soldiers at Greenwood Cemetery, the oldest cemetery in New York state, on 19 April. Libby Townsend Meagher, the subject of Puhek's book The River's Edge, is buried there, and a special tribute will be paid to Thomas Francis Meagher.

MARCH 2008

Congratualtions to Michael P. Spradlin on the release of his young reader book Texas Rangers: Legendary Lawmen. From Walker Young Readers, the illustrated book covers information about the early days of the Texas Rangers (1820s). Learn more at his Web site.

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