Book One in The Oakleys Series
Little Hatchet is the first installment in Phil Oakley’s Oakleys series, a family saga loosely based on his own kin. After the Civil War, James Oakley moves his family to Little Hatchet Creek in New Mexico. When his youngest son is taken from the front porch, twelve-year-old Walter Oakley goes after him — and the story runs from there into Prohibition-era Texas.
Silver Winner — Best New Fiction, IBPA’s Ben Franklin Awards
The Big Empty is a novel by Loren C. Steffy and a silver winner for Best New Fiction in IBPA’s Ben Franklin Awards. A ranch manager and a semiconductor executive collide on a West Texas highway, and then keep colliding over the future of Conquistador — a dying town one of them intends to save by building a chip plant in it.
Llano Estacado is a historical Western novel by Max L. Knight set in 1870s Texas. A Comanche war leader and a Texas homesteader each lose their families to a massacre — and each spends a year hunting the other’s people. A story of the frontier cycle of vengeance, in the tradition of The Searchers.
Old West Monsters and a Texas Poet's Life
In this epic re-release, Donald Mace Williams adapts Beowulf to late nineteenth-century Texas in Wolfe. In Being Ninety, he reflects on more than nine decades of devotion to the writing life.
