Lifting a glass with an Old Fashioned in it to celebrate finishing the last story in a cycle of Western short stories, fourteen of them, running to just over 50,000 words — enough for a respectable collection.  These are rip-roaring tales with plenty of adventure and sex and a parade of powerful female characters of the sort you don’t often find in Western yarns.

It will be a month or two before these stories are published, but tonight is a milestone for the author and worth a toast to the writing life, raised under the brim of a straw Resistol.

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