Murderous Musings

By Chester Campbell
It hardly seems like fourteen years ago, but it became what I'd chalk up as a most unforgettable venture. Here, slightly edited, is how I described it in a piece I wrote a few years later:
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By June Shaw
I had never written a novel in less than a year--until recently.
The first book I wrote took two or three years, and it collects dust. It was fun. It was exciting. It was awful. It went on and on, and I was having a good time getting it down because I had wanted to do such a thing for so long. Then I discovered most...

I've always been interested in history and few eras are more interesting than that of our American West. I'm also intrigued by mystery. So what could be better than combining the two?
As trappers, gold-hunters and settlers expanded into the West they ran head on into people they often regarded as less than human but who had cultures as diverse as their own. When conquered, these people were forced onto reservations where it was hoped...

I've heard that writing can serve as a catharsis and I'm about to find out if that's true.
Since last November, I've lost a grandson, divorced my husband and moved nearly 1,500 miles to the Texas Gulf Coast. During that period and several months before, I was unable to write although I was in the midst of my 23rd book, a novel set in the Wyoming...