New Releases, Awards and Special Events for January 2017
Awards
The prestigious Will Rogers Medallion Award presented to “The Longest Trail” by Roni McFadden in the Non-Fiction category for 2016.
At the banquet, hosted Saturday evening, October 29, 2016, in Ft. Worth, TX, thirty-six authors and publishers were presented Will Rogers Medallion Awards Honoring Excellence in Western Media in twelve categories. “Each year, the quality and level of excellence of the books being awarded goes up,” noted Charles Williams, Executive Director. “It is a tribute both to the enduring appeal of the West, and to the high quality of publications being produced today. We are especially proud of our publishers, who have maintained such high standards in a marketplace where they face competition from e-books and other electronic media.”
Two weeks later, Reader’s Favorite proudly announced that "The Longest Trail" by Roni McFadden was a Gold Medal Winner in the Non-Fiction - General category in their 2016 International Book Award Contest. Those awards were handed out in Miami November 19, 2016.
Buy The Longest Trail
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Susan Wittig Albert's biographical novel Loving Eleanor (www.LovingEleanor.com) has added three recent awards to its previous IPPY:
- Library Journal named it their Undie EBook (romance) for 2016
- Kirkus Reviews named it to their Best Books of 2016 list; and
- USA Best Books 2016 awarded it a first in their LGBT category.
The book was published under her imprint, Persevero Press, in February, 2016.
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New Releases from WWW Members
New Release on January 27, 2017
Remember How It Rained: River Saga Book Two
Author Name: K. Lyn Wurth
Publisher: True to Story Publishing
Divided in childhood, but children no more, Margaret Rose, Jack and Kuruk answer the echoes of childhood loves, memories and voices. Power is shifting in Darkwater Creek, old crimes cry out for justice and Nebraska’s deadliest floodwaters gather in the west. Book Two of the River Saga, Remember How It Rained continues Seven Kinds of Rain’s voices of innocence, corruption, courage and justice on the Great Plains. It sings of running away and coming home to find love, truth and justice in the places and people who won’t let you go.
Buy at Barnes and Noble
Buy at Amazon.com
K. Lynn Wurth's Author Website
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New Release Available Now
FLASH & FRIENDS
By Natalie Bright
Book #4 Rescue Animal Series
Available on Amazon Now
The series features true stories about a registered Tennessee Walker whose family moves and is unable to take him with them. Featuring vivid, colored photographs, Book #4 shares details about Flash’s adopted family and work in this very personal scrapbook. Find out where he lives, meet his corral mates, and follow him along as he works in an equine outreach program.
http://nataliebright.com
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New Release Available Now
Baby on the Oregon Trail
By Lynna Banning
Heading west to Oregon, pregnant widow Jenna Borland’s life can’t get any more difficult . . . until fate throws Robert E. Lee Carver across her path. She resents his help, but she needs him to drive her covered wagon over the Great Plains.
Lee can’t fathom why this prickly woman gets under his skin. But as the journey brings these two outsiders together, he wonders if Jenna and her baby could be just what he needs to begin a new life with a brand-new family.
Available at Barnes & Noble and Amazon. Buy link at www.lynnabanning.net.
Carolyn Woolston, writing as Lynna Banning, shares this insight about her new book:
My new book, “Baby on the Oregon Trail,” is close to my heart because my great-grandparents came to Oregon in a covered wagon along the Oregon Trail. Grand-grandfather Edgar Boessen was an immigrant from Germany; Great-grandmother Maia Bruhn came from Denmark. Their descendants now number in the thousands.
Typical of those intrepid travelers who came west on the Oregon Trail is the following diary entry: “Friday, October 27. Arrived at Oregon City at the falls of the Willamette. Saturday, October 28. Went to work.” (James W. Nesmith, 1843)
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New Release January 6, 2017
THE ACCIDENTAL STRANGER
by Cj Fosdick
Jessica Brewster is being watched…and things go missing from the remote Wyoming home she shares with her toddler. In a freak accident, she shoots the bearded thief stalking her before she recognizes the mesmerizing green eyes that belong to the only man she ever loved.
Has Mitch bridged time to find her? In a race to save his life and change hers forever, she takes him into her home and heart. But his memory loss and puzzling clues curry doubt and expose mystery and danger. Is he truly her son’s father, a murderer from Old Ft. Laramie, or an irresistible stranger in her arms?
Series: Book #2 in the Accidental Series set in Wyoming can stand alone
Genre: Mainstream mix of contemporary/historical/romance/time travel/mystery
Released: Friday, Jan. 6. in eBook & print (latter only from Amazon, publisher and author)
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Cj's Website:
www.cjfosdick.com
Buy Links: https://www.amazon.com/Cj-Fosdick/e/B00V14E74E Amazon
http://catalog.thewildrosepress.com/1256_cj-fosdick Publisher
http://bit.ly/1QcHLOq B&N
http://www.bookstrand.com/the-accidental-stranger Bookstrand
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New Release
Sarah's Secret
By Beverly Scott
Available now at
Amazon
Author Website:
www.bevscott.com
The two key protagonists, Sarah and Sam, historically on their separate journeys of trust, secrets and betrayal on the frontier of the old West, remain intimately connected. In the 1880’s, Sam, who is irresponsible, lonely and untrustworthy has abandoned those he loves until he seeks redemption and marries Sarah. After Sam’s death in 1911, Sarah draws on her pioneer spirit to find the inner strength to overcome loneliness, poverty and illness to support her children. She learns staggering news which complicates her efforts. Will Sarah find forgiveness in her heart and the resolve to accept her new life alone?
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Events and Appearances
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| photo credit to Steve Atkinson |
Amy Hale Auker has been invited to participate in the 33rd National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, January 30-February 4, 2017, in Elko, Nevada. Amy is appearing for the 5th time at the Elko Gathering. The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering is an international festival that honors the arts, culture and traditions of the rural West, with poetry, music, storytelling, dancing, workshops, exhibitions, discussions, food and fellowship. The 33rd Gathering will celebrate the art and tradition of storytelling in the rural West, presenting first-hand narratives wrought from personal experience and told in verse, song, film, visual art, new media and prose.
Amy Hale Auker cowboys for Spider Ranch in Yavapai County, Arizona, with her husband, Gail Steiger. Work on the ranch provides ample material for her writing: prose, poetry, fiction and non-fiction. She is the author of Rightful Place, a collection of essays, and two novels, Winter of Beauty and The Story Is the Thing. A new collection of creative non-fiction will be released in 2017. Amy’s presentations on the stage and on the page are deeply rooted in the natural world where the bats fly, lizards do pushups on the rocks, bears leave barefoot prints in the dirt. Where hummingbirds do rain dances in August, spiders weave for their food, and poetry is in the chrysalis and the cocoon. She tells stories about the real world where things grow up out of the ground, where the miracle of life happens over and over again, where people can and do survive without malls or Arby's. Amy believes that what you put out there is what you get back, and that growing food is an honorable profession.
Amy will join nearly 50 other poets, musicians and musical groups from the U.S., Canada and Australia who will perform on seven stages at four different venues in Elko. For artist bios and audio samples, visit
www.nationalcowboypoetrygathering.org. The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering also features hands-on workshops in traditional Western arts including rawhide braiding and horsehair hitching, foodways, dancing, songwriting, and how to play the bones. A special exhibition will present an artful view of the horse in the American West and will display contemporary gear from the Western Folklife Center’s collection. Tickets to the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering can be purchased at
www.nationalcowboypoetrygathering.org, or by calling 888-880-5885.
BAD BOY, BIG HEART by Andrea Downing
