J.C. Hulsey
J.C. Hulsey
David W. Bailey
About David W. Bailey
David W. Bailey was born in Parkersburg, West Virginia on February 3 1951.
He has traveled across the U.S and back with his family.
He is a Navy Vietnam veteran and proudly so.
He now lives in Bakersfield, California with his wife of 40 years
He is the middle son of three boys. At an early age, he and his family traveled the U.S., from Parkersburg, West Virginia to Bowie Maryland down to Tampa, Florida.
From Wellsville, Ohio west to Casper, Wyoming and all points in between. When his family landed in California in the mid-60s, they set roots in Ventura County.
David is a Navy Vietnam veteran. Six years after his discharge, he joined the Army, spending six years with a total of twelve years military service. He and his wife, Sandy, married on July 4, 1981 in Casitas Springs, California and now lives in Bakersfield, California. They have three grown children and three grandchildren.
His favorite quotation is, "I'm here 'cause I'm not all there."
His love for writing was established at an early age.
Randy Hogue
Randy Hogue
Dennis H. Williams
Dennis Williams is a third generation Arizonan. He has spent his life from an early age in agriculture. His main focus has been cattle, first in feedlots, ranches and even a fourteen month stint in a large meat packing plant.
Along the way, Dennis has been a active roper in rodeos and jackpot competitions. He's been a finalist in the international feedlot team roping finals, first in Las Vegas, then Elko Nevada. In 2012 he started writing, first in memoirs of forty years in the cattle business, then moving on to cowboy fiction. Most of his work has been an enjoyable pastime.
Since he retired from rodeoing, he has started producing the 'REX ALLEN DAYS RODEO' in Rex s home town of Willcox AZ.
Rex was Dennis' hero and from early childhood, he has always wanted to be an Arizona cowboy.
Jess T. Bryan
Jess T. Bryan
Teresa Whitehawk
Teresa Whitehawk
John David Young
John David Young
Loretta Jackson & Vickie Britton
Loretta Jackson & Vickie Britton
Sam McNeel
Sam McNeel
Jeffrey Paolano
Residing and writing in bucolic southeastern Ohio, a land of natural serenity creates a placidity allowing for the stimulation of the muse, or one might say nothing happens here, so one is not distracted from the work.
After a thirty-year stint in the corporate world, I took residence in a century house undertaking to write fiction.
My efforts have produced short stories and novels.
My aim is to produce work that is entertaining, educational, well-written, interesting and believable.
My hope is that the reader deems it so.
C.C.-Cochrane
C.C. Cochrane writes hard-edged Western fiction rooted in consequence, character, and the unforgiving realities of frontier life. His stories favor grit over glamour, men shaped by the land, and choices that leave scars. Cochrane’s work reflects a deep respect for Old West history while delivering lean, powerful storytelling in the tradition of classic Westerns.
Steve Sisney
Steve Sisney
Simon Fry
Simon Fry writes hard-riding Westerns in the tradition of the great pulp paperbacks—stories where the dust is thick, the guns are close at hand, and justice is never gentle. His novels feature lonely riders, dangerous towns, and men forced to make hard choices when the law falls short.
Drawing inspiration from mid-century Western fiction, Simon Fry’s stories move fast, hit hard, and stay true to the raw spirit of the frontier. His work favors grit over glamour, action over sentiment, and characters who earn their redemption one step at a time.
When he isn’t writing, Simon Fry can usually be found studying vintage Western covers, classic dime novels, and the unforgiving history that shaped the American West.
Simon Fry writes Westerns the old way—straight, tough, and unforgettable.
V.C. Williams
V.C. Williams
David Munk
I am a high school counselor and coach, and this has been my career for the past twenty-two years. I am in my thirty-first year of marriage and have three children. Our youngest was recently married so my wife and I are now empty nesters—luckily we aren’t complete strangers. Needless to say, the transition has been interesting—interesting is a good thing in this context in case you were wondering.
Writing is therapy for me—not the editing. My mood at any given minute might inspire my writing. I am inspired by the world around me, specifically how simple everyday events influence human relationships. I attempt to illustrate our tendency to complicate that which was never intended to be complex.
My love for reading started as a young man. I was inspired by the likes of S.E. Hinton and Wilson Rawls. Louis L’Amour also had an impact on me as well as Ralph Moody. All of these authors were masters at portraying human emotion and making the page come alive. I remember reading Little Britches as a youth, as seen through the eyes of Moody when he was but a young boy. I remember the theme of keeping an intact character amidst the injustices brought on by a far from perfect society.
I was more of a reader than a writer until recently. I tinkered with creative writing in high school and college but never looked to pursue it in any formal setting. About five years ago I had the sudden urge to write a novel. To this day I can’t explain where the desire came from. It was at the start of COVID, so maybe my subconscious was telling me to start writing, not knowing if I might contract the virus and find an unhappy conclusion.
My first novel wasn’t submitted for publishing. I never intended for anyone to read it other than me, though I had it edited for the sake of educating myself from the feedback. This was extremely beneficial, and I quickly recognized my strengths and weaknesses. My second novel was published but I didn’t feel it was the right genre for me—it was really just another experiment. But being a published author was exciting, and I proved to myself that it was doable.
There are a few things I have identified as an author: The real world can be harsh and unforgiving. This is what readers are expecting. They are also hopeful that protagonists can rise above the conflict. I have found that unwritten thoughts are easily forgotten, so I must take advantage of what pops into my head. I have learned to enjoy the journey and the process, which was difficult at first. Finally, I have come to realize there is the story I am writing as well as the story taking place in my life. The two coexist and affect one another. I try to be cognizant of this fact. I am by no means where I want to be as a writer but look forward to the journey ahead of me.
Scott Howey
Scott Howey
Ray Dyson
Ray Dyson
R.G. Eagleton
R.G. Eagleton
Tucker Webb
Tucker Webb
Cynthia Song
Cynthia Song is a Western and frontier fiction author whose storytelling is rooted in authenticity, grit, and lived experience. Raised on a working horse ranch, she grew up riding at dawn, mending fences, and learning firsthand the quiet discipline and resilience demanded by the land.
At 34, Cynthia brings a fresh yet deeply grounded voice to Western fiction, blending classic frontier themes with emotional depth and strong character focus. Her stories reflect a respect for hard choices, earned loyalty, and the unspoken bonds formed under wide skies and difficult circumstances.
Drawing on her ranch upbringing, Cynthia writes with a natural understanding of horses, weather, isolation, and survival—details that give her work a realism readers can feel on the page.
She believes the West is more than a setting—it’s a way of life shaped by responsibility, endurance, and the courage to stand your ground.
Christopher Rozelle
Christopher Rozelle
Neil Mitchell
Neil Mitchell
John Rose Putnam
John Rose Putnam
Ross Phifer
Ross Phifer
Louise Riveiro-Mitchell
Louise Riveiro -Mitchell started writing in her teens. Growing up in the 60's she became fond of westerns and one could find her sitting on a chair watching whatever western was on. The Virginian, The Tall, Laramie, Wagon Train, Laredo etc. She started to pick up their vernacular and at times people find it hard to believe she's from New York. She write her first book in 2001 and if it wasn't for her late husband's insistence it would never have lead to others and two poetry books. She has also ghostwritten over 37 historical westerns. Not only does she love the genre she finds that era in our history interesting. She lives in Westchester County New York and has two children and three grandchildren. And still watches those westerns from years ago.
Lee Bishop
Following college at The University of Missouri and a stint in the U. A. Army, Lee began a 15-year newspaper career at The Phoenix Gazette in Phoenix, Arizona. He wrote more than two thousand news articles and feature stories for The Gazette.
His main work emphasis was government and politics, and most of his career was spent writing about the Arizona State Capitol, the Arizona House of Representatives and the State Senate. Lee also covered the Phoenix City Council and Maricopa County governmental issues. He wrote numerous stories about prominent Arizona politicians including U. S. Senator Barry Goldwater, Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives John Rhodes, and U. S. Senator Paul Fannin.
Lee had three novels published during and after his newspaper career, including Gunblaze by Leisure Books; the first book in the Border Legend series by Walker and Company, and Davy Crockett for Dell’s American Explorers series.
He left the newspaper business to pursue a career in real estate and still owns a real estate company, Southwestern Homes Realty, in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Lee and his wife, Sue, have two sons and two daughters, who all live in the Phoenix and Tucson areas with their families. They have eight grand-children.
He is an avid outdoorsman who walks his boxers two to three miles each morning. Lee’s favorite passion is hiking the Grand Canyon at least once a year. He also plays golf regularly.
Lee has returned to writing novels on a full-time basis and concentrates on southwestern historical fiction with action and adventure being the dominant focus.
He and his wife continue to reside in Scottsdale, Arizona.
E.A. Steele
Growing up in Houston, Texas, I developed a deep fascination with the Wild West. During my junior high years, I couldn't resist sneaking away every lunchtime to lose myself in Louis L'Amour's novels at the library, completely captivated by the rugged tales of frontier life. When I was finally discovered, I negotiated an arrangement to organize books during lunch, enabling me to continue my reading while also assisting with the library's upkeep.
Inspired by the strong, resilient women in my community, I set out to portray them authentically in my writing. In my stories, they aren't passive bystanders but powerful forces, standing shoulder to shoulder with their partners, confronting the challenges of the untamed West head-on.
Through my writing, I pay tribute to the often-overlooked heroines of the frontier. Their unwavering strength and determination shaped history, serving as the backbone of their families and silent pillars of support who, alongside their partners, played a crucial role in civilizing the wild and building a better future on the rugged frontier.
Tommy Geyer
Tommy Geyer
Nicodemus Legend
Nicodemus Legend writes classic Western fiction marked by moral weight, quiet intensity, and the hard truths of frontier life. His stories honor the Old West as it was lived—shaped by consequence, resilience, and the choices that define a man when the dust finally settles.
Jeremiah-Journey
Jeremiah Journey writes Western fiction rooted in endurance, faith, and the long road west. His stories focus on ordinary people facing uncommon trials, where survival, conviction, and quiet courage shape lives on the frontier.
Harlan Creed
Harlan Creed writes hard-edged Western fiction driven by consequence, justice, and the cost of standing tall. His stories favor grit over glamour, where strong men face unforgiving choices and the Old West shows little mercy for hesitation.
Sandy Stone
Sandy Stone is a storyteller with a deep passion for the Wild West and its rugged, untamed spirit. Born and raised in the American Southwest, Stone grew up surrounded by the landscapes and legends that shaped the frontier. His love for Western novels began at a young age, inspired by the stories of pioneers, lawmen, and outlaws who shaped the American frontier.
A former ranch hand and wilderness guide, Stone's firsthand experiences with the rugged terrain and life in small, isolated towns lend an authentic feel to his writing. His books often explore themes of justice, morality, and the enduring struggle between good and evil, with strong, resilient protagonists facing the harsh realities of frontier life.
With a deep respect for the classic Western genre, Sandy Stone crafts stories that evoke the spirit of the old West, capturing the grit, determination, and moral complexities of those who lived through it. His writing is known for its vivid descriptions of the landscapes, the tension of stand-offs, and the rich, complex characters who inhabit his world.
When he's not writing, Stone enjoys horseback riding, hiking, and researching the history of the American frontier. He currently lives in a quiet mountain town, where the echoes of the past are never far away, and continues to write stories that keep the spirit of the West alive.
JV 'DOC' Cohorn
JV 'DOC' Cohorn
Rhett Kincannon
Rhett Kincannon writes hard Westerns rooted in dust, consequence, and the kind of justice that leaves scars. His stories are shaped by the wide-open spaces of the American frontier, where survival is earned, not given, and men are measured by what they stand for when everything is on the line.
Known for lean prose and steady tension, Kincannon’s novels feature wounded gunmen, stubborn towns, and the unforgiving landscapes that test them both. He writes in the tradition of classic pulp Westerns—where bullets speak plainly, loyalty matters, and no one rides away unchanged.
When he’s not writing about the Old West, Kincannon spends his time studying frontier history and the men who carved their names into it.
Rhett Kincannon lives quietly and prefers the sound of wind over conversation.
Meadow Lark
Meadow Lark is a pen name. Widowed two years ago, she turned to writing after a suggestion from her grief support group, discovering that putting words on the page offered an unexpected path toward healing. What began as therapy became a renewed creative purpose.
Now seventy-four, with gray hair and a lifetime of lived experience, Meadow writes stories shaped by resilience, quiet strength, and the enduring pull of the human heart. She lives in Maryland, where she continues to write—still finding solace, meaning, and renewal in the work.
Joe Corso
Joe Corso is a storyteller in the tradition of Louis L'Amour. If you're looking for an exciting yarn, with well-drawn characters and believable and interesting plot, you can't go wrong reading any of his stories.”
E.C. Herbert
Elmer Herbert, better known as Al, was brought up in Laconia, New Hampshire. His favorite childhood game, cowboys and Indians, inspired a lifelong love of the Old West and its history. His favorite author is Ralph Cotton. He and his wife, Marion, live in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Elmer C Herbert, better known as AL, was born in a little citrus town known as Polk City, FL. in 1950 but grew up in Laconia, NH, graduating from Laconia High in 1968.
Playing cowboys and Indians was a favorite game as a kid along with watching westerns on a small black and white TV.
Following a career that allowed him to travel the whole US he was able to spend time in those Wild West towns he watched on TV as a young boy.
A couple of heart attacks, a stroke and being diagnosed with Parkinson’s lead to a “Bucket List” and the desire to write and publish a book, and of course it would be a western.
His first novel NEW DAWN AT TWIN ARROWS is about a young girl having lost her sheriff dad and her mother at the hands of the notorious outlaw gang known as the WRANGLERS. She becomes a Bounty Hunter with a sworn promise to track down and kill every last one of them.
When he finished this book he realized that doing research along with typing, had helped with his Parkinson’s so he continued to write.
GHOST RIDERS OF BLOODY CREEK and BOUNTY HUNTERS followed. NO MAN’S LAND was his fourth novel and is rich in Mormon history and takes place in the Great Salt Lake Basin, circa 1868 to present day. It is written in two time zones.
Al continues writing today and encourages you to keep your eyes and ears open to new releases.
AL is a Sustaining member of: WWA…Western Writers of America
Al resides in Fort Wayne, IN with his wife Marion.
George M. Goodwin
George was born in 1960 in Jefferson County Alabama. The fifth of nine children, eight boys and one girl.
The family was raised poor, but not poorly raised. At home George was taught morals, ethics and respect. Reading, writing and arithmetic at school. Love, honor and obedience to God at church. He grew up on John Wayne movies, country music and the writings of Louis L’Amour, Robert Louis Stevenson, H.G. Wells and Jules Verne.
Tub McKinney
With a calm presence and a storyteller’s eye, Tub McKinney writes Western fiction rooted in grit, resilience, and the quiet strength of ordinary people facing unforgiving worlds. His stories favor weathered towns over wide-open myth, and men and women shaped more by hard choices than easy heroics.
McKinney’s work is known for its grounded realism—measured prose, clean dialogue, and characters who carry their pasts as plainly as the dust on their boots. He draws inspiration from frontier history, pulp-era storytelling, and the enduring human struggle to stand firm when the ground won’t.
When he isn’t writing, McKinney believes the best stories are still found in listening—to old places, overlooked lives, and the long silence between gunshots.
He lives and works quietly, letting the stories speak for themselves.
John J. Law
John J. Law
John Thurmond
John Thurmond
L. Glen Enloe
Glen is a native of historic Independence, Missouri, (the Queen City of the Trails) with deep family roots in rural central Missouri. Having at one time lived in a Civil War era home as a child, and raising his own livestock, he attributes his love of the West to his father's rural background and part-time edge-of-town farming, as well as growing up with a love of the silver screen cowboys. He is a former rural real estate advertising writer with a bachelor of science degree in commercial art plus post-graduate work in creative writing. He has authored five books of cowboy poetry, two books of free verse and an old west non-fiction book. He does leather tooling, and has been a guest columnist for the Kansas City Star. He's also hung at the Nelson Art Gallery in Kansas City (his poem)--as well as appearing in American Cowboy Magazine. He's a member of the Missouri Cowboy Poet's Association, and has presented poems at the National Cowboy Poetry Rodeo, Echoes of the Trails and other venues as well as receiving nominations for a Pushcart Prize and from the Academy of Western Artists.
Paul Lawless
Paul Lawless
Josiah Boone
Josiah Boone writes frontier fiction rooted in endurance, moral choice, and the quiet strength of ordinary people. His stories are set against the harsh beauty of the American high country, where survival tests not only the body but the heart.
Boone’s work blends rugged realism with deeply human stakes — tales of winter, reckoning, and the long road toward redemption.
Samuel Ben White
Samuel Ben White
Thomas 'DOC' Savage
Thomas 'DOC' Savage
Tom Pilgrim
Tom Pilgrim
Troy Andrew Smith
Troy Andrew Smith
Clayton Ridge
Clayton Ridge writes Western fiction shaped by hard country, hard choices, and the men who live between them. His stories focus on outlaws, lawmen, and drifters navigating a frontier where survival matters more than reputation and justice often arrives late—if it arrives at all.
Drawing inspiration from classic mid-century paperback Westerns, Ridge favors tight pacing, plainspoken prose, and moral pressure forged under open sky. His work is grounded in grit and realism, emphasizing isolation, consequence, and the unromantic truths of frontier life.
Ridge believes the best Westerns don’t glorify violence—they confront it. His novels explore what men become when pushed to the edge of law, land, and conscience.
John J. Law
Being in the saddle for long hours comes naturally for John J. Law.
Raised on a modern-day ranch in Wyoming, John has had many experiences. Some good, some bad. He weaves many of these experiences into the stories he writes.
A life long bachelor, he says he has to use his imagination for that part.
Charlie Vogel
Charlie Vogel has been writing fiction for about forty-five years.
Charlie was born in Creston, Iowa, in 1942.
In February 1962, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy and worked in the ship’s office, handling administrative duties.After 8 years of active service, he became a police officer in Omaha, Nebraska. He retired from law enforcement after 25 years and worked in security for the Omaha Public Schools, retiring after 10 years. He also retired from the United States Coast Guard Reserve.
Presently, he lives in Omaha, Nebraska, with his wife of 46 years. He has four grandchildren. Charlie lives in a modest home in the south area of Omaha. He had been the Vice-President of the Nebraska Writer Guild and a member of the Nebraska Writer Workshop, which is still active.
He loves Nebraska. His wife accompanied him many times on camping trips and vacations in Western Nebraska.
Wyatt Slade
Wyatt Slade writes Westerns where mercy is scarce and survival is earned.
His stories are stripped down, fast, and unforgiving — built for readers who like their heroes hard and their endings harder.
Nicolas Noble
Nicolas Noble writes science fiction driven by human consequence, moral tension, and the cost of progress. His stories explore first contact, forbidden bonds, political fault lines, and the fragile line between order and freedom—where technology advances faster than wisdom and individuals are forced to choose who they become. Blending classic sci-fi traditions with character-centered storytelling, Noble delivers thoughtful, high-stakes futures grounded in emotional truth.