I’m honored to join the Roan and Weatherford publishing family with my new Buck Dallas western horror series, which ain’t your grandaddy’s western. Comancheria came during the Covid lockdown as a fully formed dream, waking me up at around three in the morning and feeling like I’d just watched a movie. I rose, fired up the computer, and wrote down everything I could remember. The novel finished in only a few weeks.
In the story, Texas Ranger Buck Dallas was cursed by the Comanche witch doctor for killing the puha’s son. Fellow Ranger, Lane Newsome, continues to ride with Buck even though he falls with the sun and claws out of the dirt at dawn-half man, half memory, bound to a promise he can’t forget. Oh, and he has this little problem of a snake growing inside his abdomen that talks to Buck. Maybe it’s because the undead Ranger can talk to reptiles?
Together they ride a haunted trail across a hollow frontier-one stripped of mercy, scarred by blood, and hunted by things older than men. Their mission: find a missing girl named River and deliver a pregnant woman to a hidden spring that may be salvation… or something far worse.
As the riders press deeper into Comancheria, they’re joined by mystics, mercenaries, and broken souls-each with something to lose, and none guaranteed to survive. Between the bullets, arrows, and the curses, between the land and the dead, redemption may be the only thing worth dying for.
Just A Little More Background
To date, more than 2,000 newspaper and magazine articles bear my byline. The Rock Hole was a finalist in the prestigious Benjamin Franklin Award presented by the Independent Book Publishers Association. I have two Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America for the Sonny Hawke series and six Will Rogers Medallions for novels in both my Red River series and Tucker Snow series. You can find a complete list of these books here on this website.
I’m an avid outdoorsman, love to travel, camp, canoe, backpack, hunt, and fish, to name only a few activities. I’m also that rare male human animal that has no use for competitive sports, professional or otherwise.
The love of my life, Shana, and I live in north Texas.