Dusty's Calendar

Check here to find out what Dusty will be doing.

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September 2-3, 2011	Bar of Ranch Clinton, AR	Dusty and Pat will be at the National Chuck Wagon Racing Championship, the largest equine event in the world. This will also be the opening day for sale of his first book in The Lost Book Series release. "The Bountyman and Doe." Just use the event's title and you can find out all about this exciting event Also released at the event will be Cactus Country's Western Anthology Number One.
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September 8-10, 2011	Lubbock, TX	The National Cowboy Symposium. Dusty will MC the western author event on Friday and have a booth near the entrance with his books for sale. Check out their information, A great event.
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October 6-8, 2011	Eureka Springs, AR	Ozark Creative Writers Conference. The list of speakers includes a famous author, an agent and several editors. See the listing on our web page or email egbartlett@earthlink.net for more information.
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October 14-15, 2011	Red River, New Mexico	Red River Writer's Conference. Best Selling author Jodi Thomas and Dusty join up with a team of others to share secrets. You can email one of us and find out more details.
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November 18-19, 2011	Hollister, MO	Ozark Writers League fall meeting. Join us at Boxcar Willy's Motel in Branson on Friday evening for a meal and a read around. Saturday at 8:30am, be at College of the Ozarks, in Holister. Mo. Check their website for the details.
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Nov-Dec, 2011		The release of Dusty's first Frank Brother Series novels "The Outlaw Queen" will be released. Date to be announced.
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From Dusty's War Bag

Coming Books —

The Cactus Country Anthology, Number One
This spring and summer I've been busy editing a western anthology for Cactus Country. a division of High Hill Press. The Cactus Country Anthology, Number One. The edition is a large collection of western short stories by some of the greatest award-winning western writers. Also some folks you've never heard of before. Plans for the book were to be anything that happens under a western hat, fiction, western poetry, and historical events. So we aren't limited to any time period. It will be available in September 2011.

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All about "The Bounty Man and Doe," coming in September. This novel and others were stolen by an unscrupulous publisher in the 1980's. The story of Sam Brennen lost in the search for his family's bloody killers. He falls into the bottle and ends up getting his horse shot by outlaw whipping an Indian girl with his quirt. He shoots the outlaw and the two chase down the bad guys. One of my first novels, the book has been thoroughly re-edited and comes under the fine artwork on the cover by Mike Andrews, an award-winning western artist.

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The Frank Brothers' series first novel, "The Outlaw Queen," comes out in November or December from High Hill Press's Cactus Country. The story of a Texas rancher whose wife cleans him out while he's delivering a herd to Kansas. Rath Macon heads out to find a new country. The hill country of Texas has too many bitter feelings for him to stay in the region after the forced sale of his holdings.

Rath decides the Bluestem grass of Kansas will be a good place to stop and look over. In a small town in southeast Kansas, he meets Mrs. Mary Ann Cates. She's the widow of Ed Cates, a member of the James Gang who was shot in a raid on one of their Missouri hideouts. Shunned by her neighbors as "The Outlaw Queen," the two try to find themselves new lives together. But will the folks still fighting the civil war after seven years let them alone?

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Coming from Kensington next April 2012, Book #2 in the Texas Blood Feud series, "The Thorns of Eden." Chet Byrnes must move his family from the bloody ground in the hill country to a new place to escape the dangers to his family. It may mean he has to leave the love of his life for his family's safety. His new ground on the Verde River in Arizona has more challenges than his homeland. The losses of family members pile up, and strain his sanity in more challenging threats.

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Another new two-book series from Berkley is about an ex-Texas ranger captain they call Cap'n or Guthrey who left the Lone Star State looking for a new career. In Arizona, he finds two young people, brother and sister, boxed in by a powerful rancher who wants all the range to himself. Guthrey has his hands full in his new civilian life without a badge beat out of a ten centavo coin on his vest. These two novels are off in the dust screen in time, but we recently shook hands on them.

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Columns —

I also do a column for a regional farm magazine, "Farm and Neighbor." It's called 'All We Need Is One More Rain.' You can inquire about subscriptions at lindsay@ozarksfn.com. She'll get you to them.

And last, but not least, I do a column for Storyteller Magazine about how to write fiction. storyteller1@hightower.com will get you there.

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To Wrap Things Up —

Look up NW Arkansas Writers, a local critique group I belong to and attend when I'm home.

We get lots of fan mail from email. You can write and ask questions if I can help you. I'll try to answer them when I get back home.

Thanks to Steven Law and his work on my website in the past. He's in a new book publishing business himself. We wish him the best of luck and success.

Welcome Duke Pennell who has to worry about my web site now.

God bless you and America.

PS, If you would like to be on my mailing list for up and coming events, send it to me. If you want me to quit your address all you do is say so. Send it to dustyrichards@cox.net. We do not hand out our lists either.

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