Archive for the ‘cowboys’ Category

I’m very honored to be inducted into the Arrow in the Head at JoBlo.com Horror Hall of Fame!

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020

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Read the first two chapters of my new Joe Noose Western BRANDED in advance of publication for free!

Monday, November 9th, 2020

As a special promotion from Kensington Books and Pinnacle Books, download for free and read the first two chapters of my new Joe Noose Western novel BRANDED two months in advance of publication…We’re betting you’ll want to read the rest!
Download the first chapters of BRANDED at: https://bit.ly/36i2FNG
BRANDED is available for pre-order in Mass Market Paperback and Kindle editions on: Amazon at: https://amzn.to/2YrD8PW

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Thursday, November 5th, 2020

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The press release for BRANDED, the third novel in my Joe Noose Western series from Kensington Books and Pinnacle Books.

Monday, November 2nd, 2020

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THE MEN WHO WALK LIKE WOLVES horror western series from SST Publications.

Saturday, October 31st, 2020

For Halloween saddle up and take a scary ride into my popular werewolf western novels, THE GUNS OF SANTA SANGRE and the sequel THE WOLVES OF EL DIABLO, from SST Publications!  Available in fine hardcover and trade paperback and well as digital editions at http://amzn.to/2LK48oi

BRANDED to be published in audiobook edition.

Thursday, October 29th, 2020

Great news from Kensington Books that my next two Joe Noose Western novels, BRANDED and THE CRIMSON TRAIL, will both will be released in audiobook editions, joining the first two in the series, NOOSE and HANGING FIRE, for those of you folks who prefer to listen to books.

BRANDED and THE CRIMSON TRAIL are available for pre-order on Amazon at  https://amzn.to/2YrD8PW and https://amzn.to/35IrSAM

The BRANDED official book trailer released.

Wednesday, October 21st, 2020

Proud to unveil the official book trailer for BRANDED, the third novel in The Joe Noose Western series from Kensington Books and Pinnacle Books!
View it on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/rxg2RgKIHNY or at: BRANDED – Book trailer
Joe Noose hunts down the first known serial killer on the American frontier.
SCARRED FOR LIFE
A new kind of evil has come to the Old West. A killer as cold and hard as the Wyoming winter. He wanders from town to town. Slaughters entire families along the way. With grotesque glee, he brands the letter Q in his victims’ flesh. Joe Noose knows the killer’s identity. He recognizes the killer’s brand. He bears the same scar from his childhood—and he’s determined to stop this madman once and for all. Two U.S. Marshals have agreed to help Joe. But they’ve never hunted a killer like this before. A sadist who kills for pleasure—and scars you for life…
BRANDED is available for pre-order on:
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Praise for The Joe Noose Westerns:
“Keeps the reader turning pages…brilliant. HANGING FIRE is indeed a classic Western”—True West Magazine
“This teeth-grinding, bare-knuckling, swash-buckling adventure keeps readers turning pages. A terrific read. Allow plenty of time to read this. It’s hard to put down.” – Roundup Magazine on HANGING FIRE
“Exceptionally fast-paced and blood-spattered. Full of action, overflowing with defiant characters and deadly gunplay.” – Lansing State Journal on NOOSE

The Ultimate Genre

Friday, September 25th, 2020

The Western, I believe, is the ultimate genre.

The epic nomenclature of tough, strong cowboys in big hats with guns and horses pitted in physical and psychological contests of good versus evil fought on rugged frontier landscapes that externally mirror their own jagged internal natures is mythic and timeless. But while the entire world loves westerns, the U.S. owns the brand, and westerns remain our own uniquely American mythology and true contribution to pop culture. Westerns are the American Arthurian Legend.

Born from the harsh realities of the Old West, bred through a century of thrilling popular culture in novels and film that fired the public imagination, imprinted by books and movies that cross-pollinated each other to create a grand mythology that remains popular as ever today; it’s hard to tell now where the reality ends and myth begins with westerns, but cowboy good guys and bad guys are baked into our collective consciousness.

While there is a certain mystery to the mystique of the western, some things are certain: it’s a heroic genre, full of honor and nobility with bigger-than-life heroes and villains; it’s a physical genre, action-packed on the purest level with riding and fistfights and shooting; and it’s a cathartic genre, where morality tales about good versus evil end in a decisive, satisfying showdown at the climax that gives us a vicarious sense of triumph we rarely achieve in our complicated real world where right and wrong is not always clear.

Some part of us needs this as human beings on the deepest level, which is the appeal of all heroic mythologies going back forever. Reading or watching a western, however briefly, we experience the wish fulfillment of becoming the cowboys we played at being as kids and heroes we want to be as adults if only real life were as simple as saddling your horse, grabbing your guns, and riding to the rescue.

One of the things as a screenwriter and novelist I appreciate most about westerns is the genre can absorb every other genre into the storytelling; elements of other genres like thriller, mystery, crime, even horror, all can be injected into a western story. There is even a thriving genre of romance westerns! The classic template of cowboys and guns and horses and landscapes is a canvas that can be painted with many brushes; this very adaptability makes it such an exciting genre for a writer to explore.

While many folks know me for my horror and thriller films and books, in actuality westerns are my favorite genre and the genre I’ve worked the most in, having written and produced western movies, written western novels and even created a western comic book. The movie was an HBO film called The Last Outlaw starring Mickey Rourke, a gritty, bloody adventure about a gang of outlaws pursued by a posse led by their leader who they had left for dead.

Mixing the horror and western literary genres became the inspiration for my novels The Guns Of Santa Sangre and its sequel The Wolves Of El Diablo from SST Publications, about three tough American gunfighters battling several generations of werewolves who are bandits by day in Old Mexico.

My bestselling current western book series, the Joe Noose Westerns from Pinnacle Books & Kensington Books, revolves around the adventures of a tough and complex bounty hunter in 1800s Wyoming. With Noose, Hanging Fire, Branded and The Crimson Trail, the Noose series is on its fourth book with more to come.

My lifelong love of the Western genre continues to inspire me endlessly as a creative open range of possibilities always offering new frontiers in storytelling.

Saddle up.

BRANDED, the third novel in my Joe Noose Western series, out in January from Kensington Books.

Thursday, September 24th, 2020

Joe Noose hunts down the first known serial killer on the American frontier.

SCARRED FOR LIFE

A new kind of evil has come to the Old West. A killer as cold and hard as the Wyoming winter. He wanders from town to town. Slaughters entire families along the way. With grotesque glee, he brands the letter Q in his victims’ flesh. Joe Noose knows the killer’s identity. He recognizes the killer’s brand. He bears the same scar from his childhood—and he’s determined to stop this madman once and for all. Two U.S. Marshals have agreed to help Joe. But they’ve never hunted a killer like this before. A sadist who kills for pleasure—and scars you for life . . .

BRANDED is available for pre-order on Amazon at https://amzn.to/2YrD8PW

Praise for The Joe Noose Westerns:
“Keeps the reader turning pages…brilliant. HANGING FIRE is indeed a classic Western”—True West Magazine
“This teeth-grinding, bare-knuckling, swash-buckling adventure keeps readers turning pages. A terrific read. Allow plenty of time to read this. It’s hard to put down.” – Roundup Magazine on HANGING FIRE
“Exceptionally fast-paced and blood-spattered. Full of action, overflowing with defiant characters and deadly gunplay.” – Lansing State Journal on NOOSE

My new western novel BRANDED from Kensington Books is available for pre-order.

Tuesday, June 16th, 2020

BRANDED, the third novel in my Joe Noose Western series from Kensington Books, is now available for pre-order in Mass Market Paperback and Kindle editions on Amazon.

From the publisher’s description: “SCARRED FOR LIFE. Joe Noose hunts down the first known serial killer on the American frontier in this trailblazing thriller. A new kind of evil has come to the Old West. A killer as cold and hard as the Wyoming winter. He wanders from town to town. Slaughters entire families along the way. With grotesque glee, he brands the letter Q in his victims’ flesh. Joe Noose knows the killer’s identity. He recognizes the killer’s brand. He bears the same scar from his childhood—and he’s determined to stop this madman once and for all. Two U.S. Marshals have agreed to help Joe. But they’ve never hunted a killer like this before. A sadist who kills for pleasure—and scars you for life…”

BRANDED is available for pre-order on Amazon at https://amzn.to/2YrD8PW