Saddle up and ride down the trails of western history with this outstanding new short-story anthology from Silverado Press! Our all-star posse of acclaimed, seasoned western writers and fresh new voices have each taken a real historical event and built a story around it. From the 1812 earthquake in southern California to the 11856 sinking of the steamboat Arabia to the 1877 Texas Salt War, these tales are guaranteed to thrill, entertain, and teach a little something in the bargain.
Contributing authors include veteran authors Mary Fan, Kelli Fitzpatrick, Sharon Frame Gay, Del Howison, Nik James, Paul Kupperberg, Vonn McKee, Lisa Majewski, Jeffrey J. Mariotte, Cheryl Pierson, L. J. Washburn and James Reasoner, Richard Prosch, Gord Rollo, and Aaron Rosenberg.
Fan, Mary: - Mary Fan is a sci-fi/fantasy writer hailing from Jersey City, NJ. She is the author of the Jane Colt sci-fi series, (Red Adept Publishing), the Starswept YA sci-fi series, (Snowy Wings Publishing), the Flynn Nightsider YA dark fantasy series (Crazy 8 Press), and Stronger Than a Bronze Dragon, a YA steampunk fantasy (Page Street Publishing). She is also the editor of Bad Ass Moms, an anthology from Crazy 8 Press. In addition, Mary is the co-editor (along with fellow sci-fi author Paige Daniels) of the Brave New Girls young adult sci-fi anthologies, which feature tales about girls in STEM. Revenues from sales are donated to the Society of Women Engineers scholarship fund. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies, including Thrilling Adventure Yarns (edited by Bob Greenberger), Magic at Midnight (edited by Lyssa Chiavari and Amy McNulty), and Mine! A Celebration of Liberty and Freedom for All Benefitting Planned Parenthood (from ComicMix). When she's not writing, Mary can usually be found smashing bags at the kickboxing gym, singing alto at choir rehearsal, flipping off a flying trapeze, or getting tangled up in aerial silks. Find her online at www.MaryFan.com.
Fitzpatrick, Kelli: - Kelli Fitzpatrick is a science fiction writer, editor, and educator. Her Star Trek story "The Sunwalkers" won the 2016 Strange New Worlds Contest and is published by Simon and Schuster. Her space western story "The Rogue Tractor of Sunshine Gulch" is out from Baen Books. She has been a contributing writer for the Star Trek Adventures role-playing game from Modiphius and has written for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope outreach team and Arizona State University's Interplanetary Initiative. Find her at KelliFitzpatrick.com.
Mariotte, Jeffrey J.: - Editor, author, and Silverado Press co-founder Jeffrey J. Mariotte isthe award-winning author of dozens of books, including the MajorCrimes Squad: Phoenix procedural thriller series, historical Westernepic Blood and Gold: The Legend of Joaquin Murrieta (with PeterMurrieta), the Cody Cavanaugh Western series, Tarzan and the Forestof Stone, the Deadlands novel Thunder Moon Rising, and many morein various genres. He's also known for his comics and graphic novelwork, especially the long-running Weird Western series Desperadoes.Three of his novels have won Scribe Awards for Best Original Novel, presented by the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers.He has also won the Inkpot Award from the San Diego Comic-Con, is aco-winner of the Raven Award from the Mystery Writers of America, and he has been a finalist for the Spur Award from the Western Writersof America and the Peacemaker Award from the Western Fictioneers, among many others. He has worked in virtually every aspect of thebook business, including bookselling, editing, and publishing. Helives in the desert with his wife, author and poet Marsheila Rockwell, and their family.
