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                                                     The Day Buddy Came    One day five years ago this month—June 2021—my life changed forever.   Bud’s did, too.   That was the hot, humid summer day Buddy, who at only one and a half years had had a total of three names so far as he’d been shuffled around one foster home after another--showed up on the deck of my ancient little stucco house in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, where the Dakota plai ..read more

"This is a book that all fans of Peter Brandvold should make sure they don’t miss, especially if you enjoy reading about Lou Prophet and Colter Farrow. In fact, this is a book that should be on the reading list of all western fans. "--Steve Myall READ THE REVIEW HERE ..read more

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My Sheriff Ben Stillman Series is doing a brisk business on Amazon! CHECK THE SERIES OUT HERE ..read more

I got my paperback copy of the second Ben Stillman book today, from Wolfpack Press! (Except it's really the third one but the numbering will all be fixed after the third one, which is really the second one, comes out on March 6th--ONCE MORE WITH A .44.) In whatever order you read them, they're damn good books...if I may be so humble. Get your ebook or paperback copy HERE ..read more

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Wolfpack Press ramrodded by Mike Bray is republishing my entire Sheriff Ben Stillman western series. The first book, ONCE A MARSHAL, is available now. (I've posted the book's gnarly prologue below.) Another book in the series will follow every other week after this one. At the tail end, in the spring or early summer, brand-new, freshly penned volumes will begin appearing. I have been having a grand old time this winter, penning new tales in this series, the very first western series I ever wrote and which I started when I was a much younger man. It's been a fun ride, revisiting these chara ..read more

THE WINTER OF MY FIRST LIBRARY CARD Colder’n a grave-digger’s behind here this winter! Or a banker’s heart… Anyway…it got me thinking that I may not have become a writer if I’d grown up somewhere warm. What made me fall in love with reading was warming up in the Leach Public Library in Wahpeton, North Dakota, back in the 1970s when I was delivering newspapers—both the Wahpeton Daily Newsand the Fargo Forum. Before I started the fifth grade, I wasn’t all that big on reading. I preferred comic books when I could find them, and television—westerns and Star Trek.In the fifth grade, however, our E ..read more