Catalog of Authors` Books

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Catalog of Authors’ Books
2005 - Volume 14
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This catalog is published annually as a service to our members, providing
educational and industry information to our membership and those in the publishing
community. Women Writing the West is a non-profit association of writers and other
professionals writing and promoting the Women’s West.
2004 Board of Directors
Gail Fiorini Jenner - President
Sarah Byrn Rickman - President-Elect/Newsletter Editor
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Pamela Cosel - Membership Chair
The term “Women’s West” is borrowed from the ground-breaking book of the
same title, edited by Susan Armitage and Elizabeth Jameson and published by the
University of Oklahoma Press. That book and the subsequent flood of scholarly
books on the same subject presented an entirely different view, literally a
rediscovery, of women in the American West. More than a recognition that
women played broader roles than being ranch wives or prostitutes, the new view
of the Women’s West speaks to the diversity of women of all cultures and all time
periods. It acknowledges the rich variety of ways women responded to the
western experience.
The Women’s West is based on a tradition that includes such fine writers as
Willa Cather, Mary Austin, B.M. Bower, Mari Sandoz, Dorothy Johnson, Juanita
Brooks, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Helen Hunt Jackson. Today’s writers who set
their work in the West are creating a literary explosion said to be comparable to
the Southern literary renaissance in the 1930s. Women Writing the West is open
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Cover photos:
Top - Miss Mabel Vernon and Miss Anne Martin, with driver, campaigning for women's suffrage
in rural Nevada, July, 1914, courtesy of Special Collections, University of Nevada-Reno Library.
Right - American Indian Student at the Sherman Institute in Riverside, CA, ca. 1940.
Left – Jane Bernoudy and Tillie Baldwin, Spinning the Wedding Ring, 1912, From Volume 1, #2
of the Pioneer Cowgirl Series by Pendleton Cowgirl Company, Inc., Eugene, OR.
Center - Miss Sadie Leichens, Denver Jail Matron, ca. 1884 (F19865), courtesy of the Colorado
Historical Society.
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All inside western landscape photographs courtesy Melanie Chrismer.
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Table of Contents
About Women Writing the West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Founding Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Member Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Member Focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Member Publishers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Sustaining Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
WILLA Fund Donations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
WILLA Award 2003 & 2004 Winners & Finalists . . 18
WILLA Award 2005 Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Anthology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Fiction
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Mystery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Romance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Juvenile
Picture Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Middle Grade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Non-Fiction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Young Adult . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Nonfiction
General. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Biography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Specialty Nonfiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Index (by category and author) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
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BROWN, IRENE BENNETT
Blue Horizons
ISBN 1-4104-0180-4
CURTIS, NANCY (Editor)
(With co-editors Linda Hasselstrom and Gaydell Collier)
Crazy Woman Creek: Women Rewrite the American West
ISBN 0-618-24933-8
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin
153 western women write lively, enduring, urgent, heartfelt
and always true essays and poems that celebrate community connections built or strengthened by women that unveil a new
West.
HINGER, CHARLOTTE
ISBN 0425190358
Haven
ISBN 1-59414-088-X
Berkley Books
In this Blood on Their Hands anthology by Lawrence Block,
WWW member Charlotte Hinger’s Any Old Mother is included
in a collection of nineteen suspense stories exploring scenarios
crying for justice.
Five Star - Thorndike Press
With little more than the clothes on her back and a medical kit,
Laila Mitchell finds soul-satisfying work and a chance at love in
an enchanted canyon in 1890s Oregon.
Long Road Turning
ISBN 1-4104-0179-0
Any Old Mother
Five Star - Thorndike Press
Meg Brennon places her emotional destiny in the hands of an
intriguing St. Louis lawyer while she fights for the land that holds
her soul. Book Two – Women of Paragon Springs.
Five Star - Thorndike Press
A young woman dons a new identity to escape her abusive
husband in St. Louis and builds her special dreams on the harsh
plains of Kansas. Book One – Women of Paragon Springs.
The Plainswoman
ISBN 0-595-27545-1
Authors Choice Press
Available again! As her dreams are in reach and love dares to
claim her heart, Amity’s past returns, a menace more fierce than
a storm on the open plains.
CLARK, LAVERNE HARRELL
Keepers of the Earth: A Novel
General
ISBN 0-938317-28-8
BARRY, LOUISE MCCANTS
A Price Beyond Rubies
ISBN 0-89745-201-1
Sunflower University Press
A passionate, historically accurate tale based on the memoirs of
the author’s grandfather who fought on the Union side in the
Civil War, against his own brothers.
BLAKE, MORGAN J.
Redemption
ISBN 1-59080-381-7 E-book
ISBN 1-59080-380-9 Paperback
Echelon Press
When Cara Kinson disappears in an apparent Apache raid, older
brother Wylie sets out after her. But her trail leads both siblings
down a bloody path of betrayal and deceit.
Cinco Puntos Press
A rich brew of a novel…intricately interwoven, full of hoodoo
and Texas lore, the story of a family torn apart by greed. Winner:
1998 Western Writers of America Medicine Pipe Bearer’s Award
for “Best First Novel.”
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ELLIOTT, DIANE
MCDONALD, KAY L.
Strength of Stone: The Pioneer Journal of Electa Bryan
Plumer, 1862-1863
ISBN 0762724641 Hardcover
ISBN 0762724633 Paperback
Globe Pequot Press / TwoDot Imprint
Diane Elliott has so completely captured the experience of
settling Montana in the 1860s as seen through the eyes of Electa
that it is hard to believe this is fiction.
HINGER, CHARLOTTE
Simon and Schuster
Can you make someone into a Kansan? A fragile aristocratic
young wife is nearly destroyed by her self-righteous husband’s
determination to tame the prairie. Distributed by
BackInPrint.com.
JENNER, GAIL L.
Across the Sweet Grass Hills
ISBN 0-88739-302-0
Creative Arts Book Company
Winner of the 2002 WILLA Award for Original Paperback
Fiction. More than a romance, based on historical events. “She
authentically recreates the raw, rugged world of Montana, 1870.”
– Jane Kirkpatrick.
KIRKPATRICK, JANE
A Name of Her Own
ISBN 1-57856-499-9
WaterBrook Press, Random House
BookSense 76 bestseller. First in Tender Ties Historical series
about the only woman in the Astor overland expedition of 1811.
Marie Dorion, with two sons, encounters Sacagawea. “A truly
fine novel.” – Denver Post.
All Together In One Place
ISBN 1-57856-232-5
WaterBrook Press, Random House
Based on an 1852 diary. Eleven wagons of women find courage
and community on the Oregon Trail. First in three-book Kinship
and Courage Series by best-selling and Wrangler-winning author.
Hold Tight the Thread – Book 3
ISBN 1-57856-501-4
WaterBrook Press, Random House
In a land occupied by foreign powers and torn by conflict, a
mother seeks to weave her family and her past into a fabric that
will not tear - Book #3.
LARSON, SUNDAY
The Spinning Game
ISBN 0-9718661-1-2
DJ & Mumm Publishing
A Red Hot Red Sedona Love Story woven with sensual threads
of ‘Women’s Wisdom’ “…a wonderfully gritty story that grabs on
to you and doesn’t let go.” – Romantic Times.
LYON, SUZANNE
Bandit Invincible: Butch Cassidy
ISBN 0-7862-1843-6
ISBN 0-8439-5323-3 Paperback
ISBN 0-7862-2304-9
ISBN 0-595-30992-5 Paperback
Five Star - Thorndike Press
Leisure Books
“A fresh…retelling of the Butch Cassidy enigma.” – Rocky
Mountain News. Now in paperback!
Thorndike Press
iUniverse, Inc.
Brightwood Trilogy sequel. Ross “White Eagle” Chesnut returns
to the Indians and the lifestyle he loves, but the 1851 Indian
Treaties force him to choose between freedom and survival.
The Brightwood Expedition
ISBN 0-7862-1782-0 Hardcover
ISBN 0-595-16099-9 Paperback
Come Spring
ISBN 0-671-55429-8
Beyond the Vision
Thorndike Large Print
BackInprint.com / iUniverse.com
Marlette Brightwood faces danger and death in 1843 Oregon
Territory. The man she fears the most, Ross Chesnut, is the only
man who can save her. Action. Adventure. Romance.
The Vision Is Fulfilled
ISBN 0-7862-3018-5 Hardcover
ISBN 0-595-16086-7 Paperback
Thorndike Large Print
BackInPrint.com / iUniverse.com
In 1846 Ross Chesnut finds Marlette in Independence, Missouri
and leads a wagon train to Oregon. Before the journey ends,
Marlette has turned against him and he doubts his vision.
Vision of the Eagle
ISBN 0-7862-1255-1 Hardcover
ISBN 0-595-16087-5 Paperback
Thorndike Large Print
BackInPrint.com / iUniverse.com
Moneyed, sheltered Abigail Whitteker elopes with Ross
Galligher, a poor Irish pig farmer. Fearing reprisals, they flee into
the wilderness where their love and will to survive are tested.
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RICKMAN, SARAH BYRN
On Her Way Home
ISBN 0-9741349-4-5 Hardcover
ISBN 0-9741349-0-2 Softcover
Flight From Fear
ISBN 1-58444-273-5 Paper
Disc-Us Books, Inc.
Finalist: 2003WILLA Literary Awards, Original Softcover. A
novel about the WASPs - the women pilots of WWII. Adventure
and romance in the skies over wartime America.
RISLEY, JUDY S.
iUniverse, Inc.
ISBN 0-9741349-6-1
Stripped of his adoptive family at Chief Joseph’s surrender,
Unknown Man must choose between the diminishing world of
the Nez Perce and the ever-expanding world of the White Man.
ROCHLIN, HARRIET
In A Fevered Land
Roots West Press
ISBN 1-57168-765-3
Desert Dwellers Trilogy, Book 1. “In her nimble, well-researched
narrative, Rochlin combines a romance with a colorful recreation
of Jewish life in the American West.” – Publishers Weekly.
The First Lady of Dos Cacahuates
ISBN 0-9741349-3-7 Hardcover
ISBN 0-9741349-1-0 Softcover
Sunbelt Eakin - Austin,TX
In 1928, Lon Prather leaves the family farm for the lure of 6
dollars a day in the oil fields. Follow this sweeping tale of love,
regret and power through the historic oil-boom towns of Texas.
SCHRADER, FRANCELL LEE
Roots West Press
Saint Catherine of Siena
Desert Dwellers Trilogy, Book 2. “Rochlin delivers enough period
charm, crackling storytelling and priceless details to satisfy
devotees of Wild West lore and Jewish history.” – Publishers
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Roots West Press
Comprised of The Reformer’s Apprentice, The First Lady of Dos
Cacahuates, and On Her Way Home, the trilogy, in a gift package,
follows Frieda Levie’s transformation from immigrant to
westerner.
SANDELL, IRENE
The Reformer’s Apprentice: A Novel of Old San Francisco
ISBN 0-9741349-2-9 Hardcover
ISBN 0-9741349-5-3 Softcover
Desert Dwellers Trilogy, Book 3. “A fascinating tale of the Old
West from a Jewish perspective. Rochlin’s expertise in early
Arizona life will appeal to all western afficionados.” – Booklist,
American Library Association.
Desert Dwellers Trilogy
(Three novels in printed gift wrap)
Unknown Man
ISBN 0-595-29529-0 Paperback
ISBN 0-595-75565-8 Cloth
Roots West Press
ISBN 0-595-26986-9
iUniverse
Best-selling author of two Colorado books now gives us one set in
Renaissance Italy. Based on three hundred letters of Catherine, a
fine model for today’s lady writers.
Dear Mrs. Kirkpatrick,
It has been a long time since I have enjoyed a book as much as A Sweetness to
the Soul. I have just started Love to Water My Soul, and once again I am filled
with such feelings – it must be joy, with a bit of sadness. I only know it is
overwhelming. How can I thank you for writing books that I not only will
read but will make a difference in the way I lead my life? Thank you.
ISBN 0-88070-765-8
ISBN 1-57673-293-2
ISBN 1-57673-082-4
Multnomah® Publishers
ISBN 0-88070-938-3
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T HE T ENDER T IES H ISTORICAL S ERIES
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A gripping series based on the true story of the first
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1-57856-500-6
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Based on a true incident on the Oregon Trail in 1852.
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The Kinship and Courage series by award-winning author Jane
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