Member Linda Hasselstrom will be speaking at the South Dakota Book Festival in Deadwood this week, September 21 – 24. You can see her at her writing workshop on Saturday, September 23 at 9AM with a poetry reading following at 3PM. On Sunday, September 24, she presents at 11AM on her newly released nonfiction book Gathering from the Grassland: A Plains Journal.
Linda will also be signing Gathering from the Grassland at the festival on September 22 from 3:30 – 4:15PM and September 23 from 1 – 1:45PM. You can find out more at www.sdhumanities.org.
Linda will also be appearing at the Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Trade Show on October 14 -15 for book signings and speaking at the Books and Brew luncheon.
You can find out more about Linda’s new release through her publisher at www.highplainspress.com
Mary E. Trimble has just released her newest book titled Maureen: A Novel on July 28 2017.
Mary E. Trimble, award-winning novelist, has written two memoirs, four contemporary western novels, and over 400 magazine and newspaper articles. Her past is peppered with unique experiences, including positions as purser and ship’s diver aboard the tall ship, M.S. Explorer; two years with the Peace Corps in West Africa; and a 13,000-mile South Pacific sailing trip aboard a 40-foot Bristol. She recently retired after serving 20 years as a volunteer with the American Red Cross and lives with her husband on Camano Island, Washington. For more on Mary, visit 
ngratulations to WWW member C.M. Mayo for winning the Gival Press Poetry Award forher manuscript titled METEOR. The Gival Press Poetry Award is open to poets both nationally and internationally, and results in Gival Press publishing the work itself. Watch for METEOR in 2018!
In Trouble Returns, middle-grade author Nancy Oswald brings eleven-year-old Ruby, donkey Maude and the cat aptly named Trouble together once more in real-life Cripple Creek, Colorado. Set in the late 1890’s after historical fires devastated the buildings of the gold-mining town, Oswald’s protagonist Ruby is thrown into the fray of a town tripping over itself to discover the meaning of so many fires (is it arson? is it something more sinister?) and the person(s?) behind it.
Nancy Oswald is a retired teacher who now lives on a working family ranch. Her days include herding goats, cows, and chickens and spending time with cats and dogs too. Oh, and there’s a donkey who thinks it’s a person as well. Nancy writes middle grade historical fiction and middle grade humor, and has published a biography for young readers. Discover more at
Barbara Marriot’s “PAINT ‘N SPURS: THE MEN WHO FOUNDED THE COWBOY ARTISTS OF AMERICAS” a biography of the founding members of the Cowboy Artists of America was announced a finalist in the International Book Awards.
BAD BOY, BIG HEART by Andrea Downing
Andrea also has a story, CITY BOY, COUNTRY HEART in the collection COME LOVE A COWBOY
They call her the Arab of Warsaw.
Amy Hale Auker’s first book of essays, Rightful Place, was the story of a woman finding beauty in her place, the Llano Estacado. Her new collection of creative non-fiction, Ordinary Skin, explores her mid-life transition with prose poems and essays that illustrate a new terrain as well as new ways of being in the world. Touching on faith and body image and belonging, these essays explore our role in deciding what is favorable or unfavorable, as well as where we someday want to dwell, and who came before us. In that touching, they feel their way with observations about current affairs, drought, mystery, and the hard decisions that face us all as we continue to move toward more questions with fewer answers. This exploration is informed and softened by hummingbirds, Gila monsters, bats, foxes, bears, wildflowers, and hidden seep springs where life goes on whether we are there to see it or not. It is about work in a wild and wilderness environment. In the end, even as life changes drastically around us, we are better off for knowing that the ugly mud bug turns into a jewel-toned dragonfly.
Susan Matley’s story, THE AUDITOR is included in a new anthology, Incarceration (WolfSinger Publications). “The Auditor” is a horror story set in near-future China, inspired by the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. It’s more eastern than western. The publisher, however, is in Colorado! The details:
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