There’s Mansions and Then There’s Mansions … by Charlene Sands
My new three book series takes place on fictional Moonlight Beach in California. Her Forbidden Cowboy is the story of my Texas hero removing himself to the Pacific shores to help heal from wounds,...
View ArticleStill no Pardon for Billy the Kid
I guess I ate too much on Easter Sunday … well, I know I did, so I decided to resurrect one of my favorite blogs (no pun intended; now if you believe it then I have the Waco Bridge for sale). This is...
View ArticleThe Code of the West
“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway.” Harper Lee The Code of the West is the stuff that builds legends. Like the Knights in Medieval times, I like my...
View ArticleThe Bandit Who Wouldn’t Give Up
Some men are born to infamy; others have infamy thrust upon them. And then there are those like Elmer McCurdy who slip into infamy sideways…sixty-five years after they should have faded into...
View ArticleFamous Last Words: Outlaws of the Old West
Bad boys of the Old West—they’re endlessly fascinating. Why is that? Maybe it’s because they lived such bold, flash-in-the-pan lives, as untamed as the land they roamed. Some have become such mythic...
View ArticleThe Fake Ghost Who Started a Real Religion
Once upon a time in a farmhouse in Hydesville, New York, there lived two sisters who loved to scare family and friends with their vivid imaginations. One day in late March 1848, the girls told a...
View ArticleWINTER MAGIC NEW RELEASE AND GIVEAWAY BY CHERYL PIERSON
Hi everyone! I wanted to talk a little bit about my brand new single-author western romance anthology, WINTER MAGIC. This is a collection of three stories that appeared in some of Prairie Rose...
View ArticleThe Ghosts of Galveston
At only twenty-seven miles long and three miles across at the widest point, Galveston, Texas, is not a big place. Located about two miles offshore in the Gulf of Mexico an hour south of Houston, the...
View ArticleHorseshoes and Superstitions
Hi everyone, Winnie Griggs here. I hope everyone is having a wonderful March so far. Did you ever wonder where the superstitions around horseshoes as a good luck charm came from? I did, so I thought...
View ArticleWelcome Guest – Erin Johnson
I’ve always been interested in history and did a lot of research on the West while I was writing the Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes (Cengage, 2012). I also spent time in Arizona after my father...
View ArticleOrtega Adobe
In my last blog I wrote about the Mission La Purisima on the Camino Real in California. I promised to write more about it and some personal things that have happened in the ol’ haunted mission....
View ArticleMission Santa Ines on the El Camino Real
It seems like just last week I blogged with you all … well it was! But if you can stand me one more day, I’m going to continue along the El Camino Real and write about another Mission I visited not...
View ArticleEl Muerto: The Headless Horseman of Texas
First published in 1820, Washington Irving’s short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” has been terrifying children for almost 200 years. Though the tale of a hapless schoolmaster’s midnight gallop...
View ArticleJack of the Lantern
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Today is Halloween, the day when children across the country dig the innards out of and carve faces into hapless pumpkins, dress in costume and roam the neighborhood begging for enough...
View ArticleGaviota Pass, California
For the last few posts, I’ve been writing about El Camino Real and the haunted missions along the way. Today, I’m going to discuss one area of Highway 101 that I bet just about everybody has seen on...
View ArticleTHE ANGEL AND THE WARRIOR, Excerpt and Free Give-Away
Howdy! And welcome to the Tuesday blog. Well, today I’ll be giving away THE ANGEL AND THE WARRIOR in either e-book format or mass market paperback, winner’s choice. There is a restriction. It is...
View ArticleHere We Come a Wassailing
Tomorrow is one of my favorite days of the year … Halloween! Not only did I have a granddaughter born on Halloween and she’ll turn 21 tomorrow, but I love the kids, their costumes, and giving out...
View ArticleHalloween, Ghost Stories, and Weddings! What? Weddings?
Yup, you read that right. How do I get from the first two to the later? It’s easy when the wedding is in Estes Park, Colorado, at The Stanley Hotel, the famed inspiration for Stephen King’s The...
View ArticleChristmas Stockings
Hello everyone, Winnie Griggs here. Are you one of those super organized holiday people who have up their Christmas decorations the day after Thanksgiving and mail out their Christmas cards the...
View ArticleWho Was Calamity Jane?
Hi everyone. I’m celebrating this month! June 1 marked the release of Cameo Courtships, a 4-in-1 novella collection which I am part of. My story in the collection is Taming Petra, and my heroine goes...
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