RAY'S ROUND-UP

BLACK HORSE EXTRA
The new edition of Black Horse Extra is now online at www.blackhorsewesterns.com
There are features by writer Greg Mitchell on writing; a few lines from Owen G Irons and a history on writing western screenplays and books by Steve Hayes. Together with a round up of western news.


MISFIT LIL CHEATS THE HANGROPE by Chap O'Keefe
Good to see that this instalment in Misfit Lil's saga is available in paperback via Lulu and, soon, all the usual outlets.
This is a cracking book and a full review will appear shortly.


WHAT'S IN A NAME?
Yesterday in my Wild Bunch Wednesday post I gave a taster for a character called Jed Midwinter. So to answer a comment the creation process came about this way:
First off the was Black Horse Western writer Matthew P. Mayo's excellent 'Winter's War' that in turn led to Shakespeare's 'A Winter's Tale' through to 'In The Bleak Midwinter'. In turn this gave me a character's surname and a working title of 'Midwinter's Tale'. Jed just seemed to fit naturally with the surname. All I needed was a story and a character to put the name to.