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"This novel reads like a work
crafted by a master."—Mike Blakely, Spur Award winning author of
Summer of Pearls
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"...a delightfully
woven tale full of charm and raw elegance. This character driven
piece was a joy to read. It's beautiful in its simplicity and
heartfelt in its plot development. I highly recommend The True
Father."—Maureen Holmes, producer for the documentary film
BULLRIDER
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THE TRUE FATHER
By Steven Anderson Law
Goldminds Publishing,
September 2008 |
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ON THE DAY TREVOR HODGE graduates
from college his life is about to take a sudden turn, and it's not
toward the big accounting job that he'd lined up. Surprised by a
visitor at his college commencement, Trevor learns that his father,
who he never knew, has died in an accident. Trevor is drawn by a
subconscious and relentless yearning to go to Oklahoma to the
funeral. He ultimately decides to stay the summer with his father's
family and travel the rodeo circuit, where his father was a local
hero. He falls in love with his lost family, with the rural
atmosphere of Oklahoma, as well as a pretty half Choctaw barrel
racer. But most of all Trevor faces an awakening he never expected,
and one that leaves his family, and the town of Spiro, on the edge
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“Steven
Anderson Law's absorbing and generous novel, The True Father,
captures the intimate heartbreaks and redemptions of a young man
as he searches for the truth about his parents' botched
marriage. As Trevor Hodge graduates from college with a
dry-as-dust degree in accounting, he is triggered to full life
by the death of his estranged father, an Oklahoma rodeo legend.
Hodge moves from Kansas City and a new job without dignity to a
rural homescape of dizzying discoveries. Hodge's pilgrim trail
offers hard lessons about good intentions gone gunnysack. The
mysteries and ambiguities of his father's life head Hodge into
love... a believable love story that Freud would have had a
field day with: the son meets the father's young lover. Law's
daring coming-of-age novel (complete with an introductory primer
on bull riding), The True Father, offers readers the rewards of
seeing what is in plain sight... that it is seldom too late to
locate the treasures of family and love.”—Red Shuttleworth,
award-winning poet
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RODEO SUMMER: TREVOR,
BELLA AND THE NEW LIFE
By Steven Law
Amazon Shorts, 2007
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of you who have read my novel, RODEO SUMMER (THE TRUE
FATHER), this is a short sequel. If anything, it's like an
epilogue to where the lives of the main characters turned, post
RODEO SUMMER. I've had several inquiries as to what happened
between Trevor and Bella, the sideline romance in the novel. So this
short will answer those questions, and, with a new romantic twist,
entertain as well. |
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THE TRICKSTER: A
NAVAJO JOE MYSTERY
By Steven Anderson Law
Amazon Shorts, 2007
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Many readers who enjoyed my short story
"Arizona's Promise" commented on how they liked the character Navajo
Joe. I wasn't quite sure how to use him in a story, until one day I
was reading a book on Native American myths and it hit me: a Navajo
Joe mystery. |
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ARIZONA'S PROMISE
By Steven Anderson Law
Amazon Shorts, 2006
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This story came to me during my research on
modern day rodeo for writing my novel, The True Father. One thing I
learned was that a modern cowboy's dream (just like anyone's dream,
really) often comes with a level of poverty and personal sacrifice.
These things are never easy to endure, and often divide a family.
Arizona's Promise is a story of a young mother's conflict with her
own selfish desires and personal sacrifice. |
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EL MORO
By Steven Anderson Law
Amazon Shorts, 2006
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This story developed after reading a few
passages in J. Frank Dobie's The Longhorns, about the discovery of
Old Blue, a longhorn steer on John Chisum's ranch in New Mexico
Territory. I was so fascinated with this story that it eventually
became an entire novel, the Legend of Old Blue. EL Moro concentrates
simply on how Old Blue was discovered, and is a great prologue to
the novel. |
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THE JEWEL MILE
By Steven Anderson Law
Amazon Shorts, 2006
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While serving as a reporter for a community
newspaper in the Ozarks, it was often comical to see how a town
would divide when a casino tried to locate in their city. One half
of the townsfolk welcomed the new commerce it would bring, while the
other half feared the immorality often associated with it. This gave
me an idea for a story, only I decided to go back in time to post
Civil War Missouri—one of my favorite time periods, and places, to
write about. |
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