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THE TRUE FATHER
By Steven Anderson Law
Goldminds Publishing,
July 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, and ultimately stay the summer with his lost family to
travel the rodeo circuit. This impetuous journey leads Trevor to an
awakening-one of love, one of understanding, and one of reckoning. |
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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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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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EL PASO WAY - SIX PART
SERIES
By Steven Anderson Law
Amazon Shorts, 2007
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Having grown up in the green and humid Midwest,
the earth tones and dry desert of the Southwest was a place of
fantasy. It wasn't just the land, but also the strange plants and
animals, and the indigenous people that inhabited there. In EL PASO
WAY, I introduce a hero that is native to the Sonora, of mixed
Spanish and Papágo blood, who faces a great tragedy during his
childhood. He is raised by an independent priest who has taken over
an abandoned mission in southern Arizona. These two characters
introduce you to a culture that was real in that time and place, and
to the harshness that often occurred in a brutal, lawless land.
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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, Rodeo Summer. 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 Missourione of my favorite time periods, and places, to
write about. |
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