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A NEW AMAZON CUSTOMER REVIEW
. . . of my book of Western Christmas stories:
Joy to the World!
Mr Fonvielle’s Christmas stories will make you smile. In each story, an unlikely subject shows or is shown a tender generosity that will never be forgotten. Christmas is the occasion for such generosity, little gifts of grace that sometimes have the power to transform a life, or end one with unexpected sweetness. Mr Fonvielle captures the spirit that makes Christmas a universal holiday; and, as always in his writing, the heroes and heroines represent the fringe of society who are naturally drawn to the freedom of the West. These vignettes evoked some of my own Christmas memories, and served to remind me what the holiday is all about.
See the review and check out the book details here. It’s only $1.49!
A WESTERN CHRISTMAS STORY
THE ANGEL — Two drifting cowboys, lost souls of the range, are visited by an angel on Christmas Eve who brings glad tidings to both of them . . .
One of the six tales in my collection Christmas In the West, available on Amazon for the Kindle or for the free Kindle Reading Apps that work on almost all computers and portable devices.
Get the collection now at the special introductory price of $1.49!
And a merry Western Christmas to you all!
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A WESTERN BOOK COVER FOR TODAY
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A WESTERN CHRISTMAS STORY
GIFTS — Six whores cook up a Christmas surprise for the patrons of the Desperate Chance saloon in Abilene, Kansas and create a delirious frontier legend . . .
One of the six tales in my collection Christmas In the West, available on Amazon for the Kindle or for the free Kindle Reading Apps that work on almost all computers and portable devices.
Get the collection now at the special introductory price of $1.49!
And a merry Western Christmas to you all!
A WESTERN CHRISTMAS STORY
RED COLLINS — The story of a nervous killer whose heart is touched by a small boy’s Christmas dream . . .
One of the six tales in my collection Christmas In the West, available on Amazon for the Kindle or for the free Kindle Reading Apps that work on almost all computers and portable devices.
Get the collection now at the special introductory price of $1.49!
And a merry Western Christmas to you all!
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A RAY PEASE FOR TODAY
Paperback cover art.
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A FIRST AMAZON CUSTOMER REVIEW
A real Christmas!
Fabulous! New western short stories by Mr. Fonvielle that are every bit as fun, haunting and beautiful as the “Fourteen Western Stories” he published previously. These are all Christmas themed, one taking place in modern times, the rest in our strange, strange American past. As always with this writer, there are strong and colorful women here, small, surprising acts of courage and heroism from the most unlikely of rough characters, and a powerful warmth and beauty that breaks through even the bleakest of terrain. Some very real Christmas in these pages!
See the review and get book details here — Christmas In the West.
CHRISTMAS STORIES
A collection of Christmas tales like no others — tales of the Old West and the New West, tales of faith and tales of doubt, of adventure and romance. Some are bawdy — there’s a fair amount of adult content here — some are sentimental . . . all deal with the miracle that is Christmas, and the timeless heritage of the American frontier.
I should add that they’re not Christmas stories for Christians, they’re Christmas stories for sinners, for desperados, for lost and bewildered souls like myself. They show that the spirit of Christmas can find its way into the real world by the unlikeliest of trails, and turn up just when least expected.
As Amy Kendall, a nine year-old girl in my story “Noel”, says, “Christmas comes to both the wretched and the blessed” — and whichever you are I hope you’ll find a little Christmas for yourself in these tales.
Available now on Amazon at the special introductory price of $1.49 — for the Kindle or for the free Kindle Reading Apps you can download here, that work on almost computers and portable devices.
Click here to check it out — Christmas In the West
And a merry Western Christmas to you all!
A WESTERN BOOK COVER FOR TODAY
THE COVER
This is the final version of the cover I’ve chosen for my new collection of Christmas tales set in the West.
The image is a detail from a painting by Frederic Remington called The Fall Of the Cowboy. The full painting shows a dismounted cowboy opening a gate in a barbed-wire fence for himself and the mounted cowboy you see. It was meant to suggest the fencing in of the open range, which didn’t do away with the cowboy but changed the nature of his trade,
It dates from 1895, when the culture at large was beginning to think about the passing of the Old West.
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A STORY ILLUSTRATION FOR TODAY
A PULP PAPERBACK COVER FOR TODAY
And don’t kid yourselves, folks — it’s still happening!
MY WESTERN MUSE
I’ve tried, really tried, to finish Blowing Cool, the sequel to my neo-noir thriller Bloodbath. I’ll get a little momentum going, then lose it. I have another novel or novella in the works called Hurricane, about the great Florida hurricane of 1935. That got off to a terrific start, then hit a wall, for reasons I can’t quite put my finger on.
But the West . . . I always come back to the West, and the Western landscape always gets my storyteller’s imagination going.
Recently I got the idea to do a collection of Western short stories centering around Christmas. A storyline popped into my mind, I started work on it and couldn’t stop. And before I finished that first story a second one popped into my mind. Now I’m working on the sixth and last tale in the series.
They’ll be available on Amazon soon, in plenty of time for Christmas gift giving!
My muse is just a Western gal, I guess.
[The painting “Snow Aspens” is by Alexander Volkov — prints are available here.]
ALL HALLOWS’ EVE
Breakfast of coffee and Candy Corn at 9pm, dressed as an old man in pajamas sitting down to his desk to finish a new collection of short stories. Scary! No one can say that I haven’t entered fully into the spirit of the season.
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