Books

"There's something about the Cowboy that speaks to us all."-- Ian "Lawdog" McMurtrie.

This anthology has a lot of new and great writers, of which company I'm honored to be a part of.

"No Home on the Range" is the first Colt Ostergaard story, where he finds out that his war record makes him unwelcome in his home town.

This is the first time my name appeared on the cover of a book!  I was stoked when I first saw it!

My story in this anthology is "Bad Blood on the High Plains" where Colt helps Shelby Yodersen (who isn't your typical farmer's daughter) out of a tight spot and so runs afoul of a roving gang of cutthroats.  Bullets fly and before the dust and blood mist settles, he learns that not everyone on your "side" is guaranteed to be a good guy.

My short story in this anthology is "The Cards on the Table," the third Colt Ostergaard story.  This starts out with Colt losing a hand of poker to a corpse (which he still can't figure out how that happened) and goes on to help a family foil some claim jumpers.

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"Death and Dying in Feral Canyon" is the fourth of Colt's stories  and appears in this anthology with a nine other great writers.  Here he runs into Shelby Yodersen again, "all growed up" and asking for his help locating a kidnapped woman.  As usual, trouble comes looking for him and he won't back down.

This one holds a special place in my heart.  Not only is "Guns Against the Dying Light" included in this anthology, I was invited to pen the introduction.  In the fifth outing for Colt Ostergaard, a doctor gives him a few months to live, if that much.  However, the local Gene Bank has been robbed and if he can get back the what was stolen, they'll recommend a radical new therapy that might save his life.


 

This is the final (for now) Space Cowboy anthology, and I have the honor of being included in all six volumes.

In "The 8:15 to Bad Axe" Colt is dealing with the side effects of the radical therapy he received in "Guns Against the Dying Light" when the train he and Shelby are riding gets hijacked.  Sure loot is what the raiders are after, but there's also a deadly ulterior motive for the heist.

I read a lot of "Best Of..." science fiction anthologies when I was growing up.  And I am honored and flattered to be included in this one.  If you've read "Guns Against the Dying Light," that's the one that my writing peers and Science Fiction legend Ben Yalow selected to be included in this volume.

This is a good one to get a taste of the kind of stories the Raconteur Press is publishing, and perhaps encourage you to track down stories by these other authors.

Glitched Grimm was edited by Steve Diamond and my short story "The Hunger" is a twisted take on Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.  The dwarves take Snow White in to cook and clean for them.  What could go wrong?  Add this to your bookshelf and find out!

Raconteur Press has announced that in April 2026 they will publish my collection of Colt Ostergaard stories.  "Colt Ostergaard: A Man with a Gun."

I've bundled together the six Colt stories published in the Space Cowboy anthologies and written seven more, plus interconnecting scenes between each one, making it a novel.  More Colt.  More Shelby.  More bullets and frontier justice on the far, far planet of Fenris!