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admin November 26th, 2010

White Grizzly is the second installment in Fisher’s Poudre Canyon Saga.

Thirty years have passed since Andre Pelletier parted from his brother and became White Grizzly the Crow War Chief. War has gripped the West with the Sioux nation joining forces with the Cheyenne and Arapaho to fight the hated blue coat soldiers over the treaty breaking Bozeman Road. The Crow were content to let their enemy, the Sioux, struggle with the soldiers until a patrol out of Fort Phil Kearny attacked the village of White Grizzly hurling them into the war.

Pressed between his position of leadership, a son gone insane and renegade, and the knowledge that the world they knew is rapidly changing Andre makes the long journey to Colorado to leave the women and children of his family in the safety of his brother Jean. Then, accompanied by his sons, White Grizzly returns to the Powder River to fight a war he’s not sure they can win.

Dave’s Where Free Men Gather, the first book in The Poudre Canyon Saga series, is currently available at booksellers everywhere.

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admin November 5th, 2010

Patty Gunn has agreed to create cover and interior art for hubby Johnny’s new book Out of the West…Tales of the American Frontier.

Patty is the highly creative artist who created the cover art for this book, as well as the interior line drawings.

She is married to Dennis Locke, but since everyone but the IRS knows him as Johnny Gunn, she has become Patty Gunn.

Patty was born into a warehousing and distribution family in southern California.  Today she carries on the family tradition as Operations Manager of a large warehouse and distribution center in northern Nevada.

Patty says that she has three passions in life:  horses, art and camping.  For her, when she and Johnny go horse camping in the Sierra Nevada wilderness and she has her art supplies, she’s simply in Heaven, totally at peace with the world.

By the way, those boots and socks on the cover of this book are Johnny Gunn’s, captured during a recent camping trip in the high Sierra.

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admin July 23rd, 2010

Bottom of the Hill Publishing Submissions Guidelines

Bottom of the Hill Publishing welcomes unsolicited submissions from published and unpublished writers. At this time Bottom of the Hill Publishing accepts proposals and editorial inquiries by email only. Please review the following guidelines before contacting us about publishing your work.

Please address all materials to:

submissions@bottomofthehillpublishing.com
Include Book Submission in the subject line.

Submit proposals via email in .doc or .pdf form.

We review every submission that arrives. We will acknowledge receipt of manuscripts upon arrival. Note that we check the submissions email only on Tuesday. You will receive a response from whether we are interested in pursuing publication or not. Please understand that it may take up to eight weeks for us to get back to you on working together but be assured that we will. Your materials will not be returned.

Bottom of the Hill Publishing Editorial Needs:

• For our general trade line, we are interested in acquiring books pertaining to Politics, Christian Life, History, Sustainable Living, Sci Fi, Fantasy, Folklore, Self-Help and Motivation.
• For our forthcoming Children’s line, we are seeking single-story manuscripts that feature Traditional Values, Education and Spiritual Growth.

All manuscripts and proposals should be in .doc or .pdf format. Please be sure your name, address, phone # and email address appear on the title page as well as on your cover letter.

Biographical data is especially helpful. We’re not necessarily looking for authors with degrees and credentials, but anything that helps establish a link between author and manuscript is useful to us. Please list any previous publication history as well.

Bottom of the Hill Publishing will read manuscripts being simultaneously submitted to other publishing houses.

Terms of Publication: For volumes accepted for publication on our trade list, we underwrite publication costs and compensate authors by paying a royalty based on net sales. Unless the author is working through a rights agent, Bottom of the Hill Publishing usually retains subsidiary rights (book club, film, paperback, etc.) and pays the author 20% on income earned from subsidiary use. We reserve the right to determine binding (hardcover v. paper), print run, publication date, retail price, and book design.

For Artists and Illustrators

1. Bottom of the Hill Publishing considers of submissions of artwork separately from submissions of text, even if proposed for the same work.

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admin April 27th, 2010

Drytown History

Drytown, originally Big Bend, Utah Territory, was a small community near the cross-country Overland Trail, used by travelers in the mid-to-late 1800s. Drytown was important, mainly because it was on the way to somewhere else.

What that means is that Drytown was a major transfer point, where supply wagons traveling east and west, off-loaded merchandise to other wagons that carried it to towns and ranches north and south of Drytown.

In 1864–the last year of the Civil War–the western part of Utah Territory became the state of Nevada.

In 1869, when the Central Pacific Railroad in its westward expansion reached Drytown, company officials renamed it Wadsworth, in honor of the respected Civil War Union general, James Wadsworth. The story is that, when he was killed in battle, both sides ceased fighting until his body was removed from the field of combat.

Many of the characters in the tales are real people. Others are fictional. They are a very accepting group of people and mix together with few problems.

The town of Wadsworth is located 27 miles northeast of Lake’s Crossing, which now is Reno. Shorty’s Place is based on Shorty’s Lunchroom, a popular refreshment spot in mid to the late 1860’s Wadsworth. I got the idea for Shorty’s Place from a hectographed newspaper, the Wadsworth Bee, from the early 1870’s. The late Carl Shelly, former state senator, and owner of Shelly’s Hardware in Sparks, also was instrumental in the founding of the Sparks Museum. It was he who showed me the Wadsworth Bee, and wondered if it might give me some story ideas. It did.

By the way, most of the drinks served in Shorty’s Place are buttermilk, sassafras tea, and sasparilla. Which, as everyone knows, are the choice of all real cowboys.

Ballad of a Small Town, Adventures of Logan West has been released for Kindle and will soon be available in print.

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admin April 27th, 2010

Ballad’s Genesis

The idea for Ballad of a Small Town was born when I saw a copy of the Wadsworth, NV newspaper* from around 1869. In it was an ad for Shorty’s Lunchroom. Shorty’s Place grew out of that, and I put it in Drytown, which was still Wadsworth’s name in 1864–it was also called Big Bend, referring to the bend in the Truckee River as it headed north toward what we whites call Pyramid Lake. The Numa (Paiutes) call it Panunadu.

In January of 1996, Dorman Nelson, editor and publisher of Western Tales Magazine, bought “Letter From Shorty,”–a short story based on Shorty’s Lunchroom–but he had to shut down the magazine for various reasons. He advised me to continue writing, but to put my western short stories into a collection, with a unifying theme or character and make them into a novel.

Working on that idea, I found what I wanted in Logan West, a journalism graduate from Indiana, whose bride eloped with their best man. Logan heads west to write the novel he’s long thought about doing, takes his banjo along, and winds up working in Shorty’s Place.

Before the first story was finished, the idea for “the ballad” manifested. As a troubadour of sorts, it seemed natural for Logan to write a ballad based on his travels, and “Ballad of a Small Town,” was born. Each chapter is prefaced by an excerpt from the ballad.

Although I have a melody for the ballad in my head, I’ve left it to the reader to compose his or her own. Just remember, it’s being accompanied by a really mellow-sounding banjo.

*Newspapers of the day often were printed on a Hectograph. A special gel was poured into a shallow pan–much like a cookie pan–and a paper “master” copy was laid on top of the gel, face down. The master copy was rolled gently with a rubber roller and the gel took on the impression of what was on the paper master copy. After the master copy was removed, blank paper was laid on the gel and it was gently pressed down with the same roller. The information on the gel was impressed on the surface of the paper. One-hundred copies could be made before the gel lost its efficiency. Hectograph comes from Greek. Hecto means one-hundred, and graph means “drawn”.

Ballad of a Small Town, Adventures of Logan West has been released for Kindle and will soon be available in print.

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admin April 26th, 2010

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