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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 October 31st, 2010

Bottom of the Hill Publishing has signed Johnny Gunn as the latest author in a line of Western writers. Johnny’s book Out of the West…Tales of the American Frontier is a a bakers dozen knee slappingly hilarious stories including The Gas Man Meets His Match, Not In My Camp, Bear, Annabelle’s Slippery Gulch, Old Sam Gets the Last Laugh and others.

About the Author Johnny Gunn:

Johnny Gunn has worked under that name for well over fifty years, but it’s not his legal name.

The IRS knows him as Dennis Locke.

When Johnny took his first radio job in California’s Monterey Bay area, he was a newsman, and he says that when he said his name on the air, it sounded like Denny Schlock.  The Peter Gunn TV show was hot, and thus, Johnny Gunn was born.  Johnny is in his mid-fifties, while Dennis Locke is in his early seventies.  Johnny likes to say that only the IRS gets confused.

Born in Santa Cruz, California, Johnny’s grandfather was a state senator and a newspaper publisher.  His mother was a highly creative writer and journalist.  When he was fourteen, the family moved to Guam where he spent his high school years.

Johnny did some mustanging in his early twenties, was in the Army, and ended up in Nevada in 1964.  He did publicity work for a Reno hotel-casino, and then bought a floundering weekly newspaper in Virginia City, named the Virginia City Legend.  Johnny says that it only took him three years to go completely broke, but it was a wonderful three years.

Many newspapers and magazines later, Gunn is now retired, and he and his lovely bride Patty, live on a small ranchette about twenty miles north of Reno.  They feed two horses and nine chickens.

Johnny has many short stories, poems and essays published, but the book you’re holding in your hands is his first novel length book.

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