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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Here is a baker’s dozen of great western short stories entitled Out of the West…Tales of the American Frontier by Johnny Gunn.
