C. H. Admirand’s long love of the Old West was kindled by a cross-country trip to Colorado and the Southwest. She keeps it alive by watching silver screen legends Roy Rogers, John Wayne, and Gary Cooper. Admirand attributes her love for writing to her seventh...

Denny Andrews was born in Anacortes, Washington. As a child he lived all over the Midwest, finally returning to live in Oak Harbor, Washington. He graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in political science and a minor in history. While in college...

Tom Austin is a Utah-based writer with roots in Kansas and Colorado. He prides himself on his ability to base his stories within the realm of true historical events, characters that historically existed, and correct topography. Tom is also a career police officer. He has...

Mary A. Benton spent her childhood on a dairy ranch in California’s Central Valley. She has worked as a farmer her entire life, and continues to live in her beloved “country home” in the middle of a walnut grove. Winds of Time is Mary’s first...

D.J. Bishop was born better than fifty years ago, the sixth of seven children, to a bigger than life cowboy father and hard-working mother, right square-dab in the middle of cattle country. The nearest town was several miles away and a place seldom visited. Much...

Clifford J. Blair, prolific AVALON author, passed away unexpectedly on April 28, 2001 at the age of forty-seven. During his remarkable writing career he published twenty-six Western and adventure novels, twenty-three of which were with AVALON. A native Oklahoman, he lived all his life in...

Johnny D. Boggs once played hooky from high school to watch Fort Apache, and spends most of his vacations traipsing around historical sites, ghost towns. and boneyards in the American West. His works have appeared in Boys' Life, Louis L 'Amour Western Magazine,and other publications. A...

Terrell L. Bowers has a lovely wife and two beautiful girls. He grew up with a gun to shoot (beginning with a BB gun), a horse to ride, and friends who loved to play cowboy games. His father got him reading Westerns and after the...

The Wild Card is the third novel in Loretta Jackson and Vickie Britton’s western series for AVALON. The sisters are co-authors of Stone of Vengeance, which takes place in the modern-day west, the Ardis Cole Mystery Series, and a play set at a poker table,...

Joe Burkett was a native East Texan of Jasper, Texas. Being born with Muscular Atrophy made life, and everything he did, a challenge. Despite his physical handicap, he graduated from high school and from the Writer’s Digest School with God’s help. He loved the outdoors...