Heath Lowrance

"If you wanna save souls, you can't keep on preachin' to the choir. You got to go OUT in the world and testify." Yeah, but...

Part 1, here . The first hardboiled detective story is usually credited to a guy named Carroll John Daly , which is unfortunate because...

Dude: "So you want to be a writer, eh?" Me: "No. I AM a writer." Dude: "I mean a PUBLISHED writer." Me: "...

Just read three novels in a row from Peter Rabe. You know him? He was one of those remarkable Gold Medal writers of the ‘50’s and ‘60’s. I s...

A month or so ago, I started reading Westerns, going at it with all the weird obsessiveness that I normally display while pursuing a new in...

I wrote the original version of this a couple years ago, mostly in an attempt to sort it all out for myself. At the time, I had no idea ther...

We seem to be in the beginning stages of a real resurgence of interest regarding Westerns. I couldn’t begin to tell you why, but I’m thankfu...