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‘The Dentist’ Western Short Film

 

I'm officially a Michael Brian Rawlins fan.

THE DEPUTY - Action Western Short Film

Michael Brian Rawlins has got some serious western skills.

Definitely one to watch in the future.

Brit-west: Riding The Range With Jo Walpole

Here's an interview I did with fellow author, Paul Bishop, way back in 2017...

During its long love affair with the Western, England has produced a long list of iconic genre writers, most of whom have never been West of the Mississippi. Bestselling Western authors such as J. T. Edson (English author of 137 Westerns, many of which are still in print), Matt Chisholm/Cy James/Luke Jones (all pseudonyms for Peter Watts), and the revered Piccadilly Cowboys (the subject of an upcoming blog post) have all made significant, enduring, and popular contributions to the Western genre. This Brit-West tradition continues today with a number of English authors gaining popular acclaim for their six-gun shoot-‘em-ups.

 

Over the next few blog posts, I’ll be sharing interviews with a few of England’s current Western genre practitioners. First to pull up a seat around the chuck wagon campfire is Joanne ‘Jo’ Walpole...Joanne’s first western was published in 2005. Since then she has written five more westerns, one civil war drama and a collection of contemporary shorts published under her own name and her better known pseudonym Terry James. She is currently writing a new series under the pseudonym, Joe Slade. She lives in central England with her husband Terry, where she reads, walks, follows current affairs, and continues writing westerns.

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Micro read - 60 seconds or less

This came from a writing prompt – first line of any song

I picked – Dixie Chicks ~ Cowboy Take Me Away

 

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“I said I wanna touch the earth.”

 

The lawdog looked up at the prisoner and frowned. “When I asked if you had any last words, they weren’t exactly what I had in mind.”

 

Bo Brown smiled but there was no joy in it, only mournful disappointment. He supposed he knew what the sheriff was getting at. He’d seen enough hangings to know that the accused man usually broke down, confessed his sins, asked forgiveness and called God his friend.

 

But Bo couldn’t bring himself to do it. He had committed the crime. True. But he felt no remorse. It had been old man Smithson or him and at the time he had thought his life was the better option. But now, with the noose chafing against the day old stubble around his throat, maybe on reflection a bullet to the brain would have been preferable to a slow choking death.