Western Fictioneers (WF) is pleased to announce the
Nominees for the seventh annual Peacemaker Awards for Western fiction published in 2016.
The Lifetime Achievement
Peacemaker will be presented to Robert Vardeman.
** Nominees are in
alphabetical order.
7TH ANNUAL PEACEMAKER NOMINEES
BEST FIRST NOVEL :
Echoes of Massacre Canyon by Ben Goheen aka Ben Tyler (Five
Star Publishing)
Silence Rides Alone by Ian Charles Millsted (Sundown Press)
The River of Cattle by Alice V. Brock (Pen-L Publishing)
The Silver Baron’s Wife by Danna Baier Stein (Serving House
Books)
The Wanted Lawman by A.C. Smith (Gray Ghost Publishing)
BEST NOVEL:
Dead Man’s Boot by Patrick Dearen (Five Star Publishing)
Far West: The Diary of Eleanor Higgins by Linell Jeppsen (Wolfpack
Publishing)
Gun Devils of the Rio Grande by James Reasoner (Rough Edges
Press)
Killing Blood by Robert D. McKee (Five Star Publishing)
BEST WESTERN YA/CHILDREN
FICTION:
Calamity Jane: How the West Began by Bryan Ney (Dragon Tree
Books)
Good Water by John Nesbitt (Five Star Publishing)
Grandpa and the Kid by Cliff Hudgins (Wolfpack Publishing)
Lone Star Ranger 7: A Ranger Redeemed by James J. Griffin (Painted
Pony Books)
The River of Cattle by Alice V. Brock (Pen-L Publishing)
BEST SHORT FICTION :
Jake Silvershorn's Revenge - Vol. 10 Final Showdown by Big
Jim Williams (High Noon Press)
Museum Piece by Brian Koukol (The Missing Slate)
Odell's Bones by Troy Smith (Cane Hollow Press)
Widelooping a Christmas Cowboy by Livia J. Washburn (A
Cowboy under the Mistletoe, Prairie Rose Publications)
Winners will be announced June 15, 2017 on the WF website
(www.westernfictioneers.com) and on this blog.
Western Fictioneers (WF) was formed in 2010 by professional
Western writers, to preserve, honor, and promote traditional Western writing in
the 21st century. Entries were accepted in both print and electronic forms.
The Peacemaker Awards are given annually. Submissions for
the Peacemaker Awards for books published in 2017 will be open in July, 2017.
Submission guidelines will be posted on the WF web site. For more information
about Western Fictioneers (WF) please visit: http://www.westernfictioneers.com
Western Fictioneers would like to thank Kathleen Rice Adams for
being Awards Chair and for the excellent job she has done.
Congratulations to the WF Peacemaker Class of 2017, and especially to Lifetime Achievement honoree Robert Vardeman.
ReplyDeleteI'm honored to stand among the finalists. My thanks to Western Fictioneers, the awards chair, and all judges.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to all the nominees. Everyone of them is a piece worth reading. Doris
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