Western Fictioneers

Post by Doris McCraw writing as Angela Raines  Photo (c) by Doris McCraw I recently came across the phrase 'talking with the dead'. ...

During the end of this year and going forward I hope to interview Western Fictioneer members on their new releases and writing. The plan is ...

Nominated for an Academy Award for its musical score composed by Jerome Moross, The Big Country (1958) was an all around epic success. The...

When my husband Gary and I were first married, he would laughingly call me “Pollyanna” –the girl who always saw the good in every situation...

Events throughout 2020 have pushed our stamina and challenged us all in so many ways - in our friendships, with our families, medically, po...

  November 11 is Veteran’s Day. Of course, Veteran’s Day wasn’t actually invented until 1947, but your characters may have had their own ver...

Before I shine a light on EMPTY COFFINS, let me ask you a question: what’s your favorite book or movie that takes place on a train? Films at...

 Post by Doris McCraw writing as Angela Raines Headstones of members of the National Typographical Union Evergreen Cemetery photo property o...

When I was growing up, I remember looking forward to the first day of school each year. “Back then” we didn’t start back to school in the ...

  This article kicks off my series of 13 Days of Spooky Blogging  for Halloween, that I will post daily on my blog HERE and on Facebook HE...

How the West Was Won (1962, MGM) has been called one of the last great epic screen Westerns. Directed by John Ford and running for nearly t...