Recent content by wrbenton

Silently Beats the Drum Nope, it's a draft from a book I am writing now titled "While Wolf Creek". Additionally, I've often used main characters that don't fit the "white hat" formula. But, most of my novels aren't traditional ones in style either and by that I mean "white hat" leads.

Traditional westerns Not all of my main characters wear "white hats". My knife moved once and I severed his right ear in a split second. He gave a scream of deep anguish, but I knew no one in Hell Town would pay any attention to his squeals, so I leaned close to him and said, “Next cut is...

Westerns Nope, I'm not the guy in the photo, he was taken from a graphics program I bought for illustrating articles. I''m an old coot, as you can tell from the photo below, lol.

Westerns Most people, or so I think, read traditional westerns to relive the opening of the west. They read because they are interested in history or maybe they just enjoy a good shoot 'em up book. There are as many reasons for reading a traditional western as there are for writing them...

How to Write a Western Nice friendly group here...LOL...my writing hasn't been raked over the coals like this since Grad school, but any published writer has experieinced it before, so I am no virgin. My goal in the article was to give some suggestions to those who wish to become...

So, You Want To Write Western Fiction? Lasso your publisher with high-falootin' western fare Copyright By W.R. Benton It's a much-felt occupational hazard of those of us who write. Most manuscripts submitted each year to publishers are never seriously considered for publication, much...

Thanks I appreciate all of the warm welcomes I have had here...makes it feel like home, but with less noise.

Thanks Thanks for the hello! I just got a book endorsement from the German Western fiction author, Alfred Wallon, Author of “The promised land". His books are very good.

My favorite Books Lately it's been my own...LOL. I've been so busy proofing and editing my next three books (a series about the Civil War) that I've only been able to read one book a week and for me that is unusual. I normally double that. I write mostly Western Fiction, Mountain Men stuff...

I'm Gary, a.k.a., "WR Benton" and wanted to drop in and say hello. I hope to spend a great deal of time on the forum.