Chief Plenty Coups

For every book sold going back to the beginning, I'm donating $1 to Chief Plenty Coups State Park where the vision of Chief Plenty Coups carries on. http://stateparks.mt.gov/chief-plenty-coups/

This past summer one of my stops with the Western Writers of America was Chief Plenty Coups State Park. There I met Park Manager Aaron Kind who was so respectful of the artifacts located in the basement and so knowledgeable of the life of Chief Plenty Coups and the history of the land that Chief Plenty Coups donated to the State of Montana.

The last chief of the Crow Nation, Chief Plenty Coups experienced a vision when he was very young that non-Native American people would ultimately take control of his homeland (Montana), so he always felt that cooperation would benefit his people much more than opposition. He very much wanted the Crow to survive as a people and their customs and spiritual beliefs to carry on. His efforts on their behalf ensured that this happened, and he led his people peacefully into the 20th century.

One of his famous quotes is: "Education is your greatest weapon. With education you are the white man's equal, without education you are his victim and so shall remain all of your lives. Study, learn, help one another always. Remember there is only poverty and misery in idleness and dreams - but in work there is self-respect and independence."

Western Justice - a free Kindle novella

Western Justice is a collaboration between authors Mark Reps, R Lawson Gamble and myself, Felix F. Giordano to publish three novellas in a single book. I met with Mark at the Western Writers of America annual convention in Billings Montana during June 2018. We ironed out the specifics and designed the expected format for the book. When R Lawson came on board we saw our project become a reality. Our intent is to offer the three novellas in one volume for free as a way to introduce new readers to our other books. 

My novella, Missing in Montana the last novella in the set, was a remnant of two or three chapters of previous books that never migrated into The Jim Buchanan Novels. With a few character changes (a supporting character from The Killing Zone becoming the protagonist for Missing in Montana) an added back story, a plot that I felt would not only become a compelling story arc but lend itself to a sequel while also becoming a tie-in with the Jim Buchanan Novels timeline, I began the project in April 2018. Five months and 46,000 words later I finished the novella.

I plan to write and publish two successive novellas which will be part of the Jim Buchanan Series but will be called the Axe Killian Trilogy. Missing in Montana is the first novella and Murders at Middle Fork and The Coldfoot Killer are the projected working titles of the sequel and the last in the trilogy, respectively. 

I have plans for Axe Killian to be the protagonist in future full-length novels, one taking place in Kauai, Hawaii, The Scarlet Max, and a second in Iceland in the towns of Akureyri and Mývatn, Dimmuborgir, Dark Fortress. 

Above all, I am also working on additional Jim Buchanan Novels, Miracle of the Talking Stick, Incident at Dead River Junction, Mystery at Fort Benton, and Blood on the Rez.