31 Quick and Easy Recipes: One new thing to eat each day for a month. Your family will never suspect that you've been slaving over a hot keyboard all day long if you spring these quick and yummy dishes on them.
This compilation of quick and easy recipes originated when I, as the editor of a small magazine, asked my regular writers to submit their favorite easy recipes to be published in chapbook form. "Rapid Recipes for Writers...And Other Busy People" was first published in the mid 1980s.
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No More StrangersProse and Poetry of the West from acclaimed Western novelist Marsha Ward. Six short stories, three poems, and an excerpt from a forthcoming novel make up this collection of Western treasures, including the never-before-published "Thumps in the Night."
"Marsha Ward does a great job of putting you in the place and time and making you care about the [characters] you're reading about. That's storytelling at its best." ~Liz Adair, author of "Counting the Cost"
"Marsha Ward follows the great tradition of Louis L'Amour." ~Darrin Gray
"gritty realism, exciting action, compelling characters" ~C.K. Crigger, Western Author
"Marsha Ward's writing is vivid to the point of
breathtaking." ~Kerry Blair, author of "Ghost of a Chance"
"Marsha Ward has one foot in the 21st century and one in the 19th. Her characters hew closely to those wild days, portraying their lives and times. Readers love her for that. Other writers marvel at her use of the most modern of means to present her stories." ~Gary Svee, two-time Spur Award winner
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A never-before-published short story that earned an A grade from my Writers Digest School instructor, novelist Steve Overholser. It's been sitting in the dark long enough.
"Black smoke drew Rolla's eye, smoke where there should not be smoke. Then he heard the noise: high, piercing yips, and a woman's scream, and the flat report of gunshots." With revenge in his heart, young Rolla takes part in the Battle of Salt River Canyon at Skeleton Cave in Arizona Territory.
The battle that took place on December 28, 1872, was an engagement of the decade-long Apache Wars in the late nineteenth century. This story supposes how young Rolla forged an alliance with another settler and became involved in that fight.
The battle that took place on December 28, 1872, was an engagement of the decade-long Apache Wars in the late nineteenth century. This story supposes how young Rolla forged an alliance with another settler and became involved in that fight.
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Saturday afternoon working toward evening was a poor time to pull tree clearing duty, especially this Saturday, with the dance all laid out at the school house, and a new schoolmarm to gaze at. In a short story designed to make you chuckle, Western writer Marsha Ward brings you cowboys Slim and Curly on the two-man saw, as they try to shoehorn the unexpected chore of cutting up a fallen cottonwood tree into their big plans for Saturday night.
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The Usual GameIn this tautly written short story, Verl returns to his boarding house after a hard day working construction in the Verde Valley of the new State of Arizona. He's dreaming of going home to Phoenix soon with his wages, home to sweet Betty's arms. Then he finds his landlord, Fong, ensnared in the usual game run by the local card shark, Happy Sam. If Fong can't get away, he's going to lose the money he's been saving for years to send for his wife in China. High stakes action in early Arizona.
"Marsha Ward has the ability to grab readers by the lapels, yank them into her stories, and make them care deeply about her characters." ~Phyllis Dugan, Writer
Thumps and Losers - Two Short StoriesWhat should a ten-year-old boy buy when he finds a wallet full of cash? A bicycle? A horse? Or something more meaningful?
Will business traveler Mel Harris's phone call go unanswered because his wife Murial encountered a bear in their kitchen during the night?
Enjoy a couple of non-Western short stories from the imagination of storyteller Marsha Ward: "Thumps in the Night" and "Losers Weepers."
Will business traveler Mel Harris's phone call go unanswered because his wife Murial encountered a bear in their kitchen during the night?
Enjoy a couple of non-Western short stories from the imagination of storyteller Marsha Ward: "Thumps in the Night" and "Losers Weepers."
The Owen Family Saga Sampler
This sampler is the fastest way to satisfy your curiosity about those fabled members of the Owen Family from Shenandoah County, Virginia. Marsha Ward introduces the family in three chapters from each of the first three novels in The Owen Family Saga. Then there's the bonus chapter from the forthcoming novel, Spinster's Folly, Book 4 in the Saga. A "don't miss" way to get acquainted.
"Trail of Storms by Marsha Ward is the third book in a western series featuring the Owen family that takes place during those first years following the conclusion of the US Civil War. Ward is recognized as an award winning western writer, the founder of the American Night Writers Association, and an authority on Southwestern history.
"This series chronicles the events...that send several families from the Shenandoah Valley west following the war, their journey westward, and their struggle to establish homes in the American Southwest.... It is the historical details of Colorado and New Mexico and the writer's understanding of both the American and Hispanic cultures of this place and time period that are superbly done and make all three novels worth reading.... Ward doesn't glamorize the West and some of her characters aren't particularly likable, but they are realistic and she is true to the rough times of that settlement period.... Historical and Western fans of either gender will enjoy this series from the compelling covers to the last word of this third volume. It's a series I'm glad I had the opportunity to read."
~Jennie Hansen, Reviewer, Meridian Magazine
"Trail of Storms by Marsha Ward is the third book in a western series featuring the Owen family that takes place during those first years following the conclusion of the US Civil War. Ward is recognized as an award winning western writer, the founder of the American Night Writers Association, and an authority on Southwestern history.
"This series chronicles the events...that send several families from the Shenandoah Valley west following the war, their journey westward, and their struggle to establish homes in the American Southwest.... It is the historical details of Colorado and New Mexico and the writer's understanding of both the American and Hispanic cultures of this place and time period that are superbly done and make all three novels worth reading.... Ward doesn't glamorize the West and some of her characters aren't particularly likable, but they are realistic and she is true to the rough times of that settlement period.... Historical and Western fans of either gender will enjoy this series from the compelling covers to the last word of this third volume. It's a series I'm glad I had the opportunity to read."
~Jennie Hansen, Reviewer, Meridian Magazine
