Celia Hayes | March 3, 2010
It is a good omen for the cover of a book intended to tell the story of the great emigrant trails across the far western frontier, to feature an illustration of a covered wagon pulled by the appropriate numbers of the appropriate draft animal. The cover art for all too many works of fiction about [...]
Celia Hayes | January 10, 2010
I’ll be hanging in there for several reasons – sheer stubbornness and the fact that I bought all four of them for pennies on the dollar at various library book sales being chief among them – but I just wanna say that at this point, me carrying on with reading Dead Man’s Walk, Comanche Moon, [...]
Celia Hayes | October 15, 2009
The front of the Alamo is instantly recognizable; almost like a stage set. Everybody knows the bed-stead outline with what would have been a pair of towers on either side, a pair of shell-supported niches on either side of the door, and the window over it … were there ever statues in those niches? I’ve [...]
Celia Hayes | September 1, 2009
(This is chapter two of one of the works currently in progress – a modest little saga that I am already calling “The Western Trails Trilogy,” part of which will pick up the story of the Becker and Richter families in post-Civil War Texas. At the end of “The Harvesting” young Dolph Becker found himself [...]
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