What inspired you to start writing? At the earliest stages, the inspiration came from my teachers in school. I had memorable teachers in the third grade and in the eighth grade who inspired us to read and write. The eighth-grade...
What inspired you to start writing? I was born in Chicago, and I spent my first years of life on the South Side. When I was five, my family moved to an eight-hundred-square-foot, two-bedroom house that sat between two suburban...
What inspired you to start writing? I’ve often wondered if stories choose their writers instead of the other way around. For me, writing never felt like a hobby. It felt like a calling. The first time I seriously considered becoming...
Since the seventies, I have been an illustrator in both advertising and publishing. With a great many paperback and hardback book covers for Westerns, as well as many other genres. Probably the best known is the Edge and Steele Western...
What is your latest book about? It’s the story of a tough mom on the Kansas/Missouri border who’s raising her four wayward boys during the Civil War, and her fight to protect them against Bushwackers, involvement with the war itself,...
Huge shoutout to Thadd Turner! True West Magazine just named The Hard Ride one of the Best Historical Western Novels of the Year in their annual roundup, and the praise is well-deserved:"Multitalented Western filmmaker Thadd Turner brings all his creative...
Congratulations to Wolfpack author C.K. Crigger for taking home the 2026 Spur Award for Best Western Romance Novel with her title Last Laugh! Last Laugh is book #3 in the Painter's Bay series and features a gripping blend of historical suspense and...
Award-winning author Mark Greathouse announces the release of Railroad to Perdition: Justice Rides an Iron Horse, a western murder mystery from Wolfpack Publishing. Greathouse and the publisher are teamed to bring a brand of western fiction aimed at entertaining and educating...
We asked Peter Brandvold about his latest Western series, where he gets his inspiration from, and what makes stories truly special. Check out the full interview below! ----- You've written quite a few Western series now under Wolfpack Publishing. How...
