Last weekend I flew to Scottsdale to watch two of my authors pick up Spur Awards at the 55th Annual Western Writers of America Convention.

At left, prolific Wyoming author & Spur Finalist John D. Nesbitt and I are walking into the Spur Awards Dinner.

Among the luminaries at this event:

– 7-time Spur Award Winner Elmer Kelton, whose by-line is on the front cover of this month’s Texas Monthly magazine

– Ron Hansen, author of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

– Kensington/Pinnacle Editor Russell Davis

– New Mexico Poet John Duncklee

– Documentary Filmmaker Jayne McKay

-Stephanie Barko, Literary Publicist