The world recently lost a superlative "new" novelist. Harvey G. Honsinger, a writer whom Laura Jo and I admire very much, passed away in his home from cancer a few weeks ago. Although Honsinger was 78 years old, he had published his first novel only a few months before. Grace's statement in The Bearens' Hope that she would be as "quiet as mice on cotton" was an homage to Mr. Honsinger--a quote from the first line of his excellent book Fire Hair: A Novel of the West, which is available in paperback and e-book format on Amazon.com.
He was a warm, humorous, and colorful man, as well as a wonderful writer with a splendid ear for dialogue and an encyclopedic knowledge of the Old West. He left many manuscripts behind, and we hope to have a role in bringing this body of outstanding work to the attention of the public.
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