The new issue of Hoofprints - Dec 2008 - Feb 2009 has now been posted on the Black Horse Extra site and as usual it is once more packed with features, interview and book reviews. This issue features a section looking at western centric blogs and as well as the excellent Western Fiction Review and Broken Trails it mentions The Tainted Archive. Both of these blogs are linked in The Tainted Archive's sidebar of blogs and sites of interest.
A stand out article sees Greg Mitchell looks at firearm conversions in the Old West.
The site is well worth visiting but take a flask and sandwiches because you'll be there for hours. As well as the current issue, past issues are archived and can be visited by a series of links on the website.
Follow the links below to see individual stories of GO HERE for the Black Horse Extra website.
BLACK HORSE EXTRA
Battling Together at Adobe Walls Hoofprints
Before Bill Became Jessica
Work for the Gunsmith New Black Horse Westerns
New Black Horse Westerns (Cut and pasted from the Black Horse Extra Site)
NEW BLACK HORSE WESTERN NOVELS Published by Robert Hale Ltd, London 978
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4 comments:
This is world I didn't even know about before I began Forgotten Books. So happy to find out.
Patti - Robert Hale/ Black Horse Westerns continue to publish new westerns in the style they used to be - new titles every month.
Black Horse Westerns have been described as one of the book world's best-kept secrets, and there's a certain irony in their mention in connection with the brilliant Forgotten Books initiative.
Some titles in the BHW series become "forgotten books" almost immediately. It happens like this.
The line, all hardcovers, is designed for sales to libraries rather to readers through usual retail sources. Consequently, the business model is that print-runs are kept very short, since every hardcover copy produced is probably going to be read, say, a hundred times.
I'm told the libraries buy most BHWs not by selection of a particular title or author, but on "standing order" for the imprint. Once a "popular" title goes out of print, it is not reprinted. An alternative is offered from among the current month's five companion titles, or the mext month's six.
Books that do prove in demand from private buyers -- and even libraries -- are available through the publisher, Robert Hale Ltd, for only a short time. For example, my latest book in the Misfit Lil series, Misfit Lil Cleans Up, had a publication date of October 31. Today, eleven days later, I am emailed by a would-be purchaser that it can no longer be obtained through the publisher's website: "Misfit Lil appears to have 'cleaned up' yet again. Hale had sold out by the time they got to my order."
I guess this makes it another instant forgotten book! Unless, of course, a mass-market paperback publisher wants to make Hale an offer for a new edition. . . .
Chap - I hope that one day someone will come along and start an imprint like black star crime for other genres - I noticed that a few of the black star books were published in hardcover by Hale.
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