Sunday, 1 February 2009

MORE Essential western reading

The latest issue of Black Horse Extra is now online.

This is a huge online magazine that is presided over by Keith (Chap O'Keefe) but written by various Black Horse scribes.

The magazine is well produced and so varied that it wouldn't be out of place in the newsagents for a hefty cover price.

News, articles and so much more - as well as a rundown on the latest Black Horse titles.

Well what you waiting for - go here




New Black Horse westerns (List from the latest Black Horse Extra)
NEW BLACK HORSE WESTERN NOVELS

Published by Robert Hale Ltd, London
The Shadow Riders
Owen G. Irons 0 7090 8613 0
Sharpshooters in the Hills
Ron Watkins
0 7090 8692 5
Blast to Oblivion
Chap O'Keefe
0 7090 8700 7
Lanigan and the Silent Mourner
Ronald Martin Wade
0 7090 8703 8
Long Road to Revenge
Eugene Clifton
0 7090 8704 5
Too Many Sundowns
Jake Douglas
0 7090 8706 9
Die This Day
Dempsey Clay
0 7090 8705 2
The Guns of Caleb Jones
Alan C. Porter
0 7090 8707 6
Left-Hand Gun
Walt Masterson
0 7090 8718 2
Guns of Virtue
Peter Wilson
0 7090 8721 2
Anderson's War
Jackson Davis
0 7090 8722 9
Daughter of Evil
H. H. Cody
0 7090 8723 6
War SmokeMichael D. George
0 7090 8725 0
Comanche Country
Greg Mitchell
0 7090 8729 8
The Bullion Trail
Ed Hapgood
0 7090 8734 2
McGuire Manhunter
Scott Connor
0 7090 8735 9
On the Great Plains
Logan Winters
0 7090 8736 6
Rawhide Ransom
Tyler Hatch
0 7090 8743 4
Reprinting:


A Gunfight Too Many
Chap O'Keefe
0 7090 8456 3

4 comments:

David Cranmer said...

Taking a look now...

Anonymous said...

A print magazine would be pleasing, but like you say, Gary, it would have to carry "a hefty cover price", especially with a restricted, cult-interest circulation. So it has to be online, and we take advantage of the disadvantage, as it were, and spread word of it as far and wide as we can. That way, the hope is more Black Horse Westerns will be bought and borrowed, which might ultimately benefit the Extra's contributors and all western writers.

The aim is to make the Extra one of the best free reads on the Net.

As for "presiding", I see the role more akin to desk-clerk and bell-boy combined. I offer BHW people their own bit of space, conduct them to it and see that it has all the right furnishings for them. Beyond complying with the law and doing nothing gross, they can have a free hand.

Someone asked about the BHW list, but others might like to know, too. The Hale novels appear at the end of each month, so for the Extra's March edition we begin with the February six and finish with April's. Though some key suppliers are mentioned, the Extra doesn't sell books or receive any kickbacks from the people who do. Would-be buyers are free to make their own choice of seller, listed or otherwise. As a writer commented elsewhere last week, in the UK you're looking at around £8, postage free. That's almost a paperback price for a handsome hardcover book.

Keith

Gary Dobbs/Jack Martin said...

Keith - you are too modest. When I discovered Black Horse Extra maybe a year or so ago I spent many hours going through the back issues. I've even printed one or two out for future reference. It is a great online mag. And as you say everyone has a free hand to contribute but at the end of the day you pull it all together and I, and other western fans, thank you for it.

So take a bow Chap O'Keefe

Charles Gramlich said...

Wow, that's a pretty good deal. I'm going to check it out later.