Circa24's Blog - Posts Tagged "western"

Today, I launched my newest book An Encounter With Cows, and I am celebrating with Giveaways of both these and another round of my Silent Consent series, all ending in mid-March, just in time for the typical spring break.

This stand-alone has nothing to do with my Silent Consent universe, and it has its own set of characters to love and hate.


Dr. Kayla Eastman receives word that her wife has died in a tragic accident while on a dino dig. Both worked for a bullying department chair, Nick Tenhune, at Cando University (fictional), who treats the faculty like dirt. Following the funeral, he requires Kayla, still in a state of shock and grief, to travel west to Falcon, ND, to retrieve University property and return immediately. Once there, she questions the circumstances around her wife’s death. Without tenure, Kayla must choose between continued employment and uncovering the truth about her wife’s demise and face the consequences of her decision.


I set the novel in one of my favorite places, rural North Dakota. I have spent many summers in Rollete and Towner Counties and have wanted to use them as a setting for some time. Many of the local landmarks are real, like the Giant Turtle statue in Dunseith, ND (made out of over 2000 tire rims) and the colossal sandhill crane statue in Steele. I've gone rock-hounding in the agate pits of Souris, MB, and scampered over the Badlands in the west on dino digs. Cando is the county seat of Towner, but sadly, there is no Cando U.

To celebrate the release of my most recent book, An Encounter With Cows, I am offering giveaways of that book along with both books in my Silent Consent series, Silent Consent and Endured by The Gods. Once I posted those two, I thought, why not run one more for my book of short stories, Thomas Hardy Was an Optimist?

Silent Consent

 
Endured by the Gods


And here is my book of short stories:
Thomas Hardy was an Optimist



And Finally, introducing my newest offering:

An Encounter with Cows



 

Someone suggested I start a page on StoryOrigin. So far, it's even more confusing than starting a page on GoodReads. However, I'm starting with the basics and hoping to get better at it. (I'm technologically challenged, and think the last good invention was the wedge. After the wheel, society began going down hill.)

Here are my first links:
An Encounter with Cows:
https://storyoriginapp.com/universalb...

Silent Consent:
https://storyoriginapp.com/universalb...
Endured by the Gods:
https://storyoriginapp.com/universalb...

and Thomas Hardy Was an Optimist: A Collection of Short Stories From The Plague Years