Pax Gets ​Writer's Digest Recognition 2018

 I invite you to sit back and enjoy these true stories from friends and family about ranch life in the wilds of Wyoming. I hope the stories help you better understand the investment of heart, family, and money that is required for this way of life. And i hope you get a smile or even a chuckle out of the true life tales of Wyoming ranchers.  

When travel writer Ellie Turnbull, daughter one of the president’s most trusted military advisors, meets Marine Captain James "Colt" Tovey on her way to a camping and horseback riding trip to Monument Valley, little does either of them know how their lives will become entangled, and endangered!

Second Place

2018 Wyoming Writers Adult Fiction

A fairy is born who is not like all the other fairies, and she must learn what her gift is while trying to understand that being different sometimes is the best gift of all!

Second Place

2019 Wyoming Writers 

Fiction for Children 
and Young Adults

Completed and seeking an agent or publisher

Self-help gets its hands dirty in this fun and thoughtful book.

You don’t actually have to plant, grow, and harvest to understand the lessons a garden can teach you. But who knows, by putting a few of these lesson to work, you might end up enjoying the fruits of your labor a little more each day. And I’ve included a few family recipes that might give you food for thought, or just a happy experience in the kitchen.

First in a series of "Lessons From..." books

Wyoming in the early 1870s was a hard country with hard men. It was a perfect place for Harry Paxon, a line rider with a mysterious past, a fast gun, and a Texas Ranger’s badge on a torn piece of shirt as his only tie to a time that he would rather no one knew about. 

Recognized in 2018 
​by Writers' Digest

I've been writing songs, poems, and stories to reflect the many seasons of human emotion for my entire life. I've had decades to hone my skills so I can share the sorrows and joys from youth to maturity and all the stages in between. Fact and fantasy are woven with love and loss in a way we all can understand.

Luke Smith and his family live in Harlan County, Kentucky, during the early 20th Century. The coal  found deep in those hills is a blessing, and a curse, to those who live there. Coal gives Harlan a reason for existing in the Appalachian Mountain range in Eastern Kentucky. The coal offers many men jobs, and the coal kills many of them. In the midst of the bloody fight to unionize the coal miners, Luke has to decide his future, and the future of his family, when tragedy hits home.

Completed and seeking an agent or publisher