The defining aspects of westerns are still pretty much in place - namely landscape and conflict. In other books the conflict can be internal, but in westerns it usually plays out on a big stage.
I'd be a dope to compare my writing with Wallace Stegner's, but that book probably influenced me in ways I didn't even realize while I was writing Th… - Elizabeth Crook
I'd be a dope to compare my writing with Wallace Stegner's, but that book probably influenced me in ways I didn't even realize while I was writing Th…
- Elizabeth Crook
I love Austin. It's great here. I don't mind the heat. - Elizabeth Crook
I love Austin. It's great here. I don't mind the heat.
[My brother] was older, and since the law of the west was fairly entrenched in our household, whoever was bigger got control of the television. I sat… - Elizabeth Crook
[My brother] was older, and since the law of the west was fairly entrenched in our household, whoever was bigger got control of the television. I sat…
It took me ten years to write The Night Journal, so that was a big ordeal. - Elizabeth Crook
It took me ten years to write The Night Journal, so that was a big ordeal.
I knew from previous books not to count on anything in terms of sales. My first novel - -The Raven's Bride, about Sam Houston's disastrous first marr… - Elizabeth Crook
I knew from previous books not to count on anything in terms of sales. My first novel - -The Raven's Bride, about Sam Houston's disastrous first marr…
When Larry Wright won the Pulitzer for The Looming Tower we all strutted around for weeks, until some sourpuss among us noted that it was actually La… - Elizabeth Crook
When Larry Wright won the Pulitzer for The Looming Tower we all strutted around for weeks, until some sourpuss among us noted that it was actually La…
I grew up thirty miles down the highway in San Marcos, and I've still got family there, so I guess I'm pretty well rooted. - Elizabeth Crook
I grew up thirty miles down the highway in San Marcos, and I've still got family there, so I guess I'm pretty well rooted.
Promised Lands was a better book in my opinion, and it's still my mother's favorite of the three I've done, but I doubt anyone who isn't a blood rela… - Elizabeth Crook
Promised Lands was a better book in my opinion, and it's still my mother's favorite of the three I've done, but I doubt anyone who isn't a blood rela…
When I started escaping to a neighbor's house to watch what I darn well pleased, it turned out to be The Big Valley. Every afternoon my friend and I … - Elizabeth Crook
When I started escaping to a neighbor's house to watch what I darn well pleased, it turned out to be The Big Valley. Every afternoon my friend and I …
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