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Roll Our Credits:
Writing: Forty-plus books published by NY houses including mysteries, fantasies, historicals, memoir, and non-fiction. Ten screenplays bought by CBS, NBC, and Oscar-winning producers. Seven years a movie and drama critic for the big LA newspapers. Numerous magazine articles. Thousands of pages of travel-writing on the internet and in print for guide books and magazines.
Win was a finalist for the Pulitzer with his book “Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse.”
Editing: Editor at Macmillan for fifteen years, acquiring and developing mysteries and historicals. Freelance editing. Ghostwriting.
Teaching: Visiting professors at Oklahoma University and U.C. Davis. Besides regular classes, also conducted workshops, especially in enhancing creativity and in the business of professional writing.
AWARDS:
Travel: Two Magellan gold medals for the best travel content on the web, topping Disney and AM EX, and one silver medal. First prize from ‘Talk of the Town’ for the best website content on any subject.
Mysteries: Three received starred reviews in all trades, and two were chosen by Library Journal as one of the top five mysteries of the year. ‘Mysteries from Navajoland’ were a critic’s choice. The Annie Szabo series is in development for a TV series.
Fantasies: ‘Shadows in the Cave’ chosen by Booklist as one of the best five fantasies of the year (written under the name Caleb Fox). ‘RavenShadow’ was a fantasy finalist for the Tolkien Award given by the Mythopoeic Society.
Historicals: Win’s ‘Stone Song’ was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He’s also won two Spur awards and one Mountains and Plains Association award for best fiction.
Non-Fiction: Stirrup Award for best article. Wrote for Rodale Press.
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Win was named winner of the Owen Wister Award for Lifetime Achievement in writing literature of the West, was selected for the Western Writers Hall of Fame, twice named ‘Writer of the Year’ by Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers, and won two Spur Awards for Novel of the West.
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