Why write a series? You get to know the characters better as each sentence, page, chapter, and book is written. There are few false moves, and the dialog sounds authentic.
As readers, sometimes it’s hard to put a book down, and we’re sorry when it’s over. We miss the people who live inside those pages. It’s just as hard to let go for writers. You’ve created a world, and then it takes on a life of its own. That world is a vacation with unexpected twists. A relief from the ordinary.
Our own series include: Annie Szabo Mysteries, The Rendezvous Series, Wild Rivers West, Mountain Man Classics, American Dreamers, Cherokee Mists, and Mysteries from Navajoland.
“If you don’t fall in love with the Szabo’s, you don’t have hormones.” –Kirkus
This series exploded onto the mystery scene. Library Journal named the first two books among the best five mysteries of the year. Critics gave the main characters, Annie and her over-the-top Gypsy mother-in-law, roses. Gypsies? Yes. Annie married into a Gypsy family, the Szabo’s, who are psychics, nuts, scammers, wizards, sensual, and fountains of wisdom. Life around them is wild, dangerous, and exhilarating. Meredith’s husband knows who the mysterious Gypsy man was based upon, but that’s it!
“Win Blevins has long since won his place among the West’s very best.” – Tony Hillerman
Win describes these books as one huge story in six volumes. Starting as a youth eager for adventures, Sam discovers the love of a woman, has a daughter, and finds a life-long comrade in exploration. He learns by experience the heartaches, struggles, and triumphs of life among the Indians of the Rocky Mountains. In the end his challenge is to find a true home for his mixed-blood family. On the way to California, ever the focus of American Dreamers, he must do battle with the deadliest foe of his life.
The first title of this series, So Wild a Dream, won the 2004 Spur award for the best Novel of the West, along with plenty of accolades from the trades and readers.
“Powerful and poetic, Blevins’s story has the impact of a hurled war lance.” – Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
The American Dreamers series picks up the stories of those who were left behind in the first myth of the American West. Women, Native Americans, Mormons, Blacks, Mexicans, Asian immigrants, all of these people and more, were powerful in forming the new west, the one made of every possible American dream.
- Silk and Shakespeare
- Charbonneau–Man of Two Dreams
- Stone Song
- The Rock Child
- RavenShadow
- Moonlight Water
- Going Home
“When you jump into one of Win Blevins’s novels, you’ll jump bareback on a half-broke Indian cayuse, the wind whipping across your face, as you are carried to distant places, without stop, until the last page.” – Terry Johnston
Each saga is set in a West that churned and breathed before the time of the frontier. A time when a few hundred white men sought to make a home among tens of thousands of Indians. A time left out of time when anything was possible, and individuals could carve their dreams.
Easily the most reliable and extensive first-person histories ever written of that unique and never-to-be-duplicated era we call the mountain men. An extraordinary first-hand account of those who came West and lived with the land.
Win, a world-renown expert on the mountain man era, has written new introductions to books and journals, written or told, by the mountain men themselves. Hear these wild adventurers’ stories in their own voices. Many have been out of print for decades, or sold to and by collectors for very high prices. Now you can enjoy them in your own library, or give them as a special gift, at a realistic price.
- Journal of a Mountain Man, by James Clyman
- River of the West, as told to Frances Victor Fuller by Joe Meek himself.
- Volume 1, The Mountain Years
- River of the West, as told to Frances Victor Fuller by Joe Meek himself.
- Edward Warren, by Sir William Drummond Stewart
- Personal Narrative of James O. Pattie, by James Ohio Pattie
- The Long Rifle
“Magical . . . deeply rooted in the oldest storytelling traditions of North America. This skillful reworking of mythic themes and archetypes rings true on many levels. For all who love mythic fiction and fantasy.” – Terri Windling, editor, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror
“Win and Meredith Blevins have raised the bar for intelligent thrillers with The Darkness Rolling. This novel’s power will stay with me for a long time.” ―Donald Bain, bestselling author of the “Murder, She Wrote” series and the Margaret Truman Capital Crimes series
And, For Your Permanent Library:
Win Blevins is the author of a dozen novels, several volumes of informal history, and Dictionary of the American West. Among his awards: Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers named him Writer of the Year three times, Stone Song, won the a Spur Award and a Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award for Best Fiction, and it was a finalist for The Pulitzer. Win’s his first novel in the Forge “Rendezvous” series, So Wild a Dream, won the Spur award for Best Novel of the West in 2004.