Wyoming writers cross border July 20

I'll join Laramie writers Julianne Marie Couch, Jeffe Kennedy, and RoseMarie London for "Seeking Wyoming, Speaking Wyoming" on Friday, July 20, 7-10 p.m., at Everyday Joe's Coffee House in Fort Collins, Colo. We'll start the evening with a reading, and then sign our books, eat, and drink. The food's free, but we'll sell you books while the good folks at Everyday Joe's sell you caffeinated beverage of one kind or another.

We all are writers of collections. Julianne's non-fiction book, finished after years of exhaustive hands-on research, is "Jukeboxes and Jackelopes: A Wyoming Bar Journey." It's set for a June release from Greybull's Pronghorn Press. Jeffe's essay collection is "Wyoming, Trucks, True Love, and the Weather Channel" from University of New Mexico Press. RoseMarie's story collection is "The Search for an Inappropriate Man" and mine is "The Weight of a Body" from Ghost Road Press.

All of our work is inspired and set (for the most part) in Wyoming. That's obvious in Jeffe's and Julianne's books, as "Wyoming" is right in the title. At least one of my stories is set in Colorado, and I ranged all the way to Florida for another. For her part, RoseMarie searched high and low for inappropriate men.

Find out more in Fort Collins July 20.