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We wish everyone a most joyous and wonderful Thanksgiving filled with fine food, superb drink, and the heartiest of fellowship. For us, we just wanted all of you to know that we are supremely thankful for our readers. All of you who have purchased our books over the years have allowed us to do what we enjoy doing best: writing novels about peoples and places, exploring new ideas, and sharing some of our wonder about the world around us. To each and every one of you who has helped to allow us this magical pursuit, thank you and bless you.

Hi All, We just put the ranch up for sale: http://www.farmandranch.com/property/plenty-of-privacy-plenty-of-water-red-canyon-ranch. No, we’re not getting out of the buffalo business, just looking for a little smaller place that’s easier to take care with our other careers. The buffalo will go with us wherever we end up. We’d never trust anyone else to give Pia her dose of meloxicam when her arthritis is really acting up, like it is on this gorgeous, snowy, Wyoming day. We have several older buffalo who have special needs. One of our cows is 23 years old, and another is 20. We’ll take care of them until their natural end. Happy upcoming Thanksgiving! Mike and Kathy

Hi All, At Thrillerfest last July, Kathy participated in an interview with Zachary Petit of Writer’s Digest. The article, “The Power of Pairs: A Roundtable,” is in the January, 2014, issue of Writer’s Digest. Special thanks to Zachary Petit. It’s not easy sifting through the ramblings of four writers who are all talking to him as well as amongst themselves! Great job, Zach. Anyone interested in how to co-author a book, please read this article. We think you’ll enjoy it! Mike and Kathy

We’re finishing up the page proofs for the new trade edition of THE MORNING RIVER, which Tor/Forge Books will be releasing in May. It will be followed by COYOTE SUMMER, also coming in trade format. It’s been fifteen years since we’ve read THE MORNING RIVER, and it’s a curious delight to go back and spend time with Richard, Travis, and Willow again. What a charming story. We’re reminded about why Tor/Forge submitted THE MORNING RIVER for both the Pulitzer and National Book Award competitions. There’s never been anything quite like it in American letters. From the perspective of a decade and a half, Travis Hartman remains one of our most beloved characters for his wit, wisdom, and soul-deep grit. Richard continues to be a long-shot for survival, and Heals Like A Willow–the Dukurika Shoshoni woman taken slave by the Pawnee called Packrat–takes a superlative revenge on her captor. Over time we’ve forgotten many of the twists and turns. We catch ourselves laughing aloud at Richard’s pratfalls and Hartman’s acerbic comments. What a delightful way to become reacquainted. If you haven’t read THE MORNING RIVER in awhile, pull it off your shelf, settle back, and rediscover the delight!

In the run up to PEOPLE OF THE MORNING STAR we’ve just finished and delivered a 15,000 word novella entitled “Copper Falcon” to our publisher at Tor/Forge Books. The novella is set just months before the opening of PEOPLE OF THE MORNING STAR. Set in AD 1050, the story is about a young war chief and his father, leaders of Copper Falcon town, a Cahokian settlement on the Tennessee River. For Flint Knife, the arrival at Cahokia is mind-boggling. Raised as he was in the hinterlands, the sheer size and scope of Cahokia is beyond comprehension. His father, Red Mask, however, knows Cahokia all too well. His interest in another lord’s wife led to his divorce and banishment from the city over thirty years earlier–and returning in violation of an exile ordered by the Morning Star is a death offense. The plan is simple: Get in, plead for a squadron of warriors to be dispatched by Red Mask’s relatives in Horned Serpent House, and get out before anyone is the wiser. But in the seething stew of Cahokian politics, Horned Serpent House is vulnerable, and the Keeper of the Four Winds Clan sees not only an opportunity to put Horned Serpent House in its place, but a chance to pay back an old betrayal. Before Flint Knife can catch his breath, he and Red Mask are cast into a political maelstrom from which they will be lucky to escape with their lives, let alone with a precious sculpted copper falcon that would be worth a chief ransom in trade… Copper Falcon is coming soon in e-format for most electronic readers.