Hamer’s Quest seems on the way to becoming a smash hit. Western novels are considered graveyard publications; that is, not many people read western novels.

Most first time novelist would avoid writing a western novel. What drew you to the western genre?

I am a romantic who is drawn toward the poetic. As a child I was fascinated by  Sir Walter Scott novels, Robin Hood legends, King Author sagas, and any tale of a knight and a lady fair. Western novels offer the same romantic themes: heroes and hypocrites; villains and plodders; distressed damsels and mysterious sweethearts; kisses and promises; twists and turns; poetic landscapes and all kinds of weather begging for description. In short, there’s simply not a more congenial plot for happily-ever-aftering than a western novel on Camelot.