TCU Press

04/09/2025

03/28/2025

TCU Press' own Seth Horton!

Make plans to join us next Friday evening for an exciting author event with TCU Press. D. Seth Horton will be here reading from his book, On a NASA Flight to Heaven. “Set throughout the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, the stories in On a NASA Flight to Heaven explore the various ways in which the border fractures traditional narratives.

Standing between North American and Latin American literary traditions, these stories are highly speculative in their approach. In ‘The Gospel According to Gabriel,’ a man and the incarnation of his God together confront their own limitations on the streets of Tijuana. A fake historical document about a nonexistent, nineteenth-century religious text centers ‘Gertrudis Guzmán’s The Great, Great Book of the Republic of Beautiful Deserts.’ And in ‘On a NASA Flight to Heaven,’ the daughter of a cartel boss escapes her fate on the back of what might or might not be a hallucinated fantasy. By consistently blurring together the genres of fiction and nonfiction, and by furthermore resisting all gestures towards completeness and finality, this collection of stories offers a completely novel interpretation of the borderlands.”

The fun begins at 5:00, and includes cocktails. We look forward to seeing you there.

TCU Press

03/17/2025

Congratulations TCU Press author Catherine O'Connor, winner of TWO Spur Awards from Western Writers of America. A double award has happened only once in the history of this contest, which began in 1953.

https://westernwriters.org/western-writers-of-america-announces-2025-spur-award-winners-and-finalists/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2Xsy6phTiFrjE38dm7VaPADD8nLFs6BKAnKR6XqSN1__wwDhHjMfdJ_48_aem_8xtJlWqQS-qmptfMZbi72g

TUCSON, Arizona – Four-time Academy Award-nominated actor Viggo Mortensen is receiving Western Writers of America’s Spur Award for Best Western Drama Script for The Dead Don’t Hurt, a film in which he also starred, directed, produced, and wrote the musical score. Winners and finalists were ann...

03/17/2025

Congratulations from your friends at TCU Press!

AWARD NEWS—My novel “The Big Dry” has just been named a finalist for the 2025 Spur Award of Western Writers of America (WWA).
Finalists will be honored at an awards luncheon at the WWA convention in Amarillo, Texas in June.
“The Big Dry” is a standalone sequel to my novel “The Big Drift,” which received the 2015 Spur Award. I’m humbled that both novels have been recognized in this prestigious national competition.
My thanks to WWA and to TCU Press, which published both books.
“The Big Dry” is set against the backdrop of a devastating drought in Texas in the 1880s. Zeke Boles, a black cowhand, awaits hanging in North Texas for a murder he didn’t commit. His white friend Will Brite, with whom he rode in the Big Drift blizzard and roundup, has exhausted virtually all avenues to get Zeke exonerated. Will’s only hope is to set out for the faraway Devils River to find the actual culprit, a man with a missing finger.
But Will has his own legal issues. He has married a young woman of mixed race who often passes for white, and a grand jury is sure to return an indictment of miscegenation that could land Will in prison.
Two of my previous novels have also been Spur finalists: "Grizzly Moon" in 2024, and "When Cowboys Die" in 1995.
"The Big Dry" is available in trade paperback, large print, and ebook.
Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/Big-Dry-Novel-Patrick-Dearen/dp/0875658873/
Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Big-Dry-Novel-Patrick-Dearen-ebook/dp/B0DJ5R34DP/
Large print: https://www.gale.com/thorndike/9781420520873/the-big-dry-a-novel