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19 February 2024

Dude or Die by Lynn Downey Blog Tour! @WriterLynnD @cathiedunn @lynn.downey.historian @thecoffeepotbookclub @WesternHistoryGal @cathiedunn

 



Book Title:

Dude or Die


Series:

H Double Bar Dude Ranch series


Author:

Lynn Downey


Publication Date:

October 15, 2023


Publisher:

Pronghorn Press


Page Length:

328


Genre:
Historical Fiction


It’s 1954, and San Francisco writer Phoebe Kelley is enjoying the success of her first novel, Lady in the Desert. When Phoebe’s sister-in-law asks her to return to Tribulation, Arizona to help run the H Double Bar Dude Ranch, she doesn’t hesitate. There’s competition from a new dude ranch this year, so the H Double Bar puts on a rodeo featuring a trick rider with a mysterious past. When accidents begin to happen around the ranch, Phoebe jumps in to figure out why, and confronts an unexpected foe. And a man from her own past forces her to confront feelings long buried. Dude or Die is the second book in the award-winning H Double Bar Dude Ranch series. 


This title is available to read on #KindleUnlimited.


Universal Buy Link:

https://books2read.com/u/b5BVwp 



Lynn Downey is an award-winning novelist, short story writer, historian of the West, and native Californian.


She was the Historian for Levi Strauss & Co. in San Francisco for 25 years. Her adventures as ambassador for company history took her around the world, where she spoke to television audiences, magazine editors, and university students, appeared in numerous documentaries, and on The Oprah Winfrey Show. She wrote many books and articles about the history of the company and the jeans, and her biography, Levi Strauss: The Man Who Gave Blue Jeans to the World, won the Foreword Reviews silver INDIE award.


Lynn got interested in dude ranches during her time at Levi’s. Her debut historical novel, Dudes Rush In, is set on an Arizona dude ranch in the 1950s; Arizona because she’s a desert rat at heart, and the 1950s because the clothes were fabulous.


Dudes Rush In won a Will Rogers Medallion Award, and placed first in Arizona Historical Fiction at the New Mexico-Arizona book awards. The next book in this series, Dude or Die, was released in 2023. And just for fun, Lynn wrote a screenplay based on Dudes Rush In, which is currently making the rounds of reviewers and competitions.


She pens short stories, as well. “The Wind and the Widow” took Honorable Mention in the History Through Fiction story contest, and “Incident at the Circle H” was a Finalist for the Longhorn Prize from Saddlebag Dispatches. The story “Goldie Hawn at the Good Karma CafĂ©,” won second place in The LAURA Short Fiction contest from Women Writing the West, and is based on her experiences in a San Francisco religious cult in the 1970s. (That will be another book one of these days.)  


Lynn’s latest nonfiction book is American Dude Ranch: A Touch of the Cowboy and the Thrill of the West, a cultural history of the dude ranch. It was reviewed in The Wall Street Journal, True West, Cowgirl, and The Denver Post, and was a Finalist for the Next Generation INDIE Award in Nonfiction. Kirkus Reviews said the book is “…deeply engaging and balances accessible writing style with solid research.”


When she’s not writing, Lynn works as a consulting archivist and historian for museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and businesses. She is the past president of Women Writing the West, a member of the Western Writers of America, and is on numerous boards devoted to archives and historic preservation. 


Lynn lives in Sonoma, California, where she sometimes makes wine from the Pinot Noir grapes in her back yard vineyard.


Website:

https://www.lynndowney.com [My site is being redesigned and will be live in another week or so.


Tumblereads blog:

https://tumblereadsblog.com/blog-sg/


Twitter:

https://twitter.com/WriterLynnD


Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/lynndowney/


LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynn-downey-b82460249/


Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/lynn.downey.historian/


Bluesky:

https://bsky.app/profile/westernhistorygal.bsky.social


Pinterest:

https://www.pinterest.com/WesternHistoryGal/


Amazon Author Page:

https://www.amazon.com/stores/Lynn-Downey/author/B001IXQ2N2


 #DudeRanch #HistoricalFiction #WomensFiction #WesternWomen #BlogTour #TheCoffeePotBookClub 


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1 comment:

  1. Thank you so much for hosting Lynn Downey today, Kathleen.

    Take care,
    Cathie xo
    The Coffee Pot Book Club

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