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Lucia's email:  looshr@aol.com

Lucia at Inn Cuernavaca, where she stayed in 2008 while researching Last Train From Cuernavaca. From here she could walk to the main plaza where the hotel she wrote about still stands.  It would have been impossible to describe the beauty of Cuernavaca's green gorges and cascading waterfalls without going there to see them. For more about Inn Cuernavaca go to: http://www.yourhostinncuernavaca.com/

News:

An on-line text interview is posted at: Time-tripping Through the West: Lucia St. Clair Robson on Writing the West « Booklife

An interview with Marc Steiner aired on WEAA, 88.9-FM, Baltimore. At the website click on mss062410_seg3.mp3.

An audio edition of Walk in My Soul, volumes 1 and 2, are available on CD and as a download from Books in Motion. Here's their announcement. Ride the Wind as audio is also at www.booksinmotion.com  and at www.audiblebooks.com 

Lucia's story, "A Chance of a Ghost," is included in the Twilight Zone, Anthology . A review is posted here . Click here to order a copy  A reader had this to say:  "...heartwarming with the perfect touch of disturbing."
 
Western literature lost one of its best when Elmer Kelton died August 22, 2009.  A link to a video of Lucia & Elmer at the 2006 Book fest in DC. 

Brian Daley's website:  Brian's first two novels, Doomfarers of Coramonde and Starfollowers of Coramonde are back in print and available at Amazon.com.

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Lucia's official bio:
(But Click here for one that won't 
be found on any book jacket.)

Lucia was born in Baltimore, Maryland and raised in South Florida.  She has been a Peace Corps volunteer in Venezuela and a teacher in Brooklyn, New York.  She has also lived in Japan, South Carolina and southern Arizona.  After earning her master's degree in Library Science at Florida State University, she worked as a public librarian in Annapolis, Maryland.  She now lives near Annapolis.  The Western Writers of America awarded her first book, Ride the Wind, the Golden Spur Award for best historical western of 1982; it also made the New York Times Best Seller List and was included in the 100 best westerns of the 20^th century.  Since then she has written  Walk in My Soul, Light a Distant Fire, The Tokaido Road, Mary's Land, Fearless, Ghost Warrior: Lozen of the Apaches (finalist for the 2003 Golden Spur), and Shadow Patriots, a Novel of the Revolution. Her latest novel, Last Train from Cuernavaca, will be published in the spring of 2010.

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Note: Please don't judge Lucia's books by their (sometimes) misleading covers.  Love and passion are certainly found in Lucia's stories, but most of them aren't for the squeamish.  As  reader/author Gayle Pruitt wrote in an e-mail, "Just wanted to say thank you for the many hours of education and bloody entertainment your books provide.  I enjoy them immensely."

 "Robson's period details are vivid: one can almost feel the hot brass of the cannon and the hunger of the poor Mexicans and smell the Army mules and their drivers. Sarah herself has no mean gift for daily conversation and lyrical expression. With its tough-and-tender Amazon lifted from the history books, this tall tale towers in appeal and skill over most western historicals." --Publishers Weekly on Fearless)

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