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What I did, I offered JC a book, actually Western, but Western readers, I believe, will
Boot Hill Valley, and I needed to rewrite enjoy it as well.
that manuscript anyway and I’d been
Interviewer: Where do you get your ideas
putting it off and putting it off. And I
from, though? It seems like you’re all over
decided to go ahead and finish it and send
the place with your ideas. It seems like they
it off to Outlaws and wanted to see what
just come to you.
he’d do with it. Well, it just so happens that
in the first month he earned me more R.G. Yoho: That would probably be the best
money for one book than I was earning with answer for it. I mean, I’d love to give you
seven books with another publisher. It was some great answer, but the truth is they do
at that point I was pretty well certain that I just come to me. I’ve got three or four
needed to go a different route, and so I more… I write a series about a character
bought my way out of a contract. That’s a named Kellen Malone from the Death
long story there, but now all my books are Comes to Redhawk; and I’ve probably got
with Outlaws. three or four more sequels in my head right
now. I’ve just gotta find time to get to
Interviewer: Interesting.
paper. It’s hard to do when you work a full
R.G. Yoho: Actually, they’re being re- time job as well. But probably a lot of other
released a little bit at a time so I don’t have people have that problem, but I don’t think
all my Westerns out there yet, but they’re a lot of them turn out books consistently
coming. while working a full time job. Most of them
don’t try that.
Interviewer: How many Westerns are
there? Interviewer: Do you find that you enjoy
Western books by your contemporaries at
R.G. Yoho: Ah, there’s six. I actually wrote a
the moment, you know the Paul
book called Return to Matewan that
Thompsons. The Wayne Winkles. Do you
involves the coal mine wars in the town, in
read those books?
West Virginia, which took place in the early
1920’s. And the truth is, it’s not real R.G. Yoho: I’ve read several books by
different than a Western. In fact there’s a people who are published by Outlaws. I
western connection to it because the plan to probably read some more. In a lot of
Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency, which is ways, I try to stay away from Westerns
involved in intimidating coal miners at that sometimes just because I don’t want to be
time, was also involved in the Ludlow influenced by the stories I read. But I read
massacre out in Colorado. So there’s a great one by one of Outlaws’ authors just
connection between them and West recently. Actually the guy sent it to me, and
Virginia. And that book is technically not a
