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Showdown (Wyrd West Chronicles Book 1) Kindle Edition
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From "Showdown":
The Desperado spat. “You ain’t goin’ to start something you can’t finish, are you, boy?” he sneered in a cold rasping baritone. His eyes were darker than coal-black. No apprentice then; this man had sold his soul to Hell and leased it back at compound interest. “You’re so wet behind the ears I don’t reckon you can sprout a beard yet.”
Graeme turned his head just slightly so that the Desperado could get a glimpse of the pointed ear sticking out of his hair under his hat brim.
The Desperado’s eyes narrowed. “Fuckin’ faeries,” he growled, almost under his breath. “Well, guess I got no real idea how old you are. But you smell like children to me. Why don’t you go back to your farm and leave the grown-ups to do their business?”
Graeme thought about the Gunslinger this man had cut down. He could still hear the gurgle and wheeze of her struggle to breathe. He could smell the iron of her blood seeping into the dust.
“I don’t think so.”
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In Queenstown, an untried youth is the only one who can face down a notorious Desperado. But Graeme Walsh is not a Gunslinger: not yet. Will his training and his secret sorcerer's powers be enough to get the drop on the Outlaw, before the Outlaw gets the drop on him?
Welcome to the Wyrd West, a post-apocalyptic Canada where Western meets high fantasy and a dash of steampunk.
This is a serial of novelettes and novellas. A print collection of all six stories published so far will be available in May 2018.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateMarch 20, 2017
- File size931 KB
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- ASIN : B06XC85VJZ
- Publication date : March 20, 2017
- Language : English
- File size : 931 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 41 pages
- Lending : Enabled
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,934,278 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #805 in Western Science Fiction
- #1,470 in One-Hour Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Reads
- #3,094 in Steampunk Science Fiction (Kindle Store)
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About the author

Diane Morrison is a short and long-form fiction hybrid author and editor. She likes pickles and bluegrass, and hates talking about herself. An avid National Novel Writing Month participant and gaming geek, she is proudly Canadian and proudly LGBTQ. She manages the official SFWA YouTube channel, where she gets to interview some of her favourite authors and other interesting people in the SFF field. She's an Honorable Mention in the Writers of the Future competition and a student and teacher at the Rambo Academy for Wayward Writers. Under her pen name "Sable Aradia" she is a successful Pagan author, a musician, and a professional blogger. She lives with her partners and a three-legged rescue cat in Vernon, BC, where she was born and raised.
Twitter @SableAradia
Blog: http://www.dianemorrisonfiction.com
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Graeme and his sister Piper are in town on a family errand when they see a Gunslinger killed in a duel by a Desperado. Even though he’s only his Gunslinger father’s apprentice, Graeme challenges the killer. Showdown is the tale of Graeme and Piper’s backstory and the account of his first gunfight. It certainly blew me away!
My sister was a tomboy who grew up into an awesome veteran also qualified as an expert marksperson with a M16 machine gun. Piper, the kid sister who wants to take the Gunslinger’s path but has been forbidden, reminds me of her! Her share in the story has me most excited.
Go read Showdown. Then jump on facebook and join my club by tacking this onto the url “/groups/ShanesBookClub”. There will be a post of this serial waiting. Let’s talk!
I found myself wanting to know much more about the world the author has created. Though this is a quick read (being a novella), it is packed full of good characterization, a steady plot, and worldbuilding you can really sink your teeth into. I've already pre-ordered the next book in the series!
Dianne Morrison's Showdown is new territory for me. This could become a thing considering the successes of Westworld, Hell on Wheels and Deadwood. Myself, I'll need more world-building backstory to wrap my mind around an elf that can break onetwothreefourfivesix pigeonsjustlikethat a la Cumming's Buffalo Bill. But I'm not opposed to such a world.
I'll be reading the next book in this series.
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The author has seamlessly blended standard fantasy tropes (elves, gnomes, demons, holy power, sorcery, etc.) with elements from steampunk in a mixer of classic westerns. The result is bang on. This is top shelf writing with a beautiful vision. I'm totally gonna read the heck out of Diane Morrison's collected works.

