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Lucia's email:  looshr@aol.com

(photo by Elaine Nash)   

The house of Comanche leader Quanah Parker still stands near Cache, Oklahoma. Lucia relaxed on the porch during the powwow there in June. Twenty-seven years ago her first book, Ride the Wind was published. Now in its 26th printing, WIND is a fictionalized account of Cynthia Ann Parker, her son Quanah, and their people, the Nermunu or Comanches. For photos of a drum circle concert the last day of the powwow Click here.

News:
Lucia's story, "A Chance of a Ghost," is included in the Twilight Zone, Anthology, published 50 years after the first broadcast. A review is posted here.
An audio recording of Ride the Wind is in the works from Books In Motion. According to someone at BIM, the reader keeps crying and has to stop to regain composure. She says she's never gotten so emotionally involved with a book before. That's as good an excuse for a delay as any.
 Last Train from Cuernavaca, Lucia's latest novel, is available for preorder.  An excerpt has been posted.
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  Lucia's Essay: The Etiquette of Ashes

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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 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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Oops! This toucan escaped from Lucia's jungle.

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