Lucia St. Clair Robson, historical novelist

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Lucia's email:  looshr@aol.com

"Few novelists working now have a better grasp of early American history than Robson ...Wholly believable, confidently realized, attention-holding historical fiction."  
         
-- Kirkus Reviews of Shadow Patriots: A Novel of the Revolution 

For audio editions of Lucia's books, go to:
Click To Books In Motion Homepage

Audio editions of Ride the Wind and Walk in My Soul, volumes 1 and 2, and Brian Daley's Doomfarers of Coramonde are available on CD and as a download from Books in Motion. www.booksinmotion.com  and at www.audiblebooks.com 

If you're on Facebook, check out Lucia's friends' page under Lucia Robson, and the fan page under Lucia St. Clair Robson.

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. 

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Brian Daley's website:  Five of Brian's novels, Doomfarers, Starfollowers, Requiem for a Ruler of Worlds, Jinx on a Terran Inheritance, and Fall of the White Ship Avatar are back in print and available at Amazon.com.

 
Lucia St. Clair Robson, historical novelist. Photo by Doug Coulson

See Lucia's bio that's not on book jackets for some tales of her Peace Corps adventures along with photos.

Last Train from Cuernavaca (Paperback cover) by Lucia St. Clair RobsonNews:  

 Blue arrow-right The magazine, Chesapeake Taste, features a piece by Lucia in the May issue. 

Blue arrow-right The paperback edition of  Last Train from Cuernavaca isnow a available in bookstores, at Amazon.com, and all other on-line retail book sites

Blue arrow-right  The reissue of Walk in My Soul can be found at Barnes and Noble: click here: BARNES & NOBLE | walk in my soul and on Amazon.com.   It also can be ordered, prepaid, from your local bookstore.

Blue arrow-right Lucia's friend, videographer Keith Murphy, has posted the third short video of her talking about how she became a writer.  Click here: My dead and imaginary friends. - YouTube

Blue arrow-right The hardback edition of the 50th anniversary Twilight Zone Anthology, which includes a short story by Lucia is out of print. If you'd like to purchase a signed copy from Lucia, e-mail her at looshr@aol.com.  A review is posted here.

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All of Lucia's books are now available as ebooks at Amazon and Barnes and Noble.  Six of Brian's titles are also available as ebooks.  (For German speakers, six of Lucia's novels translated into Deutsch are now on Kindle).

Blue arrow-right Western Writers of America has named Last Train from Cuernavaca as winner of the 2011 Spur Award for Best Western Long Novel. Postcards from Cuernavaca provide images matched with quotes from Last Train.

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Marc Steiner aired a lengthy interview with Lucia that can be heard on-line. Thank you, Marc!  Click here:  The Marc Steiner Show

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"Powerful writer, uncompromising historical novelist, great researcher."
  --Award-winning Western author, Johnny D. Boggs 

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 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 20th century.  Since then she has written  Walk in My Soul, Light a Distant Fire, The Tokaido Road, Mary's LandFearless, Ghost Warrior: Lozen of the Apaches (finalist for the 2003 Spur award), and Shadow Patriots, a Novel of the Revolution. Western Writers of America awarded her latest novel, Last Train from Cuernavaca, the 2011 Spur for Best Western Long Novel.

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"Thank you so much for talking with our book club today (via speaker phone).  I can't tell you how much it meant to all of us.   This is the first time we have had an author interact with us and your insight into this wonderful story (Tokaido Road ) was greatly appreciated." 
        --A California book club

Note:  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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