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CU Wasted Past

You’re here. This is the place. My home for information about the writing, the books and the promotion of anything that I’m fooling around with. Forgive the hype. Jeez, you can’t just MAKE something anymore, you have to go on the social media roadshow and hawk it and try to sound original and profound. Sorry. This is the best I can do.

I’m learning. About the tools to run this site and feeling my way through to achieve what I wish to expect and accepting what I can get by. We all have hopes in the beginning. I wanted a site that harkened back to PuNk rOcK in design and appeal. Take a look around. It’s not easy to get any look or theme. I wish I could just cut and paste with paper, glue and markers to achieve a fun end. I probably could get that effect at some point on a computer but I just don’t have the time to get into now. Those books gnawing to get out of my brain won’t get written while creating an online author’s website. So let’s see what I can do on my own now that I’m cut loose from the web company that set this place up.

Please bear with me. The fact that this site is up means progress is being made.

Thanks for stopping in here and for buying, and especially for, READING the first book, “WASTED.” I hope that you enjoyed it as much as I did writing it. Here’s what a very talented writer (and producer and director) said about the novel:

“WASTED” spins its tale with violent grit and surprising heart, but with no phony gestures of heroism or a lack of emotional reality.  It’s a hard tale about tough people and redemption, told damn well by Sam F. Park. Park is a new voice of the West and we should all give him a listen.”

—> C. Courtney Joyner is an American author, screenwriter and director.

Among the books Joyner has written are “Shotgun”, a western series set in the 1880s, “Six Guns and Sleigh Bells“ and “Two Bit Kill.” He is a regular columnist for “True West Magazine” and regularly contributes to “The Round-Up,” Western Writers of America’s monthly magazine. He has twice been nominated for the Peacemaker award for Best Short Story. At one of the Western Writers of America conferences, chairman Paul Andrew Hutton and Johnny Boggs presented Joyner with an award for “Outstanding Service to Western Writers of America”.

Along with the Western books Joyner has had over 30 screenplays produced and over 300 commentaries on DVDS of movies citing his cinema expertise. He’s highly respected in the Western fiction world and the film universe.