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Vicky J. Rose, Author

AKA V.J. Rose and Easy Jackson

“Texas writer Easy Jackson is a natural storyteller!” Stuart Rosebrook, Editor, True West magazine

Vicky J. Rose, Author

My books and short stories can be found under the names of V. J. Rose and Easy Jackson, just depending on what publisher I'm writing for. I try my hand at script-writing occasionally and have one in particular I'd like to film.

"Vicky - you do turn a colorful phrase!" - C. Courtney Joyner, director, screenwriter, and author.


RIDERS UNDER A BLOODY MOON By V. J. RoseRiders Under a Bloody Moon

RIDERS is the sequel to HELL WEST OF THE PECOS, but it can be read as a standalone novel. In it, Dud is again saddled with his Uncle Ponder, a lovable, grouchy, gringo who is always fussing at him.

"After making a small fortune selling longhorns in West Texas and New Mexico, Dudford Washburn, along with his Uncle Ponder and a motley crew of drovers, is chased all the way back to San Antonio by resentful West Texas ranchers, greedy bandits, marauding Comanche, and angry Apache who want to steal his gold, horses, and guns. Dud is driven to survive by two things—to see that his men make it home alive and to kill the man who stole his wife. A beautiful rescued Indian captive and three orphans unwittingly help Dud find his way amidst a backdrop of feuding relatives, raw young cowboys, and a landscape so harsh, death stalks at every turn."

A Facebook review of RIDERS UNDER A BLOODY MOON by rancher and politician Tom G. Glass

“Having grown up in West Texas and having driven the places you have your characters cross made this book especially meaningful to me. The book had an incredible ring of authenticity.

I can't think of a single thing in the book that seemed unrealistic. You captured the zeitgeist of that period of history with incredibly realistic and fascinating characters. The characterizations were superb. The plot was awesome. The writing crisp and engaging.

It was a compelling action adventure accomplished by what seemed to be real human beings with all the eccentricities and foibles that humans have.

It was a story about heroic, courageous, tough-when-need-be, but kind-when-appropriate action.

Hell West of the Pecos western novelHELL WEST OF THE PECOS By V. J. Rose

"A broke Texas rancher risks all to drive longhorns through the wilds of West Texas to sell to the government in New Mexico, but he's hindered by the feuding relatives and green cowboys he is forced to hire as drovers."

Dudford Washburn and his drovers follow the Lower Military Road from San Antonio to El Paso. Historically, this route was used by men selling cattle to the gold miners in California before the war. After the Civil War, a few drovers took it into New Mexico, but not nearly on the scale as Dud Washburn and did not suffer as many tribulations. (Although stagecoaches on this route caught hell.)

Amazon is advertising it as a "Classic Western" which basically means it reads like a John Wayne movie.



In this Six-Gun Justice podcast, interviewer Richard Prosch has me talking about growing up in what was once one of the wildest old west towns in Texas, my books, and the movie I hope to one day film, Lost Pines.

Six-Gun Justice Vicky Rose

WRMA Book SigningBLOOD EPIPHANY, a short story appearing in UNDER WESTERN STARS won the silver medal for the Will Rogers Medallion Awards. Cowtown is a fun place. The 2021 WRMA event was great, and I had a blast at the book signings down in the stockyards. I enjoyed meeting Red Steagall, who puts on the yearly Cowboy Gathering at the same time.
Red Steagall Vicky J Rose aka Easy Jackson









Muskrat Hill Western Fictioneers Award


I love Muskrat Hill, and I'm glad somebody else liked it, too. Thank you, Western Fictioneers!

Available Now! MUSKRAT HILL, a book dear to my heart.

Stranded in a tiny Texas hotel, Giselle Thibodeaux sees Kit Robertson, a fading country music star from her hometown. Overwhelmed with nostalgia, and hoping Kit might have answers to the secrets surrounding her parents, Giselle pretends to be a reporter seeking a story about his father, Pope Robertson, a one-time famous Texas Ranger in the 1800s. Although he doesn't recognize her, Kit is drawn to Giselle and opens up about the grisly murders that shook the small western town they grew up in.

Kit tells the story of playing near the river when he and his best friend, Whitey, stumble upon the body of a mutilated young woman. As they race to town, they meet Asa Jenkins, the town's half white, half Comanche, marshal. Asa begs Kit's father, a former ranger, to help him solve the murder. Resentful that his father is so old, Kit and Whitey nonetheless assist Pope and Asa as they struggle to uncover a killer who strikes again and again. Before the murders are solved, Kit feels a new admiration for his father, and Whitey finds a role model to help him overcome a dreadful home life. Together, they learn compassion, tolerance, and courage they never dreamed of.

Kit unwittingly reveals to Giselle the heartbreaking circumstances surrounding her birth. And Giselle discovers the real truth she's been looking for.    

Muskrat Hill


My goal of producing a script into a feature length film has been put on hold. (Producer dba Jingle-Bob Productions LLC)  

Instead, I found myself producing a reenactment shootout for my hometown's 150th anniversary. "Putting on a Reenactment" is the story of that experience.
Bose Heffington Shootout

On YouTube: BLOOD IN THE STREETS


At the Will Rogers Medallion Award Ceremony 2019:

Will Rogers Medallion Award Ceremony True West magazine Vicky J. Rose

 


RIDERS UNDER A BLOODY Riders Under a Bloody MoonMOON


After selling longhorns in West Texas and New Mexico, Dudford Washburn, along with his Uncle Ponder and a motley crew of drovers, is chased all the way back to San Antonio by resentful West Texas ranchers, greedy bandits, marauding Comanche,and angry Apache who want to steal his gold, horses, and guns. Dud is driven to survive by two things—to see that his men make it home alive and to kill the man who stole his wife.


Hell West of the Pecos a western novelHELL WEST OF THE PECOS

A broke Texas rancher risks all to drive longhorns through the wilds of West Texas to sell to the government in New Mexico, but he's hindered by the feuding relatives and green cowboys he is forced to hire as drovers.


A Bad Place to Die


A Will Rogers Medallion Award Winner  

Will Rogers Medallion Award

Tennessee Smith arrives in Texas as a reluctant mail-order bride. When her husband dies on their wedding night, she's left with three little hellion stepsons. The town's elite tell her she's lost the ranch, and her only recourse is to become the town's marshal. Tennie thinks they are joking - but it becomes apparent it's either accept their offer or send the boys to an orphanage, because no one else wants them. And no one else wants the job of town marshal of Ring Bit, the most hell-raising town in Texas.

A two-book series:

A BAD PLACE TO DIE

A Season in Hell








A SEASON IN HELL

True West Magazine Best New Western Author








2018 True West Best New Western Author


"You've got a delightfully tart approach."  Patsy Ziegler, lecturer in print journalism at Sam Houston State University and former reporter for the Dallas Morning News.

Treasure Hunt in Tie TownRancher Dud Washburn misses the excitement of the old cattle drives. He and his Uncle Ponder are slipping into grouchy bachelorhood. Dud worries that his handsome nephews might have as rotten luck with wives as he and Ponder have had. His left and Ponder's keeps dying on him. When Dud finds a treasure map, he uses it to as an excuse for adventure, taking along his two hopeful nephews and dragging Ponder kicking and complaining with them.

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TREASURE HUNT IN TIE TOWN

Testimony the novelToni is an 18-year-old harboring a secret while doing everything she can to hold body and soul together for herself and Rocky, her grandfather. They descend on an old family friend at his West Texas ranch for the summer. Jack is retired, and his life contains even more secrets than Toni's, and one that could tear them apart.

A May-December romance - it's raunchier than my other novels and not for hard-headed realists with a feminist bend. Only read it if you are a born romantic - then you'll love it.

TESTIMONY

SHORT STORIES

Six Gun Justice Anthology

DULCIE'S REWARD

Seventeen-year-old Dulcie inherits a ranch with three hundred head of cattle. Desperate to get her longhorns to the new market in Abilene, she leaves home in search of a trail boss.  

Published in SIX GUN JUSTICE PODCAST - WESTERN STORIES

BLOOUnder Western StarsD EPIPHANY -  Resentful he has lost everyone in his life except an old uncle he fights with, a rancher hits bottom, where he finds a new direction in life and a greater appreciation of what he has left.

A WILL ROGERS MEDALLION AWARD WINNER

BLOOD will rogers medallion awardEPIPHANY is published in Under Western Stars

A Sweet Talking Man in the Untamed West AnthologyA SWEET TALKING MAN - A sassy stagecoach station owner fights off outlaws with the help of a testy, grumpy stranger.

A WILL ROGERS MEDALLION AWARD WINNER

Will Rogers Medallion Award

A SWEET TALKING MAN is published in THE UNTAMED WEST

A Promise Broken, A Promise Kept short storyA PROMISE BROKEN, A PROMISE KEPT

A WWA SPUR FINALIST

A woman accused of murder in the Old West is defended by an unlikely stranger.

A PROMISE BROKEN, A PROMISE KEPT is available as a Wolfpack e-story or in the A Promise Broken, A Promise Kept, Broken Promises AnthologyBROKEN PROMISES anthology.



"You have a lot of talent." - Michael L. Blackman, 33-year veteran reporter and editor in Philadelphia, Fort Worth, and New York.

To contact me and your favorite other western writers, see the author page of the Western Writers of America. Or use my Easy Jackson Contact page.facebook