Dec. 12 - As I read the first moving paragraphs of the latest novel by promising Wyoming author and newspaperman Ron Franscell, it struck me.
Gifted writers are like literary marksmen.
They fire off the surest shots they can muster as they loose their pages. They take careful aim with emotional bullets, cleverly disguised as well-chosen words. His masterful storytelling strikes hard at the heart. It leaves his readers stunned one moment, and tenderly moved the next. His frightened hands were sticky with it.