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ISBN: 1599956896
Pub. Date: June 2007
ONE STEP OVER THE BORDER, June 2007 release, Center Street\/Hachette Books Group USA<\/p>\n
CONTACT INFO: Stephen Bly, P.O. Box 157, Winchester, Idaho, 83555
e-mail: sjbly@christianwritersguild.com, fax: 1-208-924-7303
websites: http:\/\/www.blybooks.com\/, http:\/\/www.onestepovertheborder.com\/<\/p>\n
Tell us a little bit about yourself\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n I\u2019m a pastor, a mayor, an antique Winchester gun collector and a writer. I\u2019m also a fan of Jimmy Buffet music. What do these diverse avocations have to do with each other? In every field I want to grow as a person . . . push myself and my skills . . . my understanding . . . my spirit. I\u2019m not a sit-around-and-let-life-come-to-me kinda guy. I want to dive in and change things for the better, if I can. I write a lot of fiction books, all from a Christian world view. Being pastor helps me stay focused. I\u2019m mayor of a town of 308 in the mountains of Idaho, on the Nez Perce Indian Reservation. That keeps me very western. And I collect old Winchester rifles, which reflects my love of historical accuracy. And Jimmy Buffet music? Hey, there\u2019s not a whole lot of difference between a pirate and an outlaw.<\/p>\n Why do you write about the West?<\/strong> <\/p>\n I write about the West (historic or modern) from the inside. Born and raised on western ranches, I have both the heart and mind to describe things as they really were . . and are. There are those who think the frontier has long passed and with it the \u2018code of the west.\u2019 The truth is, both are still around . . . and it\u2019s fun to show that in a contemporary story. The West is so big, so diverse, so enchanting it\u2019s a thrill to write about it in any era. <\/p>\n Tell us about your book.<\/strong> <\/p>\n Here\u2019s a blurb on my newest book, One Step Over The Border . . . How would you describe the \u2018most likely\u2019 reader? Or what \u2018felt need\u2019 does this book meet? <\/strong><\/p>\n While the book will appeal to both men and women, I believe, by sheer numbers more women will read it, especially country gals with cowboy-on-their-mind kind of hearts. While people often talk of women looking for knights on white horses, many gals have at one time longed for a tried-and-true cowboy on any color of horse. So this tale has that kind of appeal. Plus, the drive to find that one person, the one you can\u2019t forget, lingers in the mind of all romantics. Where is your book available?<\/strong><\/p>\n One Step Over The Border is available as of June 12, 2007, through your local quality bookstore, your favorite online book supplier, or you can order an autographed copy through http:\/\/www.blybooks.com\/ I’ve enjoyed this interview!<\/strong><\/p>\n Cecelia Dowdy <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here’s an interview with Christian author Stephen Bly! Leave a comment and you’re automatically entered to win a free book! Check back within the next week or so when I post the winner! PaperbackISBN: 1599956896Pub. Date: June 2007ONE STEP OVER THE BORDER, June 2007 release, Center Street\/Hachette Books Group USA CONTACT INFO: Stephen Bly, P.O. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-interviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paovYP-hO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
It\u2019s a romp. A road adventure. It\u2019s a buddy story with romantic comedy. Some call it CowboyLit. Rodeo cowboy Hap Bowman\u2019s on a search for Juanita, the gal of his dreams, whom he hasn\u2019t seen in 18 years. He seems stuck on 12-years-old and the enchanting girl he met then.
An idiot obsession,\u201d his roping partner, Laramie Majors, chides.
But Laramie agrees to a final summer\u2019s trek along the Rio Grande. If they don\u2019t find Juanita during those months, Hap promises to drop the idea of the hunt for the mystery senorita. But if they find her, will she feel the same as Hap does about their years ago interlude?
In One Step Over The Border the time tested values of cowboys rub up against contemporary mores. It\u2019s a crazy story that becomes more logical as the reader delves deeper into it. It will make you laugh and shed a tear or two. I hope you\u2019ll find some new life-long friends in Hap and Laramie, like I have, and that they make you think about your own \u2018idiot obsessions\u2019 in a fresh, fun way. Have I ever had one? Are you kidding? Being a full-time fiction writer is an idiot obsession all its own. Most people have the good sense to avoid such an occupation.
Getting back to Hap\u2019s pursuit . . . don\u2019t we all have someone in the past, that we knew for only a short while, that we wish we could have known better, longer? I know I have. So when Hap and Laramie ventured out on a quest for Hap\u2019s Juanita, I decided to invite others to go along too. Folks have been e-mailing Hap hapandlaramie@yahoo.com and asking for their own \u201cJuanita Search Kits.\u201d They get a bumper sticker, magnet, bookmark, stickers, flyers, etc. It\u2019s a whole packet of material that will equip anyone to join the fun of finding the Juanita with \u201cthe mark of God.\u201d If they send Hap a picture of the places where they stuck their Juanita signs, they\u2019ll receive a free copy of the book. It\u2019s all there on the website at http:\/\/www.onestepovertheborder.com\/ . . . .<\/p>\n
And we all have a desire to find the \u2018right\u2019 person who will share the ups and downs of life, to be searched for and found, or to complete something we promised ourselves long ago. We also really want to do the right thing, even if no one knows it. That drive often makes us take a stand against pesky odds. This story\u2019s also about friendship, being there through all the struggles and mistakes and quirkiness. In that way, it\u2019s a satisfying and yet surprising story.<\/p>\n
And there\u2019s a very special feature on http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/. . . some more adventures about Hap and Laramie that did NOT appear in the book, can be found on AmazonShorts in the story entitled, Aim Low, Shoot High. <\/p>\n
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