About Us
Our Authors aim is to breathe new life into the sensational old style Dime Novel. With a new slant making it more up to date, with longer, but still short stories. About exciting things that happened in the wild west, or could have happened, because of man's greed and their intolerance to other people and races.
Hatred for the native Americans, for no real reason, apart from the fear that had been scare mongered by people for their own selfish reasons. Stories true or not of what happened as they are only limited by your own imagination, when you envisage, what you are reading.
Short stories, fuel your imagination, far more than long drawn out novels. That's not to say novels don't have their own qualities. It just means that for some people they do not remember what happened a couple of chapters back. As they do not read the whole story in a short space of time, no matter how good it is.
"Westerns are not just for guys, when you get right down to it. It's good versus evil, it starts with a bad deed or two, to be avenged by the "good" guy. In the old time movies, the bad guys wore black hats, and the hero wore white, when he fought, his hat stayed on. If you prefer films to books, have a rethink. A film tells you what to think, and watch what is happening, but if you are reading what is happening, you can use your imagination to envisage it however you want, so it is up to you, how it looks to you. A chase can be looked at in different ways, depending on how you view it.
The good guys, sometimes come across as biased against the people they are chasing, who are not always all bad, some of them, are dragged along by a strong, violent leader, you have to decide the level of badness of each of the men, chasing and being chased. On film it becomes obvious, on paper it's your decision.
As you read the book, make up your own mind how you want it to end and decide whether the writer got it right or got it wrong."
Author, Alexander James
Our Mission
Western Shorts Publishing is committed to the art of storytelling in the Western genre, focusing on publishing short stories that resonate with readers. We believe in the power of narratives to connect, inspire, and transform, and strive to offer high-quality literature that honours this tradition.
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