C.J. Box's Blog, page 2

As I write this piece in my office above our barn in Wyoming, I realize I’m wearing a CINCH shirt and jeans and I didn’t even plan on it. It’s just what I wear. 

Many of you might be familiar with my novels including the Joe Pickett series. Joe is a Wyoming game warden who lives with his growing family in the fictional town of Saddlestring located in the Bighorn Mountains. There are seventeen books in the series and I’m working on The Disappeared – the 18th – right now.

Read the full blog here.

C.J. Box has done it again – PARADISE VALLEY is #4 on the New York Times hardcover fiction list! And it’s heading up lists across the country – read on for more:

PARADISE VALLEY’s #4 spot makes it the highest-charting installment in the Highway Quartet, just barely edging out BADLANDS, which peaked at #5 on the NYT list.

It’s also #5 on the Publishers Weekly list, #6 on the Barnes & Noble list, #8 on the Wall Street Journal list, and #10 on the USA Today list!

VICIOUS CIRCLE, the 17th Joe Pickett novel, debuted at #2 on the New York Times Bestseller List for hardcover fiction on March 9, 2017.  Early sales for VICIOUS CIRCLE were 50% higher than the previous book in the series.

We humbly thank all of our readers for this accomplishment. 

...Since 1953, Western Writers of America has promoted and honored the best in Western literature with the annual Spur Awards, selected by panels of judges. Awards, for material published last year, are given for works whose inspiration, image and literary excellence best represent the reality and spirit of the American West...

...New York Times best-selling mystery writer C.J. Box picked up his first Spur. Previously honored with the Edgar Alan Poe Award from Mystery Writers of America in 2009, the Western Heritage Wrangler Award from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 2016, and countless other awards, Box won in the Contemporary Western Novel for Off the Grid, one of his popular novels about Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett. Box’s first novel in that series, Open Season, was a Spur finalist in 2002.

Details here: http://westernwriters.org/2017/03/wwa...

His answer is what you’d imagine it to be.  (Special thanks to Producer Duane Patterson and the Hugh Hewitt Show for the excerpt.)