MORE FROM WOLF CREEK

If you have been following the Wolf Creek series you may have noticed that Clay More is one of the authors writing under the Ford Fargo house name, for the Western Fictioneers Library.

We have great delight in announcing that two anthologies are out now for Christmas. These are books 9 and 10 of the series. They feature six separate stories in each book. Each writer has woven a story around his character.

Clay More's story THE SPIRIT OF HOGMANAY is the penultimate one in O DEADLY NIGHT   - book 10

So come on over and enjoy the Christmas offerings! I'm sure you'll have some fun.

Book 9 A WOLF CREEK CHRISTMAS

“The Last Free Trapper”                     Jory Sherman

“A Savior is Born”                                 Meg Mims

“That Time of Year”                             Jerry Guin

“‘Twas the Fight before Christmas”   Jacquie Rogers

“A Kiowa Christmas Gift”                 Troy D. Smith

“Renewal of Faith”                             James J. Griffin

Book 10: O DEADLY NIGHT

“Sarah’s Christmas Miracle”        Big Jim Williams

“Irish Christmas at Wolf Creek”   Charlie Steel

“A Home for Christmas”               Cheryl Pierson

"The Angel Tree"                            Chuck Tyrell

“The Spirit of Hogmanay”             Clay More

“O Deadly Night”                            Troy D. Smith

ROLL THOSE DICE - a mental magic dice trick for you

If you have been following the Wolf Creek series of books written under the house name of Ford Fargo and published by Western Fictioneers Library you may have seen that I write the character of Doctor Logan Munro, the town doctor.When I heard that Giovanni Gelati at High Noon Press was looking out for new western characters I was keen to send a new character off on an adventure. But I decided he wouldn't be a medical doctor this time. I was fooling around with some dice on my desk as I thought about this and suddenly, Doc Marcus Quigley popped into my mind.

Marcus Quigley is an itinerant dentist, gambler and sometime bounty hunter. He is on a quest to find the killer of an old friend. His first adventure was DEAD IN THE SADDLE, and each short story ebook takes you a little further along the trail. But each episode is a mystery and things are never quite what they seem.

In The SHOOTER, for example (a play on the name of a shooter in the game of craps) he performs a dice trick. He is an expert on dice. And just so that you can demonstrate that you too are a dice mechanic, here is a little mental magic trick for you to amaze your friends and family.

Ask him or her to roll all three dice. You then ask him or her to do few simple pieces of arithmetic without showing you the dice, but then you  instantly reveal the numbers they rolled.

Method – ask them to use the pad and pencil. Ask them to:

·      multiply the number on the first die by 2                 [12]

·      add 5 to this total                                                     [17]

·      multiply this total by 5                                             [85]

·      add the number of the second die to this total          [87]

·      multiply by 10                                                        [870]

·      add the third die number to this total                      [875]

·      subtract 125 from this total                                     [750]

Secret – Ask them their total. You then simply subtract 125 from that total and you get a three digit number. Each number will represent one number of the dice they rolled, in the correct order.

With the dice I rolled in the photograph as an example,  6, 2 and 5, you will see the calculations in brackets beside each step. So you subtract 125 from that to get 625 and you reveal the dice as “six, two and five.”

Then take a bow!