The New Short Story Anthologies Just Keep Coming!

Featuring DLC-penned The Legend Of Katie Dollar, about a low-rent Bonnie & Clyde running from the law in depression-era Arizona, SHATTERED DREAMS includes plenty of lively short stories guaranteed to evoke some memories and maybe tickle a few emotions.

http://www.amazon.com/Shattered-Dreams-Neil-Leckman/dp/1617061549/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_2

Getting Those Short Stories Out There Is A LOT Of Fun!

ANOTHER NEW PRINT ANTHOLOGY FEATURES A DLC SHORT STORY!

This is fun!

http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Stories-Western-Style-Alexander/dp/1617061786/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_12

New TWIT PUBLISHING Presents PULP! short story anthology features a DLC short story

A new short story anthology from Twit Publishing is now available at all the usual online outlets.

Featuring the delightfully ghostly western The Ugly Man’s Gold, by D.L. Chance, PULP! Winter/Spring 2012 is easily among the best of the acclaimed series so far.

It’s just a lot of fun!

New Anthology Featuring A DLC Short Story Now Available

Hey, Heroes & Heretics, a new print anthology featuring my short story An Offering For Sister Rachael, has just been released by Pulp Empire!

And apparently, according to the publishers, I’m one of “…the most talented new stars of pulp…” fiction.

Not bad!

Heroes & Heretics is now available at Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/Heroes-Heretics-Pulp-Empire-ebook/dp/B006N9W78A/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_4).

Hope you like it!

DINNER IN TOWN

   It's almost impossible nowadays to imagine what life was like for the simple, hardworking people who chose to make their living on the wide-open and sparsely populated prairies of the American West, where next-door neighbors might be as close as ten miles away, or as distant as twice that. It made them . . . different.

   And it often made them old before they saw old age coming.
   Dinner In Town is about Whit and Ona Mae Willins, an elderly Texas panhandle ranching couple who have lived in the same place for more years than they can clearly remember. When Ona Mae begins feeling the years, and starts noticing unusual yearnings to for a little change in her unchanging existence, she talks Whit into taking a day off and going into town to do nothing in particular.
   Whit reluctantly agrees, which is just the beginning of Ona Mae's problems.
   My first short story to be published, Dinner In Town is based on a story my dad told me about the time his aunt and uncle walked all the way into town from their South Carolina farm, and had their first meal in a cafe. They survived, too.  
   Dinner In Town was picked up by a regional Texas literary magazine called WFLAR (Wichita Falls Literary and Arts Review), and it paid me $125. Not bad!
 

DLChance.net is UP AND RUNNING!

My official website, DLChance.net, is now online and ready for visitors.  I would be honored if you'd drop by and check it out.  Thanks! 

http://www.dlchance.net/

"Line Shack Winter" submitted for a Spur Award!

I had several short stories published in 2011 that were eligible for submission to Western Writers of America for their prestigious Spur Award, but I decided to concentrate strictly on the story I liked best. Although I've written many stories and  books set in the American West of the 1800s, Line Shack Winter is the only one about actual cowboys and their work as ranch hands. Thanks to Carolyn and Jennifer at BooksToGoNow for publishing it. It's available for download at Barnes & Noble and Amazon, and priced cheap enough to provide a lively visit in the Old West for very little money.
http://www.amazon.com/Line-Shack-Winter-ebook/dp/B005QE9DWQ/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1

Author Interview for MISS ROSALIE AND THE PRIMROSE FOOL

 Interview With

D. L. Chance

 by

Katherine Pym

1)  As someone in the entertainment business, you must travel.  Is there a place your heart calls home?

Because it is the first place I knew, the lush Deep South countryside will always hold a very special place in my makeup. But for now, and the foreseeable future, I’m content to live and work mainly in North Texas.

2)  Tell us more about D L Chance.

D.L. Chance is the brash, ambitious, determined, hard-headed extrovert who takes the natural God-given talents, potential and goals of the more introverted Don Chance and brings them to life.

3)  How long have you been writing? 

I’ve enjoyed writing ever since I learned how to line up words in correct rows as a small child. But, even though I wrote hundreds of songs and poems before, I didn’t get serious about writing until 1996, when I wrote my first short Western novel (61,000 words) from start to finish. It took off from there.

4)  How do you develop your characters? 

I just use people I’ve known over the years and in the various places I’ve lived and worked. I might tweak a few individual characteristics here and there for more flavor, but they’re basically just real folks I’ve taken and put into situations with other folks I’ve come across in my time.

5)  What is your genre or genres?  If you have more than one, which do you prefer?

My favorites are Westerns and Science Fiction. I’m equally okay with either the past or the future; anything that takes me away from the relentless present for awhile.

6)   Looking at your title, it sounds like a song.  I almost want to sing.  How does your background in music influence your writings?

Good songs have a certain flow, a certain internal consistency; and I like to get those aspects in my prose. And I want to entertain readers through my novels and short stories the same way I entertain audiences with a song. If I can take them somewhere else, out of their ordinary lives, for awhile – whether it’s with a song or a story – then I’m content that I’ve done my job.

7)  Tell us a little about your new novel Miss Rosalie And The Primrose Fool.

The story is set in the tiny ranching village of Melrose, New Mexico, where my dad was a church pastor for a year when I was a kid, and it includes several actual events that happened there that year. But the relationship between the principal characters is more like the decades-long courtship between my Aunt Patsy and Bill (who was as much family as anyone else officially married into the Chance clan), the man she finally married a few years before she passed away. 

8)  Where do you write your stories?  Are you tucked away in a quiet nook, or elsewhere?

My wife, Sharon (Sharon Galligar Chance, also a writer and prolific book reviewer), and I have desks sitting face-to-face in our home office, and it’s nice to occasionally catch each other’s eye over the top of our monitors while we’re working. We can also bounce ideas and phrases off each other that way, which makes our writing better.

9)  From all your experiences, have you found any certain truths that guide you through life?  Do you try to impart any wisdom in your stories?

The only truth I live by is the idea that my ultimate success or failure, no matter what I’m involved in, is entirely up to me. Failing is a lot easier than succeeding, but succeeding is a lot more fun – and I’m all about having fun! The only wisdom I pass along in my stories is whatever wisdom my characters impart from their point of view. It’s their story, after all, and I’m just the guy putting it down in words.

10)  Tell us something about your next project.

HENRY 401 is about a legendary gun from the Civil War – number 401 from a lot of 400 special-order Henry rifles – and how two modern-day antiquities experts are hired to search through history for it and maybe solve the mystery of its unlikely serial number; if they can survive the search.

LINE SHACK WINTER

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/line-shack-winter-dl-chance/1106017699?ean=2940013360761&itm=1&usri=d+l+chance


    I've written dozens of short stories and ten or so full-length novels set in the American West of the 1800s, but only one of those is an actual cowboy tale. And even then, it's just barely cowboyed-up.
    Line Shack Winter is about how Charlie Phipps, a dedicated aging loner who enjoys the solitude of working at a remote line shack near the mountainous summer pasture of a large Wyoming ranch, is roped into taking care of the foreman's annoying - and endlessly talking - teenage son during one particularly lively winter.
    If I may indulge in a little name-dropping for a moment, Larry McMurtry (who happens to live nearby and often shows up at the same kinds of functions I attend) once told me to write only the kinds of stories I like to read, because writing anything else is just a waste of talent and heart. It hasn't worked for me as well as it has for him, but taking his advice has been a lot more fun and personally rewarding for me than what I was doing; and I'm all about the fun.
    And so is Line Shack Winter.

HANNAH'S MIRACLES: A Christmas Fable

http://www.amazon.com/Hannahs-Miracle-ebook/dp/B004DI7O8G/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_3/180-2840490-7701736

    Having lived many years in the Colorado high country, where there wouldn't be any towns - or ghost towns - if it weren't for the gold and silver mining booms of the late 1800s, I've always been fascinated by the hardships people endured in those remote places in the hope that they could realize just part of their gold and silver dreams.
   Not all women who followed the miners to the various temporary diggings camps and boom towns were prostitutes, and not all prostitutes had hard lives. But when life was hard for the "soiled doves," it was incredibly hard; and the miracles it took to lessen the hardships came few and far between.
    But miracles did happen, even in the sad red light cribs where so many prostitutes plied their demeaning trade. They just might not look like miracles at first. 
    Hannah's Miracles: A Christmas Fable is about how miracles don't always turn out as expected.