Overview

David Bowles used to be a marketer for whiskey but now spends his time writing great western books based on real past events. And maybe some whiskey sipping. His family has lived in Austin for five generations.

His series of books follows a family through multiple generations as they deal with the westward expansion and America changing.

Book

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TNPPZXW?binding=kindle_edition&searchxofy=true&qid=1664217895&sr=8-2&linkCode=ll2&tag=discoveredwordsmiths-20&linkId=f48c82d9de91dd1a77931dbbf8f01f08&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl

Website

https://westwardsagas.com/

Favorites

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https://www.cactusbookshop.com/

YouTube

Transcript

today on discovered wordsmith. I have David Boles, David. Good morning. How are you doing

today?

[00:03:20] David: Good morning. You Steve.

[00:03:21] Stephen: David before we talk about your book let's find out a little bit about you. So tell us where you live and some of the things you like to do other than writing.

[00:03:29] David: I'm presently living in San Antonio, Texas, been here for the last 14 months, but for the last six years my dog Beck and I have been traveling around the country in a a class, a motor coach telling stories and writing books.

And we're fixing to get on the road again. I've just purchased a new RV and we'll be heading out north to the Rockies here on Wednesday morning. Nice. But I'm originally from Austin. I was born in Austin, fifth generation to be born in Austin. And this is about as far as I ever moved away permanently to San Antonio.

And that was back in 1968 for hemisphere. Okay.

[00:04:06] Stephen: All right. You've been traveling. What are some nice areas you've been to or good sites you've seen?

[00:04:11] David: At 2000 and 17, we spent the summer in Alaska and Canada and that's the place for me and the thing. And I say one, my last Bookman trace.

I, they sat on there. My editor wanted to know what I wanted to say on the back of the book about where you live. And I said tell 'em I live in Texas in the wintertime and a summer anywhere summer or anywhere, but Texas. So Texas is a, is my home, but it's, I don't tend to live here in July and August.

[00:04:44] Stephen: Yeah. Not the most pleasant place that we could be at that time.

[00:04:48] David: Yeah, it's been really, it's been really hot, but we love the Rockies. We spend time I spent two summers in angel fire in New Mexico, and I did storytelling there at at the RV camp, in the RV resort in sold a lot of books up there by telling stories.

Nice.

[00:05:05] Stephen: Beautiful. All right. Why did you wanna start writing these books and what got you into

[00:05:10] David: writing? I always heard the stories my father told my grandparents told, and they really interested me and I came from a. A long line of porch setters. And that's what we had to do back when I was a kid, we didn't have air conditioning.

And so we always sat out on the front porch. Neighbors would drive down the lane. They would see us on the front porch and they'd stop by. And boy, they'd tell some stories. I started listening to these stories and they just kept going around in my head. Some of 'em were my family and some of 'em were just neighbors, but there were stories that I thought needed told, and until I could retire and have the time to write these stories, I couldn't, but I did a lot of research over 20 years of research and I have the stories down pretty well.

And I've got 'em in, I've written this westward saga series. And right now four books and it'll probably be another two books to finish it up, but it's the story of America moving west. Okay. So all the way to California.

[00:06:17] Stephen: So you took the that's a,