List Of Writers

WATKINS, RON

Ron Watkins was born in 1930 and educated at Leominster Grammar School. Much of his working life was with the Library Department of the then Rhondda Borough Council and Mid Glamorgan County Council and he became a Fellow of the Library Association. He has had 21 novels published plus three others which have been accepted for publication, largely in the genres of detective and western fiction. He spent ten years as a reader for a major London publisher and read over a thousand manuscripts in that capacity. Ron was President of Bridgend Writers Circle for many years and a regular contributor to Writing Magazine. He is also interested in playwriting; his latest play, Sextet, was performed at the Phoenix Theatre in Ton Pentre. He has run an advanced Welsh class called Magu Hyder and a Creative Writing class for Cardiff University’s Department of Lifelong Learning. He lives in Treorchy.

Selected Publications:
Death Draws the Curtain (Hale, 1973)
Make Haste to Die (Hale, 1976)
No Useless Coffin (Hale, 1976)
Sinner Takes All (Hale, 1976)
Lowry’s Revenge (Black Horse Western Series) (Robert Hale, 1996)
Showdown in Hawkesville (Black Horse Western Series) (Robert Hale, 1996)
Guns Over Adamsville (Black Horse Western Series) (Robert Hale, 1997)
Texan Bounty Hunter (Black Horse Western Series) (Robert Hale, 1997)
Gunsmoke Over Eden (Black Horse Western Series) (Robert Hale, 1999)
Mountain Guns (Black Horse Western Series) (Robert Hale, 1999)
Ambush Valley (Black Horse Western Series) (Robert Hale, 2000)
Stagecoach to Damnation (Black Horse Western) (Robert Hale, 2001)
Remember the Alamo (Black Horse Western) (Robert Hale, 2002)
Sharpshooters for Hire (Robert Hale, 2002)
A Bullet for the Preacher (Black Horse Western Series) (Robert Hale, 2003)
Sharpshooters Go West (Black Horse Western) (Robert Hale, 2004)
Limos Outlaws (Black Horse Western Series) (Robert Hale, 2005)
Bounty Hunter’s Revenge (Linford Western Library) (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, 2006)
Sharpshooters and the Rainman (Robert Hale, 2006)