The Moonshine Messiah, Russell’s debut novel, has been acquired by Shotgun Honey, the coolest indie crime publisher on the planet. Check out the official announcement here.
Some of the awards I’ve been honored to receive.
Russell’s first short story, Chung Ling Soo’s Greatest Trick, was published in Ellery Queen and won the Edgar Award’s Robert L. Fish prize.
“True Crime” a fictional retrospective on an honor killing in the West Virginia Coal FIelds, won the Pearl S. Buck Award for Writing for Social Change.
Russell’s upcoming novel, The Moonshine Messiah, won first prize for book length fiction at the West Virginia Writers Annual Writing Competition
Craig Johnson
author of the Walt Longmire series