Tucson Festival of Books | Janelle Molony

Janelle Molony (She/Her)

Janelle Molony, M.S.L. is an avid family historian who features incredible women from the past in her critically acclaimed nonfictions. While researching her family’s Oregon Trail story, she discovered one of the largest Civil War engagements in the West! Her latest, "Emigrant Tales of the Platte River Raids," was awarded the WILLA Award for scholarly nonfiction and the GOLD award for U.S. History books by the American Writing Awards (among many others). Her most recent discoveries have been printed in pages of the Tombstone Epitaph and will soon appear on the cover of the Wild West History Association’s prestigious journal.

Molony is a member of the Western Writers of America, Western Association of Women Historians, Women Writing the West and the Oregon-California Trails Association. She hosts the interview series, Women of Wyoming: Then & Now, a special project of the Wyoming Historical Society and of the State Parks & Cultural Resources. Her lively storytelling and vibrant video content has earned her the official moniker as the Hottie Historian.

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Scheduled events:

Lynn Downey

Dude or Die (2023, Pronghorn Press). It’s 1954, and San Francisco writer Phoebe Kelley is enjoying the success of her first novel, Lady in the Desert. When her sister-in-law asks her to return to Tribulation, Arizona to help run the H Double Bar Dude Ranch, Phoebe doesn’t hesitate. There’s competition from a new dude ranch this year, so the H Double Bar puts on a rodeo featuring a trick rider with a mysterious past. When accidents begin to happen around the ranch, Phoebe jumps in to figure out why, and confronts an unexpected foe. Dude or Die is the second book in Lynn Downey’s award-winning H Double Bar Dude Ranch series.

Hottie Historian Collective, Booth #185 (Seats 1)
Sat, Mar 15, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
History / Biography

Author: Lynn Downey

Indie Authors ~ Adult Fiction and Nonfiction

Indie Authors - Adult Fiction and Nonfiction (Seats 18)

Sun, Mar 16, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm

Authors: Patricia Boomsma, Bonnie Callahan, Paul Crews, Joe Egan, Ann Evans, Ellen Fisher, GK Jurrens, Cassie Leonard, Lezlee Liljenberg, Angela Rose and Mary Kane, Patricia McNair, Janelle Molony, Karla Morton, Sandra Richmond, Susan Rukeyser, Kenneth Strange, Nancy Nau Sullivan, Ashley Sweeney, J. B. Velasquez, Michael Woudenberg

Janelle Molony

Emigrant Tales of the Platte River Raids (M Press Publishing, 2023). One of the largest Civil War engagements in the West ft. the now-legendary families of Wyatt Earp, Johnny Ringo, John Brown and Daniel Boone... as told primarily by women's trail diaries, letters and reminiscences and corroborated by military accounts. Winner of the Women Writing the West's WILLA Award for Scholarly Nonfiction and the American Writing Awards' GOLD recipient for books on U.S. History.

Hottie Historian Collective, Booth #185 (Seats 1)
Sun, Mar 16, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
History / Biography

Author: Janelle Molony

Jane Little Botkin

The Pink Dress: A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen (2024, She Writes Press). A pink, rose-covered gown--a Guyrex creation--symbolizes the fairy tale life that young women in Jane's time imagined beauty queens had. The Pink Dress isn't a beautiful walk down memory lane.

Hottie Historian Collective, Booth #185 (Seats 1)
Sun, Mar 16, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
History / Biography

Author: Jane Botkin

Book:

Emigrant Tales of the Platte River Raids

History / Biography
M Press Publishing
December 2023
ISBN 9781734463873
544 pages