Introducing a New Work of Fiction - Sage and Leather

This fall, Deanna Twedt will be returning with a new piece of literature she has been developing over the course of this past summer. This story is called Sage and Leather and will depict a cattle drive from Texas to Montana through the eyes of a fictional character named Evie Calloway.

The contents of this story are loosely inspired by Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove as well as the lore of the West that Twedt has grown up with. Most of what you will read is all imagined by Twedt or comes from the background knowledge she has acquired in her short twenty-one years.

Again, Sage and Leather will be published as a serialized novel as was done with Horseback Librarian. Twedt gained this printing idea from famous authors such as Charles Dickens, who published chapters of his novels in a newspaper once a month or per week.

Twedt invites you to look forward to this upcoming story and to enjoy it once it is published.

The story described above is an original piece produced and is still a work in progress by Deanna Twedt, an alumnus of Powder River County District High School and a current student at Black Hills State University in Spearfish, South Dakota.

Twedt is majoring in English with a minor in music. She plays the clarinet in the university’s student band, has her own college radio show called The Sage, has published a student journal for the college writing club Three Peaks Review, is interning in the campus archives, and works part time as a desk clerk in the college library.

Once graduated from BHSU she plans to become a published writer and dip her hands into something archive/library/bookstore related.