Two Authors to Talk About Their New Oregon Mysteries in Ashland

What is the difference between a game warden and a fish and wildlife ranger? In the case of mystery authors Dwight Holing and Paty Jager it is about five decades and two very different areas in Oregon.
Join Holing and Jager at Bloomsbury Books in Ashland, Oregon May 1 at 7:00 pm to discover the differences in their characters, settings, and time periods. They will also talk about the similarities between their series, one set in Harney County and the other in Wallowa County, and share secrets about writing mystery series.
Holing’s seventh book, The Demon Skin, in the Nick Drake Novels, is a thrilling whitewater adventure with an ancient demon, a sexy new boss, trouble at home, and murder.

Book number ten in Jager’s Gabriel Hawke Novels, Bear Stalker, has greed, misdirection, and murder as Hawke rushes to track his sister in the wilderness before she becomes the next victim.

Winner of the Arts & Letters Prize for Fiction, University of Oregon School of Journalism alum Dwight Holing draws on his deeply-rooted connection to the American West and understanding of the natural world cultivated over decades of reporting on wildlife and conservation issues to create the popular Nick Drake mystery series. In addition to his Jack McCoul mystery series, Holing is the author of award-winning short fiction and has written and edited nonfiction books on natural history and adventure travel. He and his wife live alongside a coastal river in California with two dogs who’d rather swim than walk.

Paty Jager grew up in Wallowa County and later lived over thirty years in Deschutes County before moving to Harney County. She is an award-winning author who belongs to a multitude of writing groups and was a member of the Central Oregon Writers Guild when she lived in Central Oregon. All her work has Western or Native American elements in them along with hints of humor and engaging characters. Riding horses and battling rattlesnakes, she not only writes the western lifestyle, she lives it. Her series include the Shandra Higheagle Mysteries, Spotted Pony Casino Mysteries, and Gabriel Hawke Novels.

Dwight Holing and Paty Jager are available for interviews. Please contact them at dwight@dwightholing.com and patyjag@gmail.com.