R. S. BELCHER won the Grand Prize in the Strange New Worlds SF writing contest. He has been an award-winning newspaper and magazine editor and reporter, and the author of The Six-Gun Tarot.
"""Really engrossing.... If you love complex, fantastical worlds, this is very intriguing!"" --Felicia Day, writer, producer, and star of The Guild on The Six-Gun Tarot ""A jaw-dropping first novel that explodes across genre lines. Wild, gritty, insanely inventive and a hell of a lot of fun!"" --Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author on The Six-Gun Tarot ""In The Six-Gun Tarot, author R.S. Belcher has crafted the perfect novel. Blending themes of fantasy, western, romance, and action, there is nothing missing from this brilliant story."" --Portland Book Review on The Six-Gun Tarot ""The Six-Gun Tarot, a strong first novel by R.S. Belcher, features a genre mix that's very much in vogue these days: the dark and twisted western . . . Belcher takes to it like a natural. He jumps right in!"" --Locus on The Six-Gun Tarot ""If you want to see what Weird Westerns are all about, there's no better place to start than The Six-Gun Tarot."" --Mike Resnick, award-wining author of Santiago on The Six-Gun Tarot ""Part western, part urban fantasy, part coming-of-age tale, Belcher's story balances all pieces perfectly."" --RT Book Reviews (four stars) on The Six-Gun Tarot ""An astonishing blend of first-rate steampunk fantasy and Western adventure."" --Library Journal, starred review on The Six-Gun Tarot"