Marin Author K. Hamilton Releases Her First Contemporary Western Novel: Three Corner Rustlers

Marin author K. Hamilton has released her first novel, a contemporary Western titled Three Corner Rustlers (amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com). Inspired by true events, Hamilton skillfully combines the elements of a Classic Western with the 21st century. A book reading and signing will take place on Saturday, April 9th from 7pm – 8:30pm at Book Passage Corte Madera, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. This event is FREE and open to the public. Light snacks and refreshments will be served. For more information visit http://www.bookpassage.com/event

Hamilton, whose real name is Kim Vogee but writes under the pen name K. Hamilton as homage to her mother, conceived the idea for her first novel in 2009 after reading articles from the Bend, Oregon newspaper about cattle rustling by horseback in the vast ION country where Idaho, Oregon, and Nevada come together. Around that time she also saw the documentary The Wild Horse Redemption, by John Zaritsky, about a tempestuous mustang paired with an inmate.

“I started assembling a cast of favorite characters and decided the story of the inmate, who only got a moment with “his” horse, was unacceptable and worked him into my story,” said Hamilton. “I was also a fan of a TV show called “Moonlight,” and in my imagination, decided to picture the leading actor as one of my main characters. All these different people from all walks of life started coming together and this incredible story started to take shape.”

Hamilton wrote the original story as a screenplay but, with the help of a Book Passage instructor, eventually realized it belonged as a novel. Changing the 300+ page script into novel form consumed the next seven years of her life.

Wanting to experience the ION country for herself, Hamilton befriended a photographer who was an avid outdoorsman and had vast knowledge of the area. He gladly shared his knowledge and photography with Hamilton which allowed her to write more accurately about that open country. After fine-tuning her work with an editor and finding a publisher, Hamilton was finally ready to release her self-published labor of love in October of 2015 through Dark Planet Publishing. She is currently working on a sequel to Three Corner Rustlers and will be out in 2017.

About Three Corner Rustlers

Paths intersect and twist from Silicon Valley, to Colorado, to the wide-open spaces of the high desert of the Three Corner country of Oregon, Idaho, and Nevada. Three Corner Rustlers is a contemporary story featuring an estranged daughter, Carson, who is returning to her childhood home; C.J., an ex-con whose life is changed by an unusual mentor a wild mustang named Rio; plus a criminal network of cattle thieves, Federal agents, and a rancher whose livelihood is threatened. The journeys of these characters are woven together in this modern-day tale to surprising conclusions. http://www.amazon.com/The-Three-Corner-Rustlers-Hamilton/dp/1944163018

About K. Hamilton

Author K. Hamilton is a resident of Marin County, California. A successful small business owner, she has run her orthodontic dental lab there since 1984. Originally from the East Coast, her family encouraged her creative side with a good education and broad life experience.

Locally, she is an avid equestrian, an outspoken sustainable ranching advocate, a past president of the local Horse Council, a member of Novato Horseman’s Association, and a mentor in a program that helps recovering cancer patients through natural horsemanship. Her photographic accomplishments have won honorable mentions twice at the Marin County Fair and her photograph of a horse was a finalist in the 2014 Marin Magazine cover contest.

K. Hamilton has followed and admired the horsemanship of several incredible horsemen and women, the pillars that today’s clinicians stand on, and she credits their wisdom and her own mentors with helping to make her two youngest horses what they are today. She used this experiential working knowledge of horsemanship, combined it with real news stories of cattle rustling, and a story about a wild mustang and an inmate, then let her imagination create her first novel: a contemporary Western titled Three Corner Rustlers.

Choosing to write under a family name as a loving homage to her mother, K. Hamilton lives with her husband and their four horses on a small ranch in Novato, California. They enjoy a second home in Bend, Oregon. www.facebook.com/Three-Corner-Rustlers-1712852365614884/

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