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Last Thursday's show with writer Wes Rand in the studio was a lot of fun for all. An interesting and terrific guy, Wes is the writer and creator of the western series featuring Evil Stryker. His latest book, Payback is Hell, is an outstanding example of modern western writing with a twist. Tune in and give a listen!

Join us as we talk about writing, westerns, violence, and loss with author Wes Rand.

Join us as we talk about writing, westerns, violence, and loss with author Wes Rand.

The Wild West with Wes Rand

Out with his newest book “Payback is Hell” the 3rd book of the Evil Stryker Series, welcome Mr. Scott Johnson better known as Wes Rand. We dive into his inspiration for the book, how to get started writing if you are a future writer and what it is about writing that is self soothing for him. You can find all of his books on Amazon and Barnes &amp; Noble under his pen name, Wes Rand. If you would like to reach out to him to potential work with him in the future, he can best be contacted by email: neville7stryker@yahoo.com

Out with his newest book “Payback is Hell” the 3rd book of the Evil Stryker Series, welcome Mr. Scott Johnson better known as Wes Rand. We dive into his inspiration for the book, how to get started writing if you are a future writer and what it is about writing that is self soothing for him. You can find all of his books on Amazon and Barnes &amp; Noble under his pen name, Wes Rand. If you would like to reach out to him to potential work with him in the future, he can best be contacted by email: neville7stryker@yahoo.com

EP14 Author: Wes Rand

Awhile back, guest Wes Rand (pen name) realized that aside from novels like the Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, there was a shortage of decent Conservative fiction out there. He also has a passion for western novels and was looking to write something gritty and real — less like Roy Rogers and more like Quentin Tarantino! Enter Evil Stryker – a mean antihero not unlike Clint Eastwood’s characters from those fantastic old Spaghetti Westerns!  evilstryker.com: Once a respected Army officer and then, a successful investment banker, Stryker is now a man on the run from a murder he DID commit, justified or not. Proficient with gun and blade, he reacts to aggression with deadly efficiency, and desperate viciousness-much like a perpetually wounded animal fighting for survival. His adversaries seldom get a second chance. Most occupy graves. Weather and usage have worn letters from the stamped name, “MAJOR NEVILLE STRYKER” on the saddle skirt. Many say what remains is more fitting-“EVIL STRYKER.” This character comes to a wild west town where rampant Communism plays out to an extreme. It’s a sort of morality play not unlike Animal Farm  (well, in my opinion at least). Wes read Ayn Rand’s Objectivism while stationed in the US in the armed forces back in the Vietnam War and it moulded his sense of morality and ethics. We’ll talk about Libertarianism and how that might fit in with the books along with western books in general and how the bottom sort of fell out of the genre in the 1970s and then again later on. To make it in this genre you probably need something edgy and Wes’ books are gritty as hell. Wes has three books released so far (https://bit.ly/2rcOO7s) Left To Die Ambushed and left for dead on the trail, Neville Stryker stumbles into town looking for his stolen horse. He also stumbles into a deadly political war being waged in the town of egalitaria. Formally named Bickford, it has been taken over by a murderous gang and the town’s leading citizen, Morgan Bickford, the female protagonist, persuades Stryker to aide her cause.  (https://bit.ly/2JK6myQ) Cross Cut Stryker takes on the logging industry and worker unrest in the Big Basin area of coastal California. He’s hired to protect a “steam donkey”, it’s owner, and the owner’s two beautiful nieces. (https://bit.ly/2w0ysUx) Payback Is Hell Hearst hires Stryker and his guns to collect on a poker debt. (https://bit.ly/2Ktz9J2)     Special thanks goes to friend of the show and previous guest, Tim Chizmar, who suggested Wes be on the show! If you liked the promo for Fat Girl Chronicles, check out the podcast: https://bit.ly/2GhIKDD Special thanks as always to the Fantastic Plastics for the theme music. https://thefantasticplastics.bandcamp.com/ Time For The Show: http://hypercubelaboratory.com/timefortheshow/ Free Think Radio Network: http://www.freethinkradio.com/ If you suspect you’re a SubGenius yeti, do check out the Church of the SubGenius at: http://subgenius.com

Awhile back, guest Wes Rand (pen name) realized that aside from novels like the Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, there was a shortage of decent Conservative fiction out there. He also has a passion for western novels and was looking to write something gritty and real — less like Roy Rogers and more like Quentin Tarantino! Enter Evil Stryker – a mean antihero not unlike Clint Eastwood’s characters from those fantastic old Spaghetti Westerns! <a href="http://evilstryker.com/index.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">evilstryker.com:</a> <blockquote>Once a respected Army officer and then, a successful investment banker, Stryker is now a man on the run from a murder he DID commit, justified or not. Proficient with gun and blade, he reacts to aggression with deadly efficiency, and desperate viciousness-much like a perpetually wounded animal fighting for survival. His adversaries seldom get a second chance. Most occupy graves. Weather and usage have worn letters from the stamped name, “MAJOR NEVILLE STRYKER” on the saddle skirt. Many say what remains is more fitting-“EVIL STRYKER.”</blockquote> This character comes to a wild west town where rampant Communism plays out to an extreme. It’s a sort of morality play not unlike Animal Farm  (well, in my opinion at least). Wes read Ayn Rand’s Objectivism while stationed in the US in the armed forces back in the Vietnam War and it moulded his sense of morality and ethics. We’ll talk about Libertarianism and how that might fit in with the books along with western books in general and how the bottom sort of fell out of the genre in the 1970s and then again later on. To make it in this genre you probably need something edgy and Wes’ books are gritty as hell. Wes has three books released so far (<a href="https://bit.ly/2rcOO7s" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/2rcOO7s</a>) <h2>Left To Die</h2> Ambushed and left for dead on the trail, Neville Stryker stumbles into town looking for his stolen horse. He also stumbles into a deadly political war being waged in the town of egalitaria. Formally named Bickford, it has been taken over by a murderous gang and the town’s leading citizen, Morgan Bickford, the female protagonist, persuades Stryker to aide her cause.  (<a href="https://bit.ly/2JK6myQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/2JK6myQ</a>) <h2>Cross Cut</h2> Stryker takes on the logging industry and worker unrest in the Big Basin area of coastal California. He’s hired to protect a “steam donkey”, it’s owner, and the owner’s two beautiful nieces. (<a href="https://bit.ly/2w0ysUx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/2w0ysUx</a>) <h2>Payback Is Hell</h2> Hearst hires Stryker and his guns to collect on a poker debt. (<a href="https://bit.ly/2Ktz9J2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/2Ktz9J2</a>) Special thanks goes to friend of the show and previous guest, Tim Chizmar, who suggested Wes be on the show! If you liked the promo for Fat Girl Chronicles, check out the podcast: <a href="https://bit.ly/2GhIKDD" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/2GhIKDD</a> Special thanks as always to the Fantastic Plastics for the theme music. <a href="https://thefantasticplastics.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://thefantasticplastics.bandcamp.com/</a> Time For The Show: <a href="http://hypercubelaboratory.com/timefortheshow/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://hypercubelaboratory.com/timefortheshow/</a> Free Think Radio Network: <a href="http://www.freethinkradio.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.freethinkradio.com/</a> If you suspect you’re a SubGenius yeti, do check out the Church of the SubGenius at: <a href="http://subgenius.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://subgenius.com</a>