Frank F. Carden
As a youth, Frank F. Carden spent time on a three-windmill ranch and in the oil fields of west Texas. He’s picked cotton and housed tobacco in Kentucky, worked on a shrimper in the Gulf, and served three years overseas in the Navy’s Submarine Service. He received his PhD from Oklahoma State University and taught at New Mexico State University.
Carden’s short stories have appeared in Serape: An Anthology of New Mexico Authors, Writers Without Borders, Kaleidoscope, The Rambler. The Prostitutes of Post Office Street was his first novel.
The Prostitutes of Post Office Street
Post Office Street drops its readers into the red-light district of Galveston, where crooked cops and down-on-their-luck prostitutes dwell. Yet, in this seedy part of town, Carden paints a picture of hope as his main characters seek to break free from the ruts that their lives have fallen into. A 2007 selection in Sol Books Prose Series.
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Billy Bonney aka The Kid
1875, Silver City, New Mexico Territory. When sixteen-year-old Wilma is attacked by the local deputy sheriff, she draws on him. In the eyes of the law, it doesn’t matter that she was defending herself. Now on the run, she grabs some of her brother’s old clothes and changes her name to William—Billy for short—with the last name of her step-dad in New York. Billy Bonney rides into the history books, a gunslinger with twenty-two notches on a colt forty-one, a legend, even during her short life.
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Praise for FRank F. Carden
“No one choose prostitution as their long term career goal. The Prostitutes of Post Office Street is the story of getting out of the rut that falling into the depths of a seedy part of town in a seedy career with a seedy life takes you. A story of overcoming the odds life shoves in front of you and making the most of one’s time, The Prostitutes of Post Office Street is grade-A reading for any reader seeking a story of rising up.”
Midwest Book Review
“A complex and memorable introduction to a place where people live on terms that are strange to us, at first, and then less strange. And finally, marvelously compelling.”
Kevin McIlvoy
author of Little Peg and The Fifth Station
“Raw. Passionate. Tender. Vulnerable. Carden slips you into the hidden and wonderfully personal stories of these women and those close to them.”
Mari Ulmer
author of Midnight at the Camposanto and Cart of Death