Tonight is the book signing party for The Girl With Strawberry Hair! I’ll have copies to sell on site and I would love to meet you! Stick around and get a great cup of coffee and a pastry from Babylon Coffee while your hanging out!

Thanks to the amazing work by artist Erik Reeves (We did a spotlight on him a few days ago here) I now reveal the book cover for The Girl With Strawberry Hair!

I had always wanted the book to represent the “penny novels” that were written long ago, during the age of the Old West, and all of the covers, were, of course hand-drawn. The artwork comes courtesy of artist Erik Reeves, who does some great work! You can find more of his work here. The cover features two of the main characters Chris Tarver and Helen Miller, and one of the villains of this novel named Godfrey.

What’s it about?

A misfit bunch of friends comes together to right the injustices which exist in a small town.

Who’s in it?

What a cast! Scott Glenn, Kevin Kline, Rosanna Arquette, Brian Dennehy, Jeff Fahey, Kevin Costner, Danny Glover, Lynn Whitfield, Joe Seneca, John Cleese, Linda Hunt, Jeff Goldblum. Here we have Danny Glover an Mal, an expert with a Henry Rifle, who meets the rest of the good guys while returning to Silverado at the request of his mother, to help the family secure their home from the local cattle baron. What’s interesting here is how the film, as light as it is, has its most headiest story with Mal, and the racism that comes with a Black family owning their own land, and his sister, Rae, played by Lynn Whitfield, as a woman tired of the farm life and goes to work at the local saloon. What’s interesting here is that both brother and sister wanted to lead lives away from farm life, with interesting unintended consequences for those actions. Extra props to longtime actor Joe Seneca as the father Ezra. He wasn’t in the film long but left and impression. In a great, light western there was a serious story of a Black family trying to come back together. Glover, Whitfield and Seneca could have had their characters’ story told as a completely separate movie and it would’ve been great!

Where can I watch it?

You can watch streaming on HBO Max, Amazon Prime, and rent on Vudu, Youtube, Google Play and more.