Frank Roderus wrote his first story—it was a western—when he was five. It was really awful, as might be expected, but his mother kept that typed and spell-checked short story tucked away until the day she died. Later, Frank became a newspaper reporter, thinking that books are written by authors which he most assuredly was not. He kept trying to write though, and eventually did it wrong enough to learn how to get it right. That first sale, a young adult novel published by Independence Press, was more than thirty years and a good many books ago. As a journalist, the Colorado Press Association awarded Frank Roderus their highest award, the Sweepstakes Award, for the best news story of 1980, and the Western Writers of America has twice named Frank recipient of their prestigious Spur Award. Frank passed away at age 73 in December 2015.
Series
Books
Texas Double-Cross
1992
Nightwalker 8
A Post-Apocalyptic Western Adventure
2020
Nightwalker #4
2019
The Keystone Kid
1978
Heller
The Complete Thriller Series
2020
Nightwalker #6
2019
Stillwater Smith
1986
Reaching Colorado
1984
Trooper Donovan
2000
The Coyote Crossing
1985
Rafe
2010
Christian Western Showcase
2019
Legends of the Gun
Five Classic Western Novels
2015
Felicity
2013
Jason Evers
His Own Story
1980
The 33 Brand
1977
Billy Ray And The Good News
1987
The Turn-Out Man
1985
Billy Ray's Forty Days
1989
Nightwalker #2
2015
The Name Is Hart
2014
Western Fiction Ten Pack
Ten Full-Length Classic Westerns
2016
The Purgatory River
1997
Nightwalker #3
2019
The Dead Heat
1985
Before I Die
2012
Old Marsden
1999
Trapped!
2014
Lewisville Flats
2002
Nightwalker Book One
2015
Duster
1977
Journey to Utah
1977
Siege
2003
Old Kyle's Boy
1981
Charlie and the Sir
1988
Leaving Kansas
1983
The Ballad of Bryan Drayne
1987
The Video Vandal
1984
Harlan
2009
Home to Texas
2013
Hayseed
1998
The Cowboy Way
2015
Cowboy
1981
Judgment Day
2004
Left to Die
2000
The Outsider
1996
Morgan
2014
Bowen & Baile
2012
The Oil Rig
1984
J.A. Whitford and the Great California Gold Hunt
1990
Hell Creek Cabin
1979
The Rain Rustlers
1984
Potter's Fields
1996
The Best of Frank Roderus
2019
Nightwalker 7
2020
The Wrangler
2005
Finding Nevada
1985
Mustang Wars
2013
