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Charles F Price

Academic Publishing: Notes from a Recovering Novelist

When I decided to alter my life's course from that of a scrubbed and well-shaven Washington lobbyist in a three-piece suit and wingtips to that of a raffish, pony-tailed author immured on a mountainside in western North Carolina, it was my intention to write historical fiction. And for the first few years that’s what I did. Then I encountered a riveting true-life tale out of nineteenth-century Colorado that I first tried and failed to capture in a novel before deciding might require treatment as straight history.

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Charles F. Price

Novelist-turned-historian Charles F. Price was a full-time writer from North Carolina. The author of five previous five novels, Season of Terror is his first nonfiction book.

Season of Terror

The Espinosas in Central Colorado, March-October 1863

University Press of Colorado University of Alaska Press Utah State University Press University of Wyoming Press