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R Allen Chappell

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R Allen Chappell
R Allen Chappell

R. Allen Chappell grew-up amid the ethnic diversity of New Mexico where most of these stories are set. He grew up with the Navajo, went to school with and later worked alongside—forging enduring friendships along the way. "Those friendships became the inspiration for this series. My writing focuses on the people of the Four Corners region past and present. I tend not to romanticize my characters, preferring instead to paint them as I find them. They have much the same qualities, good and bad, as the rest of us."


Day of the Dead

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”

William Faulkner

William Faulkner

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Reading brings us unknown friends”

Honore de Balzac

Honore de Balzac

“When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.”

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

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