My earliest jobs included frying chicken, mixing cow chips with peat moss, and stacking bags of manure. Not a cowboy or redneck (I'd consider either a compliment) but a small-town Texas kid. While most storytellers claim to be influenced by authors, my bards include country singers / legends Hank Williams Jr., Tanya Tucker, Charlie Daniels, Charley Pride, Charlie Rich, George Jones, George Strait, and Merle Haggard. At five years old, standing in a smoky juke-joint, I first heard Charley Pride’s Kiss and Angel Food Mornin’. Pride's lyrics became images in my head, like a movie, more stories than song. 

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My Red Dirt Road Novels embrace the rhythm of county music; while featuring Texas settings, iconic characters (that can only be from the Piney Woods), emotional gut punches, deep faith, plot twists, small town humor, and blue collar beauty.

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Jerked between two worlds, Baptist deacons and Sunday school / juke boxes and beer joints, I grew up a country boy who knows the cost of secrets.

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                      All glory to Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior 

Saved and imperfect

Tim Sojka

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