Books and design
For the catalog of fiction from Richard Sutton and W.T. Durand, including Back to Santa Fe, On Parson's Creek, and Packrat: A New Mexico Story, see In the Works & Out.
The contact page of Saille Tales Books serves as a simple clearinghouse for readers, contributors, and fellow travelers of the writing life. Correspondence about the books, the writing blog, or design work for indie authors and small presses is welcomed here, and the layout keeps everything close at hand with generous spacing and clear callouts. Whether you want to ask about a particular title, share a reaction to a story, or explore collaboration on covers and production work, this is the place to begin. Thoughtful, well-measured messages tend to receive the best replies.
Behind the pages are two names in the world of fiction and publishing: Richard Sutton and W.T. Durand, whose work spans literary tales, series, and the practical craft of getting books into readers' hands. The site functions as a showcase for interested readers, gathering blog posts, news, excerpts, images, and commentary on a wide range of subjects. Contact is one thread in that larger tapestry, connecting the general public with the people who write, edit, design, and produce the finished volumes.
Some of the strongest material on the site comes from the blog, where posts on writing, publishing, marketing, and indie trade share space with observations on music, culture, family life, and local folk memory. Titles recur — heroes at a ford, a cordless heavy shovel, a red machine, a juniper pipe — and readers often respond to the human details rather than the grand plot. If you would rather stay close to the daily rhythm of the studio than browse the shelves, the writing blog is the better place to spend time.
Design work for independent authors and small presses forms a third pillar of the project, with covers, print and ebook presentation, and press considerations treated as part of the same conversation as the fiction itself. Readers who arrive with questions about agents, resources, and the realities of producing books find that practical side acknowledged rather than hidden. Correspondence is straightforward and friendly, and the invitation remains open to anyone who has read a passage and wants to say so.
