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Daynnell Middleton

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Explore relationships in the contemporary west with aspiring author Daynnell Middleton.

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The World of Daynnell Middletion

Stephen King once said the desert is an intense place filled with intense people. That should be expanded to the American West is an intense place filled with intense people.

Growing up in the backcountry of that intensity, she read the works of Edward Abbey, Larry McMurtry and others trying to capture the essential voice of western American culture.

Later in life she married into the mining industry and became fascinated by the stories she not only heard, but lived.

She now weaves them into fiction hoping to share with the world how the culture of the west is still very much alive and unique in the modern day.

Recently she found a lead on a forgotten part of mining history in Idaho and hopes to bring that history back into the light, examining the winners and losers of a battle long forgotten.

Daynnell Middleton lives in South Central Idaho with her husband, a master mine mechanic and her two sons.

When she is not writing, she can be found exploring Idaho and beyond with her bird dogs, always on the hunt for a new story to tell.

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Exit Oasis

Caught in an escalating cycle of violence and self destruction, Elsie Proulx abandons a charmed journalism career. Fleeing to the last place on earth anyone would look for her, she takes a job at a mine in remote Nevada.

Befriended by a violent miner with a murky past, she navigates the harsh and masculine world of underground mining, the last place she should be. In a tattered community on the edge the empty desert, she finds a future she never imagined.

But her past comes back to reclaim her in a final blow from which she may never recover.

Completed in August of 2023 and seeking publication, Exit Oasis is gritty tale of resilience and redemption.

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