C. Courtney Joyner
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C. Courtney Joyner | |
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| Born | United States |
| Occupations | Author, screenwriter, director, journalist, actor |
| Relatives | Allison Mackie (cousin) |
C. Courtney Joyner is an American author, screenwriter, director, journalist and actor. He is the cousin of actress Allison Mackie.
Among the books he has written are Shotgun, a western set in the 1880s,[1] Six Guns and Sleigh Bells and Two Bit Kill. He is a regular columnist for True West Magazine and regularly contributes to The Round-Up, Western Writers of America's monthly magazine. He has twice been nominated for the Peacemaker award for Best Short Story.[2] At one of the Western Writers of America conferences, chairman Paul Andrew Hutton and Johnny Boggs presented Joyner with an award for "Outstanding Service to Western Writers of America".[3]
In March 2021, Joyner appeared on episode 8 of The Ghost of Hollywood radio show to discuss his work on the film Class of 1999.[4]
Bibliography
Books
- The Westerners: Interviews with Actors, Directors, Writers (2009)[5]
- Hell Comes to Hollywood: An Anthology of Short Horror Fiction Set in Tinseltown (2012, contributor)
- The Peacemakers, Volume 3 (2013, contributor)
- The Peacemakers, Volume 4 (2013, contributor)
- Shotgun (2013)
- Shotgun: The Bleeding Ground (2016)
- Nemo Rising (2017)
- These Violent Times: A Shotgun Western (2018)
- My Favorite Horror Movie (2025)
Short stories
- "Bloodhound" (in A Fistful of Legends, 2009)
- "Two-Bit Kill" (in The Law of the Gun, 2010) – Nominated, Best Short Story of the Year 2010, Western Fictioneers
- "Universal Killer" (in Beat to a Pulp, Vol. 2, 2012)
Graphic novels and comics
- "I Kill the Dead" (in Wicked West 2: Abomination, 2007)
- The Saga of Billy the Kid (2012)
