Thought I'd pass on to whoever is still looking at this Western Forum - I haven't been on here for a while. I recently bit the bullet and put together a collection of 10 of my western short stories - almost all the result of prompts here in the western forum and western share your work and followed that with my western novel which also showed up in bits and snippets here - and put them both on Amazon as kindle editions and also hard copy from createspace using my AW Puma name as the author. So, in my opinion, westerns aren't dead. But, definitely not in favor in the usual markets. I don't know whether anyone will buy what I created - but - at least I tried (and didn't give up.) Puma