About
April Moore is the author of Folsom’s 93, a historical nonfiction about the crimes of Folsom Prison’s executed men originally published in 2013 with Linden Publishing. A revised edition is scheduled for a 2025 release with BookBar Press. She also published Bobbing for Watermelons, a women's fiction in 2015 with Hot Chocolate Press, and is the author of several published essays, short stories, and articles. April holds a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice, graduating summa cum laude in July 2022.
April is also the former director of Northern Colorado Writers, (now called Writing Heights Writers Association) a writing organization in Fort Collins, Colorado that offered classes, workshops, retreats, and an annual conference. After three and a half years of heading up the 250+ member group, that included teaching workshops, conducting writing retreats, and organizing four, 2-day conferences, April stepped down as director to focus on her writing. She hopes to return to her young adult manuscript that is anxiously awaiting edits.
Featured Work
Folsom's 93: The Lives and Crimes of Folsom Prison's Executed Men
From 1895 to 1937, 93 men were hanged at California’s Folsom State Prison, and this book is the first to tell all of their stories, recounting long-forgotten tales of murder and swift justice, or sometimes, swift injustice that hanged an innocent man. Based on a treasury of historical information that has been hidden from the public for 80 years, the full stories of these 93 executed men are presented in this collection including their origins, their crimes, the investigations that brought them to justice, their trials, and their deaths at the gallows. This wealth of previously unpublished historical detail gives a vivid view of the sociology of early 20th-century crime and of the resulting prison life. Readers take a trip back in time to the hard-boiled early 20th-century California that inspired the novels of Dashiell Hammett and countless other crime writers. Illustrated throughout with authentic and haunting prison photographs of each of the condemned men, the crimes and punishments of a vanished era are brought into a sharp and realistic light.
This title is currently out-of-print, but is scheduled for a 2025 release with BookBar Press. For updates, see www.Folsoms93.com
