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PRESCOTT – Best known locally as western singer Cimarron Sue, of the traditional cowboy music duo Nevada Slim and Cimarron Sue, Prescott's Susan Matley has been acting, singing, and writing most of her life. With the release of her fiction novella Small-g City later this week, she will add the title of published novelist to her long list of achievements.

Matley says her love of creative writing began when her sister taught her the alphabet at three years old, but she began writing with the intent to publish in 1996. She sold her first short story, "I Saw Him Kissing Another Man's Wife,"...