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Topics include fundamentals of writing, becoming an Indie Author, Texas Longhorns, cattle driving era, Kansas Cowtown, and American Energy.

“Writing Collaboration” Panel of award winning authors! Western Writers of America Conference. l to r: Johnny Boggs, Richard Prosch, Micki Fuhrman, Natalie Bright, Denise F. McAllister, and Paul Bishop

Thursday, March 6th, Bushland Jr. High School. Topic: Texas Longhorns and the Great Cattle Drives

Thursday, March 27, Clarendon Elementary, Fourth Grade. Let’s Write!

Saturday, March 29, The Chisholm Museum, Kingfisher, Oklahoma. Annual Chuck Wagon Gathering. I will have books for sale! FREE admission. Activities include live music, cooking demonstrations and food samples, gunfights, Wild West Show performers, and more.  https://www.thechisholm.org/programs.html

The Mayor’s House. The Chisholm in Kingfisher.

April 11-12, West Texas Ranch Rodeo, Amarillo National Center. Please stop by the our booth. Western historian and Colorado author Randi Samuelson-Brown will be joining me. Come see us at the rodeo!

Natalie Bright and Randi Samuelson-Brown

Saturday, May 10th, Caprock Writers & Illustrators, Lubbock. I’m speaking about “Writing the West & Finding Your Lane.” What are the elements of the western genre that appeals to so many generations?

May 11th Mother’s Day – buy your mother a book!

Western Writers of America comes to Amarillo! June 18-21 at the Embassy Suites, Downtown Amarillo.

Wednesday, June 18th, “Colors of the West” book event, part of the Summer Reading Program for Amarillo Public Libraries. I’ll be joined by six other award winning western authors to talk about our favorite topic: the western novel! Where & When: 5-7 pm at the Southwest Branch Library, 6801 West 45th Street in Amarillo. Books will be available for purchase.

Thursday, July 24th, “Bags, Badges, Bingo!” Day of Women in Business Conference, Borger, Texas. I’ll be talking about creative writing and turning your opportunities into talks for groups.

Saturday, August 23, “A Novel Cause“, Lubbock Literacy Book Festival, Overton Hotel, Lubbock, Texas. Here’s your chance to pick up some autographed books from area writers. lubbockbookfest.com

Friday-Saturday, September 5-6, History Exposition and Outdoor Education Days, Fort Wallace Museum in Wallace, Kansas.

September 26-27, New Frontiers in Writing Conference. Texas High Plains Writers sponsored conference in Amarillo. This is going to have a HUGE impact on your writing life and business! Jane Friedman and Craig Johnson are scheduled to keynote.

A stellar panel on book promotion and marketing at the Western Writers of American Conference: Chris Mullen, Randi Samuelson-Brown, Jane Little Botkin, Natalie Bright, and David Crow.

December 10, Leadership Borger. Our future depends on all forms of energy, which I will discuss, as well as the history of Oil & Gas Exploration in the Texas Panhandle. Everyone will receive a complimentary copy of my book, OIL PEOPLE.

December 5-7, Christmas at Old Fort Concho, in San Angelo, Texas. Super excited to have been selected for this event. I’m sharing a booth with Janie Little Botkin and she’ll have her latest best-seller, THE PINK DRESS, A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen.

I love Fort Concho in San Angelo! Looking forward to meeting everyone!

Podcast Interview!

Give a listen to a Podcast Interview with Jim and Bobbi Jean Bell! LA Talk Radio’s Rendezvous with a Writer. I’ll be talking about Texas Longhorns and Kansas Cowtowns, just in time for you to order my latest book END OF THE TRAIL EATS on Cyber Monday!

Also when you have a minute, check out Jim and Bobbi Jean Bell’s online shop OutWest for unique home décor, apparel, and accessories that celebrate the Western lifestyle.

These two are such cuties! I’m standing between Jim and Bobbie Jean Bell with the Podcast Rendezvous with a Writer, Western Writers of America Banquet in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
“Texas Longhorns & Kansas Hospitality” is my topic at the Fort Wallace Museum, Saturday, September 7, based on the research I did for END OF THE TRAIL EATS
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Clarendon Elementary, talking about cowboys food and Longhorns, and looking at reins, bridle, hat, rope, branding iron, giant coffee pots, and cowhides.
A Window on a Wider World member school!

In November 2022, the Texas High Plains Writers group awarded me with a Lifetime Membership Award! Total shock and I’m still at a loss for words to say how much I have appreciated this group over the years. Other writers will keep you inspired and on task.

We celebrated in Roaring 20s Style the 100th Birthday of Panhandle Pen Women / now Texas High Plains Writers. This group has been encouraging writers of all genres and meeting together since 1920! We celebrated 100 +2 in downtown Amarillo at The Barfield in the basement speakeasy Paramount Club.

Exciting NEWS: My cookbook won Gold!

2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award

Don and Shirley Creacy with the Wild Cow Ranch Chuck Wagon Cooking Team helped me so much on KEEP ‘EM FULL. Not only sharing recipes, but cooking knowledge and fact checking the book manuscript. I was thrilled to have them standing next to me at the WRMA Awards Ceremony in Fort Worth!

What a fun weekend! In October, the Award Ceremony and Banquet, was held at Cooper’s BBQ, Fort Worth Stockyards. KEEP ‘EM FULL AND KEEP ‘EM ROLLIN’: The Great American Chuck Wagon Cookbook, has been recognized as a finalist for 2022 and received a first place Gold Medallion!

2022 Recipients of the Will Rogers Medallion Awards for excellent in Western literature.
A few members of Women Writing the West attended the Western Writers of America conference in Montana this past June. Back row, l to r, Cynthia Leal Massey, Randi Samuelson-Brown, Carmen Peone, Beverly Hodgins. Front row, me with Jane Little Botkin. Getting a chance to hang around these award winning, brilliant authors is my favorite thing! I look forward to seeing them again in Oklahoma City.
Western Writers of America members Jeff Bloome, Jane Little Botkin, Randi Samuelson-Brown, joined me in Pueblo, Colorado to sign books and meet readers. Had time to explore a few junk stores and we had the most amazing meal at DC’s on B Street.

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The above photo was a Power point for 700 on finding story ideas and fiction vs. nonfiction. Wonderful group with lots of great questions!

Flash and Christy are #1!

Congrats to Flash, your favorite rescue horse, and his owner/trainer Christy Shippy, who took a 1st place win in the horse parade at the Cowboy Symposium in Lubbock, Texas!

FLASH is the inspiration behind several of my books. 

Flash & Christie in the Cowboy Symposium parade.

Visiting Author Week at a Canyon ISD Elementary School (2019) and how fitting. It was John Erickson who told me to never give up at a THPW conference in Amarillo. He is such an inspiration for so many authors in this area.