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

Panel about “Writing Collaboration” at the Western Writers of America Conference.

Friday, Sept 6 – Sat, Sep 7: Fort Wallace History Exposition 2024! Living History Weekend in Wallace, Kansas. I will be speaking and signing copies of END OF THE TRAIL EATS, a book about the food and history of Kansas Cowtown, where Texas Longhorns and Kansas hospitality collided to turn Americans into a beef eating nation.

“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

October 10-12th, Women Writing the West 30th Annual Conference in Denver. This group is so awesome and so inspiring. WWW is a supportive and welcoming community of book authors and other writing professionals who share a passion for the stories of the Women’s West. Find out more here.

For more information about WOWW, click HERE

Wednesday, November 13th, Panhandle Elementary, 3rd Grade – Write Stuff – WOWW program.

Podcast in November!

PODCAST, Thursday, November 28th 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! I finally met the Bells this year at the WWA convention in Tulsa and I felt like we’d been friends forever. They are so fun. Please tune in to their show to hear interviews from some of the top western authors of today.

Also when you have a minute, check out their 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.

December – Fort Concho in San Angelo!

December 6-8, Christmas at Old Fort Concho, Barrack #2, 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 release, THE PINK DRESS, A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen. I will have both cookbooks there along with a few of my other titles. Over 75 vendors, children’s activities, living history reenactors, food, and live entertainment. Please stop by and say hey!

December 11, Leadership Borger. I will talk about the history of Oil Exploration in the Texas Panhandle and everyone gets a copy of my book, OIL PEOPLE. Looking forward to meeting everyone and having a discussion about American Energy. Click here to read the eBook now. If you need copies for your group or classroom, go to the CONTACT tab above and send me an email. (Sponsored by Chevron Phillips Chemical Company & Borger, Inc.)

My book explains the diverse work force that brings you American Energy.

Find my books at the Burrowing Owl on the Downtown Square in Canyon, Texas

Casey and Moon. We raise all-natural Red and Black Angus beef.

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.

We’ve been meeting and talking writing for 100 years, plus two! Texas High Plains Writers

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.

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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.