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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

Wednesday, February 19th, Leadership Borger, Borger, Texas. Sanford Ranch will host a panel to discuss the ranching industry in the Texas Panhandle with Casey Bright, Sanford Ranch Foreman; Carson Womble, Superior Livestock; Varla Wilcox, Hi-Pro Feeds

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

Saturday, March 15th, History Symposium, Fort Wallace Museum, Highway 40, Wallace, Kansas.

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. We can personalize a book for you just in time for Mother’s Day!

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!

Thursday, July 24th, Women in Business Conference, Borger, Texas. I’ll be speaking about writing your family history or a memoir. This talk is for nonwriters who want to preserve their family stories. I promise, YOU can do this! I will share tips for organizing your research, mental exercises to get those memories flowing, and writing tips.

Saturday, August 23, “A Novel Cause”, Lubbock Literacy Book Festival, Overton Hotel, Lubbock, Texas.

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 be HUGE. 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.

Bye Bye 2024

December 11, 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 copy of my book, OIL PEOPLE. You can Click here to read the eBook now. If you need a program which includes copies of the book for your group or classroom, go to the CONTACT tab above and send me an email. (Leadership Borger is Sponsored by Chevron Phillips Chemical Company & Borger, Inc.)

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 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, 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.

Grab that last piece of pumpkin pie and tune into LA Talk Radio for Rendezvous With a Writer, on Thanksgiving Day hosted by Jim and Bobbi Jean Bell! We’ll be chatting about Texas Longhorns and Kansas Cowtowns.
https://www.latalkradio.com/content/rendezvous-writer

Also when you have a minute, check out their 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.

Tuesday, November 19th, Panhandle Producers and Royalty Owners Board, Amarillo, Texas. Educating area youth about the American Energy industry.

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

“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
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.

2021

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.