Welcome back to the 2022 Inspirational Western Women series! June is the midpoint of the growing season between planting and harvesting. Flowers are in full bloom, the air is warm, and the days are long. June is my favorite month. Want to know what else I favor? Amazing women. Like my featured gal for…
Howdy, friends! Ready to meet another Inspirational Western Woman? Goodness! I’ve loved every story these amazing women have shared. Have you? Carole and I met through Women Writing the West, and I someday hope to meet her. She’s spunky, a go-getter, and as sweet as honey. And her horse, who you’ll meet soon, is one…
Howdy, friends! Ready to meet another Inspirational Western Woman? I’m thrilled for you to get to know this gal. She hales from Montana and is such a kind, generous lady. With that . . . I’d like to welcome one of this month’s Inspirational Western Women, Nancy Quinn. As an author and wildlife artist, living…
Welcome back! To the Incredible Western Women Series. So now, let’s open the corral gate and hear from one of this month’s western women! It is a pleasure to introduce Yvonne Hollenbeck. Not only is she an accomplished poet but is a skilled musician and quilter. I hope you enjoy learning about Yvonne as much…
Welcome back! Incredible Western Women Series For those of you just joining us, here’s a little background… Born in the small town of Colville, WA, I was raised in the Spokane suburbs and moved to rural America with my husband a little over three decades ago. Country life is an amazing place to raise our…
It is such a pleasure to have Arianna Seymour with me today. She is a Colville Tribal member, a student at Inchelium High School, was one of my Rez Stop students when I coordinated the afterschool program, and is one of our archers. She is as sweet today as she was when I was involved…
Strike a color, and winning attitude, like Coup Counter and Black Rain and you, too, will succeed in style. Believe it or not, Roan is not a horse breed but a horse coat color pattern characterized by an even mixture of colored and white hairs on the body, while the head and “points“—lower legs, mane and tail—are mostly solid-colored. Horses…
Welcome to the official team introductions for Heart of Passion! I’m flinging open the gate of this pre-launch with Sun Catcher, a blue roan, and his rider Spukanee Sun. While planning this book the thought came to me, Spupaleena needs more competition, don’t you think? Why yes, I answered myself. She definitely needed added rivalry,…
Welcome to the COVER REVEAL for Heart of Passion! I am thrilled to introduce the cover of the True to Heart Trilogy Book 3, Heart of Passion with you all. I debated so many times whether to have horses, no horses, horses, no horses on this final cover and decided on no horses because really,…
What else does one do when finished writing teen books? Create an exciting curriculum for the stories, of course! I have never been more impressed with the homeschool community than I am now. Over the winter, I created one literary guide, two workbooks, and re-vamped one guide on how youth can write fiction. What a…
Raised in Omak, WA, on the Colville Reservation is my True to Heart Trilogy cover model, Shayna (pronounced Shania) Ann Palmanteer. She is currently working on receiving her high school diploma after taking a couple of years off to work at the language house in Inchelium, WA and learning Salish––a young woman on a path to…
Happy New Year! 2018 sped past––fast and furious. With two book releases, Women Writing the West Presidency, weddings, babies, and the death of a family member right before Christmas, it all took its toll, both good and bad. Thank goodness for a new year! But I believe there is always hope during troubled times. …
When looking down from the top of the hill, horses and spectators look like dots, the water invites a quick swim on a hot day, and the sky is as blue as azure. In the staging area horses dance, their eyes and ears alert. Their hard muscles ripple in anticipation. Some rider-horse teams are quiet…
Me: Hey, all! I’m here with my first interview with my female hero, Miss Hannah Gardner, of my historical young adult novel, Hannah’s Journey. Welcome, Hannah! How are you? Hannah: Hello, Carmen. I am quite well. *She smiles and crosses her ankles.* Thank you for asking. Me: How’s training coming along? Hannah: Between my Auntie…
Native Americans originally traveled by shanks ponies–or on foot. Natives obtained their first horses from Spanish explorers in 1540. Some of those original horses escaped and turned wild and are now coined Mustangs. The first horse used by Natives, now having its own registry, is the American Indian Horse. Its ancestry consists of Spanish Barb,…
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