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Sunday, October 23, 2005 Doing Cowboys Right

Join me July 24-July 28, 2006 on the Ask An Author list, which is part of the RWA family of listservs, for a Q&A with the topic of "Doing Cowboys Right."

As a reader, nothing frustrates me more than authors getting the equestrian details wrong. One cowboy romance I read had the hero raising Morgans on his ranch for cattle work. Sure, Morgans probably can work cattle, but they haven't been breed with "cow" in them (the term of the cow sense most Quarter Horses have). An erotic romance I read had the buzzer at seven seconds on a rodeo event, not eight. These little details, especially to someone who loves the genre, will affect the reader's opinion of the book. So, with knowledge about horses and rodeos, I will be doing a Q&A on these little details.

Hope to see you there!

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