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Rodeo Season is Near

Everything you ever wanted to know about rodeos.

Or at least everything that will fit into 140 characters for twitter. For the month of May, I’ll be tweeting about different Idaho based rodeo’s in honor of the June 4th release of THE BULL RIDER’S BROTHER.

Here’s a quick blurb about the book:

When James Sullivan visits his hometown’s rodeo weekend and learns that his high school sweetheart had his child – six years ago – Lizzie’s world is thrown into turmoil. In THE BULL RIDER’S BROTHER by Lynn Cahoon, James struggles with family and Lizzie questions the risk of love.

Shawnee, Idaho – the small town setting for THE BULL RIDER’S BROTHER has an annual rodeo a lot like the one held each year in the small mountain town of Riggins, Idaho. The Riggins Rodeo is sponsored by the Salmon River Cowboy’s Association and features Saddle Bronc, Calf Roping, Team Roping, and Bull Riding as some of the events.

This year’s theme for the rodeo?

Old Hats, Old Hearts, Old Timers living the Cowboys Dream.

Stay tuned as we tour around the local Idaho rodeo season. Follow me on twitter – @lynncahoon hashtag #loverodeo and on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/LynnCahoonAuthor

And if we meet in person at a rodeo one day, be sure to buy me a corn dog. With mustard please.

Lynn

What does an author do all day?

If you said, write, well, that was my answer too. Until this last month, when I found out the rest. Come by New Kids and let’s talk…

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Finding the 25th Hour

I’ve been busy.

Edits, writing, the day job, household stuff, and I just got back from a girl’s weekend in Nashville.

All this activity has made me think about what’s truly important. I’m the one who wants to do everything. As a high school student, I vacillated between becoming a stay at home mom with twelve kids or moving to New York City to be a fashion buyer for a big department store.

I took business classes, college prep classes, and home economics classes. I was a renaissance girl. I still enjoy crocheting and other fabric crafts. In college, I was the same jumble of classes.

Eventually, I earned my degree in Political Science, Public Administration and after a few false starts, built a career in social services. When I divorced, I decided to change my career as well. Currently, I have an administrative job in the automotive field. Not exactly the career of an overachiever’s dreams.

Until I started becoming serious about writing.

Books have been my salvation and my hope since I started reading. Reading kept me company when I was left alone as a child – brothers and sisters moved out on their own, parents busy with their own lives. Get lost in a story, and the darkness outside didn’t seem so scary.

The day job pays the rent. And the electricity. When I went through chemotherapy for breast cancer several years ago, someone asked me if I was still working. My response was yes. I was still eating, and I was still paying for my utilities, and my rent, so not working was never an option.

As a writer, it’s the same. But I have hope. Each sale, either short story or full manuscript, moves me closer to that dream that practical me never believed could come true.

Today I’m a writer. Even if it’s squeezed in between all the other roles I play and completed in that miracle 25th hour I find each day.

How about you? What was your childhood dream?

The Things They Don’t Tell You…

Or maybe I just wasn’t listening.

This week I’m over at New Kids talking about my crazy life after accepting not one, but two contracts in the last month. Come over and give me your strategies to get the work done. Please?

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Steps to Short Success

I’ve posted my seven steps to short success over at New Kids today. Come by and join the conversation.

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