Deborah J. Lightfoot
(a.k.a. Deborah Lightfoot Sizemore)
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Twin Passions Six-shooters figure in Lightfoot's award-winning books of Western history and biography. Swords and sorcery provide the action in her newest work, Waterspell, a YA/crossover fantasy with medieval overtones and historical background. In combining her twin passions, Lightfoot takes inspiration from movie stuntmaster Yakima Canutt, a former rodeo champion whose horseback stunts in such classic films as Stagecoach and Ivanhoe took him from the Old West to Medieval England. With a degree from Texas A&M University in agricultural journalism, Lightfoot has worked on both sides of the editorial desk for newspapers, magazines, and book publishers. She freelances for a national nonprofit youth organization as a writer and an editor, working with subject matter in the biological and environmental sciences. She has taught creative writing at the college level and has won many writing awards. Besides writing, editing, and ingesting books, her pleasures include traveling abroad and hiking the Yorkshire moors, Vancouver Island's Pacific Rim National Park, and Mexico's La Primavera Bosque. With her husband, Gene Sizemore, Deborah splits time between the prairies of Texas and the mountains of Mexico. Readings Trail Fever (895 KB) Waterspell (808 KB) The LH7 Ranch (802 KB)
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