Barbara Neville

My latest, Tomahawk Trail, is the first book in the Cha'a Many Horses Series I also have ten books in the Spirit Animal series. The tenth being Wind Blows Grass Grows Stars Twinkle Above. On the Rocks is the first. I like humor in my books, so I went with that and wrote what I know which is the outdoors and being a cowhand. I am not a big city girl, neither is my antagonist, Annie. Annie tells the stories herself in first person. I quote Annie Talks to Horses here: "I wrote these journals, in part, to dispel the image of cowgirls as mere girlfriends and wives of cowboys. The kind who wear western shirts, dresses, boots, concho belts with shiny buckles and all. They got all the shiny western bling and they call theirselves cowgirls. These gals are the ones who, while their cowboys are out cousin’ cows, shoein’ the rough string and,(everyone’s favorite) fixin’ fence; are home fixin’ their makeup and chattin’ with there gal friends. Now, true, they are a breed of cowgirls, and more power to ‘em.
"But some of us are a different breed.
“We are not just cow ‘girls’ but true female cow ‘boys’. We do the dirty work, from fixin’ fence, to cuttin’ sacks and squeezin’ out the oysters. By golly, we can do it all day ever’day, just like the boys.
So, saddle yore bronc and suck it up. We’re gonna open the gate and let ‘er rip!
And, oh yeah. Watch you're ass boys, ‘cause we just might kick it.“

My sister asked what I actually did on a cattle roundup. I thought maybe others would like to read about it too. I started the book at roundup and let my imagination run wild.
What I ended up with is the ten book and growing Spirit Animal series. And the new series premier, Tomahawk Trail, is historic western fiction, with Native American characters, It takes place in 1885 Arizona, USA and Sonora, Mexico.It is available in paperback now on Ctreatespace and in preorder on this site.
The Spirit Animal series. The eleventh of which is Hell to Pay, my entry into 2016 NaNoWriMo. It is not what you would expect. It’s all about Cowboys and Injins. It’s told by a tough cowgirl/Injin named Annie Talks To Horses.
Her story takes place in the twenty-sixth century. It may be the future, but our cowboys ride horses. I'll let her tell it:
"You see, five hundred years ago were the Troubles. Earth was blown to smithereens. The lucky people got out just before. Pioneered new planets. War moved out into space. Things got blown back to primitive. Humankind clawed their way back out, ruled by the Federals. Progress made them nervous, so the Feds passed a law declaring all the newly explored planets as wilderness. No internal combustion engines or electronics are allowed beyond the spaceport on planet Rock.
The law is meant to save mankind from itself. The problem with that? Outlaws are beyond the law."