I am vendor at the Lincoln County Cowboy Symposium and into the first day. I am selling 4 books: From Grannie’s Kitchen Cookbook, Let Me Tell You a Story, and the 1sr and 2nd edition of This Tumbleweed Landed.
What has surprised me is the cookbook has sold the best. I have only one more copy left–with several people saying they are coming back to buy it. It will be fun to see who gets the last copy. There might be a wrestling match for it!
And the booklet that I thought would sell the best here, Let Me Tell You a Story which is the story of how my Granddad Horner put our ranch together during the Depression, hasn’t sold at all. People look at it, then tell me their family or friend’s story that is similar.
More people need to record their family’s ranching stories so we have record of the struggle that happened to put our family ranches together.
The rain has affected the attendance today, but I have had a blast so far. I have handed out lots of bookmarks and many people scope out all the vendors the first day and do their serious shopping on Saturday.
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Larada Horner-Miller is a poet, essayist and accomplished multi-genre author who holds a bachelor’s degree in English, with a minor in Spanish and a master of education degree in Integrating Technology into the Classroom. She is the accomplished author of six award-winning biographies, historical fiction, memoir, and poetry works plus three self-published cookbooks.
Her sixth book, Coronavirus Reflections: Bitter or Better?, is available in paperback and four e-book formats. Larada offers the reader the opportunity to look back at 2020 and the global pandemic through her prose and poetry through reading, then reflecting and responding. She addresses all the emotions she felt during this overwhelming time and leads the reader through to a self-access: bitter or better?
Her fifth book is the authorized memoir and biography of world-renown square dance caller Marshall “Flip” Flippo. Just Another Square Dance Caller: Authorized Biography of Marshall Flippo is available now in hardback, paperback and four e-book formats. Recently Just Another Square Dance Caller won two awards: Book Excellence Awards Finalist and Silver award for eLit. Book Awards.
Another recent book of hers, A Time to Grow Up: A Daughter's Grief Memoir has won many awards including being a 2018 Book Excellence Awards Finalist in the Memoir category at the New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards and a 2018 Independent Press Distinguished Favorites Award in the Memoir category. Horner-Miller has also been a past national presenter at the Women Writing the West Conference and is currently the creator of Memoir Workshops for others who want to share their family’s legacies through words.
Larada and her husband, Lin, enjoy being nestled in the mountains above Albuquerque, New Mexico, near the village of Tijeras. When not writing books, this passionate, energetic, and enthusiastic woman loves to spend time kicking up her heels at square dancing gatherings, traveling, knitting, and reading.
As co-manager of her family’s southeastern Colorado ranch, she enjoys spending time exploring her family’s historic ranch and reminiscing with her brother and his children about their mom, dad, and granddad.
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