Dee YatesDee Yates is a native California cowgirl, photographer, publisher, and author who writes the American West the way she has lived it. She has brought more than a million magazines to print, first as publisher and editor-in-chief of HERLIFE Magazine, and now as owner of Ropers Sports News, the fifty-eight-year-old bible of team roping she acquired from the great Bob Feist. She is the author of the Cowgirl Culture series and of Write Your Own Damn Story.Seminole Son is her first novel. William Wiley Joy is her fourth great-grandfather, and his story is one her family carried for six generations without ever writing it down.Dee is a wife and a rodeo mom who writes every single day. She lives in the California foothills, where the horses are legged up, the bird dogs are underfoot, and the next story is already in the works. Read More Read Less