This is the story of the author’s great great grandparents, Edward Lewis and Sarah Crosby, who were convicts transported to Van Diemen’s Land in the 1840s. It is told from the perspective of a detective agency searching for what happened to Edward, w
325 letters my father wrote to my mother during his time in World War II.
Woven together in a timeline of events of three of his brothers, 5 brothers-in-law, and one cousin, all 10 of them were in WWII at the same time.
Bookworm: Reader, writer, editor, teacher. Author of Trilogy: Cowgirl Dreams, Follow the Dream, Dare to Dream; a nonfiction book Cowgirl Up! A History of Rodeo Women; and a new novel in a new series, Seeking the American Dream.
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Raised on a ranch in isolated eastern Montana, Heidi Thomas has had a penchant for reading and writing since she was a child. Armed with a degree in journalism from the University of Montana, she worked for the Daily Missoulian newspaper, and has had numerous magazine articles published.
A tidbit of family history, that her grandmother rode steers in rodeos during the 1920s, spurred Heidi to write a novel based on that grandmother’s life.
Cowgirl Dreams is the first in a series about strong, independent Montana Women. Follow the Dream, a WILLA Award winner is the second, and Dare to Dream completes the trilogy. Cowgirl Up! A History of Rodeo women is a nonfiction book about rodeo cowgirls
Seeking the American Dream is the first in a new series and based on the author's mother who emigrated from Germany after WWII. It continues the Moser family story.
Heidi is a member of Women Writing the West and Professional Writers of Prescott,. She is an avid reader of all kinds of books, enjoys hiking in north central Arizona, where she writes, edits, and teaches memoir and fiction writing classes.
Birth Place
Forsyth, MT United States
Accomplishments
Journalism degree from the University of Montana, fiction certificate from University of Washington.
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