Janet Squires has won awards for both her adult articles for national magazines and her children's book, The Gingerbread Cowboy, HarperCollins 2006. She's a member of Women Writing the West and SCBWI.In addition to her writing, she's co-chaired Young Authors Conferences, taught writing workshops for children, provided in-service training/seminars for teachers,lectured on children's books and the creative writing process for children and adults.When she's not putting pen to paper in search of her next story, she's on horseback exploring the hills or working with cattle - a natural enough pursuit for a gal whose family pioneered their way West by covered wagon from Texas to Arizona.Today, she and her husband share their home with their rescue dogs and count themselves lucky to live where hawks still sail overhead by day and coyotes serenade at night.Too watch the Book Trailer for The Gingerbread Cowboy go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq0CIzBlA8U