Deborah J Lightfoot

Deborah J. Lightfoot got attached to history through her grandfather, a High Plains cowboy. From her mother, an artist and avid reader, came her love of books and all things mysterious and magical. Deborah has had a fondness for dark horsemen since Richard Boone's Paladin rode through TV landscapes wielding a six-shooter instead of a sword. Six-shooters figure in her award-winning books about the American Southwest: Trail Fever (William Morrow) and The LH7 Ranch (University of North Texas Press...See more

Deborah J. Lightfoot got attached to history through her grandfather, a High Plains cowboy. From her mother, an artist and avid reader, came her love of books and all things mysterious and magical. Deborah has had a fondness for dark horsemen since Richard Boone's Paladin rode through TV landscapes wielding a six-shooter instead of a sword. Six-shooters figure in her award-winning books about the American Southwest: Trail Fever (William Morrow) and The LH7 Ranch (University of North Texas Press). Swords and sorcery provide the thrills in Waterspell, an intricate fantasy series with medieval overtones and a few nods to history. A journalism graduate and an Authors Guild member, Deborah has worked in educational publishing as an editor for a national nonprofit organization. Besides writing, editing, and devouring books, her pleasures include traveling abroad and hiking the Yorkshire moors, Canada's Pacific Rim National Park, and while living in Mexico part-time, that country's La Primavera Bosque. Find her online: waterspell.net See less