She Rode Dinosaurs

	Ten-year-old Kaye Tew thought she would be spending a quiet Spring Break at her Grandma and Grandpa Tew's Utah home reading books about horses and dinosaurs. Little did the red-haired tomboy know how a horrific accident at a nearby top-secret scientific facility would change her life...and rewrite natural history. Torn out of space and time, Kaye adjusts to living in a prehistoric society where humans and dinosaurs coexist. It is a brutal, dangerous life, though full of exciting new experiences and confusing new feelings. But the biggest danger in Kaye's new world is someone who has followed her from her old one. ISBN 0-9640513-2-X Tattersall Publishing $9.95
She Rode Dinosaurs resulted from a suggestion by a guest speaker at a Denton Writers League meeting: “A niche market exists for publishing stories where a girl is the hero, or main character, in the age group between grades 4-6.” I had to visit my folks in their hometown of Springerville, Utah. While walking downtown I saw several donated sculptures from a local bronze foundry. Two in particular caught my heart. One was a stylized cat named Crystal (my editor's name, and she loves cats) in front of the Read Leaf Bookshop, and the other was a child riding a saddled and bridled Velociraptor like it was a family pony. My mom had had a bad medical spell. Their Native American neighbors, Mr. Walker and his family, performed chants in their living room. They rolled in a six-foot-diameter “medicine drum” and began each ceremonial chant, which lasted about a half hour each. One was for healing, the second for life, the third was dedicated specially for grandparents' role to helping guide their kindred youth.
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