M.A,. Moone

M.A. Moone, is the daughter of a Western dairy farmer and mother who taught before becoming a noted California pottery expert. Like her mother, Moone also became a teacher. As a young woman, she taught in a remote community where she hunted, fished and volunteered as a "buckaroo" for the local ranchers on weekends. Eventually, she earned a Ph.D. in educational psychology and worked both in the fields of education and mental health. Her later career included research and writing for museums throughout the West.

Moone now spends summers riding her horse in the mountains of Central Oregon and her winters writing fiction in Southern Nevada. "The Lord's Bit" is her first published work of fiction.

She believes there are such things as functional families. She writes to tell their stories. Both men and woman relate to the plot and to characters grounded in love of country, love of land and love of each other.

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