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Terry Burns likes to say he's a fifth generation Irish storyteller that happens to be a fourth generation Texas Teller of Tall Tales. Telling stories comes as natural as breathing. His faith is strong, and often this unique combination produces Christian fiction set against a western canvas. Even when trying to be serious, he finds it hard to keep his subtle West Texas humor out of his writing.

He's loved things western since the days when his Saturdays meant helping his all-time hero, Roy Rogers, rid the world of bad guys. He's plowed and fixed fence and worked cows, and has eaten dirt one minute and been rained on the next. For many years he was the manager for the West of the Pecos Rodeo, billed as the "World's Oldest Rodeo," and said he's thrown his leg over things that didn't want him on their back.

Asked if he's a cowboy, he said, "I don't have a ranch or work regular on one, but being a cowboy is more than wearing boots or a big hat. It has to do with standing good on your word. It's having something down deep in your gut that makes you keep on after others have quit because that's what you're out there for. It's working hard and playing hard and holding up your end no matter what. It's about doing what's right, not because of what some law says or because you're told to, but just because it's what's right."

Terry just can't buy the notion that all Christian fiction is written for female readers and his simple, fast moving writing appeals to male readers, though he admits he has more readers among the ladies. "I don't have a problem with that," he says. "I love to interest one of those pretty ladies in a book, then watch them talk hubby into reading it. You'd be surprised how often that happens."