Holy Cow! Let’s Buck!

It takes a lot to surprise this jaded New Yorker, but one 19-year-old amateur bull rider from Oklahoma managed to do just that in a big way. Alvin Morris, the bull rider I sponsor who rides in a shirt embroidered with my Let’s Buck tagline and website and hands out bumper stickers printed with the same at rodeos in exchange for my covering his entrance fees, has gone above and beyond. Take a look at the below. I am still in shock. Yeah, that’s a real tattoo. The design came from the mudflap girls on his chaps, combined with my tagline, which he loved from the moment he first heard it. The below chaps also inspired the colors for the sponsor shirt Alvin wears, a black button-down with hot pink embroidery reading Let’s Buck www.catjohnson.net down his free arm. Before you non-ink people freak out and start with the “tattoos are forever” argument, let me launch my own defense. Alvin once told me he is going to ride until he “competes in the championship in Vegas or is too crippled to ride at all”, so I dare say bull riders are forever as well as tattoos. It’s just my guess, […]

UNRIDDEN AT SAMHAIN

Today, one of my favorite books from all I’ve written officially released as part of the Samhain Publishing family. I am thrilled with this wonderful lead-in to the release of my next Samhain cowboy novel, BUCKED, in February of 2010. Please enjoy this excerpt. Cat Unridden Copyright © 2009 Cat Johnson All rights reserved — a Samhain Publishing, Ltd. Publication http://samhainpublishing.com/romance/unridden When country boys meet a city girl, everyone is in for a wild ride. Studs in Spurs, Book 1 Slade Bower and Mustang Jackson are living the high life on the professional bull-riding circuit. The prize money is big, the bulls are rank and the women are willing. But something is missing. For Slade, waking up in a different city with a different woman each morning is holding less and less appeal. Even Mustang’s creative attempts to shake things up don’t help. Then along comes a big-city author who’s like nothing they’ve ever encountered. Something about her makes Slade sit up and take notice—and Mustang is always up for anything. Romance writer Jenna Block has a problem—her agent thinks a cowboy book will jump-start her career. A born New Yorker, Jenna doesn’t do cowboys, not on paper, and definitely […]