Hello! I’m Marie Sexton, soccer mom, laundry avoider, and author of gay romance. I live in Colorado, so it’s probably no surprise that I often write about the Mile High state. However, my latest novella, Lost Along the Way, is mostly set in Laramie, Wyoming.
Now, as somebody who’s lived part of her life in Wyoming, and all forty-odd years of it in the American west, I’m often struck by how wrong the media gets it when they portray our part of the country. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised. Even most American tend to forget there’s a pretty god damn big expanse of land in between California and the Mississippi. And you wouldn’t believe how often people say to me, “Mountain Standard Time? You mean Central, right?” (No, my friend. There’s an entire time zone between PST and CST.) So I suppose it’s to be expected that most of the country thinks we’re a bunch of swaggering cowboys. If you trust TV, everybody in Colorado wears a Stetson (fact: very few do), and everybody in Wyoming talks like a Texan (fact: only the Texas transplants do).
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