Lou Dean grew up in Osage County Oklahoma and graduated from Ponca City High School and attended Oklahoma State University. She is a twenty year award winning writer with countless articles in print. Among her credits are Family Circle, Guideposts, McCalls, Ladies' Home Journal, Angels on Earth, Highlights for Children, Scouting, and Dog World Magazine. Her first book "Angels in Disguise", was part of the cover story in December 1996 People Magazine and the book was a 1999 nominee for the prestigious Colorado Blue Spruce Award. An excerpt from Angels In Disguise won article of the year at the 2000 Western Heritage Awards in Oklahoma City's Cowboy Hall of Fame. Her first novel Reaching for the Reins, won "Top Hand Award" from the Colorado Authors' League for young-adult book-length fiction in 2001. Lou Dean divides her time between a mountain retreat in northwest Colorado and a place on the Arkansas River in Oklahoma.

	Angels in Disguise: A True Story by Dean, Lou Format:  Trade Paperback Price:  $7.95 Published: Clinescot Publishing, 1995 Inventory Status: Special Order - Subject to Availability   See all editions of this title. If you ever loved an animal this true story of canine connections is a must read. Nominated in 1999 as a Colorado Blue Spruce nominee, an excerpt article that appeared in Guideposts magazine won a "Wrangler Award" in the same year.
	Paw Prints in My Soul by Dean, Lou Format:  Trade Paperback Price:  $9.95 Published: Clinescot Publishing, 1997 Inventory Status: Special Order - Subject to Availability Ten-year-old Lou Dean with the help of her faithful dog, Shorty, devises a plan to stop her parents' divorce. This true story of struggle and acceptance is a coming-of-age story that will remain forever in your memory.
	Reaching for the Reins by Dean, Lou Format:  Trade Paperback Price:  $14.00 Published: Clinescot Publishing, 2000 Inventory Status: Special Order - Subject to Availability Fifteen-year-old CJ, while trying to adjust to her parents' recent divorce, must face the reality that the boy she loves has been involved in a school shooting. She gets on her horse, takes her dog and runs away from home to come to terms with the tragedy. This young adult novel won a Top Hand Award for young adult fiction in 2001 from the Colorado Authors' League. "This book encompasses many issues which are compelling and timely for teens. Parents of teenagers might find reading this book helpful for understanding those young people behind the piercings, tattoos, long hair and loud music."
	Osage County Kids by Dean, Lou Format:  Trade Paperback Price:  $11.95 Published: Clinescot Publishing, 2009 Inventory Status: Special Order - Subject to Availability The bond of a brother and sister that begins on an Oklahoma farm in the fifties mysteriously extends beyond death. You will first howl with laughter, then wipe a tear from your cheek. "Two eyes appeared, barely visible in the darkness of the drainpipe. When the face broke into light, it wasn't a rabbit, but the pointed nose of a skunk, Bub had his stick started in a swing before he realized what he was about to hit. He let the stick go spinning into midair. The skunk came shuffllng out of that drainpipe fairly unconcerned. Unfortunately for us all, both dogs dived into the poor skunk." "Run, Sissy, run ..." This true story set on an Oklahoma farm in the fifties, is written for kids from nine to ninety. The front cover gives you a glimpse of The Osage County Kids. Lou Dean (Sissy) is on the far right standing next to Sis, who is holding Nibs, one of the family's many canine companions. On the left is older brother, Bub, with Lil Bub in his arms. Playing in the background, are the two oldest kids, Mama and Dad.
	Crazy Woman Creek: Women Rewrite the American West by Hasselstrom, Linda M., Collier, Gaydell, Curtis, Nancy Format:  Trade Paperback Price:  $14.00 Published: Mariner Books, 2004 Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Lou Dean's story "Echoes on the Wind", is included in this anthology. Crazy Woman Creek is a collection of prose and poetry about real women in the West and their connection to a larger whole. Long troubled by the misguided images of skinny cowgirls on prancing palominos, the editors embarked on a mission to set the record straight. They wanted these western women to reveal the realities of their lives in their own words. In Crazy Woman Creek, 153 women west of the Mississippi write of the ways they shape and sustain their communities. Whether these groups are organized, imposed, or spontaneous, this collection shows that where women gather, anything is possible. Readers will encounter Buddhists in Nebraska, Hutterites in South Dakota, rodeo moms rather than soccer moms. A woman chooses horse work over housework; neighbors pull together to fight a raging wildfire; a woman rides a donkey across Colorado to raise money after the tragedy at Columbine. Women recall harmony found at a drugstore, at a powwow, in a sewing circle. Lively, heartfelt, urgent, enduring, Crazy Woman Creek celebrates community -- connections built or strengthened by women that unveil a new West.