"EL PASO - YOU'RE LOOKING GOOD" Hosts Jim Bell and Bobbi Jean Bell continue September's theme MAYHEM, MEMOIR, MURDER, and MEDALLION WINNER with memoir author Jane Little Botkin. THE PINK DRESS: A MEMOIR OF A RELUCTANT BEAUTY QUEEN Jane Little Botkin, former Miss El Paso Texas beauty queen and Guyrex Girl, reveals the realities of becoming the first protégé of “Kings of Beauty” Richard Guy and Rex Holt amid the 1970s counterculture movement. Her experiences launch “GuyRex” into Miss USA pageant history, even as her family falls apart and she struggles to leave the pageant world.

Growing up in West Texas, Jane Little Botkin didn’t have designs on becoming a beauty queen.

A pink, rose-covered gown, a Guyrex creation, symbolizes the fairy tale life that young women in Jane’s time imagined beauty queens had. Its near destruction exposes reality: the author’s failed relationship with her mother, and her parents’ failed relationship with one another. Weaving these narrative threads together is the Wild West notion that anything is possible, especially do-overs. The Pink Dress awakens nostalgia for the 1960s and 1970s, the era’s conflicts and growth pains. A common expectation that women went to college to get “MRS” degrees; to find a husband and become a stay-at-home wife and mother; often prevailed. How does one swim upstream against this notion among feminist voices that protest “If You Want Meat, Go to a Butcher!” at beauty pageants, two flamboyant showmen, and a developing awareness of self? Torn between women’s traditional roles and what women could be, Guyrex Girls evolved, as did the author. The Pink Dress: A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen released September 10, 2024 and we are so excited to TALK ABOUT IT!! It's a fabulous read that will move you to laughter as well as serious contemplation. Hosts - Jim and Bobbi Jean Bell Opening and Closing Music - Hot Texas courtesy of Alex Dormont and the Hot Texas Swing Band Sponsored by Blue Cottage Agency Clicks By Madison. OutWest Shop Shop ALL Rendezvous With A Writer book titles HERE Aired September 12, 2024

MAYHEM, MEMOIR, MURDER, and MEDALLION WINNER! Hosts Jim Bell and Bobbi Jean Bell kick it off September with Mayhem! Join us as we talk with C Courtney Joyner and Henry Parke about books and movies. Henry is an author and film editor for True West Magazine and he catches us up with his monthly "Henry's Western Roundup" of film and TV news. Courtney is an award-winning writer of fiction, comics and screen plays who will share the back stories about his two latest projects - the book Video Tapes From Hell: Visual History of Cult, Collectibles, and Crazy Video Covers, releasing October 1st and the riveting film, Quadrant. Hosts - Jim and Bobbi Jean Bell Opening and Closing Music - Hot Texas courtesy of Hot Texas Swing Band Sponsored by Blue Cottage Agency Clicks By Madison. OutWest Shop Shop ALL Rendezvous With A Writer book titles HERE Aired September 5, 2024

AT THE HEART OF THE GAME Hosts Jim Bell and Bobbi Jean Bell welcome two authors, Peggy Chambers with her special guest Paula Benge.

Hosts Jim Bell and Bobbi Jean Bell welcome KATY MCQUAID!

WE READ A POLITICAL THRILLER! JOIN US! KAPLAN IS UP THERE WITH THE BEST - CLIVE CUSSLER Hosts Jim Bell and Bobbi Jean Bell are eager to introduce to you HOWARD KAPLAN, the author of THE SYRIAN SUNSET. A sweeping novel of international intrigue about the Syrian Civil War, the failure of the West to save the Syrian people, and how that inaction against the Russian incursion of Syria emboldened Vladmir Putin to attack Ukraine. Based on true events, THE SYRIAN SUNSET tells the tale of a fictional Syrian Military Intelligence general who wants a better Syria, and the events that led to the death of 500,000 civilians, 5 million people fleeing Syria, another 15 million being displaced internally. From Howard Kaplan, author of THE DAMASCUS COVER, is a major motion picture starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Sir John Hurt in his final film. Hosts - Jim and Bobbi Jean Bell Opening and Closing Music - Hot Texas courtesy of Hot Texas Swing Band Sponsored by Blue Cottage Agency and OutWest Shop Shop ALL Rendezvous With A Writer book titles HERE Aired August 8, 2024

THE DOCTOR WAS A WOMAN Hosts Bobbi Jean and Jim Bell rendezvous with multi-award winning author and historian Chris Enss and True West Magazine Film Editor Henry C. Parke. So much to talk about! This broadcast marks our Second Anniversary and the beginning of our third year. Henry catches us up with the latest news from the Western Film and TV front with his monthly "Henry's Western Round-up Report." Executive Director of the Will Rogers Medallion Awards, Chris Enss, joins us with news of the organization's upcoming Awards event in October and their exciting plans for 2025 and 2026. Then we enjoy an in-depth discussion about her latest title, The Doctor Was A Woman: Stories Of The First Female Physicians On The Frontier. It is enlightening - entertaining - and educational - a fascinating read. And, later, we learn about her next book available now to pre-order and publishing in October -Tilghman: The Legendary Lawman And The Woman Who Inspired Him. Hosts - Jim and Bobbi Jean Bell Opening and Closing Music - Hot Texas courtesy of Hot Texas Swing Band Sponsored by Blue Cottage Agency and OutWest Shop Shop ALL Rendezvous With A Writer book titles HERE Aired August 1, 2024

THE BOX M GANG Hosts Bobbi Jean and Jim Bell rendezvous with author Mark L. Redmond about his passion for the West and his success creating three series for middle grade readers. We'll be taking an in-depth at the first book of his new series, The Box M Gang.