Goodreads asked Tom Van Dyke:

How do you get inspired to write?

Tom Van Dyke I have had the privilege to meet many western authors and become friends with Elmore Leonard, novelist and Michael Blake, the author of Dances With Wolves. I was very gratified that they wrote praise lines for A Cowboy Christmas An American Tale. Howard Terpning, western narrative painter also wrote a praise line for the book. . . . I am pleased the book is available at the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, George and most every other western museum in America. And, I was amazed at the invitation to come to the Flying D Ranch in Bozeman, Montana and see the west from horseback. It truly was an experience bigger and more beautiful than any dream.

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