Hey, Y'all!

Don't worry, I'm not going to bore you with a full history of my life. I'm just a simple little country girl from Ohio now living in Kentucky. I love horses, Americana music, Southern culture, and great film/literature. I am currently a student at the University of Kentucky and working toward a BS in Equine Science and Management.

I was knee-deep in 4H horse projects back in my younger days. If you have any horse-related questions at all you'd like to ask for some small detail or aspect of your fanfic(s), feel free to contact to me! I'll gladly give you all the information you need. :)

I adore getting reviews on my stories! I love hearing what you have to say, good, bad, or ugly. I'm here to work on improving my writing skills while I'm slogging through college. I dream of being a published (in print) author one day and I can't do it without your help! That's why I especially love it when people take the time to chime in and give me some substantial concrit! So, if you've read something of mine and haven't reviewed it yet, please hit that back arrow and leave me a review!

My pen name comes from my personal favorite of all racehorses (mainly because he was the one who drew me into the sport in the first place), Smarty Jones. Just in case any of y'all were wondering.

Favorite Book: Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Favorite Nonfiction: The Name Above the Title by Frank Capra

Favorite Author(s): Cormac McCarthy, Larry Brown

Favorite Poet: Paul Laurence Dunbar

Favorite Movie: Gone With the Wind, all of Frank Capra's films, The Accountant (and all of Ray McKinnon's/Walt Goggins' work), O Brother Where Art Thou, Fargo (all of the Coen brothers' work, for that matter), National Velvet, The Secret To A Happy Ending (A Documentary About the Drive-By Truckers)

Favorite Actor(s): Ray McKinnon, Lisa Blount, Walton Goggins, Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Jean Arthur, Barbara Stanwyck, Jimmy Stewart, Lucille Ball, Gary Cooper, Chevy Chase, Pernell Roberts

Favorite Band/Music: Drive-By Truckers (intensely loyal fan since 2008), Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit, Lucero, Alabama Shakes, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Hank Williams, Sr., Shonna Tucker and Eye Candy, Charlie Rich, Booker T. Jones, Eddie Hinton

Favorite Record: Brighter Than Creation's Dark (Drive-By Truckers)

Favorite Song(s): A Ghost to Most by Drive-By Truckers, When the Pin Hits the Shell by Drive-By Truckers, Love Like This by Drive-By Truckers

Favorite Breed(s) of Horse: Tennessee Walkers (and other Southeastern easy gaiters), and drafts of all types. I love my draft breeds.

Favorite TV Show: Bonanza, The Andy Griffith Show, Perfect Strangers, M*A*S*H, I Love Lucy, Good Eats

Role Models: My Grandmother, Scarlett O'Hara, Frank Capra, Rachel Rowe

Favorite Quotes:

Evidently what rings true in one heart will toll the same bell all over the world. - Frank Capra

Certainly I'm a rascal, and why not? It's a free country and a man may be a rascal if he chooses. It's only hypocrites like you, my dear lady, just as black at heart but trying to hide it, who become enraged when called by their right names. - Rhett Butler

The tops of the mountains belong to God and He don't want His wild things disturbed. - Unknown

If a man builds a machine, and that machine conspires with another machine built by another man, are those men conspiring? - The Accountant, The Accountant

The more you toot, the better you feel, so eat some beans with every meal. - Mrs. Hutsell

The basic rule...was simple and heartbreaking. A story to be effective had to convey something from writer to reader, and the power of its offering was the measure of its excellence. Outside of that...there were no rules. - John Steinbeck

Man is the only thing where supply exceeds the demand. How can he justify his existence? - Lucius Beebe

It's do-able but it ain't gonna be purdy. - The Accountant, The Accountant

Just 'cause I don't run my mouth don't mean I got nothing to say. - Mike Cooley

The formula seems to lie solely in the aching urge of the writer to convey something he feels important to the reader. If the writer has that urge, he may sometimes but by no means always find the way to do it. - John Steinbeck

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. - Rhett Butler

Jesus made the flowers but it took a dog to make the story good. - Mike Cooley

My good opinion once lost is lost forever. - Darcy to Elizabeth, Pride & Prejudice

I want it all so fast, so God won't stop and think and wonder if I've had more than my share. - Velvet Brown, National Velvet

Character; it's the only thing you can bank on and it's the only thing that'll pull this country out of the doldrums. - Thomas Dickson, American Madness

Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around, he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he? - Clarence Oddbody, It's a Wonderful Life

The imaginations of other people will carry them away to form wrong judgements of our conduct, and to decide on it by slight appearances. - Sense & Sensibility

He can't trust his own reality; he don't know what it is no more. He starts ACTIN' COUNTRY instead of BEIN' COUNTRY! - The Accountant, The Accountant

After all, tomorrow is another day! - Scarlett O'Hara, Gone With the Wind

I will go so far as to say that the writer who is not scared is happily unaware of the remote and tantalizing majesty of the medium. - John Steinbeck

The import of kudzu was short-sighted. - Tino Armani, Randy & The Mob

Friend, you are a divine mingle-mangle of guts and stardust. So hang in there! If doors opened for me, they can open for anyone. - Frank Capra