As The Pioneer Woman has grown and the revenue has grown, the prizes keep getting better, and that certainly feels good.

I'm a writer and a photographer - I'm totally aware that doesn't always translate to TV.

It never occurred to me that I was going to have to talk to a camera. I don't know if I can do this.

I'm working on a second cookbook and am working on my love story, 'Black Heels to Tractor Wheels.

The truth of the matter is that I live on an isolated cattle ranch in the middle of Oklahoma and that's not going to change.

I want people to see how hard my husband and kids work on the ranch.

I hate to play the I-live-in-the-country card, but it really takes all of the 'pack the kids into the car and run from here to there' out of the equation.