Author Spotlight: Elsa Winckler Brings Cowboy Joy!

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One of my very favorite Western romance writers is fellow Tule author Elsa Winckler. Her cowboy romances always make my heart flutter!

Elsa has been reading love stories for as long as she can remember and when she ‘met’ the classic authors like Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry James, the Brontë sisters, etc. during her Honors studies, she was hooked for life. Although her three gown-up children rarely acknowledge the fact they have a romance-writing mom, her husband fortunately, is very proud of her, reads every word and is happy to make sure she gets the kissing scenes just right. She likes the heroines in her stories to be beautiful, feisty, independent, and headstrong.  And the heroes must be strong but possess a generous amount of sensitivity. They are of course, also gorgeous.  Her stories typically incorporate the family background of the characters to better understand where they come from and who they are when we meet them in the story.

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Elsa, the floor is yours…

I think, if we’re honest, most of us have allowed social media to become a large part of our lives. Whether you’re an influencer or simply a scroller, we get hooked and before we know it, we spend our days on our phones, checking on the lives of people we’ve never met or checking whether someone has seen what we’ve posted.

This very human reaction fascinates me, and I’ve done a lot of research on the subject. In my search for answers, I came across this very honest article by Julia Elsie in Medium. It brings the very clear danger of losing yourself online into perspective.

In What the Cowboy Wants, Rose Dalton has been the influencer in Seattle to follow, a lifestyle that has quickly taken over her whole life. Everything comes crashing down the night her so-called boyfriend dumps her during a live feed. Humiliated, hurt and so angry with herself for changing into someone she hardly recognizes, she got into her car and drives away from what her life has become.

Cooper is the quiet Weston, the one who listens and sees and understands much more than other people do. Like his sister Willow, he has inherited this instinct from their Irish grandmother. He has decided a long time ago though, that he prefers working with animals. Getting serious about a woman? So not part of his plans. And then he meets a crying Rose on the road outside Marietta he tries to ignore the immediate strange vibes but this Marietta and at the foot of Copper Mountain, anything is possible.

If you like cowboy stories with a touch of magic, stories that force you to suspend your disbelief, I think you’ll enjoy Cooper’s and Rose’s story.

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What the Cowboy Wants

The night Influencer Rose Dalton gets dumped live on social media—when she and her millions of followers were expecting a marriage proposal—is the night Rose drives away from her life in Seattle. She’s hurt and angry, mostly at herself for becoming someone she hardly recognizes. She’s also at fault when she almost drives off the road near a town called Marietta, earning a scolding from a cowboy with the most amazing blue eyes she’s ever seen.

Cooper Weston is known as the horse whisperer. He prefers animals to people and loves working with skittish and abused horses on his family’s vast ranch. Women love him, and he enjoys them, but he’s yet to meet one who’s interested in anything besides fashion, social media, and taking pictures of everything.

Then he lays eyes on the wounded, secretive Rose and he wonders if he can trust her with his past, and Rose isn’t sure she’s brave enough to hand over her bruised heart to the quiet sexy cowboy.

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