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Author Spotlight: Elsa Winckler Is Back with More Cowboys!

I always love having fellow Tule author Elsa Winckler on the blog. She’s always a delight and her stories are full of wonder and love and spunky heroines and hot heroes.

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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Reckless with the Cowboy

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Elsa Winckler

I came across Iain Welch’s gorgeous sketches of his dogs—do visit his website https://iainwelch.co.uk or his Instagram page @artywelch to see the adorable illustrations he does of the antics of his dogs. His artwork was the inspiration for Becket’s—the hero in Reckless with the cowboy—“secret.”

Becket is the second Weston brother and also lives and works on the Weston Ranch. He has a reputation as a bad boy, breaking hearts as far as he goes. No happy ending for him, he has his reasons. He loves the ranch and can’t imagine living anywhere else, but his first love isn’t ranching, it’s drawing cartoon-like pictures of dogs and adding text to express his thoughts about life and love and losing someone. These he shares on social media under a pseudonym and to his surprise, his posts go viral.

When Ellie Campbell’s grandmother died, she walked away from an abusive relationship and takes the trip she’s always dreamt about. The first place she visits, is Marietta, the small Montana town her grandmother never stopped talking about. She opens a yarn shop, but as she tells everyone, she’s not settling down, she’s only interrupting her journey for a while. When she topples from a rickety ladder and ends up in Becket’s arms, everything changes, though.

I hope you enjoy reading Becket and Ellie’s story as much as I loved writing it.

Thanks for stopping by!

Thanks, Nan for helping to spread the word!

GIVEAWAY! Elsa is offering a free e-book copy of A Family with the Cowboy, Book 1 in the series. to one lucky commenter. To enter, answer this question: If money were no object and you could open any kind of a shop, what would it be? A yarn shop like Ellie? A quilting store? A pet store? A bookstore? A candy store? Let your imagination go wild!

Reckless with the Cowboy

Cowboy Becket Weston likes women, plural, and has a reputation for breaking hearts. His bad-boy behavior masks a deeper need to atone for past mistakes. His side-hustle—using a pseudonym and posting comic drawings of ranch life on social media—lets him explore life, love, and grief without being exposed. He even has a following! But no amount of introspection can explain his fascination with Eleanor Campbell—Main Street, Marietta’s newest shopkeeper. She’s definitely not his type, so why does she keep turning up in his drawings?

Ellie Campbell isn’t one for staying long in any one place, but when she inherits money from her grandmother and decides to open a yarn store in small-town Marietta, it feels like she’s putting down roots. She’s not looking for a relationship after one too many hard knocks, literally, but Becket Weston gets under her skin like no other, igniting passion that’s impossible to ignore.

He’s a bad boy playboy and everyone knows it, but there’s something about him that just doesn’t add up. Does Ellie have the courage to stick around and find a way into his heart?

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7 Comments

  • Patricia Barraclough

    I would likely open a bookstore cafe combination. Since I encourage starting reading early, there would be a free used book section with children’s books. Any child would be allowed to select one when they visited. They would be able to keep it or return it for someone else when they were finished with it. Sort of a variation of the little free libraries. There would be a combination of used and new books for sale with special orders accepted. There would be a resident dog or 2 (vetted and trained to be safe) for the children to read to or to be company for an adult who needed it. The cafe would have a door from both the street and the bookstore. There would be items appropriate for both adults and children. There would be both sofas and tables with chairs for people to relax and enjoy reading their purchase, visiting, and enjoying the cafe’s offerings. I would likely put used magazines in the cafe for people to read, or if there are enough donations, let them take one home.