Author Spotlight: Sinclair Jayne Brings the Next Montana’s Rodeo Cowboy!

One of the best gifts I ever got was when I was assigned to Sinclair (Sawhney) Jayne as my editor for my series. She’s brilliant and knows me and my stories almost as well as I know them myself. I can’t imagine taking this new journey into cowboy romance without her! It’s a honor to welcome her to the Spotlight today with her new novel, Rogue Cowboy, the third installment of Tule’s new series, Montana’s Rodeo Cowboys, which releases today! YAY!

Sinclair is a former journalist and middle school teacher who holds a BA in Political Science and K-8 teaching certificate from the University of California, Irvine and a MS in Education with an emphasis in teaching writing from the University of Washington. She has worked as Senior Editor with Tule Publishing for over seven years. Writing as Sinclair Jayne she’s published over 35 contemporary romances with Tule Publishing with another being released in November. Married for over twenty-five years, she has two grown children, and when she isn’t writing or editing, she and her husband, Deepak, are hosting wine tastings of their pinot noir and pinot noir rose at their vineyard Roshni, which is a Hindi word for light-filled, located in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Shaandaar!

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Take it away, Sinclair!

Rogue Cowboy is an evocative title that I wished I’d come up with, but no, it was, Tule’s amazing Meghan Farrell, who’s been with the company since the beginning. Meghan often makes distilling the essence of a character and a theme and a goal, motivation, conflict into a perfectly crafted simple title.  It suits my hero beautifully. He has a strong moral center and fierce independence that guide him through the toughest times.

I’m always excited when Tule Publishing plans a multi-author series, especially when it’s set in the Tule Publishing and author-created town Marietta, Montana, and the stories feature the Copper Mountain Rodeo. This is my seventh book set in the Copper Mountain Rodeo, and as I type that, I think ‘Wow, seven, really?’ And also ‘Seven, that’s some kind of lucky.’ And yeah, I feel lucky to have the opportunity to not only write a cowboy, western, small town love story, but to also be able to write the story in a series with friends.

The authors in this series have been so rock-and-roll to work with. I’ve worked on a couple of series with Jeannie Watt—she knows much more ranch and cowboy information than anyone I know. Nicole Flockton lives in Australia though she has the whole Montana vibe DOWN. She is so skilled with building her tropes and hooks that you are sucked into her stories immediately. And I’ve also had fun working with Nan Reinhardt, editing her River’s Edge series and hanging out with her at a Tule retreat and also when she made her first trip to Oregon to try some Pinot Noir. Nan was a bit dubious about writing a cowboy romance, but she put her hand up and created a fantastic dude ranch and then also began to rehab a small run down ranch—Juniper Falls– that will be the setting for her first series in Montana. Nan is so dedicated to her craft, she traveled to Montana with a friend to absorb the vibes. I benefitted from all the SM posts.

Working in a multi-author series can be intense if you try to coordinate a lot of details and characters, or it can be a bit more chill if you pick your moments or a common theme of event you can share. For us, it was a stray dog that steals a cowboy’s jeans and runs through the arena proudly with his loot while the rodeo announcer narrates. We named the dog Rascal, and my hero and heroine had several Rascal run ins, and I realized as I turned the corner and headed toward Rogue Cowboy’s finish line, that Rascal was a metaphor for my heroine’s journey.

A quick note on my book. My heroine, Riley Telford, is the only daughter of a ranching family with deep Montana roots. She’s appeared in several other books as her brothers have found their happy endings, and I was saving her for last. I felt a little bit like a spy building her back story through so many Marietta books, and I knew her sunny-side-up exterior was hiding something, and with Rogue Cowboy, I learned what it was. My hero, Cole Jameson, is from a large ranching family in Texas who’s been a Special Forces soldier for many years. I wanted it to be a reunion romance as that is my favorite trope, but I added a twist this time—secret marriage of convenience. So many possibilities there, right?

I hope you get a chance to read Rogue Cowboy. As I finished the book, I received a two-book contract to create two more Telfords, who unexpectedly arrive in Marietta with perhaps not the purest motives. I’m looking for big small town western romance with sexy cowboys and heroines who can take them on and dance. Bring on the drama!

If anyone wants to shout out a suggestion for a premise, I’m ready to take notes. Here’s what I know so far. These two new cowboys (they can have another career) would be brothers or half-brothers and cousins with my existing Telfords, and the ranching patriarch Taryn Telford, was the golden boy son, whose older twin brother embraced being a bad boy and who disappeared decades ago. Tell me what you think might work…

GIVEAWAY: 2 winners—signed print copy of Rogue Cowboy along with a $10 Starbucks card and some western-themed reader swag. We’ll draw a winner on Saturday at noon. (Continental US only)

Happy reading!

Sinclair Jayne

Rogue Cowboy

She knows he’s wrong. He’s convinced he’s right. He’ll prove it with a kiss that reignites their past.

Texas Cowboy and former Special Forces soldier Cole Jameson isn’t just in Marietta for the Copper Mountain Rodeo to close a family business deal. He’s there to win the heart of the cowgirl he married in secret before deploying. He wanted to keep her safe and give her time to follow her dreams. But he always intended to return and make their marriage sizzle.

Horse Trainer Riley Telford always knew her hero, her fantasy Mr. Perfect, and savior would return and politely demand his freedom. She’ll graciously let him go because she can’t be the wife he deserves. Riley’s miles away from the vibrant, adventurous girl he fell in love with during a whirlwind weekend. But Cole’s confidence, relentless charm and soul-searing kisses fill her with a dangerous longing and a desperate hope.

It was a marriage of convenience, but as the rodeo competition races to the end, can Cole convince Riley their marriage can shine, or will her doubts and fears forever keep them apart?

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