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Author Spotlight: Sinclair Jayne Is In the House!

May 28, 2026 /

We have a winner! Barbara T–you are Sinclair’s giveaway winner! She will be in touch! Thanks to everyone who stopped by! We love talking to our readers!

I know I say this every time Sinclair Jayne is here, but man, I love having her with me! Her books charm the socks off me and she is one of my very favorite authors as well as one of my very favorite people! And I promise I’m not schmoozing my editor–she is just so much fun and so very savvy about writing and books and cowboys! I trust her judgment implicitly and know that she is always going to make my stories better! Plus, she and her husband make terrific pinot noir!

Sinclair Sawhney has been the senior developmental editor for romance for Tule Publishing for over thirteen years. Writing as Sinclair Jayne, she’s published over thirty-five contemporary romances with Tule Publishing. An avid romance reader since sixth grade, she’s savoring her dream writing career. Married with two adult children, she and her husband own Roshni Vineyard in Oregon’s Willamette Valley where she hosts weekend wine tastings while attempting to write one more sentence or squeeze in another scene between pours of Pinot Noir.

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Bonjour Nan’s Amis,

Nan was kind enough to invite me to come today to chat a little about cowboys.  Not just cowboys, but more the enduring appeal of cowboys in a romance novel construct. Sometimes when I sit in editorial meetings at Tule Publishing, and we are reviewing sales—publishing is a tough business with tight margins–we marvel at how our cowboy romances continue to pull in nearly 40 percent of our business.

Tule was founded in 2013—with a collection of rodeo cowboy romance novellas by very experienced love story tellers.  At the time, the digital book marketplace was new and fairly easy to navigate. Now, to me, it feels like a combination of a pinball machine tournament, a battling monsters video game, and an episode of Star Trek with the Enterprise under a Borg attack.

We keep thinking cowboy romances will fade a little from popularity, but they continue to ride and swagger forward. I wouldn’t say it’s easy to find an audience, but the audience is present, loyal and hungry.  My first cowboy romance was Want Me Cowboy. It was part of a Copper Mountain Rodeo multi-author series, and while I was thrilled to be included, I felt like a phony. I’d grown up in Laguna Beach, California. Taught in a small town outside Seattle. Was raising my kids in a suburb of that city nestled along the shores of Lake Washington before we moved south. And while I had recently moved to rural Oregon, we were planting vines, not running cows.

But I do love to research, and I wasn’t too deep into it before I realized Cowboys are the iconic myth of America and the American spirit. Cowboys are aspirational and not just limited to the west. Cowboys can embody the entrepreneurial drive, operate alone, but also step up and collaborate. There’s cowboy magic in rock stars and adversity. A touch of feral, as well as kindness and care. The more I researched cowboys and read cowboy romances, the more the vibe entered my bloodstream. Cowboys embody a spiritual attitude—connected to the land, animals, crops, and community. Their way of inhabiting their body and lives was earthy, filled with zeal, and there was a freewheeling, live-in-the-moment and get sh** done. I loved the can-and-will-do attitude. To heck with my analysis and angsting. Cowboys don’t have time for that.

And YES, neither do cowgirls.

While Cowboy Come Home was my first cowboy hero, my latest release, The Bull Rider’s Baby Surprise, is my seventeenth cowboy love story, and wow, Cash Hunter (real name Benz Telford) is the embodiment of everything I LOVE about writing cowboy love stories. He’s got the swagger. The confidence. The easy charm. Sexy for days, but respectful of women. The fury to compete and win and prove himself. He also had a tough childhood that he rearview mirrors to make his fortune. No whining. No pity parties. Just do the job. Give a good show on the AEBR (professional bull riding tour) and make bank and invest earnings to buy his own piece of future dirt.

This story was so much fun to tell. The writing never felt like work and that is rare. I always love my books after I finish the first draft, revise and polish, but this one just flowed. Cash oozes confidence and success, and my heroine, an intern, just starting out in marketing, has just as much ambition, though no clout—yet. I loved how a crazy situation in the opening scene spins Cash’s life off its axis, and suddenly, Maddy, younger, poorer, and powerless, is in charge. She quietly steps up and seizes the reins. And Cash spends the first half of the book fighting to get his life and power back. And then in the middle of the story, there’s a twist that sends them both scrambling anew.

As a writer, I love to put my characters in the LAST place they want to be with the LAST person they want to have to collaborate with. In real life, I would probably not be laughing my way through that situation as I did when I was writing. The book is full of tropes. Secret baby, secret/found family, enemies to lovers, workplace romance, going home…

GIVEAWAY! For a signed print copy of Bull Rider’s Baby Surprise and some fun western-themed swag, do you enjoy cowboy romances? What are a couple of your all-time favorites? If not, what is your favorite genre, and what is your favorite trope?

The Bull Rider’s Baby Surprise

A Champion bull rider in need of a reputation salvage. The ambitious intern who excels at spin. A forced exile and an unexpected baby. What else could go wrong?

At the end of the American Extreme Bull Rider tour, fan favorite Cash Hunter again sits at the top of the leaderboard. Standing in the winner’s circle opining about his chances in the finals, a woman he’s never seen runs toward him cursing before shoving a baby into his arms and disappearing. Suddenly the golden boy’s tarnished.

Madelyn Ramone always prepares for success and disaster. While tour execs panic, Maddy steps up with her redemption plan. Publicly embrace fatherhood. Go home. Lay low. Document daddy moments. Take a DNA test. Accompanying him wasn’t part of her plan. She’s going to need her own Kevlar vest to resist his potent sexual pull.

Cash is furious. No one believes the child isn’t his, especially the coolly judgmental Maddy. But he needs her. And she’s gunning for the opportunity. Neither wants to buckle up and head to the small Montana town that holds unpleasant associations and memories for them both.

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23 Comments

  • Glenda M

    May 28, 2026 at 11:32 pm

    I love cowboy romances! Most of my favorites are all Tule ones, but please don’t ask me to narrow it down to a single book – or even series! I love the ideal cowboy hero and his hard working mentality that goes so well with his respect for women, animals, his family and community, and the land.

  • Sue Farmer

    May 28, 2026 at 10:27 pm

    I love cowboy romances, especially those set in and around Marietta, Montana. I recently reread your Wilder Brothers series and a few other books where a new Wilder family member was discovered. I especially love books with secrets where family ties and secret babies are revealed. My all time favorite cowboy ones would be your Kane/Cowboy Takes All from the Wilder Brothers series and The Cowboy’s Lost Family by Roxanne Snopek. My favorite genres are the secret baby/family and second chance romances.

    Congratulations too on your new release. I loved this book as well. It’s what prompted me to go back and reread all the books I did.

  • Latesha B.

    May 28, 2026 at 8:53 pm

    Love cowboy romances. I don’t know that I have a favorite because each one is special in his own way.

  • Joannie Sico

    May 28, 2026 at 3:44 pm

    I love cowboy romance! I don’t know if I can pick favorites though. The lastest that I read was Katie Mettner’s Bison Ridge Cowboy series and loved them!

    • Sinclair

      May 28, 2026 at 3:52 pm

      I haven’t read that series, Joannie, but anything with Bison in the title always gets my attention. Such majestic animals. Last year or maybe two years ago, Nan took her first trip to Montana with a friend, and she was so enamored with the scenery–cute towns, mountains, rolling farm land, and I do believe they went through parts of Yellow Stone. I haven’t been in such a long time, and yet I am goggle mapping Montana for my books, but no where near close to the real thing. Some day soon. I want to drag my husband out there. He has NO IDEA what he is missing.

    • Sinclair

      May 28, 2026 at 3:55 pm

      You are one of Tule’s biggest supporters. And Marietta Queen. I think soon Jane and I are going to be conferring with you to remember facts from books that are over ten years old now.

      I remember I’d only read the Lonesome Dove stories as a kid so not a lot of romance until I started working for Tule and. then I fell in love and was so fired up when I got a chance to write my first Marietta set book–Seducing the Bachelor. He was a solider but had grown up on a ranch and then after that, so many fun cowboys. I’m finishing up a cowboy series and am already plotting ways to finegle my way onto the Tule calendar with another cowboy brothers series.

  • Billie Carlock

    May 28, 2026 at 7:47 am

    Yes I love cowboy romances. I’ve recently read some by D.W. Ulstraman but can’t leave out others like Diane Palmer or Linda Lael Miller. Since retirement, I’m an avid reader and am open to newer authors. Thanks for a chance to win.

    • Sinclair

      May 28, 2026 at 4:08 pm

      How could I forget Linda Lael Miller!!! Yikes I did read a lot of her stories–I was thinking about how I read so many mysteries–another genre I love, especially those set in the west, like Tony Hillerman and the Longmire series.

      Tule Publishing has so many talented authors who write both sweet cowboy romances and sexy cowboy romances. I have the opportunity to read many of them as an editor and a fan, and it was so exciting to me when Nan agreed to write a cowboy romance series, and she loved it so much, she’s writing a second series in Juniper Falls.

  • Shari Bartholomew

    May 28, 2026 at 7:19 am

    I thoroughly enjoy cowboy romances. Love their integrity and devotion to family. I don’t have a favorite but I have been reading them since Tule started!!

    • Sinclair

      May 28, 2026 at 4:13 pm

      The devotion to family and the land (and the legacy ) is something that really sung to me early on when I started writing cowboy romances. I also love the inner strength–that no matter what’s happening around them, the cowboy will do what he (or cowgirls) have to do. No whining, No punting. They will do whatever they need to do.

      I am so very pleased that you have been enjoying the rich author talent at Tule and the compelling collection of cowboy romances. So many fabulous stories–sexy and sweet.

    • sinclair

      May 28, 2026 at 4:19 pm

      I am working on some new reader swag–western themed totes for books–that will really be fun when those are done–hopefully by my next guest appearance on Nan’s blog.

      • Sinclair

        May 28, 2026 at 4:25 pm

        Hi Doris,
        Thanks for saying hi. I feel lucky that I have had the opportunity to create several cowboy series. My Latest–The Telfords of Montana–was really a lot of fun and got me all juiced up to write another one hopefully soon in the future.

    • sinclair

      May 28, 2026 at 4:21 pm

      It’s always fun when you say hi Liz. I hope you are enjoying your late spring–moving into summer and that your writing retreat with Nan was awesome.