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Author Spotlight:
I know when fellow Tule author Shelly Jones stops by it’s always going to be fun and game! Delighted they’re here with us this week! Their newest book in the Wren Winters series is Game Over and it just released on Monday! Shelly Jones is a professor by trade and a nerd by design. Woefully introverted, their pockets are full of post-it notes and their head is full of (unsaid) witty come-backs and un-won arguments from years past. When they aren’t grading papers or writing new cozy mysteries, Shelly can often be found hiking in the woods or playing a board game while their cats look on. Website | Instagram…
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Sunday Snippet: The Closing Up the Lake Edition
It’s quiet here at the lake this weekend. There is a sort of abandoned feeling in the air here in our little lake community. Most folks have already closed up their cottages for the season; a few (like us) hang on a bit longer. But this is our weekend to close up, winterize the cottage, and leave the lake for another year. Fall is definitely on the way out. The cottonwoods and maples and walnut trees have pretty much dropped all their leaves. (Mostly on our deck, roof, and driveway) On our way up to the lake yesterday, the soybean fields and cornfields were harvested and empty. Winter wheat will…
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Author Spotlight: Sinclair Jayne Brings a Touch of Autumn Magic
We have a winner! Germaine Brown-Corbitt, you are Sinclair’s giveaway winner. Sinclair will be in touch with you. Thanks to everyone who stopped by! I love it when my dear editor and fellow Tule author comes to visit. Sinclair Jayne is such a remarkable storyteller that any new book from her goes immediately onto my TBR. The Southern Love Spells series has kept me intrigued and delighted. I can’t wait to read A Kiss of Southern Magic, which releases today from Tule Publishing. Sinclair Jayne has loved reading romance novels since she discovered Barbara Cartland historical romances when she was in sixth grade. By seventh grade, she was haunting the library…
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Author Spotlight: Elsa Winckler Is Here with Christmas Joy!
I love hearing about how other author’s minds work as they’re writing and how sometimes we are surprised by what happens in our own books. The characters take over and we’re left with, “Really? That’s where you’re going?” It happened to my friend, Elsa Winckler as she wrote her newest holiday romance, which released on November 11, and she’s here to tell us all about it. 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…
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Sunday Snippet: The Writing a Book Is Hard Edition
Writing a book is hard. A few days ago, as Liz and I had our usual morning g-Chat she said, okay, she typed, those words. Simple as the words are, the idea is huge because of the truth of it. In these days of indie publishing, where anyone can put a book up on Amazon, those words need to be said. To repeat: Writing a book is hard. I’m not going to rant about the folks who put up the books that haven’t seen an editor, the books that are full of misspellings and bad punctuation and lousy story structure. The folks who read a book, think well, I can…
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Sunday Snippet: The Little Pieces of Words that Wander Through My Mind Edition
This is a repeat of a post that I wrote for Petticoats & Pistols last week. I really loved thinking about this, so I thought I’d share it here with ya’ll and get your ideas and thoughts. I was on a writer retreat with my bestie, Liz Flaherty last month. It was fabulous. We wrote, we drank wine, we ate chocolate, we talked, we processed her book and mine. Our retreats are always as Liz puts it so eloquently, “… harbors, as in they are places of refuge and safety, places for gathering, resting, and repairing. They are narrow and small and contained and when we are finished in them,…
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Author Spotlight: Heidi Field Is Here with a New Thriller!
Carol Light–you are Heidi’s randomly selected giveaway winner. She will be in touch with you. Thanks to everyone for stopping by! I’m so pleased to welcome fellow Tule Publishing author Heidi Field back to the spotlight. She creates amazing, twisty thrillers that keep you on the edge of your seat as you read. If you’re into thrillers, you don’t want to miss her novels! Heidi Field was raised in the beautiful countryside of the South of England with her parents and her two sisters. In her twenties she was a freelance Sports Massage Therapist. She achieved a Degree in Zoology at the age of thirty and then went on to…
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Author Spotlight: Leigh Ann Edwards Is Here with a Word about Her Upcoming Series and a Giveaway!
Latesha B, congratulations! You are Leigh Ann’s giveaway winner! She will be in touch with you! Thanks to everyone who stopped by! We love, love talking to our readers! It’s always fun to welcome fellow Tule Publishing author, Leigh Ann Edwards to the Spotlight. Her books are filled with paranormal wonder and such fabulous romantic fantasy. She’s here with a sample of her current WIP–you’re gonna be hooked! Leigh Ann writes smoking hot romantic fantasy with badass heroines, alpha heroes, history, castles, and magic. She believes love is love, that villains should get their comeuppance (sometimes with a stake through the heart), that pleasure is NOT a four-letter word, and…
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Sunday Snippet: The Cover Reveal & A Real Snippet Edition
It’s been a writing week, mes amis. Liz and I went on retreat and we wrote words–lots of words! We also processed stories and okay, we had a little wine and a little chocolate and we enjoyed a hair & history day where we got our washed and blown out and visited some of the historical sites around Galena, Illinois. It’s a lovely town, full of history, shops, and beautiful trees and hills. The perfect place for a writing retreat. Today, a new week begins and since I’ve started book 3 in the Juniper Falls Ranch series, this feels like a good time to reveal the cover for book 2,…
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Authors on the Road Day 5.5
Well, we’re packing, finishing up last-minute little details as we prepare for our trip back to real life. Right now, we’re both sipping coffee and we have the fireplace going for a last few moments of the bliss of writing together by the fire. One sorta goofy thing that’s happened here is that the air is very dry and the static electricity is through the roof. Yesterday morning I woke up with my hair looking like I’d stuck my finger in a light socket. It took dampening my brush and running it through my hair to calm it down. This morning Liz had the same issue. We really wished we…