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Sunday Snippet: The Places I Love Most Edition
This might be a lazy way to blog but I’ve been thinking a lot about places that I love. Pal Carol and I are going to be going to France next fall (2027) and thinking about travel has made me consider all the places that I’ve been to and loved. This isn’t a travel memories kind of post, though. Rather, I’ve been thinking about places that have always been special to me. Places I return to for restoration and renewal. So here are three places that always make me happy and not surprisingly, they are all right here in the Midwest. Whitehall, Michigan: Wow… I’ve been going to Whitehall since…
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Author Spotlight: Elsa Winckler’s Here with a New Hot Cowboy and Great Giveaway!
Know what’s really fun? Connecting with the other authors who write in Marietta, Montana–even when that author lives far away in South Africa! I’ve loved getting to know Elsa Winckler and she has graciously allowed me to let some of my Marietta characters meet up with hers! The friendship isreal even from continent to continent. Elsa Winckler 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,…
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Author Spotlight: Celebrating E. Elizabeth Watson’s New Release!
It’s always fun to welcome E. Elizabeth Watson to the spotlight! As well as being a fellow Tule Publishing author, her Texas cowboy romances are a treat! Elizabeth is convinced life is better with good coffee, chocolate, and a pair of hiking boots. Ever since her elementary school librarian “published” her epic childhood tales—complete with laminated handmade covers—she’s enjoyed exploring the world through literature. She fell in love with the harsh Texas desert where she found inspiration for charismatic cowboys and the stubborn women who tame them while documenting prehistoric rock art as a student at the University of Texas at Austin. A recovering archaeologist and biomed research coordinator, Elizabeth…
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Sunday Snippet: The August 2026 Memos Edition
I do these every so often–these memos. I’d like to tell you it’s all about catching up, taking a breath, landing somewhere for a few minutes. I suppose it is all those things, but mostly, it’s because I can’t think of anything to blog about except what’s happening in our country and I need to not think about that right now. I don’t want this blog to be political–you all know my politics and I know most of yours. All we can do in that regard is keep staying alert and vote, vote, vote. So we’re going to do the August memos today. Dear Weather, Ummmm… could you pick a…
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Author Spotlight: Kate Moore Has a New Regency for Us!
So happy to welcome Kate Moore back to the Spotlight! Her regency romances are wonderful fun and I’m looking forward to reading The Lady and the Wager, which releases, September 9, but is available for pre-order. Kate taught English Literature to generations of high school students, who are now her Facebook friends, while she not-so-secretly penned Romances. In Kate’s stories an undeniable mutual attraction brings honorable, edgy loners and warm, practical women into a circle of love in Regency England or contemporary California. A Golden Heart, Golden Crown, and Book Buyers Best award winner and three-time RITA finalist, Kate lives north of San Francisco with her surfer husband, their yellow…
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Author Spotlight: Patricia Fischer Talks Medical Romance
Patricia W. Fischer is an award-winning writer, and former percussionist, actress, singer, waitress, bartender, pre-cook, and finally a trauma nurse before she realized she needed to get her butt to a journalism class. After earning her journalism degree from Washington University, Patricia written for numerous publications about women’s health, foster/adoption advocacy, ovarian cancer education, and entertainment features. These days she spends her days with her family, two dogs, and a few fish while she creates a good story with a touch of reality, a dash of laughter, and a whole lot of love. Website| Instagram | Threads | Facebook | TikTok ~*~*~*~ Finishing that Last Book of the Series By…
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Sunday Snippet: The I Got Nothin’, So Fast Facts Instead Edition
Liz and I often talk about how hard it can be to write a weekly column. It isn’t that we don’t enjoy the writing, we certainly do because, you know, writing. It’s just that sometimes topics can be elusive. We are both fascinating women, but even as interesting as we are, we don’t always have something brilliant to say. With that in mind, today, I’m giving you five fast facts about me–things you might not already know (although that will surprise me, I’ve been around for quite a while) and then I’m going to ask you to give me five fast facts about yourself in the comments? Sound fun? Good……
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Author Spotlight: Welcome Back, Leigh Ann Edwards!
Latesha B, you are Leigh Ann’s giveaway winner! Congratulations! Leigh Ann will be in touch! Thanks to everyone who stopped by! I always love having Leigh Ann Edwards on the blog–she writes such amazing paranormal stories, she has converted me to a romantasy reader–at least to her books, which keep you glued to the page. Leigh Ann Edwards writes smoking hot romantic fantasy adventures with badass heroines, alpha heroes, history, castles, and magic A grandmother of four, Leigh Ann wields her keyboard in Alberta, Canada with her husband and a few furry muses by her side. Her heroines don’t need to be rescued but will gladly work with a competent…
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Sunday Snippet: The Dog Days of Summer Edition
I think we are currently in the dog days—the hot, sultry days of late summer. I looked up why we called them the dog days, and the reason is kinda interesting. Per Google: “The dog days of summer refer to the hottest, most sultry weeks of the summer, usually running from early July to mid-August. People call them this because the ancient Romans blamed this hot weather on the star Sirius, known as the “Dog Star,” which rises and sets with the sun during this time.” Whatever you call these mid-to-late days of August, it has certainly been sultry and hot here in the Midwest. The windows on our house…
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Author Spotlight: Meet Romance Author Mary Karlik
I’m happy to welcome new Tule author, Mary Karlik to the spotlight. Mary combines her Texas roots with her Scottish heritage to write happily-ever-afters from Texas to Scotland. She has five indie published contemporary young adult romance novels and two indie-published fantasy novels. Mary earned her MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University, has a B.S. degree from Texas A&M University, and studied Scottish Gaelic at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig in Skye, Scotland. Mary is an active member of Romance Novelists Association, Romance Writers of America, and Dallas Area Romance Authors. When she is not writing or reading, Mary can usually be found hanging out with family and friends,…