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Author Spotlight: Welcome Sheritta Bitikofer!
What a treat to welcome Sheritta Bitikofer to the blog! Sheritta is an author of paranormal romance and historical fiction. She lives for the deep, engaging stories that enthrall readers from cover to cover. As a wife and mother of eclectic tastes, she can be found roaming Civil War battlefields, haunting her local coffee shop, or relaxing with a plate of chili cheese fries. Website | Facebook | Instagram | Bluesky N: Welcome to the blog, Sheritta. I’m so delighted to have you with us today. So, what inspired you to start writing? A: I’ve been writing (or creating stories, at least) for as long as I can remember. I…
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Author Spotlight: Jillian David Is Here with Dr. Alaska
We have a winner! Stephanie Ludwig, you are Jillian’s winner of a signed copy of Dr. Alaska! Jillian will be in touch with you. Thanks to everyone who stopped by! We love hearing from our readers! I’m so pleased to welcome a new fellow Tule author Jillian David to the spotlight today! Award-winning and bestselling author Jillian David quickly writes, then slowly edits medical romance, paranormal romance, and romantic suspense books. She loves to use medical situations and characters to drive drama in her books. Her favorite cell is the platelet and her least-favorite organ is the pancreas. She fully believes that curse words, when appropriately deployed during surgery, are hemostatic.…
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Sunday Snippet: The Words Sometimes Come Hard Edition
I’m in a weird place with this new work-in-progress. I like the story, I like the characters, but somehow I’m having a problem getting them to move along. I have more notes about this first story in my new series than I did starting out any other River’s Edge series, mostly because a lot of this story happens away from River’s Edge. But I also have more word notes, more conversation notes, more scene notes than any book I’ve ever written. It’s almost as if I’m writing the book in my notes, but when I get to the computer, the words are coming hard. Funny thing is, I know this…
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Author Spotlight: It’s Me with Some Fun Stuff for You
Congratulations, Debra and Linda, you two are my winners of a $5 Amazon gift card and a free e-book ARC of Made to Love You. I’ll get those right out to you! Yup, today I’m in my own Spotlight, which happens now and again. I hope you forgive my shameless self-promotion, but I confess this blog sometimes does that. It is snowy here in the Midwest, which is okay by me. The world is white and quiet and the snow sparkles in the sunlight. The brisk cold sorta takes your breath away, but it’s wondrous to watch from inside my warm cozy house. Here’s a little something to warm your…
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Sunday Snippet: The Things I Should Have Mentioned in 2024 Edition
It’s January 5 and maybe a few days late for rehashing 2024, but I have few memos for the past year that I need to get off my mind before I plunge into 2025. Dear Summer 2024, Where did you go? I mean seriously? I know the summer lasted the usual 3-4 months, but it sure didn’t feel like it was that long. We didn’t get enough lake time or enough time to go out exploring state parks and places of interest as we’d planned to do. Stick around and be more organized in 2025, okay? Longingly, Nan ~*~*~*~ Dear Election, Sigh. What can I say? Things did not end…
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Author Spotlight: Welcome 2025 with Tule Author Emmie Lyn!
We have two winners! Glenda Martillotti and Karen Hasby, you are Emmie’s winners of two e-books. She will be in touch. Thanks to all of you for stopping by and welcoming Emmie to the blog and helping us celebrate a great start to our 2025 Author Spotlights! I love discovering new-to-me writers, and I love it even more when they are fellow Tule authors! Today, I’m so excited to introduce y’all to USA Today bestselling author Emmie Lyn who has two brand new books out with Tule. Emmie Lyn grew up in a small town in New England, much like the towns where her female characters live—scenic, quaint and filled…
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Sunday Snippet: The It’s Almost the New Year Edition
2025 is nearly upon us. A new year should never bring a feeling of dread and yet… here we are. We are living in chaotic and scary times, and I keep thinking what can I do? My stomach roils at the thought of what’s happening in Washington (not much, thanks to a do-nothing off-the rails House) and how divided we are as a nation. I have to have faith in my fellow Americans–that we will come together against the crazy that’s happening in politics. We must be proactive, to mobilize against the far right’s obsession with an autocrat and oligarchs. So, there’s that… But what can I do? I actually…
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Sunday Snippet: The Holiday Music and Joy Edition
Despite struggling financially, my mom always made the holidays a treat for me and my sibs. We always had a Christmas tree, the house was always filled with the scent of cookies baking and there was always, always music. Oh, the music of it all! Mom would go to the Firestone store or to the Marathon gas station every year and pick up their annual Christmas album to play on our old console stereo. Remember when a record player was a piece of furniture? And when holiday record albums that were like 99 cents or at most $1.99? We had them all. I can still sing every song… I loved…
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Author Spotlight: Cathy Shouse Is Here with Holiday Romance!
I do love spotlighting my fellow Midwest writers, so having my pal, author Cathy Shouse join me today is special treat! Cathy Shouse writes inspirational cowboy romances. Her Fair Creek series features the Galloways of Galloway Sons Farm. Much like the characters in her stories, Cathy once lived on a farm in small-town Indiana, where she first fell in love with cowboys while visiting the rodeo every summer. With a degree in music (oboe) and business from Indiana University, she’s married to her real-life hero, and they call rural Indiana home. She corrals their two grown children to visit often, and they all travel together every chance they get. Website…
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Sunday Snippet: The Imposter’s Ah-Ha Moment Edition
Have you ever heard of impostor syndrome? Basically, it’s “the persistent inability to believe that one’s success is deserved or has been legitimately achieved as a result of one’s own efforts or skills.” I suffer from this, and I think a lot authors do. We are all pretty much people who are writing, not for the kudos for finishing a book, but because we have these characters in our heads begging to have their stories told. It has never occurred to me not to write, but I struggled with the idea of trying to get what I write published. Would it be good enough? Would people want to read it?…