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Sunday Snippet: The Book Funnel Fun Edition
Hiya! I’m actually not at home this Sunday. I’m in River’s Edge! Okay, I’m in Madison, Indiana, which is the inspiration for my fictional town of River’s Edge, but to me it will always be River’s Edge. Booth babe Mo and I are down here for a book event yesterday, where we met a lot of great folks! Readers are the very best people, ya know? And a special thanks to Ann Inman at the Jefferson County Library in Madison for setting up the second annual Author Fair. We had a ball! Mo and I have also been wandering around Madison and getting a kick out of all the wonderful…
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Author Spotlight: Meet Cowboy Romance Author Jill Sorenson
I’m meeting Jill Sorenson for the first time, too, mes amis, and the post she sent me tells me she’s destined to be one of my people! I laughed out loud when I read it–a little different from our usual fare, but ya know, sometimes you gotta step out. Jill Sorenson is a diehard romance fan and the dynamic author of more than twenty romance novels. She’s been featured twice in Cosmopolitan Magazine, and her books have received starred reviews from Booklist, Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly. Most recently, she’s written for Harlequin as Susan Cliff. Now she’s making her comeback as Jill with a fresh start in Western contemporary…
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Sunday Snippet: The October Memos Edition
It’s memo time, which can be translated as I got nothin’ today, so we’ll rehash last month on this first day of the new month. Here we go… Dear October, So how did you fly by so fast? One moment we were out on the boat cruising the lake for my birthday, and the next, the boat’s in storage and we’re cutting back the hostas around the lake cottage. Where did you go? What was your hurry? Still in a Summer Frame of Mind, Nan ~*~*~*~ Dear Weather, Okay, you convinced me–my state with its four seasons is the most glorious. Sunny days with bright blue skies, trees changing to…
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Author Spotlight: Laurie Beach Is Here with a New Southern Isles Novel!
Doris and Latesha, you are Laurie’s e-book winners! She will be in touch with you. Thanks to everyone who stopped by! We love talking to our readers!! I fell in love with Laurie Beach’s Southern writer voice when I was the CE on her book, The Firefly Jar. She makes you long for sweet tea, grits, and starry southern nights with every heartwarming word. Laurie Beach is a former news reporter, advertising producer, and political press secretary who, after raising children, is parlaying her love of reading and writing into a career as an author. She is a sucker for elderly people, furry animals, and all things chocolate. Having grown…
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Sunday Snippet: The A Little Like Baking Edition
It’s fall and that is when I really get in the mood to bake. I love to bake. I love knowing that if I mix together butter, sugar, eggs, flour, and other sundry ingredients, I will get a basic cookie dough. If I add chocolate chips or nuts or oatmeal or raisins, I’ll have a special tasty treat. Baking is relaxation for me in a way that nothing else is—not even reading or swimming or walking or biking. I think that is because there is a creative element involved in making a batch of oatmeal chocolate chip cookies or an apple pie or a pan of sinful dark chocolate brownies…
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Author Spotlight: Jacinta Peachey Has a New Sweet Romance!
What fun to welcome fellow Tule sweet romance author Jacinta Peachey back to the spotlight! Her books warm my heart! Jacinta Peachey is an international award-winning contemporary romance author. Her writing is the creative outpouring of a fertile imagination stifled by her first career as a dentist. With a ‘do as I say not as I do’ attitude, coffee, red wine, and chocolate fuel her writing passion. Her stories focus on strong, independent, yet mixed-up women as they navigate life’s unexpected turns. Website | Facebook | Instagram |Goodreads | BookBub ~*~*~*~ My Side Characters Have Important Roles It’s lovely to be back to talk about my second book, A Little…
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Sunday Snippet: The Autumn Bittersweet of It All Edition
We have giveaway winners this morning! Kathy Anderson and Ginni Selby, you will both receive an ARC ebook of The Rancher’s Christmas Wife. Thanks for coming by! I love hearing from all of you! This week, Husband and I have been working on putting our lovely gardens to bed for the winter. Yesterday, Grandboy came over to help out. There’s nothing better than working in the gardens with a willing and strong 14-year-old. “What’s next, Nanny?” The three of us worked for a couple of hours, and although there’s more to do, we ran out of room in the bin that goes to the curb on Tuesday, so we’ll collect…
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Author Spotlight: Heidi Field Has a New Mystery & a Giveaway!
L Lam, you are Heidi’s winner. She will be in touch! 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 raise two boys and became the stepmother of three more young children. She still lives near her family home with her partner, their Great Dane and the children that have yet to fly the nest. In her early forties, Heidi completed a Masters in Creative Writing at Winchester University. Writing contemporary thrillers, she…
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Sunday Snippet: The It’s Been a Tough Week Edition
I know that y’all are accustomed to happy, cheerful Nan here on the blog, and let me just say upfront, I’m okay. But it’s been a really hard week and I am blaming wicked cancer and getting old. My bestie’s husband passed last Saturday after an incredibly aggressive cancer took over his body. It was so fast, we barely had a moment to breathe after his diagnosis before he was home on hospice and then gone. His memorial gathering was on Thursday and what a glorious tribute it was to a good, good man–a husband, father, grandpa, musician, and very recently, a great-grandpa. So many folks came to pay their…
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Author Spotlight Is on Sapna Srinivasan
I’m so pleased to welcome fellow Tule author Sapna Srinivasan back to the Author Spotlight. Sapna lives in Seattle, WA with her perfectionist husband and perfect daughter. Her name in Hindi means “dream” and true to its meaning, Sapna finds gratification in dreams and storytelling. She was born in southern India, raised in northern India, and spent the better part of her adult life in the United States. She, therefore, unabashedly clutches her Indian roots while embracing the American in herself. She loves to cook traditional Indian food and, yes, she uses cilantro in practically everything. When she isn’t cooking, writing, or being intellectually stumped by her daughter, she may…