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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,…
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Sunday Snippet: The Nan and Min’s Big Day Edition
Yup, yesterday was a big day. I participated in the Indy Author Event for the first time. It was quite a day of meeting new authors and new readers, and catching up with long-time friends who are authors and readers. As a participating author, I had two tickets to give away, so way back last fall, I’d gifted them to a couple of readers at a book club. I was delighted when Marcia and Sue appeared at my table to say hello, grab a quick hug, and buy books. I had my booth babe, Min, with me and she kept me organized and on track, restocking book stacks, taking…
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Author Spotlight: Welcome Jo-Ann Roberts!
I’m happy to welcome my fellow Petticoats & Pistols filly, Jo-Ann Roberts to the spotlight today. Born and raised in western Massachusetts, Jo-Ann Roberts was fascinated by America’s Old West and always felt she was destined to travel on a wagon train following the Oregon Trail. With her love of history and reading, she began reading historical romance during high school and college. Victoria Holt, Jude Deveraux, and Roseanne Bittner were among her favorites. Influenced by her father, she fell in love with John Wayne, James Garner, and her all-time favorite, James Stewart and grew up watching Wagon Train, Bonanza, and Rawhide. A firm believer in HEA with a healthy…
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Sunday Snippet: Those Lazy, Hazy, Not-so-Crazy Days Edition
We’ve been up here at the lake for a few days and I’ve been unnaturally lazy. Not inspired, not motivated, not anything really. I’ve been swimming and working as I always do up here, because as I’ve said repeatedly, I just pack up my act and take it on the road when we come up to the lake. (Thank heaven for laptops!). But no stirring of ambition that’s making me want to jump up and down. And maybe that’s okay. Do we always have to be fired up? At my age, constantly being “on” feels exhausting, and I have to psych myself up for “on” times. (I have one coming…
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Author Spotlight: C’est Moi with a Cover Reveal!
I know, I know… you are about to experience shameless self-promotion here, but ya know, it’s my blog, so I’m going to crow a little bit. Tule Publishing just sent me the cover for book 4 in the Juniper Falls Ranch series, The Rancher’s Christmas Wife. I confess I love this story of reunion and redemption. We don’t have an official blurb yet, but I’ll tell you that the hero is Levi Mitchell, whose Two Hawks ranch backs up to Juniper Falls Ranch and they are friends as well as neighbors. The heroine of The Rancher’s Christmas Wife is his ex-wife, glass artist Zoey Eaton, who comes back to Montana…