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Author Spotlight: Welcome Debut Author Jacinta Peachey!
What’s more fun than introducing y’all to a new romance author? Not much. Today, I had a chance to chat with fellow Tule author Jacinta Peachey, a sparkling new voice on the Australian rural romance scene. Her debut novel, A Little Bit Country released March 23 and is available wherever ebooks are sold. 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…
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Sunday Snippet: The Writer as Procrastinator Edition
I think I’ve mentioned it before but in case you don’t know, I’ve become a world-class procrastinator—I can do something else better than anyone anywhere. I’ve passed amateur status and have just recently gotten my professional standing. Don’t even try to take me on this one, I’ll beat the socks off you every time. For instance, yesterday, after we drove home from the lake, I procrastinated beautifully about cutting back the last of the pampas grass. I found something more important to do (read “sat on the sofa reading for pleasure” here) until it was time to start supper. The to-do list I made while we drove home was really…
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Sunday Snippet: The Words, Words, Words…or Not Edition
Wow! You guys are amazing! What great 6-word stories! Kate Sparks, you were chosen at random as the winner of a $10 Amazon gift card–enjoy more words!! I don’t know if this is true or not, but I read that Ernest Hemingway was once bet he couldn’t write a short story in only six words. He accepted the challenge and wrote: “For sale: baby shoes. Never worn.” Wow. What a powerful story! When words are your stock-in-trade, writing fewer of them is hard. I just finished revisions on Help Wanted, Cowboy, book 3 of my Juniper Falls Ranch series. It’s going back to my editor tomorrow after I go through…
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Author Spotlight: Welcome Romance Author Anna Grace
We have a winner! Cherie J–you are Anna’s giveaway recipient. Anna will be touch! Thanks to everyone who stopped by! I recently joined the Southern Oregon Central Oregon Chapter of the Romance Writers of America–another wonderful opportunity to meet more fabulous authors and sisters in romance writing. Anna Grace is one of my new SOCO author pals and I’m so very glad to welcome her to the Spotlight today. Award-winning author Anna Grace writes fun, heartfelt romance novels that have been described as “having the feel good vibes of a Hallmark film, with the emotional complexity of book club fiction.” Anna’s Oregon roots, love of family and community shine through…
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Sunday Snippet: The Women of Willow Bay Book Sale Edition
Mes amis, get ready. This is pure look at me! I don’t talk a lot about my first foray into book publishing a lot because my focus, naturally enough, is on my current releases with Tule Publishing. But I do have a whole other series that I love–one of the books–Once More From the Top— is the novel that put me on the USA Today Bestseller List. I published the books as an indie because at the time, my agent and I couldn’t get anyone interested in reading romance with characters in their, oh heavens! forties and fifties. Now seasoned romance is a real thing, and readers of a certain…
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Author Spotlight: Welcome Jo-Ann Roberts, Western Romance Author
As I said yesterday, it has been such a treat to meet the authors at the Petticoats & Pistols blog. They are an amazing group of writers! Jo-Ann Roberts is another “filly” that I’ve had the pleasure to get to know! 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,…
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Sunday Snippet: The Snowy Weekend & a Real Snippet Edition
Hiya, mes amis, happy Sunday. It’s snowing here in the city (probably up at the lake cottage, too, from the look of the radar). Has been since last night–they’re predicting 8 to 10 inches when it’s all over. But we are snug in our little brick house enjoying this view. I love snow, particularly a big snow that quiets the world and turns everything soft and white. It makes me want hot chocolate and a fire in the fireplace, a soft snuggly sweater and a good book. I may just spend the day that way. It feels like a good day to take a break and breathe read a book…
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Sunday Snippet: The January 2026 Musings Edition
How it’s already January 18? Wasn’t it just Thanksgiving? Heck, wasn’t it just summer, for heaven’s sake? Time is going by too quickly. Basically, we’re hunkered down here because the weather is so bitter, flu and Covid are rampant, and I’m doing a round of a topical chemo cream on some pre-cancerous spots on my face, which makes me look kinda gross. I feel safe in my little brick house in the Nest, but the days are are dark–not just because of the season but also because of what is happening in our nation and in the world. We watch events in Minnesota with horror, praying for the folks there,…
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Author Spotlight: Kris Bock Kicks Off Our 2026 Spotlights with Her New Cozy!
What a treat to have fellow Tule author Kris Bock as my first guest in the Author Spotlight for 2026. Kris is an amazing mystery writer and keeps me totally intrigued with every book. Her romances are also great fun! Kris Bock writes mystery, suspense, and romance, often with smart, snarky heroines finding adventure (sometimes against their will) in the Southwest. She lives in New Mexico where she enjoys hiking with her husband and playing with their ferrets. Quick Fun Fact: Kris also writes The Felony Melanie series with her brother, scriptwriter Douglas J Eboch, who wrote the original screenplay for the movie Sweet Home Alabama. If you haven’t discovered…
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Sunday Snippet: The December memos Edition
It’s time for another edition of the Memos, which is your sign that Nan is coming up short on Snippet topics this week. I do find doing the memos fun, though. Hope you do too. Onward… Dear Readers Who Stopped by My Book Signings This Month, Sure loved seeing you and I do so appreciate you coming out to buy books and visit with me! It’s always fun to share reading news with you! Thanks for buying my books as holiday gifts–what fun I had packaging them up for you! Always Happy to be Meeting Readers and Signing Books, Nan ~*~*~*~ Dear Weather, It’s about two weeks ’til Christmas, and…