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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: 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 Begin Again and Keep Writing Edition
Good Sunday morning, mes amies. It’s kinda cloudy here in the city and the forecast is calling for rain and cooler temperatures for the coming week, which is okay. We need the rain and we could sure use the cooler temps. So garden cleanup and writing and then more writing will be the order of the week. There will be mowing for Husband and we have a few chores around this house that need to be done before we head to the lake again. Two houses can be hard sometimes and that is not, I repeat not a complaint. Merely an observation. We remind our kids, who also have two…
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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: Bestie Liz Flaherty Joins Me Today–Always a Pleasure!
I’m so glad to welcome my writing bestie, author Liz Flaherty to the Spotlight today. I stole her bio right off her website because it charms the socks off me. She wanted to shake the dust of central Indiana farm country and move to the city, get rich, wear designer clothes, and write books. Well, she writes books. Liz Flaherty lives five miles from where she grew up, only now she relishes the sights and sounds and scents of the fields around her, doesn’t care much about clothes, and thinks being rich would probably have been overrated anyway. She’s spent the past several years enjoying not working a day job,…
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Author Spotlight: Elsa Winckler Is Here with Christmas Joy!
I love hearing about how other author’s minds work as they’re writing and how sometimes we are surprised by what happens in our own books. The characters take over and we’re left with, “Really? That’s where you’re going?” It happened to my friend, Elsa Winckler as she wrote her newest holiday romance, which released on November 11, and she’s here to tell us all about it. Elsa 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…
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Author Spotlight: Leah Vale Is Here with Holiday Fun!
I am filled with holiday joy to bring you one of my fellow Tule authors, Leah Vale, who is here with her newest Christmas romance! Having never met an unhappy ending she couldn’t mentally “fix,” Leah Vale believes writing romance novels is the perfect job for her. A Pacific Northwest native with a B.A. in Communications from the University of Washington, she lives in Central Oregon, with a huge golden retriever who thinks he’s a lap dog. While having the chance to share her “happy endings from scratch” is a dream come true, dinner generally has to come premade from the store. Website | Facebook | Instagram It is such…
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Author Spotlight: Roxanne Snopek Is Here with Holiday Fun!
We have a winner! Liz Flaherty, you will receive an ebook copy of a story from the Malones of Grand, Montana, series. Roxanne will be in touch with you. Thanks to everyone who stopped by! What a pleasure to welcome my fellow Tule Publishing author, Roxanne Snopek back to the Spotlight! USA Today bestselling author Roxanne Snopek writes award-winning contemporary women’s fiction and romance with an anti-patriarchal flair. Her characters have the same concerns we do about women’s rights, gender politics, tolerance and equality—but they get to fight their battles and win! Roxanne forces her characters (and occasionally herself) out of their comfort zones to do the right things, and…
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Author Spotlight: Elle Douglas Brings the Christmas Joy!
Cheri J, you are Elle’s winner of the mouse ornament and an ebook; Roseann McGrath Brooks, you are Elle’s winner of a $10 Amazon gift card. Ell will be in touch with you both! Thanks to everyone who stopped by! We love our readers! I’m so happy to welcome fellow Tule author and fellow Christmas romance author Elle Douglas to the Spotlight today with her new holiday novella, Wish Upon a Christmas Star. Is that the most gorgeous cover or what? Elle Douglas writes small-town contemporary romance for lovers of warm, feel-good stories that are on the sweeter side. Her novels feature strong, relatable characters living in tight-knit communities, with…
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Author Spotlight: Get Wrapped Up in Christmas with Janice Lynn
A big welcome to new-to-Tule author Janice Lynn! USA Today Bestselling author Janice Lynn strives to write characters who evoke strong emotions and make readers want to go along on their journeys. She writes sweet contemporary Christmas stories for Tule. Janice also writes contemporary Medical Romances for Harlequin. Her books have been best sellers on numerous platforms and have won numerous awards, including the National Readers Choice Award, the Golden Quill, Romantic Times Magazine’s American Title, and the Holt Medallion Award of Merit. Janice lives in Tennessee with her Prince Charming, her vivid imagination, an adorable Maltese named Halo who’s the true princess of the house and a bunch of unnamed dust bunnies who took up…