• Author Spotlight: Author Kadee McDonald Is Here with Fun and a Giveaway

    Congratulations to BN–you are Kadee’s winner! She’ll be in touch with you. Thanks to everyone who stopped by and joined in the conversation!  I’m happy to spotlight sweet romance writer Kadee McDonald today. Kadee enjoys writing sweet contemporary romance, where love triumphs over the busy lives and the multitude of problems her characters face every day. The first five titles in the PAWS for Romance series are available now wherever eBooks are sold, along with an eBook box set of the first four books. Also available exclusively on Amazon (and in KU) are the first two novellas in a new series, Second Chance at Christmas. Look for them whenever you’re in the mood for…

  • 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…

  • Author Spotlight: Welcome Back, Katherine Garbera!

    Beth Reimer, you are Kathy’s winner! She will be in touch! Thanks to everyone for stopping by and joining in the fun! I’m so pleased to welcome author Katherine Garbera to the Spotlight!  Kathy is the USA Today bestselling author of more than 115 books.  She is celebrating her 27th year as a published author in 2024 and is still thrilled to bring stories of happily-ever-after to her readers.  Her books are known for their emotional impact and sizzling sensuality.  She lives in the midlands of the UK (a.k.a. not London) with her husband and sweet miniature dachshund. Her newest novel, How to Charm a Nerd, released from Harlequin on…

  • Sunday Snippet: The Maybe This Is How It Happens Edition

    It’s August 11.  Summer is nearly over. How did that happen? I’ve been married for 51 years! How did that happen? Grandboy is 12 and he’s back in school. How did that happen? I’ve got 16 published novels and another two on the way in October and January, plus I’m contracted to write four more books for Tule. Whew–how did that happen? I’ll be 71 next  month, how the hell did that happen? Can you tell I’m a little overwhelmed with… well, life stuff and work stuff and writing stuff at the moment? I am, yet I go on ahead and do what needs doing because don’t we all? The…

  • Author Spotlight: C’est Moi & I’ve Got a Fun Surprise for You!

    We have a winner! Cathy Poyser, your name was chosen at random and you will be receiving my box of goodies. Watch your email, I’ll be in touch! Thanks to everyone who stopped by. I love hearing about your flower memories! Just a quick little spotlight because it is release week for Make It Real, book 2 in the Walkers of River’s Edge series. I had such a good time with this story researching and asking questions about flowers, gardens, landscaping and oh, serious leg injuries and poison ivy reactions. All in a day’s work for authors… Make It Real They were only faking it…. A landscape designer for his…

  • Author Spotlight: More Wedding Bell Mysteries with Nancy Robards Thompson

    Congratulations to Angela Crockett–you are Nancy’s winner! She will be in touch with you! Thanks to everyone for stopping by! We love talking to our readers!  What fun I had chatting with my pal and fellow Tule author, Nancy Robards Thompson!  Nancy is a USA Today Bestselling author who writes cozy mysteries, romance, and women’s fiction. Fresh out of college, she worked as a newspaper reporter covering Central Florida government, tourism, and business, but soon discovered reporting “just the facts” bored her silly. Much happier to report to her muse, Nancy has sold more than fifty books to five traditional publishers (and is exploring indie publishing). Her work, which critics…

  • Author Spotlight: Big Author News from Me

    Yup, it’s me in my own spotlight this week because man, oh, man, July has suddenly become crazy promo month for yours truly. So, I’m going to post everything that’s happening here, with links, so you can pick what you want to check out. Right off, Tule and I are doing several fun things this month: Goodreads giveaway: We are giving away 100 e-book copies of Make You Mine, book 1 in the Walkers of River’s Edge series over on Goodreads. Just click one of the links and it will take you to the page where you can enter for a chance at one of the 100 copies. This lasts…

  • Special Author Spotlight: Bestie Liz Flaherty Has a New Release!

    I’m sorry to bother you—I know this isn’t a regular posting day on this blog, but my friend Liz Flaherty asked me…well, no, she actually kind of demanded…that I post this because she’s not sure she’s annoyed enough people on her own blog. She wants everyone to know her new book, Pieces of Blue, is out today. Yeah, that’s her yelling. Even better, just for today, its ebook version is 99 cents! Good grief, she’s yelling again. So, here are the blurb and the buy links. Please order the book so she can stop interrupting me. It really is a pretty good story… Blurb: Self-imposed loner Maggie North has worked…

  • Sunday Snippet: The Me & Writing Edition

    Someone once asked me to share something I learned since becoming a writer. The list is endless, but there a couple of things I can name right off the top of my head. The first is writing is hard work. Anyone who tells you different is either lying or not a writer. It doesn’t matter whether you’re writing a novel or a back cover blurb, a short story or a 500-word magazine article. Writing is hard. It requires discipline and creativity, time and research, and most of all a love of the game. If you don’t love to write, if the process itself isn’t an intrinsic part of who you…

  • Sunday Snippet: The Anniversary Edition

    It’s our wedding anniversary. Husband and I have been married 51 years today. Last year for our 50th, we took a trip to Oregon and celebrated our day with wine and supper on a beautiful deck overlooking a gorgeous vineyard. It was heaven. Today, we’ll have another kind of heaven, celebrating with homemade flatbread pizzas and a good chianti. Maybe a walk down to the lake in the moonlight. 51 years. Wow…that sounds like a long time. Probably because it is a long damn time. Marriages in this country don’t usually last for over 50 years. We are a nation of disposable everything, including marriages. Folks seem to me to…