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Sunday Snippet: The March Memos Edition
It’s that time again, mes amis. March memos. March has been an incredibly busy month so far–finishing a book, starting a new one, editing gigs to do, April book events to prepare for, plus housework and laundry and keeping fit. Thus, I do have a few things I need to get off my chest. Dear Spring, WTAH? Twenty degrees and frost on the ground one day, eighty degrees the next? And what’s with all the rain? Oh, wait, it’s spring in the Midwest… of course each day is a new weather adventure, but FYI, I’m ready for real spring. Warm days, cool nights, sunshine… you know… Confusingly, Nan ~*~*~*~*~ And…
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Author Spotlight: Mystery Author Carol Light Is Back with a New Book and a Giveaway!
We have a winner! Latesha B, you are Carol’s giveaway recipient! She will be in touch with you. Thanks to you and everyone who stopped by to chat! We love talking to our readers! What a treat to welcome back my friend and fellow Tule author, Carol Light! Carol and I were roomies at the 2023 Tule Author Retreat in San Juan Capistrano, California, and I knew immediately we were kindred spirits and would be good friends. Carol Light is an avid reader and writer of mysteries. She loves creating amateur sleuths and complicating their normal lives with a crime that they must use their talents and wits to solve.…
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Author Spotlight: Leigh Ann Edwards Has a New Novel and a Giveaway!
We have a winner: DeeAnn Kraft, you are Leigh Ann’s Giveaway Winner! She will be in touch with you. Thanks to DeeAnn and everyone who stopped by! We love talking to our readers! I’m so happy when pal and fellow Tule author Leigh Ann Edwards stops by! Her novels are exciting and fresh and fun and I’m delighted to give her time to share her newest book, Druids’ Dark Curse, Book 5 in her Realm of Fractured Time series with Tule. Leigh Ann Edwards writes smoking hot romantic fantasy with badass heroines, alpha heroes, history, castles, and magic. She believes love is love, that villains should get their comeuppance…
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Sunday Snippet: The I Might Need a Break from Technology Edition
Do you ever wonder how we survived before computers and cell phones and social media? I can’t remember when I last dialed (literally dialed) a telephone or got up from the sofa to change the TV station. Or took a picture with an actual camera. When I last typed something on a typewriter or used a paper roadmap to figure out where I was going or opened a recipe book to find a new way to cook chicken. I google every thing now. Texting is second nature now, too, as is taking pictures with my phone, and FaceTiming with my sister. Life has changed so much in the last twenty-five…
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Author Spotlight: Elsa Winckler Takes Us Back to Montana & Cowboys!
One of the great pleasures of being a Tule Publishing author is meeting so many wonderful authors. Elsa Winckler is one and I’m so delighted to have her with me today to tell us about her newest novel. I love the cover on this one and I can’t wait to read it! Oh, and be sure to check out her giveaway! 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 children rarely acknowledge the fact…
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Sunday Snippet: The I’m Still Learning Edition
It’s been a tough week for me, for the country, for the world, and I debated long and hard about what my column for today would be. I could so easily rant here–it’s my space, I can say what I want. But I don’t want this to be a political platform. I prefer to keep this about my writer life, my editor life, and some things about just being Nan. If you follow me on Facebook or Instagram or Bluesky, you know where I land, so I opted to talk writing instead, because as my friend and fellow author Anne Stuart so aptly puts it: “Everything in my life is…
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Author Spotlight: Meet Mystery Writer Christopher Null
Congratulations, Kari N! You are the winner of an autographed copy of Christopher’s novel Cul-de-sac! He will be in touch with you! Thank to you and everyone who stopped by to meet Christopher! I’m excited to welcome fellow Tule author Christopher Null to the Author Spotlight today. I love great mysteries and thrillers and Christopher has just released a new one. He’s here to tell us about and he has a giveaway! Christopher Null is an award-winning writer and journalist who regularly contributes to Wired magazine, and who muses daily about wine and spirits on the website Drinkhacker, where he serves as editor in chief. His first novel, Half Mast, was…
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Sunday Snippet: The Warehouse Club Edition, + Fun News!
Hiya, happy Sunday. It’s snowing here in the city (probably up at the lake cottage, too, from the look of the radar), and I am snug in our little brick house enjoying this view. I love snow. It makes me want hot chocolate and a fire in the fireplace, a soft snuggly sweater, and a good book. And speaking of good books… See what I did there? It’s called a transition or a segue. It’s an author trick to lead readers to the next part of the story. That one wasn’t very subtle, but it’s fun to practice the art. Anyway, speaking of good books, I want to crow a…
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Sunday Snippet: The I Got Nothin’ Edition
So the scene is this: mid-morning at my desk. I’m looking out the office window where a crimson cardinal is perched on the lamp post in my garden. The skies are gray and dreary and cold, so I’m resisting the urge to go outside and get my steps in anyway. Besides, that means I’d actually have to rise from my chair and I’m disinclined. It’s been a long, very hard winter so far and not particularly because of the weather. That part’s been pretty typical of a Midwestern winter–some snow, some bitter cold days, some surprisingly warm ones. No, it’s not the weather, although I have to confess I’d much…
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Author Spotlight: The Taking a Peek Edition
Hello, mes amis, and welcome to a midweek peek at my current work-in-progress. A few months ago, I signed my fifth contract with Tule Publishing. I was so excited when they accepted my proposal for the Dykemans of River’s Edge series and even more jacked up that they were all in for one of the Dykeman siblings to take a little trip to Marietta, Montana. She will still be in River’s Edge for part of the story, so don’t worry–you’ll see Mac and Megan and Sam and all your old favorite characters, but this story belongs to Beth. With Book 1 in the Dykemans series, I’m joining three other Tule…