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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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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: Sinclair Jayne Is Here with Cowboys!
Cheri J, you are Sinclair’s giveaway winner! She will be in touch. Thanks to everyone who stopped by. We love talking with our readers. Can I tell you how much I love having my friend and editor and fellow Tule author in the Spotlight? It’s the best week ever when Sinclair Jayne is here. Sinclair has been the senior developmental editor for romance for Tule Publishing for over thirteen years. Writing as Sinclair Jayne, she’s published over thirty-five contemporary romances with Tule Publishing. An avid romance reader since sixth grade, she’s savoring her dream writing career. Married with two adult children, she and her husband own Roshni Vineyard in Oregon’s…
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Author Spotlight: Meet Debut Cozy Author, JP Bird!
What a joy it is to bring y’all a new author! Her debut novel, Murder at First Sight, book 1 in her Suddenly Psychic series, just released yesterday from Tule Publishing on June 30. I can’t wait to read it! JP Bird writes cozy mysteries with quirky characters that make her laugh when they disagree with the laid-out plans for their story and take her on a different path. She lives in Winnipeg, Canada, and hates the cold weather but loves the winter months because they’re a great excuse to hibernate with a cup of tea or a glass of red wine. When she’s not writing or reading, she spends…
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Author Spotlight: Sinclair Jayne Is In the House!
We have a winner! Barbara T–you are Sinclair’s giveaway winner! She will be in touch! Thanks to everyone who stopped by! We love talking to our readers! I know I say this every time Sinclair Jayne is here, but man, I love having her with me! Her books charm the socks off me and she is one of my very favorite authors as well as one of my very favorite people! And I promise I’m not schmoozing my editor–she is just so much fun and so very savvy about writing and books and cowboys! I trust her judgment implicitly and know that she is always going to make my stories…
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Author Spotlight: Elsa Winckler Is Here with Delicious Cowboys!
Latesha B, you’re Elsa’s giveaway winner! She’ll be in touch. Thanks so much for your support of the blog and for stopping by this week! I love it when Elsa Winckler comes to visit–her cowboys are yummy and her stories full of exactly what makes a happily-ever-after so romantic! 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 they have a romance-writing mom, her husband fortunately, is very proud of her,…
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Author Spotlight: Welcome Melinda Curtis!
I’m always delighted to bring you one of my own favorite authors and today is special because bestselling author, Melinda Curtis! Melinda Curtis is the USA Today bestselling author of light‐hearted contemporary romance, romantic comedies, and women’s fiction. Her book Dandelion Wishes was made into a TV movie – Love in Harmony Valley, starring Amber Marshall. She lives in Oregon’s wine country with her husband – her basketball-playing college sweetheart. While raising three kids, the couple did the soccer thing, the karate thing, the dance thing, the Little League thing and, of course, the basketball thing. Now when Melinda isn’t writing and Mr. Curtis isn’t watching college basketball, they do the DIY thing. Website…
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Author Spotlight: Welcome Back Thriller Author Heidi Field!
Heidi’s giveaway winner is Darla Luke! Darla, Heidi will be in touch with you! Thanks to everyone who stopped by! We love talking to our readers! What fun to have fellow Tule author and fab thriller writer back with me this week! Heidi Field was raised in the beautiful countryside of the South of England with her parents and her two sisters. In her twenties she was a freelance Sports Massage Therapist. She achieved a Degree in Zoology at the age of thirty and then went on to raise two boys and became the stepmother of three more young children. She still lives near her family home with her partner,…