• Sunday Snippet: The It’s a Real Snippet Edition

    It’s been a healing week, mes amis. Trying to fight back the unholy tiredness that Covid has left me with and it’s slow going. Still not much appetite yet either, although that’s improving. I’ve found some things that sound good–cottage cheese, bread, fresh tomatoes, almonds, and water, always water. Had a glass of wine with lake pals, Mo and Cindy, last night and that was nice, too. On Thursday, Husband and I went by the winery here in our lake town to listen to music and discovered we were the only ones who were willing to brave the heat. We were so glad we did because we met an amazing…

  • Author Spotlight: Fiona & Dakota Are Back in Kurrajong Crossing and There’s a Giveaway!

    Debra Pruss, congratulations! You are the winner of Fiona and Dakota’s giveaway! They will be in touch! Thanks to everyone who stopped by! We love our readers! I’m so delighted to welcome Fiona Marsden and Dakota Harrison back to the Spotlight. I’ve loved their With Love from Kurrajong Crossing series from Book 1 all the way through to Book 12, the final book in the series, Holding Out for a Hero, which is out now! Fiona M. Marsden started as an avid reader. She was late in finding romance novels, but once found, they became an addiction. Considering she wrote poetry and stories from a young age, it was only…

  • Montana Day 7: Purple Eater People

    The bartender stopped in front of us. The drink he’d prepared was a creamy lavender beneath a white swirl of whipped cream. The Purple Russian, he explained, consists of huckleberry liqueur and local huckleberry whisky and vodka. Nan and I oohed and ahhed, although we weren’t tempted at that moment to order anything more than the iced teas we were consuming after our hike to Ousel Falls. We were too tired and thirsty for alcohol, no matter how pretty it was. Montana shops are full of everything huckleberry, and we’ve become fans. We’d already returned to the local grocery to buy more chocolate-covered huckleberry truffles. I purchased huckleberry-flavored lip gloss…

  • Day 3.5 Montana: We Were Slugs…

    Nan here. Okay, maybe not entirely sluggish, but after we wandered around Big Sky for a couple of hours and had lunch at a very nice country club with a fantastic mountain view, we decided not to try to go up to Ousel Falls right then. Our plan was to take our tired, altitude-sick butts back to the condo and rest. Then change into our jeans and hiking shoes and go up to the falls. Ummmm…not so much, cuddling up in blankets and reading and honestly, napping, it was after five when we both came back to the world. A brief discussion later and we were reminded we still have…

  • Author Spotlight: Carol Light Has New Southern Secrets Mystery & a Giveaway!

    We have a winner! Debra Pruss, you were drawn at random to receive an ebook copy of Death Watch. Enjoy the book and thanks for coming by the blog! We love our readers! I love having my writer pal Carol Light on the blog! Her mysteries are intriguing and keep me reading well into the night. I’m doubly excited this week because in less than two weeks, Carol and I are off on adventure–we’re heading to Montana for research, fun, and maybe even some writing! We’ll be posting our trip here, so stay tuned. In the meantime… here’s Carol with her newest release, Death Watch. Carol Light is an avid…

  • Author Spotlight: Meet Debut Thriller Writer, Heidi Field

    We have a winner! Latesha B., you are Heidi’s giveaway winner! She will be in touch with you. Thanks to everyone for stopping by and chatting this week! We love talking to our readers! Today, I’m so pleased to introduce you to thriller writer, Heidi Field! Her debut novel, The Other Boy, released from Tule Publishing yesterday and it is a page-turner! 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…

  • Author Spotlight: Jolie Tunnell Returns with a New Mystery Series!

    What a treat to welcome back historical mystery writer Jolie Tunnell, who has a brand new series with Tule Publishing! Book 1, Shadows in Chinatown, just released on Monday and is available wherever ebooks are sold! Award-winning author Jolie Tunnell brings the past to life in suspenseful historical mysteries, bringing the flavor of the turn-of-the-century Wild West to the isolated mountains of Idyllwild and the writhing underbelly of San Francisco. Her books gallop to the last page. A Southern California native, she loves on her sprawling family, forces her freeloading tomcat to cuddle, and can drink her weight in Yorkshire Gold tea. Sign up for her extraordinary newsletter and settle…

  • Author Spotlight: Elsa Winckler Is Back with More Cowboys!

    I always love having fellow Tule author Elsa Winckler on the blog. She’s always a delight and her stories are full of wonder and love and spunky heroines and hot heroes. 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, reads every word and is happy to make sure she gets the kissing scenes just right. She…

  • Author Spotlight: Historical Romance Author Kate Moore Talks About Creating a Story…

    Today I’m so pleased to welcome fellow Tule author, Kate Moore to the Author Spotlight. Her historical romances bring a touch of fun and a little different take to the genre. 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 Lab, toys for visiting grandkids,…

  • Author Spotlight: Welcome, Thriller Author R. John Dingle

    What a pleasure it is to to introduce y’all to debut thriller author, R. John Dingle! He’s a brand new Tule Mystery writer and we’re all so delighted to welcome him to the Tule family. R. John Dingle was born and raised in New England. In fact, despite extensive travel, a move to Australia represents his only bragging right for actually residing outside the six-state area. John and his wife currently call a small island in Mid-Coast Maine “home,” both living, writing, and boating from their restored 200-year-old house (which they continually assure their three adult children is not haunted). The psychological thriller, Karma Never Sleeps, is John’s first novel.…