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Sunday Snippet: The Easter Memories Edition (Redux)
I’m doing a rerun today, although it will be new to Substack readers. Easter memories abound, and today we will make more as the family gathers here at our house today for food and fellowship. So if you remember this one from a couple of years ago, go ahead and read it again anyway and Happy Easter to you! The night before Easter, we colored hardboiled eggs with the Paas Easter egg dye kits. Remember those? After we kids went to bed, Mom, who was probably already exhausted from working at the grocery store all day and studying whatever courses she was taking for her nursing degree, hid them around…
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Author Spotlight: Meet Tule Cozy Mystery Writer Melissa Westemeier
Melissa Westemeier grew up around the edge of nerd culture, but marriage and motherhood with three sons immersed her in it. She’s fluent in Marvel, DC, Dr. Who, Star Wars, Godzilla, and more thanks to their influence. Her fiction work includes rom-com and a trilogy loosely based on her experience tending bar on the Wolf River in Wisconsin. She’s thrilled to realize her childhood dream of writing murder mysteries. Her books blend her humor and appreciation for nerd culture while tackling serious themes and unpacking the puzzle of whodunnit (and how and why!). In her spare time, Melissa needs to be outside or near a window. Her passions include hiking,…
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Author Spotlight: Me with Big News!
Putting myself in the spotlight today with a big announcement–I’m moving! My amazing publisher has offered me a new challenge, and I couldn’t resist! I’ve been invited to write a series for Tule Publishing’s Montana Born imprint, so for the next four books, we are all about the cowboys, ranches, the spectacular Montana mountains, rugged cowboys, Marietta, rodeos, cowboys, bronc ridin’, the open range ..oh, and did I mention cowboys? My first Montana Born book, Forever Cowboy launches in September as a part of a special Bad Boys of the Rodeo series with three other fabulous authors: Jeannie Watt’s Unforgettable Cowboy; Nicole Flockton’s Headstrong Cowboy; Sinclair Jayne’s Rogue Cowboy; 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: 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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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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Author Spotlight: J.C. Kenney Is Back with More Elmo Simpson!
Congratulations to Roseann McGrath Brooks! You are J.C.’s winner of a free eb00k! Enjoy! J.C. will be in touch with you. Thanks to everyone who stopped by to celebrate the new Elmo Simpson book with us! We love talking with our readers! I’m sure y’all have figured out by now that J.C. Kenney is one of my very favorite cozy mystery writers. (Confession: I’m think I’m a tiny bit in love with Elmo Simpson–his hero in the Elmo Simpson Mysteries series.) J.C. also happens to be one of my very favorite people in the world. I’m blessed to have him as a friend as well as someone who writes the…
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Author Spotlight: Jillian David Is Here with Dr. Alaska
We have a winner! Stephanie Ludwig, you are Jillian’s winner of a signed copy of Dr. Alaska! Jillian will be in touch with you. Thanks to everyone who stopped by! We love hearing from our readers! I’m so pleased to welcome a new fellow Tule author Jillian David to the spotlight today! Award-winning and bestselling author Jillian David quickly writes, then slowly edits medical romance, paranormal romance, and romantic suspense books. She loves to use medical situations and characters to drive drama in her books. Her favorite cell is the platelet and her least-favorite organ is the pancreas. She fully believes that curse words, when appropriately deployed during surgery, are hemostatic.…
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Author Spotlight: Welcome 2025 with Tule Author Emmie Lyn!
We have two winners! Glenda Martillotti and Karen Hasby, you are Emmie’s winners of two e-books. She will be in touch. Thanks to all of you for stopping by and welcoming Emmie to the blog and helping us celebrate a great start to our 2025 Author Spotlights! I love discovering new-to-me writers, and I love it even more when they are fellow Tule authors! Today, I’m so excited to introduce y’all to USA Today bestselling author Emmie Lyn who has two brand new books out with Tule. Emmie Lyn grew up in a small town in New England, much like the towns where her female characters live—scenic, quaint and filled…
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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…