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Sunday Snippet: The October Memos Edition
It’s memo time, which can be translated as I got nothin’ today, so we’ll rehash last month on this first day of the new month. Here we go… Dear October, So how did you fly by so fast? One moment we were out on the boat cruising the lake for my birthday, and the next, the boat’s in storage and we’re cutting back the hostas around the lake cottage. Where did you go? What was your hurry? Still in a Summer Frame of Mind, Nan ~*~*~*~ Dear Weather, Okay, you convinced me–my state with its four seasons is the most glorious. Sunny days with bright blue skies, trees changing to…
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Author Spotlight: Jacinta Peachey Has a New Sweet Romance!
What fun to welcome fellow Tule sweet romance author Jacinta Peachey back to the spotlight! Her books warm my heart! Jacinta Peachey is an international award-winning contemporary romance author. Her writing is the creative outpouring of a fertile imagination stifled by her first career as a dentist. With a ‘do as I say not as I do’ attitude, coffee, red wine, and chocolate fuel her writing passion. Her stories focus on strong, independent, yet mixed-up women as they navigate life’s unexpected turns. Website | Facebook | Instagram |Goodreads | BookBub ~*~*~*~ My Side Characters Have Important Roles It’s lovely to be back to talk about my second book, A Little…
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Sunday Snippet: The Autumn Bittersweet of It All Edition
We have giveaway winners this morning! Kathy Anderson and Ginni Selby, you will both receive an ARC ebook of The Rancher’s Christmas Wife. Thanks for coming by! I love hearing from all of you! This week, Husband and I have been working on putting our lovely gardens to bed for the winter. Yesterday, Grandboy came over to help out. There’s nothing better than working in the gardens with a willing and strong 14-year-old. “What’s next, Nanny?” The three of us worked for a couple of hours, and although there’s more to do, we ran out of room in the bin that goes to the curb on Tuesday, so we’ll collect…
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Author Spotlight: J.C. Kenney Has a New Elmo Simpson Novel!
Congratulations, Kathleen Shaputis, your name was randomly chosen to win an ebook copy of A Killer Day in Paradise. Watch your email and thanks for being with us! And yes, if writing rules didn’t call it tacky, I would totally another few exclamations points to that title! I’m so excited for this new Elmo Simpson mystery, A Killer Day in Paradise! Kenney pulls out all the stops for this holiday-themed mystery, and it kept me guessing to the very end. I love it when that happens! J.C. Kenney is the bestselling author of The Allie Cobb Mysteries, The Darcy Gaughan Mysteries, and The Elmo Simpson Mysteries. He’s also the co-host…
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Sunday Snippet: The Begin Again and Keep Writing Edition
Good Sunday morning, mes amies. It’s kinda cloudy here in the city and the forecast is calling for rain and cooler temperatures for the coming week, which is okay. We need the rain and we could sure use the cooler temps. So garden cleanup and writing and then more writing will be the order of the week. There will be mowing for Husband and we have a few chores around this house that need to be done before we head to the lake again. Two houses can be hard sometimes and that is not, I repeat not a complaint. Merely an observation. We remind our kids, who also have two…
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Author Spotlight: Anna Stewart Has a New Red Lily Book!
I love it when fellow Tule author Anna J. Stewart stops by the blog because she is such a fabulous storyteller! She’s here with Betrayed, her newest Circle of the Red Lily novel. USA Today and national bestselling author Anna J. Stewart has published nearly seventy romances, from heartwarming contemporary to edge-of-your-seat romantic suspense. A Maggie and Holt Medallion winner, her award-winning books celebrate love, family, hope, and second chances—with unforgettable characters, emotional stakes, and happily-ever-afters always worth fighting for. Website | Facebook | Threads | Goodreads | Bookbub ~*~*~*~ The Perils of Pantsing The process of writing Betrayed, book 4 in my romantic thriller Circle of the Red Lily…
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Sunday Snippet: The It’s Harvest Fest Day Edition!
Yup, today is Harvest Fest in our little town of Fishers, Indiana, and I will be there with bells on! Okay, maybe no bells, but definitely with books and a smile. I’m looking forward to meeting new readers and greeting friends, signing books, and sharing some Author Booth time with my fellow local authors, including one of my very favorite mystery authors, J.C. Kenney. Harvest Fest is not just books and authors–there are dozens of artists, artisans, creators, and musicians as well as food trucks a beer garden, and soft drinks. It will be a great way to spend the afternoon and help out some fabulous Fishers-area non-profits. Go here…
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Author Spotlight: Elsa Winckler’s Here with a New Hot Cowboy and Great Giveaway!
Know what’s really fun? Connecting with the other authors who write in Marietta, Montana–even when that author lives far away in South Africa! I’ve loved getting to know Elsa Winckler and she has graciously allowed me to let some of my Marietta characters meet up with hers! The friendship isreal even from continent to continent. Elsa Winckler 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,…
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Sunday Snippet: The August 2026 Memos Edition
I do these every so often–these memos. I’d like to tell you it’s all about catching up, taking a breath, landing somewhere for a few minutes. I suppose it is all those things, but mostly, it’s because I can’t think of anything to blog about except what’s happening in our country and I need to not think about that right now. I don’t want this blog to be political–you all know my politics and I know most of yours. All we can do in that regard is keep staying alert and vote, vote, vote. So we’re going to do the August memos today. Dear Weather, Ummmm… could you pick a…
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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…