Much Ado About Madams #freepartay Dec 12-13

Yuletide 

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Dec 12-13 

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Check out these books, and believe me, your TBR pile will grow.

The Last Honest Seamstress

When sparks fly, love ignites. 

By Gina Robinson

The Grandmasters Legacy 

Christmas Special Box Set 

Hot Men and Hotter Women Kicking Up a Storm. 

By Taylor Lee. 

The Handsomest Man in the Country 

Life usually doesn't work out like we think it should.  

By Nancy Radke

Dance of the Winnebagos 

Laugh-out-loud dialogue, unforgettable characters, and pulse-pounding suspense! 

By Ann Charles 

If Love Dares Enough 

He risks all to save the woman he loves. 

By Anna Markland. 

Much Ado About Madams

A romantic romp in the Old West.

By Jacquie Rogers

And Dozens More!

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Cathie Dunn sent me the Irresistably Sweet Blog Award

I'm the happy new recipient of The Irresistably Sweet Blog Award, granted by the super-talented author and genuinely nice person, Cathie Dunn.  Since this award involves strawberries, I'm more than happy to accept.  Thank you, Cathie!

Cathie lives across The Pond but I'm thinking we should get her over here to do a booksigning.  We both have relatives in Idaho so that sounds like a good place to start, right?  I mean, it really saves on hotel bills.  Then, I'm sure the Scots are all just dying to read my western romances, so maybe I ought to do a booksigning in Scotland, too.  I'll be out on the corner with my tin cup collecting for the trip. 

My other blog, Romancing The West, is a lot more active than this one.  That's because it's aimed at Old West research as well as featuring western authors.  My author blog (this one), is for my fantasy books, non-western writer friends, and pretty much whatever I decided to post here.  Sometimes it's active, sometimes I get busy and my poor author blog is the first thing that's neglected.  Naughty me.

Each person who receives (and accepts) The Irresistably Sweet Blog Award has to post seven random facts about themselves.  Whew, baby, that could get dicey.  But here we go.

1. I adored 4-H when I was a kid, and I had a cow named Cleopatra who was such a good show animal that we won All-Around Grand Champion Showman at the Owyhee County Fair.  She got in trouble, though, because she kept stealing little kids' ice cream cones--her favorite food.
2. Learning to ride a bicycle was a trial.  I could go straight, but crashed if I had to turn.  Because of this, my baby brother had to have several stitches on the back of his head (several times).  He lived.
3. My first horse, a Shetland Pony, was the spawn of the devil.  You can read about one of our adventures at My Personal West.
4. When I was a kid, all I could think about was getting off the farm and moving to a city.  Now that I live in the city, I write about the country, and I always love going back to Idaho.
5. I was raised by a Chesapeake Bay Retriever named Pinkie.  She was the best dog in the world. Ever. 
6. Most of my life, I've been heavily involved in politics, but at this point, I do everything in my power to ignore all the goings on, and recognize the same campaign rhetoric (sometimes word for word) that we used 25 years ago.  Somethings never change.  Let them play the game--I'll make up fiction that's actually called fiction.
7. Speaking of fiction, I never wanted to be a writer.  My first heart's desire was to be a baseball announcer on TV.  When that didn't pan out, I thought it would be fun to be an interpreter at the United Nations.  Instead, I ended up coding accounting software.  That's how I ended up writing romance novels.

Whew!  I made it through all seven factoids, and now to bestow The Irresistably Sweet Blog Award to seven awesome blogs.

Sarah J. McNeal
Jenny Twist
Marion Spicher
Adrianne Lee
Karen Harbaugh
Lindsay Townsend
Linda Banche

Happy Reading in 2012!

Happy Holidays!

Did you get that ereader you wanted?  Have you figured out how to use it yet?  I was surprised how easy it was to get in the swing of things.

Mr R gave me a Kindle last spring.  I thought I wouldn't like it but after about fifteen minutes, I was a dyed-in-the-wool ebook fan.  The convenience, the adjustable font, the space savings, the easy reading--yes, I'm a convert for sure!  And I loved it so much, I gave my daughter one for her birthday, and now my grandson for his birthday--with a gift certificate for Christmas. :)

There are tons of great buys right now, so if you have a new ereader, you're in for a treat.  My books are on special, too!  So of course I'd love for you to try one.  These books are available in print, too.

Much Ado About Marshals

Like romance? Love stories about the old west? Want a dreamy cowboy to cuddle up and read about? Then this is the book for you.  ~~My Eclectic Bookshelf, 5 dragonflies

Daisy Gardner wants to be a detective just like dime novel heroine Honey Beaulieu.  To her delight, her sister shot a bank robber and he got away, so now she even has a crime to solve. But her parents insist she marry a man whose farm is miles from town.  She can't solve crimes stuck out there. What better solution than to marry the new marshal!

Rancher Cole Richards saves his friend from robbing a bank, but is shot for his efforts, and now is a wanted man.  His friend takes him to Oreana to see the doc, where Cole's mistaken for the new marshal.  Now he faces a dilemma few men have to face--tell the truth and hang, or live a lie and end up married. Either way could cost him his freedom.

Faery Merry Christmas

Amazon * Smashwords * Barnes & Noble * Kobo * iTunes

Romance has gone awry in Faeryshire.Who would've thought Mr. and Mrs. Claus's daughter would be "on the shelf"? Yep, Cheshya's all a'flutter because her 2,000th birthday, the last day she's eligible to take a mate, is on Christmas, only four days away, but Liam of the Red Clan, the only man she has ever wanted is otherwise occupied . . .

Terra Humanus in 1956: carhops on roller skates, the submarine races, a pink Nash Metropolitan, Lucky Strikes, Little Richard, and the Shoreline Sharks Baseball Club starring ace pitcher Liam Stone.

For the past five years, Liam of the Red Clan has lived in Terra Humanus, pitching for the Shoreline Sharks and obsessed with signing as a major league pitcher with the Cincinnati Reds. The faery queen sends Cheshya to help him achieve his goal, but in signing with the Reds, will he lose out on his true heart's desire?

What will it take to make a Faery Merry Christmas?

"What faery fun! A winsome sprite's barely still-ticking time clock. Mayhem in the land of Claus. And the man who could wave just the right magic wand obsessed with baseball. A Christmas story to cuddle up with--and keep you really warm." Stella Cameron, NYT Best-selling Author

You can find my other award-winning books at my website:

http://www.jacquierogers.com/books.html

Happy Reading in 2012!

Quantum Physics and the Art of Overcoming Despair

by Craig Lancaster
Copyright © 2011 Craig Lancaster

After I finished my second novel, The Summer Son, and delivered it to the publisher, I did what I usually do at the conclusion of a big writing project: I took a deep breath, and I kept writing.

The difference, this time, is that I didn’t embark on one of the myriad ideas I had for another novel. I found myself drawn to short stories, something I’d pursued only haltingly before. I wrote stories about lost and lonely men and women, people pushed to the margins of society and their own lives: among them a traveling salesman consigned to a late-night bus ride; a teenage girl running from abuse in her hometown and falling into the indifference of a larger city; a newspaperman in a crisis of career and confidence; a basketball coach who, to borrow the words of the great Neil Finn, lost his regard for the good things that he had.

For nearly a year, the stories poured out. They weren’t consciously linked in time or in theme, but they were bound by one thing that I found impossible to escape: my own state of mind. My marriage was unraveling. I had learned, after a lifetime of veering between troughs of depression and soaring heights of manic energy, that I have a form of bipolar disorder. (I’ve also learned about the liberation that comes with finding a way to raise the floor and lower the ceiling, emotionally speaking.) My means of coping with the turmoil in my life was to sit at my writing desk and find a path through my own thoughts, exorcising my fears and my insecurities.

Craig Lancaster, author

The result is Quantum Physics and the Art of Departure, a collection of ten short stories with perhaps the most inscrutable title I’ll ever choose. (My promise to you: There are no actual quantum physics involved, and the meaning of the title will become clear enough when you read the book.) Some of the stories appeared elsewhere first: “Cruelty to Animals,” a tale of badly mismatched lovers, was in the Spring 2011 issue of Montana Quarterly. Three of them—“This Is Butte. You Have Ten Minutes,” “Alyssa Alights,” and “Star of the North”—were originally bundled into e-book form. And the last and most hopeful story, “Comfort and Joy,” was written last December and sold for a dollar, the net proceeds of which I donated to Feed America.

While all of this was happening, I was also getting my publishing company, Missouri Breaks Press, off the ground. The first book I did, Carol Buchanan’s Gold Under Ice, was a Spur Award finalist. In July 2011, I collaborated with my colleague Ed Kemmick to bring out The Big Sky, By and By, a collection of Ed’s essays and stories about Montana people and places. The success of those books helped give me the confidence to bring out Quantum Physics under my own banner—not so much because I’m an ardent self-publisher but because my autodidactic tendencies compel me to explore this business from every possible angle. A collection of short stories, which most publishers shy away from on marketing grounds, seemed like the right project to take on. I hired the best editor I know, Jim Thomsen, and he helped me deliver a book that I’m intensely proud of.

I hope you’ll give it a look. It’s available in trade paperback ($14) and e-book versions for a damned sporting price ($1.99). Links: Kindle, Nook.

Watch For It! BLACK FRIDAY BLOG HOP

On Black Friday I'll be joining 22 other authors for a SPECTACULAR blog hop--and of course you can win FREE BOOKS from all of us!  And something to read them with...something grand.  Something I want.  (Be patient, I'll tell you what it is!)

Get holiday shopping tips & deals all day plus great books and...

One random commenter (can be on any of the blogs) will win a

Kindle Fire

along with the prizes below!

Now THAT'S my kind of shopping!
Additional Prizes:
- Cassandra Carr: copy of either of her two current releases, Talk to Me or Head Games

- Kristabel Reed: back list copy of one of her stories and then on her own blog a $10 GC plus a copy of her newest release, Risque, a Regency Menage Tale

- Lucy Felthouse: back list copy of any of her single-title books

- Cari Quinn: back list copy of one of her books

- Leigh Elwood: two back list copies of her books

- Natasha Blackthorne: copies of her two Regency era novellas: Grey’s Lady and Waltz of Seduction

- Amber Kallyn: e-copy of Dragos 1

- Camryn Rhys: Kindle copies of The Barn Dance and Off the Record – Foodie Erotic Romances

- Lissa Matthews: two of her back list books

- Misa Buckley: an e-copy of Ironhaven and To Reach the Dawn

- Lacey Wolfe: a copy of Ambers Muse

- Courtney Sheets: a $25 GC to Ravenous Romance and a copy of Kona Warrior – PDF

- Sara Brookes: an e-copy of one of her back list books

- Cynthia Arsuaga: a copy of an e-book, and on her own blog five book charm book tethers

- Louisa Bacio: .pdf copy of her first book in The Vampire, The Witch & The Werewolf series, and on her own blog a $10 certificate to Ravenous Romance, and each commenter will also be entered to win a Goody Bag of new Orleans treats

- Malia Mallory: one copy each of The ABC’s of Erotica and Santa’s Back Door Baby

- Cynthia Eden: a copy of Angel of Darkness (either print or digital)

- Carrie Ann Ryan: an e-copy of The Alpha’s Path

- Jacquie Rogers: a Smashwords coupon for Faery Merry Christmas, plus on her own blog, a free copy of Much Ado About Marshals

Wouldn't you love to have all those books?  I would!  So be sure to come back Friday, and also check Cassandra Carr's blog, where you'll get links to all the blog sites.