National Matchmaker Day! #mailorderbride #HeartsOfOwyhee #kindleunlimited

Mail-order brides couldn't have found their men if it weren't for matchmakers, and August 30 is National Matchmaker Day, so let's celebrate!  If you subscribe to Kindle Unlimited, you can read every one of these books and novellas for free!

Mail-Order Tangle (with Caroline Clemmons)
Mercy: Bride of Idaho
A Gift for Rhoda
A Flare of the Heart
I Heard the Brides on Christmas Day

Question of the day
Would you like to be a matchmaker?  Have you ever hooked up a couple and it actually worked out for them?  Comment below and you could win a Kindle copy of I Heard the Brides on Christmas Day.

Small print
Drawing will be held Saturday, September 3, 2016.  Don't forget to include your email address with your comment so we can get in touch with you if you win.

A second chance!
For another chance to win, join the Pickle Barrel Bar and Books, where a drawing will be held for Pickle Barrelers only!

Hearts of Owyhee series

Get Your Romance On!

Looking Ahead

It's June. While the Northeast is cooking, it's cold June in the Pacific Northwest, the coldest since they started keeping records in 1894! My tomatoes haven't grown even a smidgen since I planted them a month ago. Nevertheless, summer is coming (we hope).

But I'm a writer, and everything writers do is for a project that won't come to fruition for months or sometimes years ahead. So what did I work on this week?


Down Home Ever Lovin' Mule Blues--to be released this fall from Highland Press. Not only did my editor and I work on the manuscript, but I've been working on the book video. And good news--my niece's bf, who wrote the theme song for my book video, just signed a recording contract! Check out Justin Saragueta on myspace. He's awesome. (So's my niece!)

Faery Merry Christmas--yes, a Christmas novella featuring the faery princess and matchmaker, Keely.

Looking ahead to 2009:

I'm working on a pirate novella for Love on a Dead Man's Chest with Cynthia Breeding and Deborah MacGillivray. Here's a sneak peak at the cover:

Next project: Romancing the Dragon. I'm so looking forward to writing the pirate and the dragon novellas. :)

And, of course, there're the ongoing projects that I'm writing on spec. I really love these stories!



Jacquie




Faery Special Romances *** Book Video
Royalties go to Children's Tumor Foundation, ending Neurofibromatosis through Research

Jacquie Rogers *** Myspace *** Bebo *** Faery World

Coming soon: Down Home Ever Lovin' Mule Blues

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Thursday Thirteen: Farm Chores before Breakfast

What Do You Do Before Breakfast?

In the Old West, farm chores lasted from dawn to dark, and even after dark, mending clothes, soaping leather, and that sort of thing still had to be done. This list is typical of what a family would expect to accomplish before breakfast. The day starts just before first light, and remember, they didn't have central heat.

1. Start the fire in the stove.
2. Pump water/heat water for washing, get dressed.
3. Feed the chickens.
4. While hens are occupied, gather eggs.
5. Pitch hay to the horses.
6. While horses are occupied, check for injuries and clean the stalls.
7. Grain the steers.
8. Grain the cows and milk them. (This counts for all 13. You wouldn't believe how tired your hands get.)
9. Separate the milk, store milk and cream in the spring house, wash the buckets.
10. Feed the pigs and nursing calves.
11. Pump water for all the animals.
12. Get the field equipment ready so you can hitch the horses as soon as breakfast is over.
13. Wash up and cook breakfast.

Even today, farmers have to do about half these chores before breakfast, but electricity has definitely made watering animals and milking cows much easier.

Farm breakfasts were no meager affair. A typical menu might be bacon, fried eggs, fried potatoes, biscuits and gravy, strawberry preserves, oatmeal and cream, and coffee. Then again, they had worked up quite an appetite. Besides, after breakfast, the hard work began.

Ah, I do love living in the 'burbs!

Valentine's Day Contest: Tell me your own faery special romance and you could win cool prizes! Details on the contest page of my website.

Jacquie



Jacquie Rogers *** Myspace *** Bebo *** Faery World

Faery Special Romances (see the book video)

Royalties go to Children's Tumor Foundation,
ending Neurofibromatosis through Research

Coming soon: Down Home Ever Lovin' Mule Blues

Faery Special Romances nominated for LASR Best Book!

Faery Special Romances has been nominated as "Best Romance of 2007" in the long print category at Long and Short Reviews. Yay! Thanks so much to the ladies at LASR, and the readers who nominated my book.

Voting begins January 1 and I think continues until January 31. I'm not quite sure how this works yet.

So congrats to Keely! But I swear, that faery is getting a swollen head over all these kudos. You'd think she wrote the book. Hrrmph.

Jacquie




Website *** Myspace *** Bebo *** Faery World

Faery Special Romances (Available now)
Take a look at the book video

Royalties go to Children's Tumor Foundation,
ending Neurofibromatosis through Research

Congratulations to Carolyn Rogers!!! You have won:
A Restless Knight (The Dragons of Challon, Book 1) by Deborah MacGillivray
"Written with a finely tuned passionate and sensual voice this love story will simply take your breath away." ~~Marilyn Rondeau, RIO Reviewer

To enter Jacquie's Great Holiday Contest Fest, just sign up for Keely's Contest and News group (click on Contest). Next drawing: December 5 and we have two awesome books for the lucky winner:

Forced Mate by Rowena Cherry
"Author Cherry has penned a mind-blowing world in her new series. The attention to detail, the characters, it's all top-notch." ~~Kenda Montgomery, Official Reviewer for The Mystic Castle

Insufficient Mating Material by Rowena Cherry
"What a fantastic read! A book full of possibilities, humor, intrigue and action. I loved it!" ~~Les Stroud AKA "SURVIVORMAN"

While you're on the contest page, you might as well enter the Name That Christmas Carol contest. It's fun! 13 authors and LOTS of prizes--all you have to do is start on my page, guess the Christmas carol, then go to the other authors' pages and do the same.

Happy Holidays!

Jacquie



Jacquie Rogers *** Myspace *** Bebo *** Faery World

Faery Special Romances (Available now)
Take a look at the book video
Royalties go to Children's Tumor Foundation,
ending Neurofibromatosis through Research

Jacquie's Great Holiday Contest Fest: Week 7!

We have a Winner for
Riding the Thunder by Deborah Macgillivray!

and

We have a Winner for Faery Special Romances by Jacquie Rogers!

~~ ckorte2000 ~~

All winners are posted on my website within a few days after we hear from them.




Next drawing: November 21, 2007. Be sure to sign up for Keely's list now!


You could win Blue Moon Enchantment, a Highland Press anthology ISBN: 0-9746249-4-2


Featuring Dawn Thompson's Under the Faery Blue Moon
and
When Mules Rush In by Jacquie Rogers

"The Old West meets some very special blue moon magic in this cleverly done story by Rogers." ~~Kenda Montgomery, Official Reviewer for The Mystic Castle









Did you ever wonder what happened to Merlin, the sorcerer to King Arthur? He's back in the Old West, only now he's a crotchety matchmaking mule who has his hooves full with a sassy chicken named DeborahAnne. Together, they must show the lonely Willow Jones and the misguided Luke Tyson the way to love. But when a scoundrel barges in to marry Willow for her money, Merlin and DeborahAnne have their work cut out for them.


To enter, go to go my website and click on Contest.


Good Luck!

Thanks!

Jacquie



Faery Special Romances

Royalties donated to Children's Tumor Foundation,
ending Neurofibromatosis through research

Myspace *** Bebo *** Shelfari *** Ning *** Faery World

Jacquie's Great Holiday Contest Fest: Week 5!

We have a Winner for The Invasion of Falgannon Isle by Deborah Macgillivray!

~~ voyueristic1967 ~~

All winners are posted on my website within a few days after we hear from them.


Next drawing: November 7, 2007. Be sure to sign up for Keely's list now!

You could win the second Warrior's Bride by Gerri Russell

"Gerri Russell creative imagination enthralls me. I was hooked from the very first page." ~~New York Times Bestselling Author Debbie Macomber





The Seer's Stone. Locked away in a tower, young Isobel had watched its power slowly drive her mother mad. And now, years later, the Stone's secrets threatened to be the death of Isobel as well.

Douglas Stewart, known as the Black Wolf of Scotland, had no intention of taking a wife, despite his father's demands. But the moment he saw Isobel, he was spellbound by her fiery defiance and delicate beauty.

They were united by destiny yet beset by betrayal. Only by opening her heart to love and living up to her legacy could Isobel become a . . . Warrior's Bride.

To enter, go to my website and click on Contest.



Good Luck!

Thanks!

Jacquie



Faery Special Romances
Royalties donated to Children's Tumor Foundation,
ending Neurofibromatosis through research
Myspace *** Bebo *** Shelfari *** Ning *** Faery World