Archives for May, 2010
Hope everyone’s having a wonderful Memorial Day full of food, fun, and laughter. Just taking a moment to announce Miss Karen’s winner…… BEVERLY GRIDER Yippee, Miss Beverly! Ah’ll contact you for your mailing address and you can bet your bottom dollar Miss Karen will get the book out on the next stage. Thanks to everyone who [...]
I watched the flag pass by one day, It fluttered in the breeze; A young Marine saluted it, And then he stood at ease. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I looked at him in uniform, So young, so tall, so proud; With hair cut square and eyes alert, He’d stand out in any crowd. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I thought … how [...]
Well bless my soul and divvy up the welcomes! Miss Jodi Thomas will arrive in the Junction bright and early on Tuesday. The Fillies are overjoyed to have her back. Ah’m not right sure what the dear lady will have in mind to share with us, but you can bet your bottom dollar it’ll tickle our fancy. [...]
Lord have mercy! The Fillies are building on to the corral these days since we have three new ladies joining our herd at the Junction. Donna Alward Phyliss Miranda Cheryl Pierson Miss Donna writes for Harlequin Romances, Mills and Boon, and Samhain. Miss Phyliss has three Kensington “Give Me” anthologies under her belt with more [...]
Please join the Fillies in a big YEEHAW for Karen’s 5 Spur review of A Tailor-Made Bride from Love Western Romances Do you ever watch those makeover shows? Perhaps a talk show host takes an audience member backstage and sics her personal stylist on her. Over the course of an hour the woman gets her hair [...]
Best known as the place where the Pony Express began in 1860, and where Jesse James met his end in 1882, St. Joseph, Missouri, holds a place of honor in the history of westward expansion. Situated on the bluffs of the Missouri River, St Joseph began life in 1826 as Joseph Robidoux’s first trading [...]
Hello Darlings, Miss Karen Witemeyer has seen fit to come for a visit and the Fillies are right glad she has. The dear lady has taken a mind to shed some light on the subject of excercise in the 1800′s. Ah’m astounded (and you probably will be too) at the forward-thinking of early day settlers. Very interesting. Miss [...]
I’m still in the thick of revisions for The Outlaw’s Return (LIH, February 2011), but the end is in sight. That means I’m thinking about the characters for my next book. The heroine’s easy. This is Book #4 in a four-book series, so Caroline already has a personality and a problem. She was widowed shortly [...]
Solomon D. Butcher arrived in Nebraska in 1880 to farm. Solomon, his father, his brother George, and brother-in-law J.R. Wabel took claims in Nebraska. They dug a hole and pulled their covered wagon over it to serve as temporary shelter. Such was the comfort of Butcher’s farm life. Butcher by his own admission wasn’t suited [...]
Good Morning! Forgive me if you will for not posting about something Western or something American Indian. Bear with me as I digress. This is my mother-in-law, Joyce as I have known her for the 14 years that my husband and I have been married. I can’t remember when I didn’t have an independent spirit [...]
Thanks to all of you who commented on my post on stereopticons. I enjoyed reading all of your wonderful comments and reminiscences. I chose a winner by random drawing, and the winner is… JUDY BURFORD. Congrats to Judy and I’ll be getting the book out to her soon.
(If you’re interested in receiving a copy of my upcoming release, read through to the end of this post) Did you know that the scientific principles behind 3-D movies had their first practical application as early as 1838? That’s when Charles Wheatstone patented his reflecting stereoscope. I’m sure you’ve all seen stereoscopes before, [...]
Ah got all the names in the cowboy hat and look who ah drew…… CARLA GADE Woo-Hoo! Congratulations, Carla! To claim your digital copy of LUCKY IN LOVE, send an email to Miss Stacey staceycoverstone@gmail.com and she’ll get you fixed up quicker than a settin’ hen on a June bug. The Fillies hope you all [...]
Tularosa. The word evokes the vision of a charming Mexican village in the desert, which is pretty close to accurate. Tularosa is the name of an actual town in New Mexico (nicknamed Tulie), and it is the setting for my upcoming contemporary romance, Lucky in Love, being released June 1 by Champagne Books. I’ve been [...]
Margaret Brownley IN MY BOOK A Lady Like Sarah, my heroine comes across the remains of a wagon train following an Indian attack. Though it wasn’t necessary to research covered wagons for my story, I’m a firm believer that writers should never miss an opportunity to procrastinate in the name of research. Plus [...]
Hello Darlings, Miss Stacey Coverstone will return to the Junction this Saturday. It’s always a pleasure to have her come calling. This time Miss Stacey will talk about the setting for her new book–Tularosa, New Mexico. Seems the dear lady has developed a real fondness for the place. And with good reason. Tularosa has quite [...]
Occasionally, I read a book that seems to be moving along just fine, and then a passage comes up that irritates me like nails on a chalkboard. We all probably have pet peeves about the books we read. Perhaps I’m more critical because I’m a writer…but I don’t think so. The readers I know and [...]
Howdy! Well, a couple of weeks ago, I had the funnest time ever at the Silver Spur Ranch in Bandera, Texas. My first time going Lone Star was a writing retreat with my publishing house The White Rose Press. As great as it was to hang out with editors and authors and speakers I’d only [...]
About thirty miles from where I live in West Texas is an historical site called Ransom Canyon. It was incorporated into a town in 1977, but in the 1800′s it was the scene of trading in human flesh. Originally called Yellow House Canyon, it became known as Ransom Canyon after it became the regular meeting [...]
The coyote (Canis latrans) is known by many names. Depending on time and place, he’s been called prairie wolf, little wolf, cased wolf, barking dog, yodel dog, and perhaps my favorite name for him—God’s dog. Even his common name has plenty of variations. You can say it, “kai-OAT,” “KAI-oat,” “kai-OAT-ee,” or the Spanish version, “coy-OH-tay,” [...]
Hope everyone enjoyed Miss Robin Lee Hatcher’s blog as much as I did. Miss Robin’s a special lady with a big talent. Winner of A MATTER OF CHARACTER is …….. Sylvia Stewart Yippee! Congratulations, Sylvia! I’ll contact you for your mailing address. Miss Robin thanks everyone for their comments and wishes she had a book for [...]
When I wrote my first novel, my love for Gone With the Wind (both book and movie) led me to set my story in the Civil War South. Over the course of the next ten years, I explored many other settings: Medieval England, Regency England, Victorian England, the high seas (pirate books), the Titanic, the [...]
I love the musical “Showboat.” Not long ago, I stayed up late and watched it again. I still cry when Noley sells her hair to buy back Gay’s lucky walking stick, and watching the reunion of Noley and Gay still makes me sigh in happily-ever-after contentment. On a completely unrelated side note, do you [...]
Hello Darlings, Yippee! An esteemed guest is about to appear here in the Junction. Yep, that’s true. The Fillies are proud and excited to welcome……. Miss Robin Lee Hatcher! Miss Robin enjoys talking about what life was like on the Western frontier as folks were settling it. She loves all the whys and wherefores of that period and she’s [...]
Living in Lexington, Kentucky, my husband and I see horses all the time. We were driving down New Circle Road the other day, not paying attention to anything, when a truck with a horse trailer pulled up next to us. The horse neighed at the top of its lungs and startled us both. My husband, [...]
