Archives for November, 2011
Debut author, Miss Julie Benson, will come calling on Friday, December 2. She’s saddled up and is raring to tell us about her new book and how it came about. Bet you haven’t read too many stories about a cowboy male model. Sure strikes my fancy without even trying hard. I can just see [...]
What is it about very good girls falling for very bad men? Does the man have some redeeming quality she can see right off? In my “Lawmen and Outlaws” Christmas Anthology novella, Christmas for Ransom, available both in print and e-book, schoolmarm Eliza Willows falls in love with an outlaw when the handsome stranger hires [...]
Today’s winner is Virginia C Congratulations, Virginia C! I will contact you via email to get your snailmail address. In the meantime, think about whether you’d like a paperback of “A Texas Christmas” or a hardback. Thank you to everyone who dropped by and left a comment today. I truly enjoyed sharing my [...]
In “Away in the Manager” for our anthology “A Texas Christmas”, my grumpy, blacksmith hero Randall Humphrey who wants to be left alone and celebrate Christmas in the only way he knows how – in solitude, is faced being snowed in with a beautiful woman and two little tykes. And, Christmas is only a couple [...]
While on vacation recently, my husband and I spent a morning visiting the Arizona Cowboy Shooters Association in action. Every second Saturday, enthusiasts of period weapons, dedicated to preserving and promoting the sport of Cowboy Action Shooting gather together to talk history, weapons and shooting. The Single Action Shooting Society–SASS–is for folks who “…share a [...]
Seems like everyone could relate to Miss Jodi’s blog about memories. She thanks each one who left a comment. Winner of an autographed copy of The Tender Texan is……………… KIRSTEN ARNOLD Woo-Hoo! I’m tickled pink for you, Kirsten! I’ll contact you privately to get your mailing particulars so keep an eye out. That’s it [...]
Listed below are the upcoming releases from our talented writers here at Wildflower Junction. To purchase any of these fine books, just click on the book covers. And to learn more about the authors, click on thier names. THE COWBOY’S PRIDE By Charlene Sands Unfinished Business He’d been ready to move on, to [...]
Thanksgiving is always the time we think of home. Last week a man in his 70’s said to me, “I remember the house I grew up in, every room, every drawer, every smell. In my mind I can still go there even though the house was torn down over 50 years ago.” I thought about [...]
Poor Thanksgiving Turkey doesn’t stand a chance. I have this vision of Santa bringing up the end of the Thanksgiving Day Parade with spurs sparkling and guns blazing! A signal, for “Let the holiday madness begin!” There’s hardly time to put away the turkey leftovers with Black-Friday sales starting at 10pm Thanksgiving [...]
Hello Darlings, Miss Jodi Thomas is coming to ride the trail with us again on Saturday, November 26th. She’s always a delight. And she’s been here so often of late that she’s becoming like family. In fact, the Fillies have taken quite a shine to her and there’s talk of an adoption. Hee-hee! Miss [...]
Thanksgiving Delights By Joanna Fuchs On Thanksgiving Day we’re thankful for Our blessings all year through, For family we dearly love, For good friends, old and new. For sun to light and warm our days, For stars that glow at night, For trees of green and skies of blue, And puffy clouds of [...]
Hi everyone. Our Thanksgiving holiday here in the USA is tomorrow. For the last several years, I have not “cooked” a big Thanksgiving dinner. With my daughter going to LA every year at that time and my son opting for McDonald’s so much of the time in the past, there just wasn’t a need to [...]
It’s November, a time when we tend to cuddle up and look ahead to the holidays. It’s a time of Thanksgiving. I’m sure all of you know that our Thanksgiving comes from the Eastern Indians, and in particular Squanto — and if you didn’t know about Squanto, I would highly recommend the movie, Squanto, starring [...]
Hello, everyone. Thanks for inviting me to visit Petticoats and Pistols again. As Mary Connealy shared last week, she and I teamed up to bring readers two Christmas novellas in an e-book called A Home for Christmas. It’s priced at only 99 cents, so please tell your friends about it. I love Christmas novellas. They [...]
Ladies, Miss Joanne thinks you’re all winners in her book and wishes she could give everyone a book. But she can’t. I put all the names in my ten gallon hat and let Jasper my mule draw two….. QUILT LADY CRYSTAL GB are the winners of an autographed copy of TALL, DARK AND COWBOY. [...]
Just thinkin’ I should jog your memories and remind you that Miss Robin Lee Hatcher will be here bright and early tomorrow (Monday, November 21st.) I’d sure hate for you to miss her. Miss Robin has a Christmas anthology out called A HOME FOR CHRISTMAS. She and our own Mary Connealy have teamed up [...]
I’m always excited when my new books hit the shelves and finally get into the hands of readers. It feels like my characters are truly alive once they’re in the hearts and minds of other people. But sometimes it’s hard to leave my old friends behind as I move on to a new story. I [...]
We’re proud and delighted to announce that Miss Robin Lee Hatcher will get off the stage here in Wildflower Junction on Monday, November 21st. Miss Robin has an anthology to tell us about. It seems she’s teamed up with our Filly sister Mary Connealy and they’ve written heartwarming stories about the magic of the [...]
What every day item on your Thanksgiving table was not on the pilgrim’s table in 1621? (THE KEY WORDS WERE “EVERY DAY“) The Answer (drum roll please) Forks! Dinner forks were not available until the early 1600s and only the rich used them. The pilgrims brought spoons and knives over on the Mayflower but no forks. [...]
One of the things I like to do at holiday time is regale my guests with fascinating facts. This takes their minds off the burnt rolls and lumpy gravy–works every time. Below are some interesting tidbits to share at your own table. They work even without culinary disasters. Now Let’s Talk Turkey We all know [...]
Hello Darlings, Miss Joanne Kennedy has strapped on her spurs and is on her way. She’ll be here Saturday, November 19. Man, does she have a new release! What can you say about TALL, DARK and COWBOY except bring him on. That is one sexy cowpoke on the cover. He sure makes me sit [...]
I have a book that released this week called A Home for Christmas I didn’t even know it would come out for sure until the day it did. It’s an ebook and this is a brave new world for sure. People were emailing me that they’d bought it and they were reading it about ten [...]
Robena Grant…hubby pulled your name from the Stetson. If you’d like an e-copy of Right to Bragg, please email me at tanya.hanson@gmail.com and I’ll zap a copy on over to you. Thanks for visiting me in Wildflower Junction.
I am an absolute sucker for Hallmark movies any time, but at Christmas, I overload the DVR with them. My guilty little pleasure each night is staying up late to slaver over them, likely with a steaming cup of pumpkin spice coffee at my side. (I am one whom caffeine doesn’t seem to affect.) Sometimes [...]
Bet you’re thinking I’m going to write about the ordeal of getting through each new day. Nope, that’s not what this is about. I’m talking gristmills, the places the farmer took his wheat and corn to be ground into meal. During the 1850′s more than a 100,000 gristmills dotted the American countryside. They were [...]
