Archives for “Christmas in the old west”
Miss Prinsella Primm, of Culdesac Corners, California, and Lifestyle Editor of the Courant, is visiting Wildflower Junction today to present her interview with outlaw Jack Ransom, hero of Tanya Hanson’s latest release, Christmas for Ransom. One commenter today will receive a copy of the novella either PDF or Kindle version, so y’all, don’t be strangers. November 30, 1880 MISS [...]
I have a book releasing this week. A Christmas novella, two books in one, with Multiple Rita Winner Linda Goodnight. Leave a comment to get your name in the drawing for an Kindle ebook. And the party rages on in Wildflower Junction ONLY TODAY AND TOMORROW TO GET YOUR NAME IN THE DRAWING FOR: Grand Prize–$100 Gift Card [...]
JEFFREY KOTERBA’S ARTWORK USED WITH PERMISSION VISIT HIS WEBSITE: http://www.jeffreykoterba.com ‘Twas the night before Christmas in this Junction of ours; The sky over the prairie was ablaze with bright stars; Our boots were lined up by the fire [...]
Who would hang old boots, hats and (gasp) even guns on a Christmas tree? Ronald Reagan that’s who or at least his Presidential Library, and since I’m lucky enough to live but a few miles from it I decided to share a few of the twenty-four Christmas trees on display–one for each decade beginning in the 1700s . [...]
First, I want to thank all of you for welcoming me to Petticoats and Pistols. I’ve been sitting here at my desk trying to think of what I would say if I was placing an ad for a spouse. It’s a daunting task, believe me. But hundreds of men and women did just that in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“All Randall Humphrey wanted for Christmas was to be left alone and to celebrate in the only way he knew how – in solitude. He wasn’t sure who thought up all the new fandangled Christmas festivities in Kasota Spring, Texas, but for him it only served as a reminder of the worst day of his [...]
My heroes are all wounded. Not just emotionally, but physically, as well. Being a hero in a Cheryl Pierson story is like being an expendable member of the landing party on Star Trek. If you had on a red shirt when you beamed down to the planet’s surface, you could pretty well figure you weren’t [...]
Haystack Drop Candies By Winnie Griggs This is a holiday favorite at my house. It’s super easy and, as you can see from the notes on ingrediants that can be swapped out or added in, it is very versatile. INGREDIANTS 1 cup caramel chips (can substitute butterscotch chips) 2 cups shoestring [...]
OLD FASHIONED RICE PUDDING By Cheryl St. John 1/2 cup rice 1 quart milk 4 eggs, separated 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons margarine 1 teaspoon vanilla 3 tablespoons sugar Combine rice, milk and salt. Cook in a double-boiler until rice is tender. Beat egg yolks until light and lemon [...]
Home on the Range Christmas Cookies By Victoria Bylin 3/4 cup butter or margarine 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 cup brown sugar 1 egg 1 cup flour 1 tsp cinnamon 1 tsp vanilla 1/2 tsp baking power 1/2 tsp baking soda 1/4 tsp salt 1 c. oatmeal (regular not instant or steel cut) 1 [...]
Christmas has always been a miraculous time for me. It still is. When I was younger, it was because of the presents, and the anticipation that came with the season. My parents were not wealthy, but we had the necessities and a few of the luxuries. My mom was a great manager. She could [...]
As we find ourselves with Christmas less than a week away, I’m sure many of you are as busy with last minute shopping and preparations as I am. I thought this would be a good time to pause for a few minutes to reflect on the meaning behind all the hustle and bustle of Christmas. [...]
Welcome to the Honky Tonk today! We’re havin’ a Christmas party because the construction at the Tonk is finished. Sharlene has put all Christmas songs on the juke box for the day and there’s mistletoe hanging from a red satin ribbon right in the middle of the floor … exactly in the same place that [...]
‘Tis the season to admire Christmas trees! Oh, how I love decorated trees. Never get my fill. I enjoy them so much that each year readers and authors send me photos of their trees and I post them on my blog all through December. Today I’m sharing photos taken at the General Crook House in [...]
Well, I’m starting this blog a bit differently today than the one I drafted last week because…since then, I learned Marrying Mattie is a Nominee for Best Book of 2010 at Love Western Romances! Voting starts today, and to celebrate, I’m going to send a signed copy of Marrying Mattie to one name drawn from [...]
If you could travel to any place and time, where would you go? I’m betting it wouldn’t be to a lonely mountain cabin in the 1870’s, with a Wyoming blizzard raging outside. You especially wouldn’t go there if you were nine months pregnant and on the verge of starting labor. But what if the love [...]
