Archives for “western romance”
THE LAST CAHILL COWBOY rides into Cahill Crossing this month, completing the miniseries, CAHILL COWBOYS Texas’s Finest. Author Jenna Kernan talks about writing a continuity series. Ever wonder what it would be like to write four stories with four authors in four months? That’s what the authors of the Harlequin Historical series, CAHILL COWBOYS Texas’s [...]
What is it about cowboys and horses and rugged individualism that brings readers back to Westerns again and again? Their popularity may wax and wane, but the stories of cowboys and the West are constants in the fiction world that might see the rise and fall of vampires, wizards and fantasy. (I’m not criticizing—I’m a [...]
Greetings Fillies! Thanks for having me! I’m thrilled to be here chatting with you about one of my first western romances, which is where I got my start as a romance writer. My debut novel, PRAIRIE BRIDE was set in a sod house on the Kansas prairies. It was a Harlequin Historicals release in the [...]
I love spending time here at Petticoats and Pistols with the fillies and all their fantastic fans! I’m grateful to have my fifth book, An Inconvenient Match, Love Inspired Historical, on the shelves this month. The release of a new book is always exciting! In past visits I’ve shared tidbits of history I discovered while [...]
I trust that Santa brought you lots of goodies and that you had a safe and happy New Year’s. Now that we have the holidays out of the way I’m proud and happy to share that our sixth anthology, BE MY TEXAS VALENTINE, with Phyliss Miranda, Jodi Thomas, DeWanna Pace, and myself hits bookstores [...]
I love New Year’s Eve. When I was younger, I was pretty much a wallflower who sat home year after year. I would watch the glass ball going down in Times Square and wish I was there. As an adult I’ve tried to make up for all those lost New Year’s Eves and rarely miss [...]
Hidy, fillies! Thanks for inviting me in for a visit today. P&P is always such a fun group. If you could live in the Old West, whereabouts would you choose and what would your occupation be? Wow. That’s a hard one. Although I love the beauty and wildlife of the mountains, it would be hard [...]
With all the online dating sites these days, it might seem that cyber romance is the wave of the future. But as King Solomon so wisely said, there is nothing new under the sun. Back in 1879, a female telegraph operator from Boston by the name of Ella Cheever Thayer published a romance novel entitled Wired [...]
I started setting books in my fictional town of Larch Valley a while ago – in fact, it was the first book I did with my current editor after my first editor at Harlequin got promoted. I wrote the end of it with a cast on my arm, a glass of wine at my elbow [...]
My parents moved to Southern California when I was 3. I grew up in the shadows of Hollywood at a time when westerns were popular on TV and in the movies. My idea of a cowboy was based on their fictionalized portrayal. I saw the hero as larger than life, a man who overcame the [...]
Thank you for the opportunity to share my new western historical romance, TEXAS TWILIGHT, with your readers. It’s book two in The McCutcheon Family series, and was a joy to write. I think it’s because I got so attached to the family in MONTANA DAWN, I was eager to learn more about them, create a [...]
(Celia will be giving away a pdf. copy of Texas True today!) The first Western Romance novel I read was This Calder Range by Janet Dailey. Before that, my adult reading material came in groups. One genre kept me busy for months or years, until I moved on to another. First I read Science [...]
Looking for a good cowboy? Try Harlequin Books. The word cowboy appears in about half the Special Edition titles every month, and my books are right in there with them. As the lovely Fillies of Wildflower Junction will attest, cowboys sell books. I’ve been writing about cowboys since many of you were knee-high to a [...]
Howdy, y’all! I have to say this past year of dealing with Mom’s ever-expanding symptoms of dementia and Alzheimer’s has been time consuming and difficult. Several after-midnight trips to the ER—with falls that caused arm and head injuries and an ankle broken in two places—led to numerous doctor visits and physical therapy. Those of you [...]
With the release of our July anthology called GIVE ME A TEXAS OUTLAW my thoughts have been firmly anchored on history’s bad boys. And Kansas had its share of them. Last month on a publicity tour to kick off the release Phyliss Miranda and I traveled up to Liberal, Kansas. From there, a dear [...]
Yeeehaw! It’s Stampede week once again and Calgary is rockin’ to great food, great music, and great rodeo! Stampede Royalty usually refers to the Stampede Princesses, but this year the celebration is a little extra special. Because a new Princess is in town with her new husband: The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge! A lofty [...]
What kind of book covers to do you like? What makes you pick up one book but leave another on the shelf? Do you like couples on the covers? How about children and animals? And then there are cowboys and outlaws and warriors . . . oh my! I can spend hours looking at books, [...]
In less than two weeks our fifth anthology GIVE ME A TEXAS OUTLAW will hit bookstores. This again features me with Jodi Thomas, Phyliss Miranda, and DeWanna Pace. The reviewer for Romantic Times called us a gang of writers and I just laughed, but I suppose that’s what we are. I hear we’ve robbed [...]
Deadwood was on several years ago and I didn’t watch, but we discovered Season 1 because we watch a lot of On Demand series and, well, I put the first epi on just to see Tim Olyphant. Yes, I’m that shallow. I became a huge Olyphant fan from watching Justified. By the way, Justified isn’t [...]
I have always loved westerns. As a kid, I can remember lying shoulder to shoulder on the TV room floor with my older brother as we watched Clint Eastwood shoot and snarl and glare his way through a host of spaghetti westerns. I thought he was the coolest thing on earth and couldn’t decide if [...]
You know how sometimes you realize something and wonder why you never really saw it before? That happened to me last week. I was doing a little research for my new book, piecing together my hero’s past, and I had just finished a week of admin. A whole week. And that’s when it hit me. [...]
Listed below are the upcoming releases from our talented writers here at the 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 Proper Wife By Winnie Griggs Sensible, settled, steady – and not Sadie Lassiter… [...]
The Making of a Hero What makes a hero? For me, I think Willie Nelson said it all when he sang these words: My heroes have always been cowboys, and they still are it seems. I’ve always loved cowboys. As a little girl, I wanted to marry Michael Landon’s character from Bonanza; Little Joe. I [...]
Hello folks. Thanks for all the wonderful comments on my Honey Bee post. I used my handy-dandy random number generator to select a winner of the giveaway and came up with Laney4. Laney4, if you will contact me via my website with your mailing address, I’ll get a copy of my book right out to you. Thanks again [...]
I want to thank Tracy for inviting me to blog. My latest book, Second Chance Ranch, is about equine therapy and how it changed the lives of both the hero and heroine. I read in our local paper a human interest story about an Iraqi veteran who lost his leg in a road side bomb [...]
