Topic for Tomorrow, August 14th

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Karen Kay here, the authentic Native American Romance Author.  I’ll be hosting the Petticoats & Pistols blog all day tomorrow and would like to extend an invitation you to come and post and chat.

 Tomorrow’s topic will be little known Western Historical facts, and I’d love to have you join in a talk about this subject.  Specifically, tomorrow the plan is to talk about the little horse that made the West.  Any of you horse lovers should love this week, since Charlene will be hosting another talk on horses on Friday. 

I’ll be posting live tomorrow morning, but remember that I live in California and so my early morning may be different from yours.  Till tomorrow, then.

Karen Kay

PS:  Don’t forget to visit my website at www.novels-by-KarenKay.com

Love Westerns? Welcome To The Club!

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Hi all! I’m glad to see you here at Petticoats!  Please stop by often. We have some great topics and bloggers coming up. 

It’s my turn on Friday and I’ll be blogging about those handsome hunky heroes’ and thier faithful img_0055.JPGcompanions – their horses.

 

 

 

Recently, I spent some time at my cax82xhzcover.jpgcousin’s ranch where he stables 12 horses. I love his horses, they are the sweetest animals and I always learn something new about them when I visit.  I was so happy to see that my new November cover for Bodine’s Bounty had a beautiful spotted gelding on the cover!

Come back often and visit me on Friday for My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys… and Their Trusted Companions!

Happy Trails!

We're Here!

I guess you could say Petticoats & Pistols was my crazy idea.

I blame it on a marketing class I took from Gwen Schuster-Haynes last spring.  It was a fab class, and in one of her lectures, she featured a blog site put together by a group of writers.  She hailed them as one of her alumni success stories for their dedication to a career plan.  And the amazing thing?  They weren’t published, but yowza, were they motivated to be.  I fell in love with their site for being so clever and memorable.  Check them out: 

These ladies inspired me to do something similar, but there were already a gazillion single- and multi-author blogs out there.  I knew I needed something unique, too, to market myself and my books.  

Now I don’t consider myself clever or memorable.  Not by a long shot.  But the one thing I could claim to be was a western romance author, and by golly, there wasn’t a single blog out there dedicated to us and what we write. 

It didn’t take long, and Petticoats & Pistols was born.  

My time on MySpace, Shelfari and reader sites has revealed that romance lovers miss westerns.  Writers miss writing them.  And we’re hearing whispers that westerns are coming back . . .. 

The ten of us have banded together to keep that pendulum swinging in our direction.  We want to be THE go-to site for western romance.  We want readers to come to us to find the latest western romance releases, both historical and contemporary.  We want western romance writers to guest blog with us.  We want published and aspiring western romance writers to share info links about the Old West, writing tips, good news about their sales, etc. 

Most of all, we want to have fun! 

Each of us will blog a couple of days a month.  Weekends are reserved for guests.  Come over often.  See who’s here and what we have to say.   

You just might find Petticoats & Pistols a clever and memorable place to visit! 

(Heartfelt thanks to Laura at Swank Web Style for her infinite patience and talent!)   

Two new dogs

My husband and I were recently on the Blackfeet reservation in Montana during Indian Days pow-wow. On the Blackfeet reservation, dogs run free and pretty wild. However, there were two dogs who attached themselves to us and some friends. We were there for the pow-wow, but we were also there to help with literacy/drug ed programs. Anyway, these two dogs attached themselves to us all and when it came time to leave, my husband and I couldn’t bear to leave them behind — and so they came home with us. They are both pretty much muts. One is a Collie with something else in him, and the other is most likely some German Shepard and goodness knows what else.

But they are dear.