Tess Thompson Visits the Corral

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Hello to all the Western Romance fans! I’m delighted to be with you today. I’ll be giving away two paperbacks of my bestselling historical romance, The School Mistress of Emerson Pass. See how to enter at the end of my post.

I recently finished writing my Emerson Pass Series. I’ve been working on the books for over two years, so you can imagine that saying goodbye was a bittersweet. On the one hand, I was thrilled to have completed a 14 book series. I always feel a sense of accomplishment and relief when they’re done. On the other hand, the Barnes family felt like old friends and saying goodbye was hard. It’s a strange thing, this writing fiction. Characters I made up out of my head feel as if they’re real when I know they’re not. Readers tell me they feel the same way about the books they really enjoy. As a reader, I’m that way too. Book friends can sustain us during hard times! They never let us down.

 

 

Emerson Pass, set in 1910, is about a young school teacher who takes a job in a little mountain town out west. Once she arrives, she meets a widower and his five children and they all fall in love. Yay. The entire Barnes family and my heroine, Quinn Cooper, came to me in dream. I’m a woman of faith and fully believe that God whispered their stories in my ear while I was sleeping. I woke up to an image of Quinn getting off on a train in the middle of a snowstorm. In addition, my hero, Alexander and all five of his children were all so clear in my mind that I knew what they looked like and their personalities before I even opened my eyes that morning. However, I was in the middle of writing Cliffside Bay so I had to be satisfied with jotting the details in my journal so that I wouldn’t forget. I didn’t start writing The School Mistress until two years later! I went back to my notes and it was all in there, like the characters had been waiting for me to share them with the world. So, I did. I’ve enjoyed writing all my characters but these ones are special. If you haven’t met them, I hope you’ll give the series a try. They’re all in Kindle Unlimited and available in paperback.

Giveaway:  When was the last time you read a series or book that you loved so much you hated for it to end? Let me know in the comments below and you’ll be entered in the random drawing to be one of two winners of a paperback copy of The School Mistress.

Happy reading and thanks so much for joining me today!

Tess Thompson is the USA Today Bestselling and award-winning author of clean and wholesome Contemporary and Historical Romantic Women’s Fiction with nearly 50 published titles. Her stories feature family sagas, romance, a little mystery, and a lot of heart.

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41 thoughts on “Tess Thompson Visits the Corral”

  3. I Love reading book series Melinda Curtis’s The Blackwell’s and I hated to see that series end! Have a Blessed Weekend!

  8. Hello, Tess, and welcome! The School Mistress of Emerson Pass sounds so good. I love the story line. And that cover — what a gorgeous cover! I recently read the Hanger’s Horsemen series by Karen Witemeyer. That series has four swoon-worthy heroes from Texas! I thoroughly enjoyed it.

  9. I’m reading a book like that now and it’s the start to series. The funny part is I try to anticipate how the the main characters are going do with situations and sometimes I try to write the end. The book I hate to see come to an end is The Gilded Cuff by Lauren Smith.
    This book looks and sounds like a great book to read in print.

  10. Hi Tess, the latest book series I’ve read is Tara Grace Ericson’s “Main Street Minden.” There’s four books and they’re written for the seasons. I love falling in love with the characters and hate seeing them end.

  11. It has been a while since I set down and read a series. I usually get a book or two and never finish the series because I am off on a different book. Also been in a reading slump lately and trying to get back into reading again.

  12. Welcome! I’ve read this series and loved The Scholar. It was my favorite out of the series. My mother is reading your series now. She is also enjoying it. 😉

    The series that I read, and wished would never end was Romancing the Weavers by Kit Morgan. It was actually a shared one with Ray Anselmo writing in them also. I still think of all of the characters. It was many books! But, I had to read all the stories of the Weaver children as they grew up and fell in love. The Weavers are a very large family with unique characters.

    • I’m so glad you enjoyed Emerson Pass and that you’re mother is enjoying them too. XO

  14. Welcome today Tess. Oh but that cover is gorgeous. I have read numerous series that have stayed with me. On is: American Heiresses series by Jen Turano and High Sierra Sweethearts by Mary Connealy quilting dash lady at comcast dot net

  15. Hello and welcome Tess, I loved reading The Terry Mellows series , I also loved reading The Clan of The Cavebear and I loved it so much that it was hard when I finished reading the last book, I have the whole series though, which makes it nice. Your series sounds so very, very good, I love it when in a series the characters grow up and I know what is going on with their lives. Thank you for sharing about your great sounding book series. Have a Great weekend.

  18. I am reading Jessie Gussman’s Flyboys Series. I love it! Each book gets better. I’m going to hate to see this series end.

  19. That happens to me all the time. I love series books because you get to revisit with favorite characters so it can be difficult when a series comes to an end. Of course, there is the other end of the spectrum when a series is so long that it becomes stale and doesn’t excite you the way it used to. That is where more than 20 books for one series can be rather excessive.

  20. I was approved to be on an ARC team for Natalie Walters. It was the last book in her SNAP Agency books. I had never read any of Natalie’s books before. After reading it, I purchased the other three books. I am reading the next to the last book (it will be the last book for me to read) in the series. I hate to read the book because it will be all over. Thank you for sharing. God bless you.

  21. Fablehaven was a series I hated to see end and was glad when a sequel series Dragonwatch continued the characters; of course, now Dragonwatch has ended as well so, darn. 🙂

  22. I’ve really enjoyed some series of books. The Penned in Time series by Pepper Basham is a favorite.

  23. The most recent series, or rather group of series, I finished were by Linda Broday, one of the Fillies. The characters grew, a spin off series involving them was good, and then the family matured and the children as adults had their stories. I did hate to see the series of series end, but in some ways it was time. There are a few possibilities for the spin-off to have a few more books, but it ended at a good place. Linda has moved on and I am looking forward to the new series she has started.Some of the Fillies have participated in two continuity series. I am working on those now and look forward to completing them.

    I am impressed that you could carry a series for 14 books. If you have the characters that show up and need to have their stories told, it would be hard to stop until you gave them their due. Best wishes for your next endeavor.

  24. The series I most recently read was actually a re-read of Rachel Lee’s early Conard County books. I still get caught up in the relationships between the characters. Maybe it is like following your favorite soap opera. You want to know what happens next to your favorite characters, their friends and family. And I do have several more books from that series which I am not allowing myself to open because I have too much spring work to do and it won’t get done if I start reading them.:)

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