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Mary Connealy
Whispers of Fortune–writing a book–and a giveaway!
I’m doing a lot of thinking about what in the world makes a person write a book.
It really is difficult to explain…even understand.
It’s such a common question “How do you do it?” And, it’s sub-question, “I want to do it.”
The thing is, I’m not sure why I write books, or how, it’s honestly a very strange way to behave. Just sittin’ by yourself makin’ stuff up.
Making up imaginary friends, then causing them trouble…in my case shooting at them, or tossing them over cliffs, or…well, you know. The sort of disasters that just so often never happen to real people. I mean, did Pa Ingalls ever have to shoot anyone? Or was he ever shot at? So even back then it didn’t happen that often.
But I love it. I feel like I’m a friendly person. I can sit and talk and enjoy myself. But for some reason, being by myself just suits me.
I do things like find out a sailor came up the coast of California…a Conquistador so probably not THAT nice of a guy…and he mapped it and wrote about it but he MISSED San Francisco Bay because it was foggy.
And it was over a hundred years before another person, of course, outside of the indigenous people who lived there, found San Francisco Bay…and that was a group who walked overland. I can read that and BAM book.
I once picked up a mastodon tooth,in a children’s museum exhibit so it was allowed, and BAM a book. A whole book came to me through that tooth. I suppose that means my brain works funny, so it’s more than just an inclination to sit by myself makin’ stuff up.
But it’s odd behavior and I always enjoyed writing but I never really knew that about myself, that I’d get whole ideas unfolding in my head inspired by strange things. I started writing when I was about 40…maybe 38-ish. My baby went to kindergarten. I just decided to try it and I loved it. It’s been a consuming activity ever since.
What about you? Do you have strange things that just inspire you? Draw you in? Someone said they loved kneading bread. I know people who are such talented embroiderers or some needlework thing. I used to love crocheting and I haven’t picked up a crochet hook in years. I’d kinda like to try it again, but my sitting around time is booked.
Tell me about your special gifts or loves or work that just suits you down to the ground.
Every commenter gets their name in a drawing for a signed copy of Whispers of Fortune.
In bookstores NOW. Whispers of Fortune made the Parables Bestseller List. I’m excited.
In a land of gold and grit, can two hearts uncover the true treasure?
In 1875 California, Brody MacKenzie arrives at the Two Harts Ranch on a mission to find his runaway brothers, worried they may have fallen into harm. Instead, he discovers them thriving at the ranch’s school and orphanage under the care of Ellie Hart, a woman with a heart as resilient as the land she calls home. His options limited, Brody reluctantly takes on the role of ranch doctor, and he forms an unexpected bond with Ellie, who’s kept a steady eye on Brody’s two rapscallion brothers. When the boys show him a mysterious journal that has been guiding their travels and may hold the key to a lost treasure, Brody and Ellie are captivated by the possibility of a thrilling adventure.
With winter approaching and his brothers threatening to bolt again, Brody and Ellie race against time to decipher cryptic clues and unearth the hidden fortune. But along the way, old adversaries resurface, threatening their newfound affection and the safety of those at the ranch.
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A soon-to-be release, a sale, a Goodreads giveaway and a prize
How’s that for a title, huh?
My new book, Whispers of Fortune, comes out next month. Early in the month, too. February 4th. It’s book ONE of a new series, Golden State Treasure.
That’s right, this is a treasure hunt series. It takes them THREE BOOKS TO FIND…….oh, wait. I should probably not say what. 🙂
I made a lot of promises in that title didn’t I?
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And I’m giving away a signed copy today!
WHISPERS OF FORTUNE
In a land of gold and grit, can two hearts uncover the true treasure?
In 1875 California, Brody MacKenzie arrives at the Two Harts Ranch on a mission to find his runaway brothers, worried they may have fallen into harm. Instead, he discovers them thriving at the ranch’s school and orphanage under the care of Ellie Hart, a woman with a heart as resilient as the land she calls home. His options limited, Brody reluctantly takes on the role of ranch doctor, and he forms an unexpected bond with Ellie, who’s kept a steady eye on Brody’s two rapscallion brothers. When the boys show him a mysterious journal that has been guiding their travels and may hold the key to a lost treasure, Brody and Ellie are captivated by the possibility of a thrilling adventure.
With winter approaching and his brothers threatening to bolt again, Brody and Ellie race against time to decipher cryptic clues and unearth the hidden fortune. But along the way, old adversaries resurface, threatening their newfound affection and the safety of those at the ranch.
Leave a comment to get your name in the drawing for a signed copy of Whispers of Fortune. Tell me the coolest thing you’ve ever found. I once found, in the creek alongside my house, the old dumping grounds for a house that used to be here more than one hundred years ago. No treasure, but there were some really cool old bottles. I have them still.
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Christmas is coming….and so is a new series!!!
The next series starts in February
The Golden State Treasure Series
I’ve played around with the idea of The Lost Dutchman’s Mine and other tales of lost gold out somewhere in the deep mountains.
You know how it goes……………..
Some old miner comes staggering into civilization with pockets full of gold nuggets and a muddled tale of a mine he found, teeming with gold…vague directions or none at all.
And then he dies.
And people spend years searching for his mine, or his buried treasure of his lost city of gold.
You know…the usual
I’ve never really found the key to that story that I could twist around and make my own, but this time, I did.
It’s strange all that goes into a book, all the bits and what ifs and then the author tries to fit it all together like puzzle pieces.
I did this with The Golden State Treasure Series
Book #1
My publisher is doing something fun with this one, working on building up pre-orders.
If you pre-order this from Baker Book House you get a gold doubloon(not real gold…which I’m sure you suspected), a signed book plate and a discount.
Buy Whispers of Fortune from Bakerbookhouse.com
Whispers of Fortune
Brody MacKenzie arrives at Two Hearts Ranch in search of his runaway brothers. Instead, he finds them thriving at the ranch’s school under the care of Ellie Hart. When they discover a journal leading to a lost treasure, Ellie, Brodie, and his brothers race against time to decipher cryptic clues, discovering love amidst family secrets and old adversaries.
And Merry Christmas to one and all.
God bless you for being readers!!!
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Cowboys & Mistletoe – Mary Connealy
It’s not cowboys! It’s not historical! But it is Christmas!
I’m sneaking in here with all these cool cowboy novellas with a Christmas re-release of my own.
The other fillies let me play with them. Even though it’s a different kind of book for me.
Amanda Star returns to her childhood home, the Star Inn, in time for Christmas. Her father had passed away, and he’d left her the beloved inn. He’d always told her not to take on the running of it. It had consumed his life, and her mother’s life, until the stress had killed her beloved mother. But Amanda had always loved the inn.
Now she’s back to sell the inn as her father had wished. But she finds her old love of the place, and she finds out why her father had sent her away. She finds a man who helps keep the inn running, too, and when he stirs a different kind of love, she knows she has to stay.
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Winners announced Sunday, December 15!
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The winner of Mary Connealy’s Thanksgiving Book
Thankful for the Cowboy                                                                                               Â
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Bridget
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A Thanksgiving Book!
We are getting ready for Cowboys and Mistletoe to celebrate all the Christmas releases coming this year from the Petticoats and Pistols Fillies–including one of mine! A re-release of a contemporary non-western romance. So be aware of that if you order it…
But that is to be discussed during out Cowboys and Mistletoe extravaganza.
Today I’m announcing that rare book a THANKSGIVING RELEASE!!!
This is also not a new release but it’s a novella I’m particularly fond off. Set in western Nebraska.
Historical. Cowboys. A western fort. Love and oddly, an arrogant Scottish Laird who’s woman ran away from him. He’s chased her all the way to the American west and NOT because of love…it’s because he pulled one too many tyrannical acts was was driven all the way off the continent. He blames her and has been chasing her ever since.
Thankful for the Cowboy
Lauren Drummond needs three windmills on this drought year or her growing herd of cattle is going to die of thirst. When Tom MacKinnon rides up with the skill and material necessary to build windmills, he offers to give her three if she’ll help him learn to survive in the Sandhills of Nebraska. She eagerly agrees to teach him the ways of the Sandhills. But when the recently widowed lady rancher finds herself in Tom’s strong arms, she turns him away. She’s not ready to think of another man. Tom sets out to save her ranch and change her mind.
It’s available as a VERY SLENDER paperback and as an ebook.
Leave a comment about your favorite tradition for Thanksgiving to get your name in a drawing for you choice of either the paperback or the ebook.
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Mary Connealy has a winner!
The winner of a signed copy of
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Bridgette Shippy
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New Book and Old Age
What a week!!!
First of all, I’m writing this on Sunday so everything I say ‘has happened’ when you read this on Thursday, hasn’t happened yet.
But it probably will.
I’m having very minor (I hope) knee surgery on Tuesday, which means…two days ago.
I should be ensconced (cool word) in my recliner with no interesting moving for days (or forever possibly) healing.
I also had a book come out Tuesday….so
Into the Sunset
has released.
I love this book. It’s book #3 in the “A Western Light Series” and I feel like I wrapped this series up in grand style.
I did something I’ve never done before. I have a section of the book that’s a courtroom drama.
Well, if you read my books you know most of my drama comes from gunfire.
So, this isn’t really my jam.
But I also really like to try different things. Challenge myself. And I thought it came out really well.
I mean, we all know courtroom drama works right? Hello John Grisham….he’s done well with it.
So Into the Sunset is Ginny, who begins book #1, Chasing the Horizon, escaping from an insane asylum.
She’s ready now to come out of hiding and face her wretched husband in a court of law and prove she’s sane.
Of course I couldn’t leave out all the gunfire. Where’s the fun in that?
So Dakota Harlan, the wagon master from book #1,
is back.
We also get to spend time with Kat and Sebastian from book #2
And Maeve O’Toole, who came west on the wagon train and kinda liked Dakota until the scum bucket, hard-hearted, back stabbing polecat helped bury her father when he died in an accident, then insisted the wagon train roll on. Maeve’s rage isn’t fair, but she had a lot of anger and she needed to aim it somewhere.
Now Dakota has been drafted to help protect Ginny when she emerges from hiding…Dakota is a tough man and good with a gun.
Maeve has been hired to come along because Ginny’s daughter now has three small children. They need a babysitter.
Oddly enough. Dakota does a lot of babysitting, and Maeve ends up having to shoot someone.
Come along for the exciting conclusion of A Western Light Series…Into the Sunset.
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