What Working at Summer Camp and Being Around Horses Taught Me and How I Use it in My Books

What Working at Summer Camp and Being Around Horses Taught Me and How I Use it in My Books By Michele Dunaway Who wasn’t a horse girly? Besides reading about girls and their horses, there was nothing I loved more than summers when I went away to camp and got to ride. I did the … Read more

Comic Books – Then and Now by Pam Crooks

Who among us hasn’t read the comics in our daily newspaper (when there was one!) or a comic book from cover to cover? It was the ever-popular dime novels from the mid-to-late 1800s that set the stage for comic strips, and later comic books, as we know them. Usually about 100 pages long and printed … Read more

The Old West Time-Life Books

When I was a child of about 12-years-old, my mother subscribed to a then popular historical, science, and cultural book club put out by Time-Life Magazines. There were series such as Voyage Through the Universe and Lost Civilizations. But the one we owned was by far one of the most popular: The Old West. The … Read more

It’s Raining eBooks!

Howdy!  Welcome to a terribly terrific Tuesday! Okay, so it’s not exactly raining books, but do you remember old pop song, “It’s Raining Men”?  I loved that song and it popped into my head while I was writing this blog. What I mean by it’s raining books is that I intend to give an ebook … Read more

Jodi Thomas Celebrating Two Books!

Netflix started the shooting for Ransom Canyon in February, and I can’t help feeling it’s come full circle. When I first thought of writing this series, I had only planned on doing six books about ranches around a small canyon. Ransom Canyon is a few miles from Lubbock, Texas, and I used to drive around … Read more

Audiobooks

Just click on the image to learn more! Pam Crooks                 Karen Witemeyer                                       Shanna Hatfield                      Jeannie Watt Mary Connealy          Kit Morgan        … Read more

My Favorite Things — Or Books Are Friends — plus a Giveaway

                  Let me say a big Howdy to you all! My favorite things?  This has to be books, books and more books.  Must admit that some of my most favorite things are the books I read. “Books become friends” is probably what I might call this blog … Read more

Merry Christmas and…the New Year is full of books!

The Wyoming Sunrise series kicks off in February with Forged in Love TI was inspired to write The Wyoming Sunrise Series when I found out Wyoming was the first state (then a territory) in the Union to give women the right to vote. Wyoming. Doesn’t that seem odd? Then I found out it wasn’t just … Read more

Pets for Books

Don’t you just love a book that has a fun pet in it? Entire series have been centered around pets, many of which are the heroes of the books. Cozy mysteries come to mind. There’s an entire sub-genre for animals and pets. Pets become sleuths and help their owners or human friends solve the mystery. … Read more

Bears and Books (but mostly bears)

A couple years ago the hubs and girls and I were driving down the mountain – a back road with hairpin turns and you can’t go very fast – when my youngest daughter said, “Hey! I just saw a bear. Or a cat. It might have been a cat, but it looked like a bear.” … Read more

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