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I had an amazing amount of entries for this contest--thank you to all who entered! I have four winners to announce...
-Kim - winner of "A Kiss on the Wind" pdf
-Shirley - winner of "Bootlegger's Bride pdf
-Amanda - winner of "The Knot" pdf
-Kathy - winner of "All in Good Time pdf
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Visit The Wild Rose Press and click on the gorgeous cover for All in Good Time. Read the excerpt and answer the following question: IS JAKE AFRAID THAT ELIZABETH WILL TURN HIM DOWN FOR A DANCE? Send your answers to cavalrylady@yahoo.com with the subject line: AIGT CONTEST.
First Prize: PDF of All in Good Time.
Second Prize: PDF of The Knot.
Third Prize: PDF of Bootlegger's Bride.
Fourth Prize: PDF of A Kiss on the Wind.
You may enter only once. The four winners will be randomly selected from the entries. I will take entries until midnight on Saturday, November 3, and announce the winner on Sunday, November 4!
For this and other contests, visit The Long and the Short of It.
Take one shy schoolteacher with a secret, and one WWII vet in the midst of a scandalous divorce and put them together in the romantic setting of the Blue Ridge Mountains...then watch the fireworks!
Now available at The Wild Rose Press and Amazon.com.
In my mind, I'm already gone...
Thursday night, Columbia, Maroon 5. I'm so there!
Friday morning, miles of open highway, my car, destination: BEACH. I'm so there!
And I have NOT thrown Sven over for some cabana boy and a frosty drink. Completely. I'll be home Monday. I'm sure he'll still be here. He never goes out. He'll be happy that I got in 6 new pages last night and I edited the first three chapters to adjust and align the motivation of my characters. He's probably the only man on the planet who would be excited about that...
I've been working on a story. That, alone, is not frightening. I got some excellent feedback on the direction, and thought, "Why don't I just plot out the first three chapters..." Okay, I've done that before. Before I realized it, I had been converted from pantzer to plotter. I plotted out the entire book. Not in rigid detail, but believe me, it's an outline.
If I would have stopped there, I wouldn't even mention the episode. But last night, as I was finishing off chapter four, I wondered, "Can I finish this by the end of the year?" Enter my crit buddy, Kristi, who pointed me at the 70 Days of Sweat challenge. I could never commit to NANO, because November is a terrible month for me to try something like that. But this, I can do. Its goals are my goals, and now I have all the support I need!
Hey ever'buddy! I'm gearing up for the release of my next Vintage Rose novel from The Wild Rose Press.
All in Good Time will be released in both e- and print on October 26 (insert happy dance here). But I got to thinking...while Bootlegger's Bride got some fantastic reviews, and I'm more than grateful to convert some readers, there were a few interesting lines that stuck with me.
Ms. Kindall had her work cut out for her...
I've grown to love the vintage age...
Ms. Kindall takes an age that, at first glance, doesn’t seem all that interesting...
Of course, I beg to differ. The early 1900's were a challenging, stirring, romantic time in history. So I want to come up with a TOP TEN list of reasons to read vintage era stories--and not just mine! Chime in, and I'll use the list when I promote All in Good Time.