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Getting to Know Rhonda Lee Carver (Contest)

Getting to Know Rhonda Lee Carver (Contest)

UPDATE: The winner is…Tiffany Miles *~*~* I wrote my first storyline on a dirty napkin while waiting for my husband who ran into Walmart to grab diapers for our two-month-old. Little did I know that just a short four months later that book, which started in a parking lot, would be my first published novel. The rest is history…and yet it’s not. Nearly one hundred published novels, three kids, a tiny zoo of dogs, cats, one goldfish that we rescued…

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Getting to know Kelly Violet (Contest)

Getting to know Kelly Violet (Contest)

UPDATE: The winner is…Colleen C! *~*~* Hiya, folks. I’m Kelly Violet, one of the authors in the Cowboys: A Boys Behaving Badly Anthology. It’s been a wild but fun ride for me as an author. At a young age, I fell in love with all things romance and that especially included the written word. From then on, I knew I wanted to write amazing romances filled with realistic characters and started filling my days with books and the brooding heroes we…

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Getting to Know January George (Contest)

Getting to Know January George (Contest)

UPDATE: The winner is…ButtonsMom2003! *~*~* In one of my favorite video’s from when I was a kid, I was about five or six and I’m calmly sitting on the floor in a velvet dress, wearing one silver lame elbow-length glove and some very poorly applied burgundy lipstick, telling a very detailed story about an old lady, a chicken, and a fox. My three-year-old brother appears behind me and attempts to saw my head off with a piece of toy train…

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Getting to Know Megan Ryder (Contest)

Getting to Know Megan Ryder (Contest)

I’ve always loved books and telling stories. One of my earliest memories is my mom reading Charlotte’s Web to me before getting up in the morning, something we would do every day. I graduated quickly to other books including Anne of Green Gables and more, spending almost every day after school at the library while my mom worked. There was never enough romances in those books so I always rewrote the endings with more HEAs (happily-ever-afters), then I found the…

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In One Picture: Elle James’s “Free Rein” (Contest)

In One Picture: Elle James’s “Free Rein” (Contest)

UPDATE: The winner is…Stacey Kinzebach! *~*~* Free Rein by Elle James  Former Delta, now rodeo security cowboy, rescues a barrel racer on a runaway horse, rekindling an old flame in the process “Free Rein” is a second chance romance short story. They met at the rodeo years ago. He promised to come back and marry her. An injury changed the course of his life. See what happens when he returns to Fool’s Gold Colorado. This is a short story set in my…

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In One Picture: Margay Leah Justice’s “Eight Seconds” (Contest)

In One Picture: Margay Leah Justice’s “Eight Seconds” (Contest)

UPDATE: The winner is…Debra Guyette! *~*~* Eight Seconds by Margay Leah Justice  At the rodeo, sometimes all it takes is eight seconds to fall in love Snippet from “Eight Seconds”… How long does it take to fall in love? An hour? A day? A month? A year? For me, it only took eight seconds. Eight mind-blowing, heart-stopping seconds and I was already a goner. How did it happen so fast, you might wonder? Something like this: One second… I saw him….

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In One Picture: January George’s “East of the Rift” (Contest)

In One Picture: January George’s “East of the Rift” (Contest)

UPDATE: The winner is…Aaren! *~*~* East of the Rift by January George  A family tragedy reunites a lonely rancher with his estranged wife Hi Everyone! Thanks to Delilah for hosting me, I’m so excited to be a part of another one of her anthologies. I have been writing on and off for most of my life, but romance has always been my happy place. I love happy endings; I love the will they/won’t they push and pull and when you can’t stop…

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Ladies Love Country Boys

Ladies Love Country Boys

Ladies Love Country Boys… That’s the title of my story in the Cowboy Lust anthology. Where did I get it? That’s easy! That title was taken directly from the Trace Adkins song. The lyrics of that song are so true. Take a look at a sampling below. LADIES LOVE COUNTRY BOYS “She grew up in the city in a little subdivision, Her daddy wore a tie, Momma never fried a chicken, Ballet, Straight A’s, Most likely to succeed  They bought…

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