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Milestone: Book 5 out in October

I’ve reached a milestone. My fifth book, THE BULL RIDER’S REDEMPTION (Angel Crossing, Arizona), is out this month! In a little over a year I’ve written a lot of words — nearly 300,000 — with my first book published in June 2015. Celebrating with a lot of October book signings!

11 Essentials of a Bull Rider Hero1. Once a bull...

 

 
 
11 Essentials of a Bull Rider Hero
1. Once a bull rider, always a bull rider

 

 

 

 

2. High Fashion in Low places

 

 

 

 

Broken in jeans, scuffed cowboy boots, and snap-button shirt is just what the doctor ordered for women who have the vapors over bull riders.

 

3. Never backs away from a challenge or a threat 

 

4. Grin that lasts for days
 

 

He can laugh at himself and melt your heart with a wink.

 

5. Dances like Nobody’s business

 

 

 

He can scoot a boot and then dance slow and close.

 

6. Gotta have swagger

 

 

 

7. In it for the long ride

 

 

 

8. Always ready to lend a hand

 

 

 

9. Rode Hard and Put Away Handsome

 

 

 

10. Not often classy but always a classic

 

 

 

11. He can fix anything, even a broken heart

 

 

Indie Author Day @GuthrieLibrary

Tuesday, Oct. 18 from 4 to 7 p.m.

Indie Author Day at Guthrie Memorial Library-Hanover’s Public Library

2 Library Place, Hanover, PA 17331

Contact: 717-632-5183-0869; gulibrary@yorklibraries.org

1-2: Author Meet and Greet (with book signing and selling)

2-3: Live streaming webcast (more info here http://indieauthorday.com/blog/streaming-at-a-library-near-you/

3-5: An author panel with each author speaking for 5-10 minutes, followed by Q&A from the audience, followed by additional book signing/selling/post meet and greet.

#AmazonGiveaway Kentucky Cowboy’s Baby

#AmazonGiveaway. Enter to win.

#AmazonGiveaway: THE KENTUCKY COWBOY’S BABY (Angel Crossing, Arizona) (Kindle Edition).  NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Ends the earlier of Oct 3, 2016, or when all prizes are claimed. Official Rules. 

@Goodreads #Giveaway

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The Bull Rider's Redemption



by Heidi Hormel

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Home on the Grange: Mock Sausage

This a World War I mock sausage recipe. It doesn’t use limas, but I think it would look similar.

It’s Friday so it’s time to go Home on the Grange with a recipe from my 1950 edition of the Pennsylvania State Grange Cook Book. This week I just couldn’t resist this one:

Mock Sausage

1 cup dried lima beans or 3 cups cooked lima beans
2/3 cup bread crumbs
2 eggs
2 tablespoons butter
1/2 tablespoon sage

Pick over and wash beans, cover with water and let soak over night. Drain, cook in boiling salted water until tender.* Drain off all liquid. Force through a strainer. Add remaining ingredients. Shape into form of sausages. Saute in a small amount of fat.

*Soaking and cooking instructions are for dried beans.

Baltimore Book Festival: Book Bingo, Panel Discussion

TAKE A CHANCE ON ROMANCE: BOOK COVER BINGO

Friday, Sept. 23, 11 a.m.-noon

Baltimore Inner Harbor, Rash Field 

Win prizes and swag from authors while playing a fast-paced game of Book Cover Bingo with commentary from reviewers and authors.

Xio Axelrod

Andie J. Christopher

Heidi Hormel

Alexa Jacobs

Rebecca Rivard

Melinda Valentine

SHE’S SO SWEET: LIGHTS OUT, CLOSED DOOR

Friday, Sept. 23, 4-5 p.m.

Baltimore Inner Harbor, Rash Field 

Hot romance might get most of the attention, but readers still love everything from sweet romance to cozy mysteries and more. Authors in these genres share some of their tips for connecting with readers.

Alexa Jacobs

Heidi Hormel

Lea Nolan

Elodie Nowodazkij

Sophia Sasson

Misty Simon

Irene Vartanoff

 

For more information on the festival, visit www.BaltimoreBookFestival.com

Home on the Grange: Labor Day NO MAYO potato salad

In honor of Labor Day, I’m breaking out a PA Dutch style potato salad recipe from the 1950 Pennsylvania State Grange Cook Book. The recipe sounds more like German potato salad to me, but who am I tell Mrs. Richard A. Landes (who is credited with the recipe) that it’s not Pennsylvania Dutch!

I couldn’t find an exact pic of this no-mayo potato salad, but I think this is close.

Potato Salad (Pa. Dutch Style)
8 boiled potatoes
1/2 bunch celery, diced
2 hard-cooked eggs, sliced (if desired)
1 medium onion, minced
2 tablespoons parsley, minced
3 slices bacon, diced
3 eggs well beaten
1 ½ cups sugar
3/4 cup vinegar, diluted with 1 cup cold water (vinegar from sweet pickles may be used for part of this mixture or all of it
1/3 teaspoon dry mustard
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/3 teaspoon pepper

Boil potatoes in their jackets. When soft, peel and dice. Add the celery, sliced hard-cooked eggs, and onion. Let stand while making the dressing.

Fry bacon until crisp and brown. Pour off excess bacon fat. Beat the eggs. Add the sugar, spices and vinegar and water (or pickle vinegar). Mix well. Pour into hot bacon and fat.* Stir until mixture thickens over low heat (about 10 minutes). Pour over potato mixture, mix lightly and let stand in cold place several hours before serving. Makes about 10 servings.

*You might want to use a double boiler and make sure the bacon/fat is not overly hot, or you’ll end up with scrambled eggs.

#bookqw is ‘might’y fineHAR

Author Mindy Klasky has started a fun hashtag on Twitter: #bookqw. It stands for Book Quote Wednesday. Each week she comes up with a word, challenges authors to find that word in her book, then post the quote on Twitter. I’ve been playing along for a few weeks and thought I should share the fun here. This week’s word was: MIGHT.

Home on the Grange: Peach Long Cake

This what imagine this Peach Long Cake would look like.

Here in the land of chips and pretzels, it’s peach time. So in honor of that, I found this recipe, which is a dump into one pan sort of thing, in the 1950 Pennsylvania State Grange Cook Book. It’s just peachy!

Peach Long Cake

1/2 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 3-4 sliced peaches. Mix and put into 8×12 baking dish. Beat together: 2 cups flour, 6 tablespoons sugar, 4 teaspoons baking powder, 3/4 teaspoon salt, 1/3 cup shortening, 1 large egg (unbeaten), 1/4 cup sugar, 2/3 cup milk. Put over top of peaches and top with 1/4 cup soft butter, 1/4 cup sugar, 3 tablespoons flour. (I would think this last is like a crumb topping — this recipe is a little sparse on directions).

Bake in moderate oven* 40 minutes.

*Moderate oven in this cookbook is 350-400 degrees.