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Your Weekend Read: GELLER'S FIND Cover and Dediction Reveal

 

It's cover and dedication reveal day for GELLER'S FIND. Every heard of a dedication reveal?

Me neither. But since not all of you read the genre I write in, I wanted you to know this dedication is for you.

Dedicated to

 

The Blogger Buds

And

YOU, The Reader

 

One of the hardest questions to answer--for me--is where did the idea for this book come from. It just doesn't sound professional to say I plucked it out of the air:) But this book has an easy answer. 

In 2014 an 1873 Model Winchester was found leaning against a juniper in the Great Basin National Park in Nevada. Its story and how it got there a mystery. My brother was fascinated by the narrative and wanted me to write a story about it.  

What? Where would I even begin? But since I love my brother and he wanted the story I wrote it. Thank goodness once I got started, like other stories that I can lose myself in, it pretty much wrote itself.

 

It’s summer break and Dr. Luke Geller, history prof and part-time archeologist is in Nevada looking for potsherds. What he discovers is an antique rifle and a portal in time.

When Geller touches an ancient piece of chiastolite crystal, the earth rumbles, the skies darken and the ground opens. He’s hurled straight to the core of the earth then shot back up and spewed out.

When he stumbles to his feet, he finds himself where he began. Same yet different. There are no winding roads. No parking lots. No cars. No town with bright lights in the distance. Only Lily Winter Tremaine, an angry young woman pointing a gun at him, demanding he hand over her rifle.

All thoughts of primitive pottery disappear as Luke finds himself fighting alongside three young women trying to hold onto their ranch against a dangerous scoundrel who intends to have their property by whatever means possible. Then there’s the little matter of Luke being mightily attracted to the young woman he’s working for. A woman old enough to be his great-great granny. And Miss Lily Winter Tremaine does not figure into any of tenured professor Luke Geller’s lesson plans. 

 

Character Facts of Lily Winter Tremaine:

It’s 1882 and Lily Winter Tremaine runs the No Gold ranch, so named because her daddy had no luck prospecting.

She’s handy with a six-gun or a rifle.

She’s tough and can hold her own in a man’s world, but when it comes to anything or anyone in need, she’s a marshmallow.

She has a suitor that she can’t work up much interest in.

And

The stranger that she just brought home took one look at the date on her calendar and turned pasty. If he'd been wearing dentures, they would have dropped right out of his mouth.

 

Buy link: https://tinyurl.com/GellersFind

 

 

 

Did You Know

 Did you know, Dolly Parton wrote Jolene and I Will Always Love You on the same day?

All I can say is:

 

Writerly Wednesday: Synonym Day

 What's your word for:

 

Ketch-up Day

 So...Comic Con was packed. There was probably half a dozen folks that wore Covid masks, I wasn't one of them. Yes, I caught the big CO and it wasn't Cold. As you can see, Diane was smarter than I was and came through the Con fine. This was originally a picture of the two of us she sent me, but since I looked a hundred years old, which is pretty close to accurate, I cut myself out;)  

So far, my symptoms are mild. Thank goodness I had my shots and boosters.

Remember mood rings? They were selling them at the con. Had to have one;)

How about some more rocks?  Wink. Wink.

Got rocks? Had Covid? Been to a con?

Weekend Wishes

 AND

If you're in the vicinity, I'm giving a brief overview of Horses of the American West at Cowboy Kisses.

 

 

Did You Know

Did you know, that Ian Fleming wanted an unassuming name for his main character in Casino Royal?  Mr.Fleming was a birder and one of his favorite books was Birds of West Indies by James Bond.  He decided the author's name fit the bill nicely. 

 

It's Writerly Wednesday: Synonym Day

 Greetings, Blogger Buds. What's your word for:

 

It's Ketch-Up Day

 Greetings  Blogger Buds,

How was your weekend and Monday? Our weekend was good. We took the kids to Comic Con, which was a fun experience. The lovely and talented Diane Wolfe of Dancing Lemurs Publishing had a booth set up there and we got to chat for a few minutes. It's the first time I've seen Diane in a few years. Drat on me for not getting a picture of her and the booth. Both looked great. I did get pics of the kids with the Comic Con characters, of course 😀 The grand girl entered the costume contest as you can see in the last photo. There were over eighty costume entrants and some amazing costumes. 

 

AND

The eternal rocks.

*Janet Annenberg Hooker

Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals 

That's all folks. Got rocks? Ever gone to Comic Con?

Your Weekend Read: ABOUT HER

  

The Blurb for About Her:

Shelley Ward doesn’t know what she wants out of life, but she knows being a broke, accidental home-wrecker isn’t it. Her whole life, she did what was easy. Her dad coached; she chose a career in football. A guy hit on her; she slept with him. The path of least resistance was leading to a cliff.

 

Broadway producer, Mark Salvan is a man who keeps his life under control—until he spots Shelley, his high school crush being dragged out of LaGuardia Airport by TSA. He rescues her from security, offers her a job, and gives her a place to stay. He’s certain their chance encounter will be her grand-third-act-closing and the start of their story. In Shelley’s heart, it feels like destiny—like someone finally sees her. But logic tells her this perfect man can’t be in love with her, that her true destiny will be that of a lonely spinster who’ll be lucky to have the affections of her cat.

Shelley can’t see it, but there’s something special about her, and Mark is determined to prove it.

 

 

 

Universal Link for About Her:

https://books2read.com/u/bPgj6l

 

Buy link for About Us, which is still free:

https://amzn.to/3b7hf0U

 

 
 Shelley is thrown off her flight and separated from her luggage. She’s stuck in NY with only her purse and her carry-on suitcase—which are both stuffed with Belgium chocolate bars instead of rational things like a toothbrush and spare clothes. 
In the story, the hero ties on an apron and makes the heroine cinnamon rolls for breakfast. 

Shelley is partial to bagels…or any food that’s easy and doesn’t have to be cooked.  AND  

Did You Know

 Did you know, bagpipes were originally used on the battlefield to scare off enemies?

 AND