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Just for Fun: A One Minute Spoof off the Twilight Saga

I thought some of you might get a kick out of this.  It comes from a kids’ show on the Disney Channel called Phineas and Ferb, and this episode is “The Curse of Candace”.  The movie they are watching is called “Early Evening” which I think was a pretty clever way of saying “Twilight”.  Anyway, if you’ve read the books or seen the movies, you might enjoy this spoof:

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By the way, I watch Phineas and Ferb because my kids love it.

Joel Larson Questions Tom Larson

Rick: Joel, who is your next witness?

Joel: Tom Larson.

Tom: Me?

Joel: That is your name.

Tom: But I’m a lawyer.

Joel: So?

Tom: So?  Lawyers can’t be questioned.

Joel: Says who?

Tom: Logic?

Rick: What is the point in having Tom questioned, Joel?

Joel: Your honor, I believe Tom can attest to how much my client has done for her characters.

Rick: In that case, Tom come on up.

Tom: *sighs but goes to sit at the witness stand*  Alright.  What do you want to know?

Joel: Is it true that you are happily married?

Tom: What is that picture?

Joel: That’s a picture of you, Tom.  Don’t you recognize yourself?

Tom: I do not pick my nose.  Your honor, I demand that picture be removed at once!

Rick: Tom has a good point, Joel.   You need to remove the picture.

Tom: But he didn’t remove the picture of Ruth when he had her wearing that creepy tiara.

Rick: But that picture wasn’t disgusting.  No one wants to see Tom picking his nose.

Joel: Fine.  I’ll dig up another one.

Tom: *glanced at Rick and mutters* At least you agreed with me on something.

Joel: Now Tom, is it true that you are happily married?  And we don’t mean happily married according to what Jessica thinks since she got the raw end of that deal.

Tom: What is THAT picture about?

Joel: You look like this on a regular basis.  We can’t be sure what it means, but I suspect these are the moments where you’re trying to think.

Tom: Objection, your honor!

Rick: Objection sustained.  Joel, this isn’t the time for giving Tom grief.  Save that for another book.  Get to the questions.

Joel: Are you happily married, Tom?

Tom: Yes.  Jessica is the best wife a man could ever have.

Joel: And who gave you Jessica?

Tom: Ruth.

Joel: So if it wasn’t for Ruth,  you wouldn’t be married today.

Tom: If it wasn’t for Ruth, none of us would exist.

Joel: Exactly!  We are here because Ruth wrote us down.  If she had never taken the time to write her books, then we wouldn’t be here today.

Tom: Well…yeah.  That’s right.

Joel: And hasn’t Ruth been good to you?  Hasn’t she been good to all of us?  We’re all happily married.  If she wanted to, she could have killed off one of us or our wives.  But she didn’t do that.  She’s given us a happy ending.  While it’s true that the books are somewhat unrealistic… I mean, we all know I could have outwitted you and Rick when you two came out to force me to marry April, but for the sake of fiction, I played along with it.

Rick: *bangs gavel* Objection, Joel.  Stick to the case.

Joel: My point is that even if there are some things that are hard to believe, she wrote it in anyway so we could all be happy.  Don’t you think you’re better off having been in one of Ruth’s romance novels because she gave you Jessica to be your wife?

Tom: Well, yeah.  I can’t imagine my life without Jessica.

Joel: So instead of taking Dave and Mary’s side, don’t you agree that Ruth has the right to ask that we appreciate all she’s done for us?

Dave: *stands up* Objection!

Joel: Objection to his objection!

Dave: Your honor, Joel is asking Tom to make an opinion based on his experience and to apply that opinion as if the rest of us agree.

Rick: Objection sustained.  Joel, just ask Tom what he thinks based on his experience.

Joel: *rolls his eyes* I can’t wait until you’re up here for me to question, Dave.

Dave: *narrows his eyes* Bring it.

Rick: *bangs gavel* Enough.  Joel, do you have anything else to ask Tom?

Joel: No, I think I’ve stated my case.   You may go back to the wrong side of the courtroom, Tom.

Tom: *returns to his seat*

 

Updates

I started the post on Joel Larson questioning Tom Larson in the court hearing, but while uploading a picture of Tom that Joel had picked out to best represent him, the post froze up.  While WordPress does a good job of auto-saving posts, I’m just going to make an update post and get back to the court hearing (hopefully) tomorrow.  A lot is going on right now, and I feel like all I’ve been doing is running around with the family.  I guess that’s what summer is all about.  :D

Anyway, some latest developments have changed a few things that I had planned for the summer.  For one, we won’t be moving after all.  A few phone calls regarding my deaf son has confirmed we’re better off with staying where we’re at so he can keep getting the best services possible.  So that means I won’t have the hectic moving summer I anticipated, which is good.

However, I was recently invited to answer interview questions by the very nice award-winning author Stacy-Deanne, and I am working on those at the moment.  She asks some hard questions, too, so I can’t just breeze through them.  I have to think about them and am working on the first draft of my answers.  After that, I’ll go back and polish them up.

I am expecting to take another vacation in July with the family.  I’d love to make a stop around Bismarck, North Dakota, but whether I can or not remains to be seen.  But regardless, we’ll be visiting the my husband’s parents.  My parents are no longer alive, so there’s only one side we visit.

So gaining traction on writing might be difficult.  I am still working on Her Counterfeit Husband, Mitch’s Win, and Bound by Honor, Bound by Love.  I was hoping to have Bound by Honor, Bound by Love out next month, but I can already tell you that isn’t happening.  I’m almost halfway into the book, and I can’t afford to rush it.  This is one of those books that take a lot longer to write than I thought it would when I started it.  Her Counterfeit Husband and Mitch’s Win are coming quicker to me.

I think Bound by Honor, Bound by Love is a tougher book to write because I need to wrap up all the loose ends in the other books in the Native American Romance Series (A Chance in Time, Restoring Hope and Brave Beginnings).  After this book is finished, the series will be complete, and I want to make it the best book it can possibly be.  If I learned nothing else from The Earl’s Inconvenient Wife, I learned that sometime I need to slow down.  :D

That’s about it.  With any luck, I can get the next court hearing post up tomorrow.  *fingers crossed*

 

The Trial: Tom Questions Ruth

Tom: *approaches Ruth* Nice picture you presented of yourself.

Ruth: I don’t know what you mean.

Tom: Oh puhleeze.  Of course, you know what I mean.  Just look at how you presented yourself to everyone:

Ruth Ann Nordin: suffering great emotional turmoil at the way she’s been treated by the heartless Dave and Mary Larson.

Tom: You did this as a ploy to to gain as much sympathy as you could.  I saw that bottle of Visine you brought into the court today, so you could cry on command.  Hence, the fake tears.  If we were to see the real you in this whole fiasco, it would look like this!

Ruth Ann Nordin: the crying princess who doesn’t want to listen to her characters.

Joel: What is that supposed to be?  A joke?

Tom: No, this is not a joke.

Joel: It has to be a joke.  The tiara?  Really?

Tom: I figure if she’s going to act like a spoiled princess, the tiara fits.

Joel: Objection, your honor!

Rick: Sustained.

Tom: Sustained?  You denied all of my objections.

Rick: That’s because you putting a tiara on Ruth and presenting her as a whiny snot is an effort to persuade the jury in their vote.

Tom: And Ruth crying fake tears isn’t?

Rick: You can’t prove the tears were fake.

Tom: But the bottle of Visine–

Rick: It’s conjecture, Tom.  Now continue questioning her but leave her picture out of this.

Tom: *sighs* Fine.  Ruth, the truth of the matter is, you habitually don’t listen to the needs of your characters.  Case in point, Joel Larson when he didn’t want to get married to April.

Ruth: And you’ll note that you had a hand in that one, Tom.  You were more than happy to see Joel married off.

Tom: But there are other examples, and none of them include me.  What about the time Isaac Larson married Emily?  Dave spent days and days crying–

Dave: I wouldn’t say days and days–

Rick: *bangs gavel* You’ll get your turn, Dave.  Wait to speak until then.

Dave: I just want to make it clear that I don’t go around crying.  I’m not weak.

Rick: Do I need to remove you from my courtroom for creating a disturbance?

Joel: Your honor, let the record show that Dave Larson makes it a habit of creating trouble wherever he goes.

Tom: Objection, your honor.  Joel’s comment has no validity to this case.

Rick: Objection denied.  Let’s get back to the questions.

Tom: *rolls eyes* Anyway, Ruth, you make it a habit of not listening to your characters, and there’s a long list.  You have Dave Larson when it came to Isaac’s Decision, Claire and Nate in The Earl’s Inconvenient Wife…

*a minute passes*

Ruth: And….?

Tom: I’m thinking, I’m thinking.

Joel: Your honor, I ask that we move Tom along to another question.  Ruth has obviously only had three grievances while writing a book, and one of them was Tom’s doing.  Considering she’s had 26 romances, I don’t see how three books where she argued with her characters is enough to build an argument on.

Rick: You’ll have to let the jury decide that one.  Please move on to the next question, Tom.

Tom: Alright.  Let’s see…  *rubs the back of his neck*

Dave: *groans*

Mary: *pats Dave’s back to comfort him*

Tom: I know!  Ruth, haven’t you time and time again told characters they will get books or that you’ll write their books at a certain time but then drop the book in favor of another book?

Ruth: Well, that’s easy to explain.

Tom: Is it?  *crosses arms and narrows his eyes*

Ruth: Sure.  Some characters are louder and more demanding than others, and those are the characters I have to write about.  I can’t make characters ready for the book.  They either are or they aren’t.

Tom: Sounds like  you’re avoiding the question.

Ruth: No, I’m not.  It’s how writing works.  Take Shotgun Groom.  I was ready to write it back in 2010, but Joel and April weren’t ready until 2011.  If I had written the story before they were ready, it wouldn’t have been the best book possible.  Every time I write a book that isn’t ready to be written, I end up having to rewrite it.  It’s how the writer’s mind works–or at least, it’s how my mind works.

Tom: I don’t buy it.

Joel: Objection!  Whether or not Tom believes Ruth is irrelevant.  The jury decides the case, not him.

Rick: Objection sustained.

Tom: What?  Why do you always deny my objections, but you’ll sustain Joel’s?

Rick: I don’t believe you have a valid point when you give an objection, Tom.

Tom: I demand another judge.

Rick: Too bad.  You’re stuck with me, and it’s not up to you to decide who the judge is.

Tom: That’s right.  It’s not.  But I know who picked the judge.  It was her! *points to Ruth* She makes it a habit of manipulating things to her advantage, and for this case, she’s picked Rick Johnson whose book she just released.  A book, I might add, which features him as the hero.  She buttered him up and brought him here.

Joel: Objection!

Tom: Objection denied!

Rick: Objection sustained!  Tom, I’m ready to hold you in contempt.

Tom: I have no other questions for Ruth. I believe everyone has proved my point. *returns to his seat and sits down*

Updates

Just wanted to give a quick update on everything.

I’ll be signing my paperbacks at A Taste of Omaha Saturday and Sunday (June 2 and 3)!

I don’t know who (if anyone) is going to be in the Omaha area this weekend, but I’m at the Riverfront on the Lewis and Clark landing in downtown Omaha for A Taste of Omaha to sell some paperbacks.  I had no idea what to expect until today when Janet Syas Nitsick (fellow author and friend) went there.  Today was the first day, and I was pleasantly surprised, though I didn’t care much for the portable toilets.  I’ll state upfront that even if I love to write about the American old west, I love flushing toilets and electricity.  LOL  And yes, I brought some sanitary wipes to “wash” my hands when I was done.  Ever notice I have my characters wash their hands at the well when they use the privy (aka outhouse) in my historicals?  I’m a stickler for that kind of thing, even in the books. 

Like I said, if anyone reading this blog is going to A Taste of Omaha, stop by my table (I have my name right on the front of the table), say you read my blog, and I’ll give you a signed paperback copy of one of my books.

Loving Eliza and Suddenly a Bride will be Free Soon on Places like B&N, Amazon, Kobo, Sony, Diesel, and Apple!

In other news, I decided to make Loving Eliza and Suddenly a Bride free on Smashwords.  The price change will trickle down to B&N, Apple, Sony, Kobo, Diesel, and (probably) Amazon in about a month or less.  Amazon won’t allow me to go in and make a book free, but they often end up price matching when I make my book free at the other places.  Why did I choose Loving Eliza and Suddenly a Bride?  Well, Loving Eliza is the first book of the South Dakota Series, so I thought it’d be nice to have that be a free introductory book to the series for people to see if they liked enough to continue the series or not. 

Why did I make Suddenly a Bride free?  I would kind of like to do Runaway Bride as a contemporary, so this is the last effort to generate interest in Suddenly a Bride, which would be the first in the series.  I don’t know if the experiment will work or not.  I’ve been trying to do everything I can to save that series.  So far all of my efforts have flopped big time.  I can’t seem to generate enough interest to make writing the other books I had planned in the series worthwhile.  With my husband being retired, we’re now relying on my income to eat and pay bills, so it’s up to me to provide for me, my husband, and four kids.  I have to watch which books are selling better (and modify my writing to ensure that I spend my writing time wisely enough so we can live off my income).  It’s really more about the financial pay off in whether the time invested in writing a book is worth it.  This isn’t a hobby for me.  It’s a business, and part of making business decisions is figuring out what people want or don’t want.  So far, the majority of people have voted for Regencies and historical western romances.  So that’s why I’m now focusing my efforts in those two areas.  If I can generate interest in Suddenly a Bride, then I can write Runaway Bride.  If making Suddenly a Bride free doesn’t work, then I give up, and Runaway Bride will be given a historical western or Regency plot (and I think it would work well as a Regency, to be honest).

I’m Behind on Personal Emails

I don’t know how many of you reading this blog have been emailing me through my website, but I am backed up on those emails right now and probably won’t get to them until after Monday.  I tried to catch up on Facebook and blog comments today, but I know I have a few emails I still need to answer.  Those emails will take longer than a couple of minutes to answer, which is why I want to wait until this weekend craziness settles down and I have the time to answer those who emailed me.  I don’t want to rush through an email because then I feel like I’m being impersonal, and I don’t want to be that way.  So please be patient and bear with me.  If you want to resent me an email, that is cool, too.   Sometimes a reminder helps.  Right now I’m doing good to remember to pay the bills because I have so much stuff happening at once between this weekend and getting ready for a move. 

The Trial: Ruth Ann Nordin’s Testimony

*As a disclaimer, I want to say that I’m not striving to be authentic in this trial.  I have no interest in the details of how court cases are done, so I haven’t done any research in this area.  What I know, I learned from the TV, and I think it’s safe to say that TV isn’t the most reliable method of research.  So I plan to use the liberty of fiction while I’m doing these posts. 

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Bailiff: Court is now in session.  The Honorable Rick Johnson is presiding over the case of Ruth Ann Nordin versus Dave and Mary Larson.  All please rise.

Everyone in the court: *stands*

Rick: *enters the courtroom and sits down*  You may be seated. Bring Ruth on up.

Ruth: *goes to the chair at the front of the room and sits down*

Rick: Hey Ruth, before I forget, thank you for writing my story.

Ruth: You’re welcome.  It was fun to write, Rick, especially since I got to know you better.   I always wondered what made you fall in love with Sally.

Rick: Well, I think you did a great job.

Ruth: You know, it’s nice to be appreciated by one of my characters for a change.

Tom Larson (Dave and Mary’s lawyer): Objection!

 Rick: Why?

Tom: The conversation you and Ruth are having is totally inappropriate for this case.  Your book could interfere with the verdict.  I suggest we get Judge Townsend to oversee the case instead so we can have a fair hearing.

Rick: I’m not part of the jury, Tom.  I’m only here to promote order in the courtroom.  *bangs gavel* Your objection is denied.  Now, we’ll get this hearing underway.  Joel, go ahead and ask your questions.

Joel Larson (Ruth’s lawyer): *walks over to her* Ruth, isn’t it true that you write because you enjoy it?

Ruth: Yep.  It sure is.

Joel: And isn’t part of that enjoyment dependent upon whether or not the characters cooperate?

Ruth: It helps a lot if they do.  Otherwise, I end up having to stop writing the story for a while or I end up having to rewrite something. 

Joel: That sounds like a pain.

Ruth: It is. 

Joel: But it isn’t just a problem when characters give you grief while writing the book.  Isn’t it true that you suffer even when they bother you on this blog?

Ruth Ann Nordin: suffering great emotional turmoil at the way she’s been treated by the heartless Dave and Mary Larson.

Ruth: That’s the worst kind of suffering, Joel.  That is done right out in front of everyone.  It’s embarrassing to have others see how much one or two of my characters are against me.  It’s like airing out my dirty laundry in public, you know?  *sniffles* And I try so hard to please them.  I stay up late at night writing their stories, give up TV and movies so I can focus on them, and throw out my outline of the story in order to write it their way.

Tom: Objection!

Rick: What is it now?

Tom: Those are fake tears Ruth is crying.

Ruth: They are not!  They’re genuine.  It’s why I have a tissue with me. 

Rick: Ruth’s allowed to cry, Tom.  Objection denied.

Tom: But she’s not serious about this.  I mean, look at her clothes.

Joel: Her clothes have nothing to do with this case, Tom.

Rick: I can speak, Joel.  Her clothes have nothing to do with this case, Tom.

Tom: Are you kidding me?  If she’s serious about this, she’d be wearing one of those dress suits women wear in her time period.  As it is, she looks like she’s going to a party after this hearing is over.

Rick: Objection denied, Tom. *bangs gavel* Now quit getting us off topic or I’ll hold you in contempt of court.

Tom: *grumbles but keeps quiet*

Rick: Go on, Joel.

Joel: *snickers at Tom and turns back to Ruth* I see you have your laptop with you. 

Ruth: Yes.  I always take my laptop wherever I go so I can work on a story when my characters are ready to tell me what to write next.

Joel: It’s sounds like you’re dedicated to them.

Ruth: I am.  I am at their beck and call.  I give up everything for them.

Joel: *nods in sympathy* You aren’t appreciated for all you do, especially by Dave and Mary.

Ruth: Don’t I know it!  *sniffles*  I think they take my work for granted.  I mean, if Dave’s not trying to rewrite my books, he’s going around petitioning people to ban my books.  And as if that’s not enough, he tries to gather all my other characters against me so I’ll get severe writer’s block and be unable to write. 

Joel: And when all of that didn’t work, he created the union.

Ruth: Right.  Then when only a psycho nymph fell for it, Mary got involved and told him to fake his own kidnapping.  And out of concern for his well-being, I went to look for him.  I wasn’t the way Joseph Connealy made me sound.  I wasn’t on a rampage like some kind of lunatic.  I asked Mary if I could look for him, and she said yes.  I had permission.  I didn’t trespass on their property.  I’ve been framed by Dave and Mary to look like I was guilty.  He was trying to gain sympathy points from everyone, and it worked with Owen Russell who arrested me and kept me in jail.  And honestly, an 1800s jail with no plumbing is very disgusting.  I didn’t have a flushing toilet, and I couldn’t wash my hands.  When I finally got home, I had to take a shower three times and burned my clothes before I felt clean.

Joel: It sounds like that was a traumatic experience.

Ruth: It was!  Really, Joel,  what other author has to endure all of this?

Joel: I can’t think of any.

Ruth: Exactly.  That’s why I have to sue Dave and Mary.  I’m doing this to protect other authors from ever going through this with one of their psychotic characters.  *sniffles*

Joel: I believe you’ve endured enough.  I have no more questions for the victim.

Tom: *mutters* Don’t you mean drama queen?

Rick: *clears his throat and shoots Tom a pointed look*

Tom: *rolls his eyes*

Rick: Next time, we’ll let Tom question Ruth.

Stay tuned for Tom’s questions. 

Won’t Be Able to Make the First Post for the Court Tonight

Apparently, I’m having one of those days.  I managed to do the June Newsletter, but it took almost three hours due to kids who kept interrupting me and my husband who lost something that required me to help him with to find.  I give up on tonight.  I’ll try to do a post tomorrow.  Sorry for the delay. 

Updates

1.  Will be backed up with emails until some time next week.

So I was on vacation from last Thursday to yesterday (Tuesday) because of Memorial Day weekend, and when I returned home, I saw my inbox and fainted.  Then I got scared and hopped out of my email.  LOL  So yes, I am aware that I have a huge list of emails to tackle. 

But the problem is that I won’t be able to tackle most emails until next week, and I suspect it’ll take almost the entire week to get caught up.  Why next week?  Well, this weekend I’ll be at A Taste Of Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska with my friend Janet Syas Nitsick (a fellow author), and we’ll be doing a booksigning at the same table.  I don’t know if anyone happens to be going to this event, but if you are, I’d love to meet you.   

This event spans all the way from Friday to Sunday and will require me to be gone from the computer all day, whether I’m setting stuff up, greeting people, or cleaning up.  And tomorrow (Thursday), I’ll be getting my hair colored so I don’t look like a grandmother.  (I have white hair, and if I don’t color it, people assume I’m a grandmother.) After that, Janet and I will drive up to Omaha to make sure we know where this weekend event takes place.

2.  I will be at A Taste of Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska this weekend!

I don’t know if anyone reading this plans to be there, but if you are, look for two women who are selling books.  Janet Syas Nitsick has this big Lockets and Lanterns poster (so that will probably be the most noticeable thing you’ll see as you scan the tables).  I’ll have red flowers in a vase with a couple of my books on display on my side of the table.  We’re sharing the same table, so if you see her poster, I’m right there with her. 

Anyway, I’d love to say hi and if you mention you read this post, I’ll sign a paperback and give it to you as a gift.  I can’t bring all 26 of my paperbacks along, but I am planning to bring a couple of Larson and the South Dakota series books.  I will also take a couple of contemporaries.  I don’t have the Regency in paperback form yet.  But if you’re going to be there, I’d love to meet you! 

3.  Working on three books.

While on vacation, I managed to get some nice progress on Her Counterfeit Husband, Mitch’s Win, and Bound by Honor, Bound by Love.  I am now in chapter 5 for Her Counterfeit Husband and am at chapter 10 for both Mitch’s Win and Bound by Honor, Bound by Love.

However, my husband and I have decided to move from Nebraska to Minnesota, and we want to do it before the kids start school this fall (which is in mid-August).   The most challenging goal is to set up services for our deaf child.  So this means I probably won’t make as much progress on the books as I usually would.  However, I will say the place we are buying in Minnesota is in the country and reminds me of how things must have looked when Dave and Mary looked at their land, so it’s pretty inspiring to have a setting like that when writing historical westerns.

4.  Will be working on a couple of blog posts.

Tonight, I’m going to make my first post for the court hearing in the giveaway I’m doing now, and if I do any posting this weekend, it’ll be for that.  And I just remembered the newsletter blog I need to update.  I almost forgot that one. 

Author to Sue Characters For Pain and Suffering

Ruth Ann Nordin To Sue Dave and Mary Larson

by Joseph Connealy

In what has to be a first for authors everywhere, Ruth Ann Nordin has decided to sue Dave and Mary Larson for pain and suffering.

Ruth Ann Nordin as you’ve never seen her before.

“I’ve had to endure Dave Larson’s ridiculous tactics for the past year, and his latest stunt over this kidnapping thing was the last straw,” Ruth said.  ”Not only is it a first for an author to be suing a character, but have you ever heard of a character who is horrible enough to fake their own kidnapping with their wife’s help and then list me as one of the suspects?  I mean, come on!  This time Dave stooped to a new low.”

Among Ruth’s complaints are time spent away from writing her books so she could write blog posts on Dave’s kidnapping, time spent in jail because Owen Russell wouldn’t let her find proof that Dave was hiding in the loft the entire time, and countless emails from Dave’s fans who demanded she return him at once.

“And why are we using that picture of me?” Ruth demanded.  ”It’s awful for my image.  I urge you to remove it at once!”

Moving on to the other side of the story, Dave and Mary Larson were able to offer a response to the charges against them.

“I don’t see what pain and suffering Ruth’s had to endure,” Mary said.  ”She was able to get two more books published in May.  It wasn’t like we rendered her unable to be productive at all.”

“People say I overreact to things, but Ruth takes the cake on this one,” Dave added.  ”No one told her to come to our time and ransack my house and barn like a lunatic.  That was all her doing, and if you ask me, she needs to check up with a psychokenestiastialogist or something.”

“He means psychologist,” Mary said.

“Right.  I guess.”

As of right now, Judge Rick Johnson has agreed to preside over the case.  Joel Larson has agreed to act as Ruth’s lawyer, and Tom Larson has agreed to act as Dave and Mary’s lawyer.  It is rumored that Owen Russell and Sally Johnson are among the witnesses who will give their side of the story.  Other witnesses may come forth in the weeks ahead.

The verdict will be decided by the good people reading this blog.  :D  So be sure to keep up-to-date on the testimonies as they’re posted.

Her Heart’s Desire is Already Available on Barnes and Noble!

Barnes and Noble Link: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/her-hearts-desire-ruth-ann-nordin/1111069973?ean=2940014363044

I didn’t think it’d be up this soon, but it is.  I won’t be on Facebook for the next few days because I’ll be on vacation, but I have some posts I have planned to post on this blog.  Now that I finally got The Earl’s Inconvenient Wife and Her Heart’s Desire up, I can get started on the next giveaway.

I’ll start this with a newspaper article by Joseph Connealy and then run into the court proceedings.  Rick Johnson will be the judge, and I’ll have some witnesses to testify on each side.  I’m going to come right out and say I am not an expert on court hearings.  All I really know is what I see on TV so I’m keeping it as basic as possible.  But after everyone’s given their testimonies, then it’s going to be up to you to decide if Dave and Mary are guilty or innocent in the charges I’m going to be bringing against them.    So you will decide the final verdict. 

Now, every vote of guilty or not guilty will enter you into the giveaway.  I’ll do the random.org site to pick the winner of several paperbacks by me and Rose Gordon.  I have four signed paperbacks by her in the Grooms Series, which will be offered, but I’m still trying to decide what to add to my South Dakota Series (Loving Eliza, Bid for a Bride, and Bride of Second Chances). 

I think this giveaway will be a lot of fun, and I’ll give more information on it as we get into it.