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May 19, 2020
Catching the Cowboy
The past few months, I’ve been working on a brand-new sweet western romance series set in a modern-day town that only exists in my head. I can’t speak for other authors, but I have the absolute best time dreaming up towns, businesses, and oddball characters. I first started thinking about a series set near […]
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May 18, 2020
Have Telegram Will Travel
There are a few things I put into almost every book of mine and the telegraph is one. It was the “email” of the 19th and early 20th centuries. People needed a fast way to send a message, and in the early 1800s, Samuel Morse gave them the telegraph—a machine that sent a series […]
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May 17, 2020
A NEW SERIES–COMING SOON FROM CHERYL PIERSON! by Cheryl Pierson
I’m obsessed with mail-order bride stories. I can’t imagine what would make a young lady leave her home and head west to marry someone she’d never met, live in unfamiliar surroundings, and basically consign herself to a life of uncertainty from the moment she stepped foot on the train (or stagecoach). But this “wondering” was […]
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Linda Carroll-Bradd Has a Winner!
Thank you so much for coming, Miss Linda! We enjoyed having you visit. Now for the drawing…………. Winner of the ebook verision of An Agent For Liana is……………… DEBRA GUYETTE Woo-Hoo! I’m dancing a jig for you, Debra!! Watch for Miss Linda’s email about how to claim your prize! And everybody, please come back for […]
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May 14, 2020
Linda Carroll-Bradd researches Nineteenth Century Health Resorts
Before I started writing An Agent for Dixie, book #73 in the popular Pinkerton Matchmaker series, I had a rather contemporary view of health spas and resorts. Of course, I had read about the waters at Bath in Somerset, England, from various regency titles over the years. But those books don’t go into much detail […]
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May 13, 2020
My Mother Could Stretch…and Stretch…a Dime! by Pam Crooks
While reading my sister filly, Phyliss Miranda’s, blog last week on being a frugal housewife, I couldn’t help being thrown back into my childhood and remembering all the countless times my own mother had to be frugal while raising babies that kept coming almost every year. (To read Phyliss’ blog, click “1800’s Frugal Frontier Housewife”.) […]
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Winner! Winner!
Howdy! Hope y’all had a terrific day today — and for all those of us who have these days running together nowadays…at least we have remembered what day it is today. Anyway, we do have a winner for the free e-book of THE EAGLE AND THE FLAME. We have two winners, actually (sometimes when I […]
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Linda Carroll-Bradd Will Visit Friday!
Miss Linda Carroll-Bradd has saddled up and will arrive Friday, May 15, 2020! What do you know about health spas? She’s going to tell us about that. She also has a new book and a giveaway! Yee-Haw! If you need to enrich your learning or to have a good time, head […]
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May 12, 2020
Damsels on Railroad Tracks
No western romance trope is more cheesy or more famous than the old Damsel on the Railroad Tracks trope. Which is why when I recently wrote a scene that ended with my heroine stuck on a railroad bridge with a train heading for her, I just had to giggle. I promise the scene is ripe […]
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THE EAGLE AND THE FLAME, Excerpt & Give-Away
Well, I’m a little late — don’t know what has happened to my time clock. Seems that all the days are running into one another. Hope y’all will forgive me. Well, because I’m so late, I’ll give away an e-book of the new book, THE EAGLE AND THE FLAME, so hopefully you can come on […]
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