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Longing For a Cowboy Christmas & Giveaway

            Linda Broday and I are celebrating the publication of our new book Longing for a Cowboy Christmas. This is the second book we’ve done together.  Last year, our stories appeared in Christmas in a Cowboy’s Arms. That’s the exciting part.  The fun part is this: We are each giving […]

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Carolyn Brown Will Visit Friday!

Yippee! The incomparable Miz Carolyn Brown is set to visit Friday, September 20, 2019!  What happens when a headstrong Irish lass runs into a freewheeling Texas cowboy? Don’t you know sparks will fly! Miz Carolyn knows exactly how to do that. She’s toting an autographed copy of her brand new Christmas book to give away. […]

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Beaverslides

Hey everyone! Today I’m talking about beaverslides, which are not fun devices located on playgrounds for flat-tailed furry mammals, I’m sorry to say. A beaverslide is a way to stack loose hay. In the eastern part of the United States, it wasn’t necessary to store as much winter forage/hay as it was in the west. […]

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Join Us For SPUDS AND SPURS!

JOIN US FOR A SPECIAL WEEK!! When: Monday, September 23 – Friday, September 27 Potato Recipes, Medicine made from spuds, and tons more! GONNA HAVE A SPECIAL GIVEAWAY! FUN, FUN, FUN!!!  

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Cowboys, Coffee, and a Give Away!

There have been a lot of letters and diaries from the pioneers telling how coffee got them through. A trader, Josiah Gregg, (he made a whooping eight treks to the West in the 1830’s) couldn’t get over the pioneers’ love of coffee. Gregg described the settlers love of coffee as insatiable and upon the Prairies […]

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It’s Game Day With Linda Broday!

  Are you ready to have some fun? I sure hope so. I like games and used to play a lot more than I do now. Growing up, my family loved the board game Aggravation (also known as Sorry). In fact, we loved it so much my dad made the board out of a piece […]

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Linda Hubalek Has a Winner!

Thank you so much for coming to visit, Miss Linda! We loved it. Now for the drawing……………. Winner of the digital copy of the book is…………. JOY ELLIS Congratulations, Joy! Miss Linda will contact you so be watching. Tomorrow is Game Day! Everyone come back.  

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Mismatched Mail-Order Brides

This summer I started a new fun historical romance series called the Mismatched Mail-Order Brides series.  This series is set in 1892, almost twenty years after first mail-order brides found love in Clear Creek, Kansas, in the Brides with Grit Series. The new series features the girls, whose mothers fell in love and married in […]

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A new release and a giveaway!!!

The start of a three month run. One book a month. This month I am doing something I’ve never done before. (No, not get organized and plan ahead, shut up!) I teamed up with other authors to release a series called Thanksgiving Books and Blessings. Our fearless leader, Caryl McAdoo, has decided we all skip […]

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Linda Hubalek Will Visit on Friday!

Miss Linda Hubalek has saddled up and will ride in on Friday, September 13, 2019! She’s got a brand new series to tell us about. It’s exciting. What happens when a bunch of brides wind up with the wrong grooms? I don’t know but I’ll bet it’s lots of fun. Miss Linda is toting an […]

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