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October 23, 2015
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eBook of any Megan Crane backlist title
eBook of any Roxanne Snopek backlist title
eBook copies of Promise Me, Cowboy, & Good Together by CJ Camichael
all four e-book titles in The Scott Brothers series by Katherine Gabera
eBook copy of His Outback Cowgirl by Alissa Callen
eBook of Hometown Hero by Dani Collins and a $10 Starbucks card + swags)
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Book Details:
A Montana Born Christmas Boxed Set
Publication date: October 20th 2015
Genres: Adult, Romance
Synopsis:
Ready to two-step under the mistletoe with a hot cowboy? How about a gorgeous tycoon? Spend a white Christmas in Montana with eight heartwarming, contemporary romances. This limited edition collection features sweet and sexy holiday stories from bestselling and award-winning authors. You’ll find eight romantic heroes to fall in love with in A Montana Born Christmas boxed set. And all for less than a dollar!
Christmas at Copper Mountain by Jane Porter
Life has been tough at Copper Mountain Ranch and widower Brock Sheenan’s kids have never had a proper Christmas. His new housekeeper, Harley Diekerhoff, is determined to change that–but she doesn’t count on falling in love with her taciturn boss.
Come Home for Christmas, Cowboy by Megan Crane
Christina Grey Cooper has finally given up on her marriage and returned home to Marietta to lick her wounds. But Dare can’t let the love of his life go, even if what’s standing in the way of a true holiday miracle is himself… Can the magic of a White Christmas in Montana help him save what he’s nearly lost forever?
A Cowgirl’s Christmas by CJ Carmichael
Betrayed by her father, Callan Carrigan has to decide what matters most to her. Fighting Court McAllister to get back the family ranch, or giving Court what he really wants—her heart.
A Cowboy for Christmas by Katherine Garbera
Back in Marietta, disgraced, the last person Annie Pruhomme wants to see is hunky Carson Scott. Does he hold a grudge, and why does he still look so hot?
Mistletoe Wedding by Melissa McClone
An instant family isn’t on ranch foreman Tyler Murphy’s Christmas list, but event planner Meg Redstone’s kisses are. Getting her under the mistletoe, however, is going to take a miracle…or help from Santa.
A Sweet Montana Christmas by Roxanne Snopek
A marriage in jeopardy, a decrepit honey farm and an unexpected birth on a dark, snowy night. All they need to rediscover their love is a Christmas miracle.
Blame the Mistletoe by Dani Collins
Commiseration over being alone for the holidays turns to a holiday fling, making Liz Flowers think Blake Canon is giving her the Best Christmas Ever. But when family secrets are revealed and their children arrive home early, will they be able to keep the season bright?
Her Mistletoe Cowboy by Alissa Callen
Ivy Bishop plans to spend Christmas holed up on an isolated Montana ranch far from the city and her ex-fiancé. But the more time she spends with the workaholic cowboy next door the more she realizes her heart isn’t actually broken – yet.
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October 21, 2015
A Montana Born Christmas
Welcome to the Christmas season! It’s time for gingerbread, twinkling lights, Jingle Bells and mistletoe. And here’s the perfect way to start: with a bundle of heart-warming holiday love stories, now available for download. Curious? And forget pre-order – it’s available NOW!
My award-winning story, A Sweet Montana Christmas, is included in this lovely bundle, along with seven other wonderful stories, all guaranteed to put you in the holiday mood. And all for 99c!
Available for at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, iTunes and Google Play.
Merry Christmas!
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October 5, 2015
Readers Choice Award Finalists!
I just learned that two of my books have made it through the first round of voting in the 2015 Readers Choice Awards, from The Romance 
Reviews. They’re up against some fantastic competition, so they’ll need all the votes they can get. If you have a moment, pop over and give them some love, okay? If you’re not a member of The Romance Reviews, you’ll have to sign up, but they only want an email addy and you can unsubscribe right after voting.
Great story, rich with detail that brings the freezing cold snowy environment… into glorious technicolor!” –Amazon reviewer
…hopes, fears and angst, beautifully portrayed…in this superb story.” -Splashes Into Books
Thanks so much to everyone who voted in the first round – and to all of you who are voting again now!
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September 3, 2015
Day #1 of 100 Days of Happiness
The brilliant author Nancy Robards Thompson recently issued a #100DaysofHappiness challenge and I’m taking her up on it. If you’ve been following me for a while, you might recall my 100 Days of Bikram Yoga challenge, where I not only did 100 straight days of Bikram yoga, but I blogged about it most days as well. 100 day challenges apparently work for me.
So here’s my entry for Day 1.
My baby, all growed up.
As some of you know, our youngest daughter left for university this past weekend, leaving me a little… forlorn. Motherhood has been my primary identity for well, most of my adult life. Natural childbirth, breastfeeding, homeschooling, the works. Attachment, baby. All the way. Plus, I’m a Scorpio. We grab on. Tight. (Mama Doesn’t Share Food!!)
Which was all great. Until now when my primary task IS to let go.
Some things were easier when our girls were smaller. For instance, we could tuck them into bed, set the alarm and know they were safe. Some things were almost unbearably sweet: the fresh-from-the-bath smell when tucking them into bed. The full-belly laughter. The innocent, wide-open trust in their eyes. The hand-holding.
But there was lots to counteract that easy sweetness: screaming fits, hours-long bedtime rituals where I just wanted to spray them with Nap-Time (come on, you’ve thought about it too!) not to mention the power-struggle between 30 pounds of arched-back fury and a non-negotiable car-seat. In the dreaded mommy-van.
As our daughters have grown into independence, I’ve morphed as well. But this milestone, last chick launched, is forcing me to evaluate my life and goals. The Next Stage of my life is here. How do I want to play it? (And for the last time, Honey. Naked Wednesday is NOT a thing.)
To mark the event: a Celtic infinity knot, symbolizing the mother-child bond.
So this is my Day 1 of Happiness: I’ve got a wide-open world ahead of me, with three fantastic adult children and a husband who loves me even when I get broody and existential. I’ve got a career I love, with readers who remind me that exploring the landscape of relationships through fiction is important. I’ve got excellent friends who also love me, despite my neuroses, or what I call The Adventures of Roxanne’s Brain.
Change can be hard. But life is very, very good.
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September 1, 2015
Millionaire Daddy, 99c. Even better with clothes on!
He’s richer than he thinks!
Kingdom? Check. Bachelor Dane Bergman’s restaurant business is definitely his kingdom.
Prince? Check, that’s Dane, though he just thinks he’s rich and powerful.
Princess in jeopardy: Dani, Dane’s unexpected, unknown-until-now preschool daughter. A tough nut, this one. Just like her daddy.
White knight: that would be Pamela Atwater, who’s also manager extraordinaire, devoted pinch-hitting nanny, loyal friend and – surprise! – a sweet, sexy seductress as well. She’s the only one who can bring father and daughter together.
Battle scenes? Sure, but they are more face-to-face and emotional than army-to-army with halitosis and maggots. (FYI, my characters all have excellent oral hygiene and since it’s my fantasy, there is no need for bugs, ever. Period.)
Happy ending? You know it. Though you may shed a tear or two as well. Rights are wronged, truth comes out, people discover untapped potential and love conquers all.
Prefer Dane shirtless? We aim to please. As, ahem, does he.
Read the full post at Entangled Indulgence where I share the best ever recipe for sangria, too.
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August 26, 2015
Welcome to Cherry Lake!
Introductory novella, available now
Last night, I got together with my co-creators to celebrate the launch of this new contemporary Montana romance series. Authors Joan Kilby, Paula Altenburg, Jeannie Watt and I had so much fun with our readers. Talk about a party. Bad dates, first kisses, questionable personal habits, it seems nothing was off limits.
To share or not to share…
Since our series is about secrets, we did a bit of sharing. Now, if you’ve read my blog before, especially some of my earlier stuff about yoga, nakedness, kids, marriage, etc. you’ll know that I’m a pretty open book. You’ll also know I’m a little… scattered. As evidenced by the thing that slipped my mind entirely last night: I have a whopper of a secret to share.
(Thanks to the invention of time travel, er, virtual reality, you can view our launch party for yourself. You can even, if you act quickly, still enter to win some pretty great prizes.)
SMALL TOWN SECRETS kicks off the series, with a “yesteryear” snapshot of Cherry Lake founder and patriarch Nathan Jackson – who has a big, big secret to carry. Then our series moves on to Nate’s grandchildren. The sins of the father, it seems, really are visited upon the children.
… a beautiful, nostalgic way to begin a new series…
Book #3, September 8
In my Cherry Lake novel HER SECRET PROTECTOR, town photographer Carrie Logan has a huge secret: she used to earn a living taking boudoir photos. And even took some pretty saucy shots of herself, too. Not exactly what the school board wants on class photo day, Carrie discovers.
Can you guess my secret? That’s right. I had some sassy pictures taken of myself once, too. They weren’t the nearly-naked “Goddess photos” that Carrie specialized in, but they definitely displayed… attitude. (And no, I’m not sharing!) It was tremendous fun doing something so outside my comfort zone. That’s what Carrie’s clients find out, too. Her family, however, isn’t quite as thrilled.
Book #1, available NOW!
In Joan’s book, THE SECRET SON, available now, there’s an even bigger secret. (Hint: who is that sexy new cherry picker?) Watching the effect of this on her characters is simply wonderful. Early reviewers love it and I know you will too.
Awesome read… great beginning to a new series.
Book #2, September 1
Paula Altenburg’s HER SECRET LOVE features Carrie’s wild cousin Jessica, back in the town she swore she was done with. I just love Jess…
Jeannie Watt’s THE SECRET BRIDE is also chock full of goodness. Horses, kids, a drool-worthy Jackson cowboy. Yummy!
Book #4, September 15
I adore all these stories. Can you tell? Come visit Cherry Lake with us. Share some secrets. We promise, we won’t tell.
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August 20, 2015
The Secrets of Cherry Lake
Next week, Tule Publishing launches a new series, called The Secrets of Cherry Lake. I’m delighted to be part of it, along with authors Joan Kilby, Paula Altenburg and Jeannie Watt. We’ve had a great time creating this little world and we hope readers will love it, too.
The books will be released one per week, starting August 25 with the prequel novella Small Town Secrets (written by me) and the first book, The Secret Son, by Joan Kilby. To celebrate, we’re holding a Facebook party, here. We’d love it if you joined us!
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June 3, 2015
USA Today Debut!
Hello my friends!
I’m delighted to announce that today, I appeared on the USA Today Best-selling Books list with my very first romance novel, THREE RIVER RANCH.
This might not mean much to most people, and no doubt I’ll be back to normal…(insert sound of a needle ripping across vinyl)
NEVER! This is a watershed moment in my career, something I’ve been striving for since I began writing! I seriously can’t breathe, I’m so excited, people! I’m going to be kicked off the internet soon for excessive use of caps and exclamation points. BUT I DON’T CARE!!
As some of you know, I’ve been working super hard this winter, but I had no real thought of hitting a list until this week and even then, I was afraid to hope. All authors dream of being able to include the words Best-Selling Author with their names and the USA Today list is one of the most coveted.
A good book is an author’s triumph but a bestselling author is a publisher’s triumph.
I don’t know where I heard it, but it’s true. In today’s market
, getting our work seen by potential readers is our single biggest hurdle – after writing the books in the first place, that is. I’m forever grateful to my publishers for the support and enthusiasm they’ve shown my work.
Entangled Publishing launched the THREE RIVER RANCH series in August of 2012 and it’s their muscle that’s brought my work in front of enough readers to make this list. Tule Publishing released my THIS OLD HOUSE novella series between September 2014 and April 2015 – which has been a little brutal on all of us – but those stories have also been warmly welcomed by readers, further increasing my reach.
But the bottom line is that you, my readers, have put me onto this list.
So let me say, from the bottom of my heart, thank you, THANK YOU for reading my stories.
Thank you.
May 25, 2015
Two Series Openers, Three Low Prices
Actually, it’s two low prices, one book FREE (our favorite price of all, right?) one book $0.99 (our second favorite price!) and one audio book FREE. How cool is that?
As most of you already know, I’ve got two separate contemporary romance series completed now. The fourth novel in my THREE RIVER RANCH series came out a year ago and the first one, titled – wait for it – Three River Ranch, is $0.99, for a limited time only. It’s the perfect time to meet my collection of hot ranchers and the women who tame them. And their dogs, cats and horses. Oh, and Bliss and Blythe, the elderly, meddlesome, ever-feuding twins who manage to know more than they should about everyone. Read through to find the audio-book link.
Book #1
Book #2
Book #3
Book #4
Also available at Barnes & Noble, Kobo, iTunes and Google Play.
My second series is called THIS OLD HOUSE, and in each book, someone is renovating a lovely, old, tumble-down heritage house, and discovers much more, including love, in the process. The fourth novella came out in April and the first book, FINDING HOME, has just become free, for a limited time only. It’s the perfect time to check out this series at no risk, readers! Hopefully you’ll find my make-believe world the perfect place to escape to, when this world is just a little too close.
Book #1
Book #2
Book #3
Book #4
Also available at Barnes & Noble, Kobo, iTunes and Google Play.
PS: If you’re an audio-book fan, like I am, you should know that THREE RIVER RANCH is also available in audio format, with WhisperSync for Voice. It looks to me like the audio book is free, people, so this is a great chance to download it.
May 3, 2015
Beer Can Chicken
In my most recent book, I mention a wonderful dish called Beer Can Chicken. It’s really just chicken roasted on the barbecue, on top of a can half-full of beer. It doesn’t have to be beer. It could probably be wine, soda or juice. I bet lemonade would be fabulous. Nevertheless, I like to live on the wild side, so it’s beer for me.
Here’s how I do it:
Beer Can Chicken
You will need:
A barbecue
A beer-can-chicken roaster
A roasting chicken
A can of beer – can also be soda, lemonade or any flavorful beverage.
Olive oil
Montreal Chicken Spice (lemon pepper or any barbecue rub would work fine, too)
Fire up the Barbie, nice and hot. Drink half a beer, saving the other half in the can. Slather a nice gloss of olive oil on your chicken, then sprinkle it with generously with your seasoning. Set the can in the roaster device. Prop that baby (watch out, it’ll be slippery) onto the can, ie: insert can into chicken. Yes, it looks mildly disturbing.
Turn the front burner off, but keep the back burner on, so that you’ve got a fairly hot (how’s that for specific?) barbecue. Set the chicken-and-device onto the front part of the barbecue, so that it cooks on indirect heat. Close lid. Pop another beverage and do something else for an hour or so while your chicken cooks.
Check on it occasionally to make sure it’s not burning. You may need to adjust the temperature or the position of the chicken. It’s important it doesn’t sit directly over the heat.
When the skin is a deep, dark, golden brown, the thigh bone moves easily in the socket and only clear juice comes out when you poke it, your meat is done.
Remove it carefully from the barbecue, then even more carefully, grab it with tongs and pull it off its beer-can perch. Put it on a warm plate and cover with foil for ten minutes or so, so the juices retreat back into the meat.
Carve. Serve. Enjoy.
Note: do not drink the hot beer. Actually, try not to look at it when you pour it down the sink. It’s pretty disgusting.
Read the full post, originally on Tote Bags ‘n’ Blogs
The giveaway there is closed, but I’ve also got one running at Roxanne’s Facebook Party for Cinderella’s Cowboy that’s open for a few more hours.
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