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Reflections on my grandmother, my #1 Fan

While celebrating Thanksgiving this last weekend, I spared a few moments to remember my grandmother. She would have been 99 years old, and she ran circles around us all, up until the day she had a heart attack and passed away just shy of her 96thbirthday.

Grandmother was a stickler for precision in all aspects of her life. Her noontime lunch plans were often thwarted by our habit of being “fashionably late” to everything. She would argue that the proper pronunciation of the color mauve rhymed...

Details Are Important

My friend, Patti, is an ultra-sound technician and I hate watching medical shows with her because she critiques them. "They wouldn't hold that like that. That isn't what you'd use that for."

I don't know the difference so those things don't bother me. 

But, when I know the difference, it does bug the heck out of me. I hated Fifty Shades for a number of things--beginning with page two. See, the main character, for now to be known as DC--Dumb Chick--lives in my town, Vancouver, WA....

#AuthorInterview: Heather Thurmeier & The Hometown Hoax!

Hey, WordWrangler Readers! We're really excited today because Heather Thurmeier is here to answer our questions ... and give us a sneak peek inside her latest romance, The Hometown Hoax! (isn't that a great cover? yeah, we think so, too!) Here we go, Heather, hold on to your hat!

Liz: What is your character's birth order? And how does that affect his/her life?

Heather: Tessa is a middle child with 3 siblings. I think it made her tougher. She's used to having to fight to have her...

The Magical Lani Diane Rich

Today, we welcome Lani Diane Rich to the round pen. Lani is an award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of thirteen novels. Currently she’s writing romantic fantasy for St. Martin’s Press as Lucy March. The third installment in her popular Nodaway Falls series,   For Love or Magic , is available now. She is also one-half of the award-winning podcasting team at StoryWonk, with her husband, story expert Alastair Stephens. Together, they produce multiple story-...

A last farewell to November!

by Liz Flaherty
Good morning! We hope you had glorious holiday weekends and are entering the Christmas season with all kinds of joy. Below is the Big Finale for the Harlequin Heartwarming Thanksgiving promotion. I hope you all come by and say hello at the Facebook party and enter everywhere you can. We've had such fun with this!
On tour with Prism Book Tours.
Grand Finale for A Heartwarming Thanksgiving
Harlequin released 13 FREE short stories by beloved Harlequin Heartwarming authors during...

Happy Thanksgiving

The Word Wranglers want to wish you and yours the happiest of Thanksgiving holidays. We're intending to take the week off, though we may stop in to say hello.

My family's coming together at a large rented house to eat, talk, argue politics, and rejoice that We Are Family. (Sounds like a song title, huh?) What are you doing? Whatever it is, enjoy! - Liz

Cheers to a Wonderful Thanksgiving!

This week, I’m going to be rebellious and not talk about writing. In light of the quickly-approaching Holidays, I’m going to take this opportunity to sing the praises of my favorite beverage: Champagne!

Did you hear that? Yep, it was an angelic choir striking a high C.
Disclaimer here: in this blog, I will refer to all sparkling wines as “Champagne,” even though that is both inaccurate and downright blasphemous. Technically, “Champagne” is only that sparkling wine which comes from the Champagne...

A Week Of Good Days

by Margie Senechal 

You know, Neil Gaiman is right. Nothing else much matters when you have a good writing day.

This week I took Liz's advice on Monday and made time to write.

I wrote on the only paper I had available 4X6 index cards that I had in my lunch box as I'd inadvertently left my notebook with my last pages written at home.

Without the prompt, I dove into the next scene and just wrote. My mind always works best when I'm not committed to the computer. I know it's probably one of tho...

#AuthorInterview: Becky Flade & Fated Hearts

Hey, everyone! We're really excited to have Becky Flade in the round corral this morning! Becky is answering our most curious of questions and will be sharing a few tidbits from her new romantic suspense, Fated Hearts! Let's get right to it.

Liz: What is your favorite genre to read?

Becky: I love reading almost everything, including soup cans and shampoo bottles, but my heart has been lost to the romance genre since I popped open a copy of Beauty & the Beast I bought at my fi...

Paris Memories

The news of the recent terrorist attacks in Paris broke my heart because Paris is one of my very favorite places in the world--it ranks right up there with anyplace in Michigan, San Francisco, my own house, and the lake. It destroys me that people might now be afraid to travel there. Paris is where I found the writer Nan again after too many years of tucking that part of me away. So today, I'm celebrating my Paris by sharing some memories of my 2009 trip.

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