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Welcome Author Cara Marsi!

Hiya, Wranglers! It's our pleasure to put the spotlight on a new author this week - author Cara Marsi and her new suspense Murder Mi Amore - Murder, jewel thieves and terrorists intrude on an American woman's Roman holiday; can she trust the sexy, mysterious Italian man who comes to her aid?

About the book: Lexie Cortese is in Rome to forget. The last thing she expects is to meet a sexy Interpol agent who suspects her of being part of a terrorist plot involving a stolen diamond. Suddenly...

Ho-ho-how do you know?

You know how I know it's Christmas? Nope, not by the calendar date. Nope, not by the crowds in the stores, the tree decorated in our living room or the presents wrapped up underneath.

I know it's Christmas because I went to see The Nutcracker over the weekend. We (bebe, MIL, me)  trekked out to see it (we left RadioMan at home watching football), and while it wasn't a professional (meaning the Kansas City, Cleveland, Chicago or whatever Ballet) performance, the dancers were all trained, a...

Welcome Author Autumn Piper!

Heya, WordWrangler readers! It's out pleasure to put the spotlight on Autumn Piper today! Autumn is celebrating her latest release - Trouble Won't Wait. Autumn, take it away! 

Hi. Thanks for having me. 

Q: What do you get when you cross a snowman and a vampire? 

A: Frostbite. 

 Very small laugh? I was so excited to see Word Wranglers on my blog tour (set up through Buy the Book Tours—and I’m so happy I used them, by the way!). After all, I know some of the Wranglers, and...

My Obsession

I am addicted to Legos. This picture is just a small representation of my obsession. I have a couple of kits I haven't completed and bins of sorted legos.

When Jordan was in grade school, I bought her a bunch of the Harry Potter Legos for Christmas and then proceeded to put them together, because she wasn't doing them fast enough. And then--oh the shame--She had to ask to play with them. 

For our 28th anniversary this year, my husband got me a Toy Story set. Yeah, skip the jewels for me, I...

Meet Author Ellen Mansoor Collier

Heya, WordWranglers! We've got a special treat for you today - an excerpt from new mystery Flappers, Flasks & Foul Play: “Boardwalk Empire" meets "The Great Gatsby" in this soft-boiled historical mystery, set during Prohibition in 1920s Galveston: the "Sin City of the Southwest."

Please help me welcome author Ellen Mansoor Collier to the blog today ~ Ellen is a Houston-based freelance magazine writer whose articles and essays have been published in several national magazines incl...

Meet Author Ellen Monsoor Collier

Heya, WordWranglers! We've got a special treat for you today - an excerpt from new mystery Flappers, Flasks & Foul Play: “Boardwalk Empire" meets "The Great Gatsby" in this soft-boiled historical mystery, set during Prohibition in 1920s Galveston: the "Sin City of the Southwest."

Please help me welcome author Ellen Mansoor Collier to the blog today ~ Ellen is a Houston-based freelance magazine writer whose articles and essays have been published in several national magazines incl...

The Freedom to Dream

What do you see in this picture? I see a bird flying at the bottom right of the moon. So what, you ask. It's kind of blurry and not very distinct.
But for me, that's the beauty of the picture. That it is kind of fuzzy. It gives my imagination room to run. I can decide if that's an eagle, a dove, or a dragon. And if I let my imagination go, I can think of all kinds of stories.

I could come up with half a dozen without even trying...


1. It's a giant eagle that guards a kingdom.

2. It's a shape-shi...

It's about respect.

I attend a couple of writers’ groups and I really enjoy them both. The other writers are interesting and it’s fun to be with people who talk the same peculiar language I do. Like in any collection of writers, some are better at their craft than others.In one of the groups, we have monthly writing prompts and we read our work aloud. We’re also free to bring other work and ask for critiques or any other form of help we need. It’s a friendly group. One of the men—I’ll call him Ted—attends with h...

I Will Never Forget

This week at Word Wranglers, we're talking about who we're most grateful to in our writing career. I had tons of people I'd like to thank. Suddenly, one name popped into my head. Michael Rogers.

Mr. Rogers isn't a writer. He was my college English professor. He was the man that scoffed when I brought a romance novel to class because I always finished my class assignments early and needed something to do while everyone else was still working. The man who told me I shouldn't waste...

WordWranglers: My First Mentor

WordWranglers: My First Mentor:   When Liz first suggested we target the one person we’re most thankful for in our writing life, I didn’t have a clue who I was going...