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Always the Baker Finally the Bride by Sandra D. Bricker

ALWAYS THE BAKER FINALLY THE BRIDE

April 2013

In the final book in the Another Emma Rae Creation 4-book series, Emma Rae prepares to become Jackson’s bride. But when the opportunity to sell The Tanglewood arises, the inn looks more like a circus than a wedding destination resort. Will Jackson risk uprooting this quirky community and upsetting his bride? What could God be planning?

About the Author:

For more than a decade, Sandra D. Bricker lived in Los Angeles and, while writing in every spare mo...

A Novel Lovers Giveaway: 12 Books by 12 Authors

Some writer friends and I have a fabulous new giveaway for readers in the USA who are on Facebook.

The winner gets twelve fabulous autographed novels by twelve authors (see graphic at right). All you need to do to enter is Like all of the authors’ Facebook Pages. There are ten author Pages that must be liked in order to be entered. And we have two authors giving away books who don’t have author Pages but are using their Facebook Profiles. So if you would be so kind as to visit and “friend” Deb...

All in Good Time by Maureen Lang

And for Monday, April 1st: the e-book is still free!

A Note from Maureen:

New releases are always exciting! I was just telling my husband that THIS book is my favorite, but he’s noticed I say that about every new release. Well, this one really is holding a special place in my heart. I think authors, like parents with their children, love each book for certain reasons. For me, the hero inAll In Good Timeis my special reason. He starts out as such a curmudgeon I just couldn’t wait to soften him u...

Fun on Goodreads.com

If you love to read (since you’re reading this blog post, I’m pretty sure that you do), then Goodreads.com is a fun place to be. I’ve been a member on the site for a couple of years, but it’s only in recent months that I’ve gotten serious about using it. It’s been great fun to see my list of “read” books grow. And I’m always finding new books to add to my “to read” shelf. (So many books, so little time.)

This year, I joined the 2013 Reading Challenge. I am not a fast reader the way so many fol...

Hooked on Firefly

Okay, I know that I am very late to this party. Firefly was a one-season, 14-episode series on Fox back in 2002. Later, they made a movie calledSerenity. I tried to watch the movie once, years ago, not knowing it should followFirefly. It didn’t make sense to me, and I gave up.

But writers love “story” and “characters” and when they discover a great story and/or great characters in TV shows or movies, they like to talk about it. So my friends got to talking aboutFirefly awhile back. Someone men...

Jeannette Rankin, First Woman in Congress

In the days of my youth, we didn’t study women’s history as a unique subject. For that matter, I don’t remember that we spent much time at all on the suffrage movement or passage of the 19th Amendment. When the idea for Catching Katie came to me, I began researching suffragettes and what they went through to win the right to vote. I think of all of the research I have ever done, the research I did for Catching Katie impacted me the most.(The research proved handy for a later novel as well,A V...

What Do I Do For “Writer’s Block?”

I spoke at a fiction writing conference recently, and during a panel discussion, the novelists were asked about handling writer’s block.

Here is my opinion, based on 32 years of experience:

Often what a writer perceives as a block is nothing more than procrastination. I know a lot of writers, and the majority of us seem to be experts at procrastinating. Writer’s block is a good excuse not to write. Right? So if a writer thinks he can’t write because he is blocked, he should check to make sure h...

This Is A Temporary Home Page

I had someone ask why I’ve chosen for my blog to be the landing page for my web site. I haven’t. This is temporary while my web site is undergoing a total makeover (as explained in the sidebar). But since that notice seems to be easily missed, I’m adding this quick note. The new look should debut in a couple of weeks or so, so please come back soon. Or sign up for my newsletter so you’ll get updates on the latest news.

Treasured Old Photos

My WIP (work-in-progress) tells the stories of two women, one who was born over a hundred years ago and one who lives in a contemporary setting. My contemporary protagonist inherits the home of the historical protagonist, and in the attic she finds lots of old photographs. And a man in some of those old photos raises questions.

When my mom died in 2010, we dragged out a box of old photos and sorted through them. And I discovered how careless we (my brother and I) had been. We should have gone...

Polly Bemis, a Gold Camp Love Story

Readers of my novels know that I love to set my books in Idaho. Occasionally I venture over the border into Montana or Wyoming or Colorado, but the vast majority of my books take place in the state I love.

Great riches came out of the gold and silver rushes in Idaho during the 1800s, and I have used this part of our history in a number of novels ( Heart of Gold is the most recent). Sadly, racial prejudice was alive and well in the camps, most of it focused on the Chinese. And so for this post i...