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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

JOIN ME IN THE HARLEQUIN HISTORICAL AUTHOR HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY!

Today’s my day -- DECEMBER 1 st for the Giveaway!








And I’d love to know about your Christmas/ Holiday shopping plans. Are you the forward thinker who shops all year round so by the time the holidays are upon us, you’re not scrambling to get the gifts purchased? Or are you the Black Friday shopper, who ventures in the dark of night to hunt for the greatest bargains in town?


Are you a shopper like me, who waits until after Thanksgiving and takes those few weeks to find the right gift at the right price? I hit the sales, and try my darnedest to make sure I’ve gotten the most for my money. I have not bought one gift yet, but thanks to gift cards, my shopping list isn’t too hard to navigate through.


Or are you the last minute shopper? Someone who can get it all done within a day and usually that day is RIGHT before the holiday?


Post a comment about your shopping habits TODAY and THRU the weekend and I’ll post the winner from a random drawing on SUNDAY. All commenters are automatically entered into the drawing for the Kindle Fire (or equivalent) on December 23rd. Try to visit all the blog sites from November 29th to December 23rd to increase your chances of winning!!


MY PRIZE: A $25 Gift Card to ONE of these outlets: Amazon or Barnes and Noble or Macy's or Target (You get to choose for your shopping pleasure!)

BE SURE TO STOP BY ON SUNDAY FOR THE WINNER!

Follow the Calendar November 29th to Dec 23rd.
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                                                               CLICK HERE

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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Fun Happenings Today and Tomorrow!!


Today is my Eharlequin "LAUNCH PARTY" for THE COWBOY's PRIDE.

Come join the fun and win prizes throughout the day! 

I'm giving away "Desire" and "Love" Necklaces, gift cards and more!! 

Meet Me THERE!!


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And remember tomorrow, Thursday December 1st is my official day for the HARLEQUIN HISTORICAL AUTHOR HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY!

All you have to do is come back here and post a comment about your holiday shopping habits to be entered!


LET THE PARTY BEGIN! THE HARLEQUIN HISTORICAL AUTHOR HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY!




CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS AND TO BEGIN WITH WONDERFUL HISTORICAL AUTHOR
MICHELLE WILLINGHAM
November 29th


Monday, November 28, 2011

WINNER OF THE BOOK of the WEEK!!

I'm thrilled to announce The Cowboy's Pride won the Long and Short Reviews Book of the Week!!

Thanks to all of you who have voted this weekend!!



To see the entire book review CLICK HERE

Tomorrow starts the Harlequin Historical Author Holiday Giveaway!

Tomorrow is the official launch date for the Giveaway.  It's a fun way to blog, win daily prizes and be entered for the Grand Prize of a Kindle Fire. Details to follow, starting with Michelle Willingham. 






Saturday, November 26, 2011

UP FOR BOOK OF THE WEEK at The Long and Short Reviews!

My second installment of the Worths in Red Ridge, THE COWBOY'S PRIDE has been nominated for the BOOK OF THE WEEK!


I hope you'll lend a hand by voting Saturday and Sunday...THIS weekend!  VOTE HERE



Vote for Book of the Week! Thank you!
Here's a little bit of the review.  

Ms. Sands does a beautiful job of creating two characters that practically sizzle the pages with their tangible chemistry. It’s obvious early on that both Clay and Trish are still attracted to one another. When they finally give into a “pre-divorce fling” readers will understand why they begin to question their motives for separating in the first place. Ms. Sands brings the reader right into the scene and I can tell you everyone walks away satisfied.


Ms. Sands is an auto buy for this reviewer and shouldn’t be missed by anyone who appreciates clean writing and a story that carries the reader on amazing and heart felt journey. 
Honeysuckle at TLASR



For the full review click here

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

BEING THANKFUL....

For the newest addition to our family. 
Sweet, precious little girl.

Happy Thanksgiving!


Thursday, November 17, 2011

7 POINT GUIDE TO BEING THE PERFECT MOMMY by Baby Meggie!


Prefaced by Charlene Sands



Motherhood has been known to kick our butts. It’s an ever-evolving process that even the most competent women find challenging. The same holds true for Trish Fontaine in The Cowboy's Pride, an efficient, fashion-conscious publicist, now a new, unexpected mommy. Trish finds herself out of her element when she comes to Red Ridge to divorce her ex-country music star, now-rancher husband. The baby in tow, makes for a quite a threesome. Trish can’t let Clayton Worth melt her resolve, but oh, the way he looks at her four-month old baby is the thing that dreams are made of.

 

Baby Meggie’s 7 Point Guide to Being the Perfect Mommy:

If you warm the bottle before you hand it over, I won’t let out a blood-curdling scream.

I need a diaper change as soon as I wake up. I don’t like to make a mess. It’s no fun for me either.

You don’t need to creep down the road when I'm in the car. Just drive the speed limit. I promise I’ll sleep most of the way.

You don’t have to hold me all the time. I like to roll and explore.

Take me on a stroll, I like to see Red Ridge Ranch and all the animals, especially the horses.

Kiss the man with the soft thoughtful eyes already, Mommy. He looks nice.

Don’t panic – I will love you no matter what, even when you make mistakes … I promise.




Coming Soon -- Harlequin Historical Authors Holiday Giveaway!!


Enter every day starting on November 29th to December 22nd

WIN A KINDLE FIRE! 
Or any of a number of great prizes. 
Visit me here on December 1st!

Wednesday, November 09, 2011

COUNTRY MUSIC AND ME !

SKIP ON OVER TO THE PETTICOATS AND PISTOLS BLOG.

BRAD PAISLEY AND CARRIE UNDERWOOD
CMA AWARDS HOSTS
I'M THERE TODAY TALKING ABOUT COUNTRY MUSIC!  GIVING AWAY A COPY OF THE COWBOY'S PRIDE TOO!

Saturday, November 05, 2011

THE REVIEWS ARE IN:

The Cowboy's Pride


OFFICIAL REVIEW
Romance Reviews Today


Book Reviewed by JV (reviewer)
4 ****


If you have a passion for cowboys, you'll love the hero of THE COWBOY'S PRIDE. Clay is everything a cowboy should be: hard-working, loyal, passionate, and a man of few words. Yet he shows his tender side in the way he behaves when his estranged wife blindsides him with a big surprise. I love a wounded hero, and this one fills the bill.

Clay's deepest desire is to fulfill the vow he made to his dying father to work the ranch, have children to cherish, and keep the Worth lineage and legacy going strong. That's been hard to do, though, since his wife Trish hasn't lived with him for a year. She is on her way home now to finalize a divorce and work her fundraising magic for a charitable cause they developed together. So imagine his surprise when she emerges from a cab with a baby in tow -- a baby who isn't his!

For 16 years, Clay Worth was a mega-watt country singing sensation in addition to having grown up as a cowboy on his father's ranch. In fact, he met Trish at a black-tie function in Nashville, literally bowling her over but catching her before she hit the floor. That was it for Clay. He was determined to have her, but she made him work hard to win her over before she finally agreed to marry him. Once they married, he hung up his stardom and his playboy ways and never looked back as he settled into life as a rancher and a husband.

Despite their love for each other and their mutual devotion to developing Penny's Song, a place on Worth land where children recovering from devastating illnesses can go to get their bearings before having to return to their normal lives, Clay and Trish butted heads often and loudly. Trish was not ready to have the children that Clay wanted. She was several years younger than Clay and wanted to focus on building her career as a publicist first. She also had unresolved issues from having grown up with a brother who had cancer and required all of his parents' attention, leaving Trish feeling as though she were always an afterthought. However, she loved her husband and was determined to get their marriage back on good footing, until the night she came home early and found him seemingly cozied up with a widowed neighbor who made it clear that she could give Clay everything he wanted. Trish had run back to Nashville that night and never returned -- until now.

Then Karin, a close friend of Trish's who'd been widowed recently, learned she was pregnant. Between her grief and an illness that she just couldn't overcome, Karin passed away shortly after Meggie was born, having elicited Trish's promise that she'd take Meggie and love her as her own if anything happened to Karin.

Now, Trish must spend some time on the ranch with Clay becoming familiar with how Penny's Song operates and designing the gala fundraising event that she'd promised to work on all while protecting her baby and her own heart from falling for her husband again. Despite all that has passed between them, Trish still has feelings for Clay, but she can't forgive him or see how they can rebuild their life together. Though he's furious over her abandonment, Clay still loves Trish, and their passion has not dimmed as a result of their separation. He can't see his way to forgiving her for falsely accusing him and walking out on their marriage -- or for denying him a child and then showing up with one. So, is finalizing the divorce their only answer, or can they find their way back to one another?

Charlene Sands does a fine job of letting the reader see each of the characters' insecurities and wounds, even when they can't show them to each other. Over the course of their working together, as they give in to the inevitable and overwhelming passion between them, we can easily see that their deep feelings for each other are still there, if only they can let down their guards a little bit.


As she tends to do, Ms. Sands has written a hero who is strong and hard-working and, outwardly, tough. Yet, he is tender and accepting of the baby and, though he tries not to show it, totally vulnerable to the wife he still loves. In my mind, I pictured a younger Sam Elliott as Clay with the rough voice and tough but tender persona. Her heroine has to come to understand her own fears and motivations in order to become a stronger and more confident person who is willing to risk reaching for what she really wants.


Ms. Sands described the ranch and the Red Ridge Mountains so that I could see the dust rising from the horses' hooves and feel the warmth of the sunset as I read. I very much enjoyed reading about this strong, stoic cowboy and the woman and child who stole his heart.