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Are You Over Halfway? Or …50 yard and 3rd Down

If not, no worries. Believe me, the second half of a book is always quicker to write, especially with that shining light of “The End” glowing ever closer.

And if you have absolutely no clue what I am talking about then you aren’t neck deep in NaNoWriMo

, or National Novel Writing Month. I’ve been dabbling in it this year, but only from the sidelines as a coach and teacher. No offense, but it is a lot more fun to watch from the sidelines like some NFL coach.

Here’s me:

“Yeah, Writer, I know that hit must have hurt like hell–who would have thought your characters would just sit down and go on strike. Now remember, you’re the author. You control their destiny. Now shake them up and get back out there.”

Insert high five here, and watch me nod my head in encouragement as I send the tired NaNoWriMo writer back out into the darkness that is the middle of a 50,000 word quest for glory.

Oh, you’ve got to love the view from the sidelines.

So as I stand here, mid-month, mega-phone in hand, (Good God, no one in their right mind would ever give me a megaphone) I offer these three pieces of advice for all you caffeine addicted, hopped up writers who have made it thus far:

1) Conflict – If you are stalled out

, then most likely you’ve run out of conflict. Either your characters have solved all their problems, or you haven’t made the stakes high enough, challenging enough to last through the entire book. Go back and revisit the impetuous, the problem that is/or was the grease that moves your story along and see where it ran thin. Think of conflict as Two Dogs, One Bone. What is the bone between your protagonist and their goal? Gnaw on that and see what comes of it.

2) Change – Your characters should be changing throughout your story, but most notably they will go through these four stages: Denial, Resistance, Exploration, and Manifestation. (If you time, go give this episode of Writing Excuses a listen wherein Mary Robinette Kowal presents DREAM in a clear and easy 15 minute lesson)

Then ask yourself, where are your characters on this continuum? What are the lessons and skills your character is going to have to have to solve the problems they are facing. Your job as the author is to guide them through the specific events you’ve handpicked to teach them those lessons. Get them working!

3) Plotting— When you get stuck and can’t find your way out of the darkness of your story with a flashlight and a map, then take a blank piece of paper and write down 20 things that could happen in your book. Then write 20 more. Keep writing down everything you think of, no matter how crazy or ridiculous. Just keep brainstorming. The pieces of your story are there inside your head, you just need to root around and find them. I talked about this last month in in this blog, 3 Tips to Crush NaNoWriMo.

And remember, when you get to Thanksgiving and there are only a few days in November left, pumpkin pie is considered to be quite the creative impetuous. I’m quite sure of that.

Would Coach Elizabeth ever lie?

If you have any questions

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, please add them to the comments or shoot me a tweet!

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Romance Retellings

The theme for the #Romancestagram hashtag over on Instagram this month is “Romance Retellings.” I have to say, this is one of my favorite themes so far, both as a reader and a writer.

Every month as the themes are announced, I scan to see if I have any books or favorite reads to share, and usually I have one or two, but this month is an embarrassment of riches. Or should I just confess–like most romance authors, I simply love retelling a classic

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, a favorite fairy tale, or giving a new spin to that old, adored movie.

Take Fairy Tales . . .

I mean, they are supposed to end Happily Ever After. At least in theory.

By the way, I have way too much fun coming up with these flat lays for my books. I know, get writing…

I’ve written Cinderella twice. Yes, clearly once was not enough.

But there they are

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, One Night of Passion and Cynders & Ashe. Both stories are so very different, but they tell one of my favorite ideas: that you can fall in love in a single night. When I came up with the tag line for One Night of Passion — Sometimes Cinderella loses more than just her slipper — I thought my editor was going to fall out of her chair. Well, I did say this was my version  . . .

Or take my love affair with Beauty and the Beast. OMG, I love that story. And to that end, I wrote The Viscount Who Lived Down the Lane. My beast was a man broken and tortured by his experiences with war

, and my beauty, a persistent young woman who believes in true love (and well organized closets and truly horrible cats).

Those are my contributions so far . . . But November is young. I’ll be posting my takes on Classics and Movies in the coming weeks, so I hope you are following me on Instagram or follow along with the #romancestagram hashtag.

But for now, which Fairy Tale story do you like to see retold?

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3 Writing Tips to Crush NaNoWriMo

Are you ready to be off and writing? NaNoWriMo–National Novel Writing Month–which challenges a writer to draft a book in a month–begins next week and so before you begin furiously writing your story, I have three tips to ensure your story keeps moving forward for NaNoWriMo success.

1. Before You Start

Prewrite. Over this weekend, consider jotting down an outline for your story. It can be as simple as setting up your Scrivener files and filling your Corkboard with all the ideas you have brimming around inside of you! You’ll find as you fill out your story, more ideas will come to you and by the time November 1st arrives, you’ll have a great roadmap to follow.

Another way to get organized is to use the Levenger Circa system. I LOVE these notebooks for my working pages and notes–because unlike a three ring notebook, you can just pop the pages out and put them back in wherever you want. These notebooks are great for drafting and editing and keeping notes while you are writing. I especially love the colored lined filler pages for different storylines. Be careful–Levenger products are addictive. But in a good way.

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, each day, I know this sort of sounds crazy, but some time during the day before you sit down at the keyboard, think about where you want to begin and sketch it out with a pencil/pen and paper. This will more often than not give you the sort of creative jump start that can lead to more words on a whole, quicker and with less drama.

Do it first thing in the morning, at lunch, or on the bus. Whenever you have a spare 15 minutes. I am always amazed at how this simple exercise fills the creative tank.

Because by drafting the ideas you have, or just playing around with your story for a bit of time before you start writing allows you to plant yourself in the right spot and you’ll be ready to write when you get to the keyboard.

Can’t think of what to write? Jot down dialogue–no tags, no descriptors, just the dialogue. Sketch out the setting. Write down what your characters WANT out of the next scene or scenes. I like to do to do this the night before I write, just to give the ideas a bit of time to ping around in the imagination. Then when you sit down to write, just start transcribing your notes and before you know it, the scene begins to unfold before you.

2. When You Get Stuck

Brainstorm. When you get stuck

, (which you will, but no sweat) make a List of 20 things. Anything. Again, get out the paper and pencil, and start tossing out anything and everything. And when I say everything

, I mean it, no matter how crazy it is, just get to 20. Trust me, the good stuff comes bubbling up to the surface about numbers 16 and 17. For more on the List of 20, read this post.

Need some prompts: What could happen in the next scene? Where will your characters end up? What will your characters say to each other?

3. Still Stuck?

3) Drive Around the Accidents. Seriously. Accidents happen in writing. Moments when the story detours. Something isn’t working. You can see where you want your story to go–say like in the next scene, but the current scene and your stubborn characters aren’t cooperating.

Sigh. But rather than beat yourself up and despair over your lack of progress, drive around the accident. Put a place marker in your manuscript and skip ahead. I like to just add a “XXX” and then drive around that frustrating roadblock.

And don’t look back until a solution presents itself. When it does, just do a search for the “XX” and fill in that pothole.

After having written 26 books, and driven around my fair share of writing collisions, the solution always comes up eventually. I promise.

Good luck with your NaNoWriMo project! Do you have tips that help you to keep your word count moving? Please share them in the comments section.

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Your Best Writer’s Conference

Why are you going to a conference?

If the first thought that pops into your head is “to sell my book” then you are going for the wrong reason.

At least IMHO. I think I’m the only person I know who has ever sold a book at conference. Oh, and Gerri Russell with the American Title contest. And even then, the decision to buy those two books had been made weeks earlier–not at conference.

Believe me, editors do not wake up in a strange hotel, surrounded by hordes of ready-to-be-published authors and think, “wow, I could buy all the books I want today.” Not unless they want to start a feeding frenzy and find themselves missing limbs and fingers before the mystery chicken lunch.

Oh, I can hear you muttering the next question already. “So, if I’m not there to sell a book, why would I spend all that money, take away all that time, burn up vacation days, leave the family (okay, that one perhaps is justification for a whole lot of things) or eat conference lunches for three days straight and not want to sell my book?”

And here is my first and foremost answer:

Craft.

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, education, baby, education. This is the perfect time to fill in holes where your writing may be lacking. Yes, Lacking.

We all know where we bite when it comes to our writing. What it is that is keeping you from selling. And if you don’t think you have anything that is holding you back, then ask your critique group or a writing friend you trust to give you the straight poop.

And then listen. No, I mean it. LISTEN.

This is often the hardest part, but the most necessary one. And don’t think, that just because you’ve finished more than one book, written (or sold) a dozen plus books, that your writing is all it can be.

It isn’t.

Mine isn’t. That’s why about once a year I pin my editor or agent down and ask them what I should do to make my writing better. What about my books could be improved? I look at reviews from reviewers that I respect and listen to their comments. I listen to my readers and know where I have my work cut out for me. Then I pinpoint what I need to do and I work on it–with books, articles, and podcasts. And the bestest of all: conference workshops with seasoned writers.

That is why a writer’s conference can be your best leg up. Not to sell, but to IMPROVE.

If you have a weak spot or two, then this is your chance to make the real difference in your career. When will you ever have the time to spend 3-4 days just learning about writing? We all make great plans to learn, but when the time comes, it gets gobbled up by families, jobs and, well, writing. But having the tools and knowledge to craft a great book is the most important thing you can ever invest in.

And that toolbag should be nourished and revitalized at every opportunity.

Craft, baby!

Books don’t sell because you you spent hours stalking editors in bathrooms and at luncheons. Books sell because the writing is smooth, the story compelling, and the characters are crisp and interesting. That takes being skilled, or at the very least, pretty competent on all the elements that go into a book.

Plotting. Motivation. Conflict. Dialogue. Rewriting. Rewriting again.

Knowing that you need to revise it a third, fourth or fifth time and being willing to make that commitment no matter how tired you are of that story.

It’s craft that sells books. It’s craft that keeps readers buying book after book after book.

So go to conference and learn everything you can. Plug those holes in your arsenal. Go to workshops. Take notes. Ask questions. Ask table mates at meals which workshops they went to and how good they were. And if they come with a good recommendation

, go hear what else that speaker has to say.

Make sure you have the skills to write a book that will make an editor jump up and down with excitement. And she isn’t going to buy it thirty seconds after you give your absolutely perfect pitch. (Don’t know how to do that? Read my post on Have You Packed Your Pitch.)

She’s going to buy it when she reads the pages. All of them. Months from now. After you’ve applied everything you’ve learned to make your story worth her while.

So what do you need to learn?

Note: Conferences aren’t cheap. And maybe right now you can’t get to one for a myriad of reasons. But that doesn’t mean you can’t do your own conference at home. Take a look at one of my most popular posts: Feeding the Muse. There you’ll find a list of the best books on writing. Get your craft on at home!

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Rock Your Pitch

When going to a writers conference, you need to pack more than comfortable shoes. You need to pack your best pitch.
Because when you get that face to face with an editor, you want to rock your pitch.

Here’s how to put your pitch together with all the right elements, and get it polished and packed for a writing conference.

Don’t Fret

A good pitch will convey your enthusiasm for your project, reveal the mood of the story and create enough excitement and curiosity in the editor to entice them to request a proposal. What pitching doesn’t need to be is a heart-stopping, frightening experience. No matter how you shake with unnecessary nerves or how badly you stutter through your pitch, chances are excellent that if your story fits the editor’s line and is something she is looking for, she will ask to see a proposal.

So relax. A good pitch will do the work for you. Your only task when you enter an agent/editor appointment is to have done your homework.

Pre-Conference:

1. Can you explain your story in High Concept? High Concept (HC) is a Hollywood term for presenting a story idea in one line

, giving the audience an overview of both story plot and theme. Yes, you read that correctly, one line. If you’ve seen the movie, “The Player” then you are familiar with this method. The first step in preparing your pitch is to find your HC, which is essentially utilizing familiar plots, stories and myths in comparison to your story.

When I started working on my book, STEALING THE BRIDE, I used the HC line, “It Happened One Night meets the Jane Austen.”

I once heard Susan Wiggs describe her book THE LIGHTHOUSE as “Beauty and the Beast in a lighthouse.”

Now you find yours.

2. Why High Concept works. Any time you use a familiar theme/story/fairy tale, it comes ready made with emotion, memories, and images. By using fairy tales, myths, beloved movies and legends that everyone is familiar with, you compare and contrast your book setting an immediate mood. You don’t need to spend a lot of time on back story or other elements of your plot

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, because the moment you use an HC pitch, the editor knows exactly what your manuscript is all about.

If I were to say, “Romeo and Juliet with a happy ending,” you immediately know this is a story of star-crossed lovers from feuding families who don’t die at the end.

3. After the HC, what comes next? The body of the pitch tells the editor how you have spun a new take on a familiar story. A good pitch will create excitement about your story, reveal theme, entice readers with the conflict and convey the uniqueness of your story.

In essence what I’m describing are the elements of a back copy blurb (BCB). Take four or five books that are similar to what you write and study the back copy, paying particular attention to the use of language and structure. (Here are the BCBs for Six Impossible Things, Along Came a Duke, and Brazen Angel) One very important thing to remember: a BCB leaves you hanging as to story resolution, a good pitch won’t!

4. The real work begins. To start, divide a sheet of paper into three sections, heading one with the name of your heroine, the other, your hero, and the third, write in your HC line. (If you aren’t writing a romance, you can just use your main characters.)

Under each section, brainstorm at least twenty words that describe each of these headings. Try to avoid physical descriptions, rather think of words which get at the character’s essence. For the heroine of STEALING THE BRIDE, Lady Diana Fordham, I used: spinster, daring, resolute, determined, inventive, crafty, sensual, risk taker, concealed, audacious, etc. These words reveal her personality, her conflict, her goals, her story. When you are finished, you have a project orientated thesaurus from which to draft your pitch.

5. Drafting your pitch. In the first two paragraphs, outline the conflict and goals for your characters. Again, go look at the BCBs linked above and read the copy, or pull similar books from your shelves and begin reading the backs. The more you study, the more you read, the more you’ll see how great BCBs are crafted.

As you work:

• Try to draw out the theme, mood or quality of the story by using words from your thesaurus. If the story is suspense, the audience should feel the drama in your story. If it is a warm and fuzzy romance, the audience should go away feeling the need for a cozy blanket and cup of cocoa.

• Next, make sure you have demonstrated that your heroine and hero’s goals/conflict are opposing. Simply put, show how your story conflict is “two dogs, one bone,” that the character’s goals are in opposition. Show the editor that your story has depth and the hero and heroine are going to be battling from the first page to the resolution to have that bone.

• For what I call the collision paragraph, I try to demonstrate the romance of the story. Why these two people are so different or alike and why they will ultimately find love and romance. Again, this is a great place to draw your HC theme into the pitch, and look for language that will evoke the sexual tension/mood of your story.

• Finally, make sure your language includes your enthusiasm for your story. This is your 30 seconds of fame, make it the most memorable 30 seconds of your audience’s life. Leave them breathless to read your entire story.

6. Practice your pitch. Find someone who has never heard the elements of your story before and practice your pitch on them. Listen carefully to their questions

, because these may well be the same questions an editor will ask, and you can either rework your pitch to fix the holes or have a ready answer with which to fill in the questions.

Anticipate as many questions as you can about conflict, motivation, plot devices and the resolution, and then think out or write out your answers.

When You Get There

7. During the appointment. Here is where you need to breathe. The appointment is just that, an appointment. The next 10 minutes will not make or break your life. Truly. So just breathe and do your thing.

In group appointments, listen to the questions the editor asks other authors. This will give you a good idea as to what the editor is looking for and what they don’t want to see. Refocus your pitch accordingly.

Don’t ever monopolize the conversation, comment on other pitches, or interrupt anyone else. Never.

Politely introduce yourself, offer your HC line, and then after taking another deep breath and therefore allowing your marvelous idea to set the mood, give your complete pitch and then close your mouth and smile. Answer questions from the editor with direct, concise answers. Thank them for their time and ask them if they would like to see the complete manuscript or sample chapters and a synopsis.

That’s it. Done. Kudos. Huzzah.

8. After the appointment. Make sure you send the editor exactly what they requested promptly. Sadly, editors say that they hear wonderful story ideas all the time and then never see the manuscripts. I know!!

Have your requested materials headed for the editor’s Inbox as soon as you get home. Write “Requested Materials” in the subject line and remind the editor in the opening lines of your email that you met at the “XYZ” conference and the attached materials are what they requested, consider putting in a few lines from your pitch to remind them about your story and then let the magic happen.

Good luck and Happy Conferencing! Questions? Drop a line in the comments or send me a note on Twitter. Links in the sidebar.

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July Reading Roundup

I’ve been on a reading binge–anything and everything. As you’ve probably noticed, I don’t read just one type of book, I read all over the place. I always have. And my July reads were no different as evidenced by these four very unique stories.

Looking for something new? Have you read:

Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews

How is it that I missed this series the first time around? I should be pointing fingers at all my friends who didn’t insist that I READ the Kate Daniels series

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, starting with the first book, Magic Bites, but apparently now is my turn to dive into this fun and snarky and witty urban fantasy series about magical detective, Kate Daniels. The world building is fascinating, the characters sharp and well drawn, and Kate, well, Kate is just what you want in an urban fantasy–tough, hard as nails and wise-cracking. I adored her. Now I have an entire series to devour and kick ass through. Lucky me.

And hell yes, “Here, Kitty, Kitty.”

 

The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal

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The Calculating Stars is a tour de force in both science and society

, as Elma York, mathematical genius and pilot aiming for her spot in space, takes center stage in saving humanity. I can’t wait for the next one, The Fated Sky, which will be coming out in a few weeks.

 

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

I went down to Denver to see a bunch of friends who were in town for Romance Writers of America, and what did we talk about? Why books, of course! And The Alice Network was mentioned several times.

So this amazing piece of historical fiction immediately got slipped to the top of the July mix. And, OMG, what an incredible read. I LOVED this book. The Alice Network is the story of two women, both involved in war time tragedies (World War I and II) and how their lives get entangled after WWII.

This book has all the great chills–adventure, suspense, a bit of romance and of course, the bonds of friendship. I could not put The Alice Network down and have been telling everyone to read it since I finished it, like yesterday.

Now I am telling you. Hint. Hint. Nudge. Nudge.

 

Dollybird by Anne Lazurko

Dollybird was recommended by several people I met at the Western Writers Association conference in Montana in June. Intrigued, I ordered it. The story centers around the story of a young woman from Eastern Canada who finds herself unwed and pregnant and sent by her family to Saskatchewan to have her baby far from prying eyes. But after a series of mishaps and the loss of her money, she ends up a “dollybird”, the hired housekeeper of a man trying to make it on a rough claim in the middle of the prairie. I wanted to love this book, and I liked a lot about it, but I do wish that it had more depth. I wanted that next emotional layer that seemed to be missing. But all in all, I would recommend it because it is a wonderful examination of life at the turn of the century when there was still a lot of wild country left to be settled.

 

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Friday Reads: Read and TBR

This week I finally got the time to sit down and read. My reading time is so precious, and I don’t get enough of it. Sadly, I hear this lament from many writers. But no complaints this week, because I scored the perfect book.

Bellewether

Susanna Kearsley’s new book, Bellewether, is all that and more. It helped that I was in Canada last week and was able to pick up a hard copy of the book–Sorry, US readers, our edition doesn’t come out until August 7th.

US Edition, August 2018

I’ve come to the realization that I am not an ebook person. I just can’t get into a book on a screen. I really need to have pages, and print, and paper. So I was thrilled that I could get an “early” edition by crossing the border. Shout out to Chapters in Victoria, BC!

I will freely admit that I love Susanna’s books, (OK, adore them immensely) and Bellewether is no exception. I love the way Susanna builds a slow burn of a romance. Oh, and she makes me horribly jealous at how she leaves the reader wondering right up until the end whether this is going to end happily. She really is that good. Even when you KNOW everything will turn out okay, you still read madly because she has you utterly convinced that it might not happen.

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The historical half of Bellewether is set during the Seven Year’s War in the mid 1700s

, and I found both the time period and the setting (Long Island, NY) fascinating. And of course her characters just pulled me in. I could go into way more detail, but you know me–I hate any kind of spoilers and I want you to have a great time reading this book. So get it ordered, or if you are lucky enough to live or be in Canada, grab a copy with this lovely yellow cover.

BTW, which cover do you appear? I can’t make up my mind which one I like more.

TBR

Next up

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, I hit the library, or rather the library hit me. I got an ILL book in that I’d been hunting around for: Beyond Schoolmarms and Madams: Montana Women’s Lives.

I’d seen a reference to this book and then made a request via our library’s Interlibrary Loan. When I can get my hands on books via Interlibrary loan

, it just makes my researching heart go pitter-patter. Can’t wait to see what little gems and nuggets are in this book.

But on the other hand, I saw an excerpt for Roar by Cora Carmack, recently and tagged it in my Library app to read later. Magic, power, secrets. Bad ass girl power. Right up my alley. So when I was in the library picking up the previous book, I wondered if they had Roar on hand. Which they did, to my delight and surprise.

So my reading for the rest of the weekend is set, and I am one happy girl.

What are you reading this weekend?

You know we’ll need new recommendations for the weekend after this. And the one after that. . .

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Summer Reading

There are all kinds of ways to find authors and books, but there are two new ones out there that have me filling up my TBR, and I thought I should share with you. Because, I’m nice that way. And I like enabling other people in their bookish habits. *Cue fiendish music……*

#Romancestagram

If you are on Instagram, then you want to make sure you are following RomanceLibrary and her #romancestagram hashtag because each week she and a number of other bloggers and readers (and of course, you can as well) are posting books from their favorite historical romance tropes.

So for example in June, fans, readers and authors will be posting the following categories (with some examples from my bookshelf):

June 4-10 Relationship of Convenience
(No Marriage of Convenience, “Something Borrowed” from Four Weddings and a Sixpence, Mad About the Major)

June 11-17 Epistolary Romances
(Love Letters from a Duke, And the Miss Ran Away With the Rake)

June 18-24 Enemies to Lovers
(Have You Any Rogues

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, And the Miss Ran Away with the Rake)

June 25-July 1 Second Chance Romance
(Brazen Temptress, Memoirs of a Scandalous Red Dress, Have You Any Rogues)

Here’s a fun post I put together last month for “Ladies in Pants”.

You don’t have to go all Pinterest Flat lay to play, just snap a pick of your favorite book from the weekly theme and post it on Instagram. Just don’t forget to use the #romancestagram hashtag. Don’t feel like posting? Then just follow along and see if you can find a new favorite. (And if you are on Instagram, make sure and follow me at ElizBoyle.)

Summer Reading Bingo

The Ripped Bodice bookstore is sponsoring their 2nd Annual Summer Romance Bingo. You can find a downloadable Bingo board here and all the rules here.

And just in case you were looking for some books to fill those first few squares with, I have a few suggestions . . .

Fairy Tale Retelling? How about Cynders & Ashe or The Viscount Who Lived Down the Lane.

Forced Proximity? Try Have You Any Rogues or This Rake of Mine.

Enemies to Lovers? (Popular

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, eh?!) Have You Any Rogues or And the Miss Ran Away with the Rake.

Hero Named Harry (Okay, I’m going to fudge this a bit and say, Heroine Named Harry!) If Wishes Were Earls

So make sure to post your board on Instagram (#rippedbodicebingo) or your book suggestions or great finds to help others fill up their boards…and discover new favorites.

After all, isn’t that what we are all looking for? Our new favorite romance?!

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Royal Wedding Hop!

**This Contest Is Closed**

Thanks for entering. Winner is posted on my FB page.

As I promised my newsletter subscribers, I won’t leave you out of this fun just because you don’t do Facebook–go ahead and enter to win my contest by commenting below: Let me know who you would want to sit with at the Royal Wedding.

And if that isn’t enough, here are the particulars for the rest of the Facebook Hop if you want to enter for the grand prize or just find some new-to-you authors. Best of luck.

Welcome to the ROYAL WEDDING Facebook Hop!

There are 27 hop stops today! And TONS of giveaways totaling more than $1

,000—and culminating with our Grand Prize giveaway of a Kindle Fire HD8, 32 GB, and loaded with our books, plus a surprise Amazon gift card. We hope you’ll visit all 26 romance authors and one blogger all of whom love historicals as much as you do! Lastly, don’t forget to visit our RW Group where today there will be author-made videos from Windsor Castle plus live posts during the wedding! It’s going to be great fun!

HOW THE HOP WORKS:
1) Check out my giveaway below and ENTER to #WIN.
2) Then follow the link in this post to the next hop stop.
3) And so on until you circle back to where you started.
4) Then follow the link to our Grand Prize Giveaway, and good luck!
That’s it!

Let the Wedding revelries commence!

Today I’m giving away a bounty I’m calling: Time for Tea. Tea, goodies, a small teapot, cups and saucers, treats and an autographed hardback copy of Four Weddings and a Sixpence. And just so you know—this copy is signed by all four authors, including Julia Quinn. [Sorry, but USA shipping only.]

To enter here, just comment below, or to enter on FB, go to my Facebook author page, then tag a friend (below in the comments) who you would like share this tea party with. That’s it. Tag a friend and you are entered.

The next stop on our hop is author Christina Britton!
Visit her page to see what goodies she’s giving away by clicking on this LINK.
In case of a broken link within the hop

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, visit Romance Readers Guide’s website for a full list!

Once you’ve hopped through us all, DON’T FORGET to visit the Romance Readers Guides website to enter the GRAND PRIZE giveaway!

Have a great time Royal Wedding hopping, and I hope when you are done, you might stop by my website and check out my books. Might I suggest my own ginger-haired heart breaker, Julien d’Artier from BRAZEN TEMPTRESS. Meghean would approve

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Outlaws, Heroes, and Me

Earlier this week, I was in Cimarron, New Mexico and spent some time at the St. James Hotel, walking in the footsteps of some of the West’s most notable figures, including the Earp Brothers, Annie Oakley, Buffalo Bill Cody, Doc Holliday, Bat Masterson, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, the artist Frederick Remington, and author Zane Grey, just to name a few.

All of them passed through the same door I used, and checked in at this desk. I have to confess, I was a bit giddy over all this history.

The St. James Hotel, or as it was known in its early days, Lambert’s Place, was an infamous fixture on the Sante Fe Trail

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, known as much for its good food and fine rooms, as it was its wild goings-on and gunfights.

Lots of gunfights.

The original owner, Henri Lambert, had anticipated that trouble might find its way to his large first floor saloon, so he had the builder install a double thick hardwood floor for the rooms above so that no guests would be accidently killed by the unruly rabble below. The tin ceiling still sports a number of those original bullet holes.

And while my current project is set in Wyoming, nearly 30 years forward from the wild days of Cimarron, I have to admit that being someplace with this much history within its walls had my Muse singing like a hallelujah chorus.

After inspecting all the old rooms, prowling the hallways (sadly, no ghost sightings) and taking in all the wonderful old photos displayed, I decided that the real experience of the St. James is bellying up to the bar

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, ordering a drink and wondering who I might have found next to me, if it was, say a hundred and forty years ago…

More information about the St. James Hotel, as well as how to make reservations, can be found on their website. You might find yourself in the company of Annie Oakley or Jesse James. Or me.

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