July 21, 2011

Oops! My Bad!

Apparently Blogspot isn't letting you leave messages. But one of you has my email address and asked:
Today I was perusing your blog looking for the clean Regencies you mentioned. Could you point the way more specifically? I couldn't quite track them down.


The Wild Rose Press has a lot of regency romances as well as contemporary romance and I believe they even rate the novels as to how steamy/hot they are.

 The link to their home page is: http://wildrosepress.us/publisher/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

Donna Hatch is an LDS Writer who has written a couple of my favorites that I downloaded/ uploaded to my kindle. Her info is as follows:

Reed and Amy's story is called Constant Hearts, also available on Smashwords. Released it a few months ago. It's available here

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/56421
She also has a novella on the Wild Rose Press site--they are the same company that pubbed her full length Regencies. You can find Troubled Hearts here http://www.thewildrosepress.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=86_73&products_id=1198

Donna Hatch
Romance Author, Editor, Workshop Presenter, Copywriter, Business Writer
http://www.donnahatch.com/
http://donnahatch.blogspot.com/
http://www.linkedin.com/in/donnahatch

Just a note. Donna is a busy lady and we are working on an interview right here for you.

July 19, 2011

Second of Three Part Interview with Liz Adair

Liz, tell me what your favorite genre is, and why?

My favorite genre is Romance with a bit of intrigue. Why? First, because it’s so fun to write. Secondly, I feel that I’m doing good for mankind. Or, make that womankind. A good romance is like a cheap vacation from life’s stresses. That’s what I want to write. Cheap vacations. It’s my service to harried mothers on a tight budget.

Of all the wonderful pieces you’ve written (Please list them all so I don’t miss one or worse, misspell one), which is your favorite?

I’ll list them all, and you can decide if they’re wonderful or not when you read them. My first books published were the first two Spider Latham mysteries, The Lodger and After Goliath, which came out at the same time. They were followed the next year by the third in the series, Snakewater Affair. After that, my publisher wanted a woman as a main character, so I wrote the stand-alone romance/intrigue The Mist of Quarry Harbor. Sometime in there, I edited and published the letters my mother wrote from Afghanistan when she lived there in the 1960’s. The book is called, natch, Lucy Shook’s Letters from Afghanistan. My last book, Counting the Cost, came out in 2009. It won the Whitney Award in the romance category for that year and was also a finalist for the Willa Award and for two categories (literary and regional) for the Arizona Publishers Association’s Glyph Award.

Which is my favorite? Probably Counting the Cost, as it’s based on family history, although I think I’m proudest of Letters from Afghanistan. Proceeds from sales of the book go to SWAN (Serving Women Across Nations), a charitable foundation founded by my daughters and me that gives microcredit to poor women in Bolivia and Kenya to start small businesses. My daughter Terry is the force behind SWAN. I just sit on the board and look wise. You can go to www.swanforhumanity.org to read about what has been accomplished there.

Link to Counting the Cost book trailer. www.sezlizadair.blogspot.com

Thanks Liz. We'll do more next week!

Oh My!

Oh my, it's been a long, long time since I posted anything here. Really, I do this now because I recently got a note, if you can call it...