Saturday, August 25, 2012

Champagne Books is Having a Big Sale


Until September 10th all ebooks are on sale at 50% off. For their print books, you get free shipping and that's a big chunk of change these days.

Of course, I want to add that I have 5 books out with Champagne and if you haven't read them all, this would be the perfect time to order. I'm listing them in the order they were published.

1. Investment of the Heart
2. Forever Faithful
3. When the Ocotillo Bloom
4. A Way Back
5. Born in Ice

All are available in both ebook and print.

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Champagne Book Group has a large number of talented authors. Browse their website. You'll find some great reads!

Thanks for stopping by today and Happy Reading and Writing!

Linda
www.lindalaroque.com

Friday, August 24, 2012

So Much to Do, So Little Time

That's my excuse and I'm stickin' to it. Actually, I have plenty of time but often don't want to spend it on some of those mundane things... like income taxes. Yikes, it's due October 15th, for late filing that is. And somehow, a few years ago, this job became mine. Probably because of my writing expenses.

I've been busy judging a contest, editing my upcoming release, A Stolen Chance, to be released by The Wild Rose Press sometime in 2013, and working on my latest venture, Birdie's Nest. I started chapter seventeen last night and have about 50,000 words. It's another time travel and I'm having loads of fun researching 1890s Waco, Texas and life in general in the nineteenth century.

Next week I'm taking a break. Two cousins, my sister-in-law, and I are going on a Western Caribbean cruise out of Galveston. I plan to sit on the balcony, watch the waves, and maybe write a little. Oops, I forgot spending time in the casino playing the slots.

The picture to the right was taken from our balcony on our last Caribbean cruise. We were aft so the view was quite different. Though we enjoyed the location, we did receive some soot on the rails from the smokestack.

We have cabins side-by-side so we hope to get the balconies opened up to where we can visit back and forth and all sit outside together. It will be fun to laugh and tell tall tales of our growing up years in the 1950s and 1960s.

Oh, I forgot to mention I'll be people watching. It's always fun to see a person who'd be an interesting character in my next book. I hope you'll join me the first week of September when I'll have pictures and share our adventures.

Happy Reading and Writing!

Linda

Saturday, August 4, 2012

The LOOK Challenge from Jacquie Rogers

I've been tagged in the "look" challenge by Jacquie Rogers. According to the rules, you're supposed to do a search in your work in progress for the word "look" and then paste the surrounding paragraph(s) and tag as many people as possible.


I Tagged -
http://patyjager.blogspot.com/
http://terithackston.blogspot.com/
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/686106.Jude_Johnson/blog
http://emmalaiwrites.blogspot.com/
http://onewomanswrite.blogspot.com/
http://www.jerriealexander.com/
http://sandramarshallblog.blogspot.com/



A Love of His Own is my latest release. It's a short time travel set in the Texas Panhandle in 1892.

Rifle cocked, she stepped in the direction of the snoring. Thomas always said she could sneak up on Satan himself. She hoped her skill served her well today.

Lying on her precious wheat, breaking the stalks flat and making it useless, was a big, burly man. Wrapped in someone’s finely stitched quilt, he had a brown felt hat over his eyes. One arm lay across his chest, the other cradled a new-fangled model Winchester, so new the shine hadn’t yet worn off.

She snatched the rifle from his arm. The dang fool didn’t open his eyes. Dipsey thumped him on the shoulder with the butt of his weapon. He farted and rolled to his side exposing a muscled butt and legs encased in denims. She stumbled back a few steps. Disgusting man!

She fired off a couple of bullets sending wheat flipping into the air two yards above the man’s head. Darnit. More of her precious crop damaged. If the waste continued, her animals would go hungry this winter, and she didn’t have the money to buy feed.

The man lurched to his feet. “Holy hell.” He started toward Dipsey. “What the hell are you doing, woman?”

She cocked the rifle. “Stay put, mister.”

He halted and eyed her weapon before turning his gaze to her. His stare traveled from her boots, past her worn, brown wool dress to her face; his eyes widened when they landed on her scar. She expected to see aversion. Most people shunned her because of her past profession. If they didn’t know of her life as a whore, the ugly scar on her forehead caused them to look away. The man didn’t appear put off. He actually smiled before his expression sobered.

“Could you lower your rifle?”

She snorted. Did he think she was crazy? “Who are you and what are you doing on my land?”

“Your land? I’ll have you know....” He turned in a slow circle while taking in his surroundings.

I've tagged

Paty Jager http://patyjager.blogspot.com/
Teri Thackson  http://terithackston.blogspot.com/
Jude Johnson http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/686106.Jude_Johnson/blog
Emma Lai  http://emmalaiwrites.blogspot.com/
Linda Rettstatt http://onewomanswrite.blogspot.com/
Jerrie Alexander  http://www.jerriealexander.com/
Sandra K. Marshall http://sandramarshallblog.blogspot.com/

Have fun!

Linda
www.lindalaroque.com
http://www.lindalaroqueauthor.blogspot.com