Howdy, y'all, from down on the farm.

We finally had the rain we so desperately needed!!!!!!!!! The ponds are full and the pastures are beginning to grow. Ah, things are going good on the ranch. As for writing, my new book TEXAS BRIDE the Harlequin historical should be out. I hope you enjoy it--lots of action, adventure and romance. I'm also doing the final corrections for the Christmas anthology historical that will be out in October and the historical western--THE LAST HONEST OUTLAW--that is scheduled for December. Plus, I've just started the second book on my 3-book contract--a western set near Dodge City, Kansas. The half-breed bounty hunter, Black Wolf, thought his life was complicated until Julia Preston comes thundering into his camp to turn his life upside down. Nothing more fun that taking a capable hero and tossing a feisty female in his path. Poor guy still doesn't know what hit him. But he'll figure it out before the last chapter.

In the meantime, I hope you'll enjoy the new releases and here's hoping that y'all had a safe and fun-filled Fourth of July!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sincerely, Carol Finch, Connie Feddersen, et al
 

We have survived the move into the new house, a delinquent painter, stormy weather, and the birth of almost twenty new foals on the ranch. We are finally home. I wake up to deer grazing in the north pasture behind the house, turkeys along the creek and hummingbirds in the flower pots on the front porch. Every day is a blessing, and so is the man with whom I share it.

We have had my two youngest granddaughters several weekends in a row due to their older sister's fast pitch softball games and enjoyed them thoroughly. Logan is eight and Leslie is seven, and while they couldn't be more different in personalities, they are as close as two sisters could possibly be. They play so good together and love each other dearly. It makes me remember my sister, Diane, and how much we did together, but it also makes me miss her. I so wish she was still living so that we could share the latter part of our lives with each other, as we did when we were younger. I guess that's a lesson to us all to never take anything for granted because we never know when it will be taken from us.
 

July 2004 Whipporwill

On a business note, I have a couple of books coming out in July. The re-issue of WHIPPOORWILL, by Harlequin, comes out in July, and it's sequel, THE AMEN TRAIL, comes out from Loveland Press in hardback the same month. There will be one more book in that trilogy before it's over. Hope you all enjoy reading them as much as I have loved writing them. Letty Murphy and Eulis Potter are the oddest odd couple you will ever read about, and yet somehow they manage to connect with each other as well as my readers.

Sharon Sala

 

Happy Summer Everyone,

Those dog days of summer are upon us and I for one am enjoying every minute.

I’d hoped to laze around a bit this summer, work half days on Friday and get together with friends--and I am—well, for the most part. But something exciting and new has happened that’s turned everything around.

Thanks to all of you for making THE SHOP ON BLOSSOM STREET so successful, it was decided at the last possible second that I would write a sequel. So, I’m up to my elbows in developing four new plot lines starring a cast of knitters. I love it already. Yes, it’s a lot of extra effort, and I wasn’t planning to work this hard this summer, but I’m in writer’s heaven. That’s the place where the story falls together and the pages fly and I know I’ve got a fabulous book in the works. Next May when A GOOD YARN is released, you’ll know what I mean.

Right now NAVY WOMAN is in the stores and has already made the Top 50 USA TODAY Best-selling Books List – time to celebrate! This is a reprint of a book I wrote in the early 1990s and the fourth in the five-book series. NAVY WOMAN is probably the sexiest of all my books, so remember, I gave you fair warning!

Warmest regards,
Debbie Macomber
 

Don’t Look Now – Linda Lael Miller has another bestseller with her book by
that very name featuring her smart-mouthed Arizona attorney, Clare Westbrook, and her sexy sidekick, homicide detective Tony Sonterra.

Linda says Clare is her alter ego, with the quick comebacks and the sassy sayings. And Clare will be back in August with the second Linda Lael Miller thriller look book, NEVER LOOK BACK.

Linda has selected a couple of names from those the Romance Authors Page readers nominated for the title of her third look book, and her publisher is considering these now. Stay tuned to hear if your title was selected.

In the meantime, visit www.lindalaelmiller.com to read an excerpt of DON’T LOOK NOW and
to enter to win a great Arizona spa products basket of goodies.