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Monday, August 22, 2016

Books We Love's Tantalizing Talent ~ Author Karla Stover



Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Karla Stover. I have lived in Tacoma, WA all my life as did my parents.  My paternal grandparents were the first homesteaders in Oregon’s Warner Valley, owned the water rights, and had a cattle ranch. My maternal grandparents left Johnstown, PA around 1915 and settled in Tacoma. They passed their love of books and reading to my mother who passed it on to me. The maternal grandparents were survivors of the 1889 Johnstown, PA flood, lived very long lives, and often talked about it. I also spent time on the cattle ranch which had few modern conveniences. I love history. Until the last financial crash, I wrote a monthly article on some aspect of local history for a local newspaper. I also talk about Tacoma’s amazing past weekly on KLAY 1180 am, and, if I did it right, that love shows in my second murder mystery, Murder, When One Isn’t Enough. It revolves around the book, Madame of the House, San Francisco madam, Sally Stanford’s autobiography.


My first book was nonfiction, Let’s Go Walk About in Tacoma.
 

Next was a murder mystery, Murder on the Line.


Then, another nonfiction, Hidden History of Tacoma: Little-known Tales of the City of Destiny.


Murder, When One Isn’t Enough was also a murder mystery, a sequel to the first one.


A Feather for a Fan, followed—fiction set in a nonfiction environment.


A third, nonfiction Tacoma history book is currently being edited AND


For BWL I’m writing a historical-romance-mystery called Wynters Way. The cover is great.



I am a slow writer which means no time to tweet or keep up a website or blog, but I write because I have to. Don’t all authors?



EXCEPT FROM Murder, When One isn’t Enough
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     After dinner, I read more letters, learned more about the many properties Sally owned, but especially about the house at 1144 Pine Street, which had a fountain in the drawing room. Supposedly, delegates from various countries convened in the house’s living room and formed the United Nations there. In addition to Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra liked to drop in, and she entertained shahs, princes, national dignitaries, and California state and local government officials. On quiet nights, her girls made fudge. Sally also read obituaries and often paid the funeral expenses of Depression homeless.

However, it wasn’t all sunshine and lollipops. Patsy developed a drinking problem. Two men broke in one night and beat Sally up. She kept a seldom-seen photograph of a seldom-seen son who was tucked away in boarding school.

I finished the last letter, bundled them up, and turned out the lights. Outside, the natives were restless. Two peacocks wandered down from the hill and took refuge on the garage roof next door. A raccoon walked up and down under the bedroom window, making crunchy noises on the gravel, and occasionally standing up to try and look in. Porch Cat’s tail twitched back and forth as he kept track of the movements. After a while I took a sleeping pill. The moon lit up the room and I dozed in its light until around midnight when the phone rang. I stumbled into the living room, picked it up and heard someone humming.

“You again. Well, you little pervert, buzz off because, frankly, I don’t give a damn.” I slammed the receiver in its cradle.

Back in the bedroom, a mosquito hummed. “Bite me and you’ll be sorry.” It did, and it was. I turned on my stomach and fell asleep.


Monday, August 15, 2016

Books We Love's Tantalizing Talent ~ Author Betty Jo Schuler



ABOUT BETTY JO. Hmm . . . what can I tell you? I do what I love and love what I do, and for me, that would be? Write, of course.  I started out by self-publishing a diet book and became a very busy and happy freelance writer for magazines. There were many exciting moments, a Star photographer coming to photograph me and the food from one of the diets I wrote for them, TV interviews. I loved it but meanwhile I’d married and earned my degrees to become an elementary teacher. So, it was natural for me to write for children’s magazines and my first published book was Ice Cream for Breakfast.  That’s when I started writing YA books and my favorite genre yet, contemporary romance. And that’s when I took early retirement from teaching to pursue a career. And we moved from Indiana to sunny Florida.I’m happy to have found a “home” at Books We Love and its’ wonderful publishers and authors. I invite you to visit me there. http://bookswelove.net/authors/schuler-betty-jo/


Contemporary Romance Novels:   Male Wanted, Love in a Small Town, Finding Freedom, Impossible Dreams, Betty Jo Schuler Special Edition


Young Adult and Tweens:   Heart Strings; No Rain, No Rainbows; Mystic Mansion, Dare to Dream, How Not to Date a Hollywood Star, Take My Family, Please.

I love romantic comedy. Hence, Male Wanted 


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Taylor Gayle advertises in The Town Crier for a male to date, but Max Stuart misprints her ad to indicate she’s looking for a “sadomasochistic male to mate” and includes her address. To atone for his mistakes, Max becomes her live-in protector. Now, who’s going to protect this high school librarian from the unbelievably sexy newspaper editor? And who’s going to save Max from this feisty Plain Jane’s charms?

Take My Family Please 


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Lacy Gingham’s family members are middle class eccentrics and Eric Vanderhorst’s are staid upper crust. Read “crazy” opposite “snooty” and add that Lacy and Ric get together under false pretenses, and get set for a bumpy ride to love when the truth comes out.

  




Monday, August 8, 2016

Books We Love's Tantalizing Talent ~ Author J.Q. Rose



After selling our floral and garden center business, my husband and I sold our home and took off in a fifth-wheel camper to see the country. We lived full-time in the 32 foot trailer enjoying all the comforts of home, but not the hassle of being home-owners. We visited areas of the US we always wanted to see and worked at many mission projects.



During this time, I finally achieved my dream of being a writer. I sat at the small table in the camper and wrote freelance articles for newspapers, RV magazines, and online magazines. Seeing my byline on the articles made me happy.



I became accustomed to change while moving around the country in our RV. After ten years of non-fiction writing, I was ready for a change in my writing career. After reading Sue Grafton and Janet Evanovich mysteries filled with great storytelling and humor, I was inspired to write my own mysteries.



 In my latest mystery from Books We Love Publishing, I relied on my background as a funeral director’s daughter to create Deadly Undertaking, a romance/mystery/paranormal story with quirky characters in small town situations.



That old adage—“The only thing constant in life is change” is one that’s true. I embrace change and the possibilities that come with it. It keeps life, and my writing, exciting and invigorating.



Please find my BWL author page here. 








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Deadly Undertaking


Lauren Staab knew there would be dead bodies around when she returned home. After all, her family is in the funeral business, Staab and Blood Funeral Home. Still, finding an extra body on the floor of the garage between the hearse and the flower car shocked her. Lauren’s plan to return to her hometown to help care for her mother and keep the books for the funeral home suddenly turns upside down in a struggle to prove she and her family are not guilty of murdering the man. But will the real killer return for her, her dad, her brother? Her mother’s secrets, a killer, a handsome policeman, and a shadow man muddle up her intention to have a simple life. Welcome home, Lauren!


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