Redford Falls Series by Darlene Fredette
Happy Holidays! Boy do I have a treat for you today. Darlene Fredette author of Redford Falls Series stopped by to talk about her series. Pull up a chair, grab a drink of your choice from the cooler, a Chocolate Chip or Peanut Butter cookie from the plate, and let’s find out a little about Darlene and her Redford Falls Series.
Why did you choose the cover concept you did?
I really like book covers that have a couple and a scene. The couple should have a romantic feel and the bottom should have something that reflects an element in the story. I also wanted ‘A Redford Falls Story’ to appear in the same spot on the covers to keep a similar theme within the series. I sent my cover artist two samples of what I was hoping for, and when she sent me the first cover design, I was thrilled! She hit the ball out of the ball park with that cover and the following three. The couples and the scenes couldn’t be more perfect. For me, as an author, there’s nothing more exciting than to receive your cover and see your story come to life in a picture.
Do you see yourself in your characters?
Oh, heck no. My characters definitely have more interesting lives, lol.
Where do your story ideas come from? If they come to you in the middle of the night, do you get up and write them all down?
My overactive imagination gives me a glimpse of a story idea, triggered from almost anything and out of nowhere. But it’s when I’m doing housework, where the magic begins. At the beginning of cleaning, the characters and plot take shape. By the end of cleaning, I have most of the story mapped out in my head. I try not to let new stories or current story ideas develop in the middle of the night, because I don’t get up to write them down, and by the time I get up, I’ve forgotten what I had been thinking about.
Do you find it easier to write from a male or female point of view? Why?
I like to write stories with both the male’s and female’s point of views, mainly because I enjoy reading books that are in both. I find it gives readers a look into the heads of both main characters and places the reader in the story.
Okay, you’re casting the movie version of your novel – who would you choose for the main characters? We’re talking dream cast.
The character visions for the first four books in my Redford Falls series were thought about quite a while ago, but here’s my dream cast for each one.
His Candy Christmas – Josh Duhamel and Rachel McAdams
Kissed By Winter – Chris Hemsworth and Charlize Theron
Under The Apple Blossoms – Colin O’Doughlin and Meghan Ory
A Recipe For Forever – Ryan Paevey and Evangeline Lilly
SPEED ROUND FOR A LITTLE ADDED FUN:
Speed Round (one word only answer): Yep, I know torture for a writer!<evil laugh>
Favorite movie: The Notebook
Favorite book: Too many
Last book read: Montana Wishes
Favorite color: Blue
Stilettos or flipflops: Flipflops
Coffee or tea: Hot chocolate
Ebook or audiobook or paperback: Ebook
Pencil or pen: Pencil
Favorite song: Too many
Streak or not: Not
Favorite dessert: Strawberries
Favorite junk food: Cookies
Favorite thing to do to relax: Read
Champagne or gin: Vodka
Paranormal or Historical: Paranormal
Wonder Woman or Top Model: Jaclyn Smith
Favorite TV show: Survivor
Hot or cold: Hot
POV: Both
I’d die if I don’t have: Milk
Review or Not: Review
Now tell us a little about the Redford Falls Series.
His Candy Christmas
A Redford Falls Story ~ Book 1
Who knew returning home would contain a cool nip in the air, irresistible chocolate, and a Santa suit?
It’s going to take more than a few pieces of chocolate to fill this Scrooge’s heart with Christmas cheer. Luckily Candy has a whole shop full.
Candice Cane is not proud of the way she acted after her last encounter with Jackson Frost. Sure revenge was fun, but now Jackson is angry and looking for answers, and standing on the welcome mat in her chocolate shop. Now he’s after some revenge of his own.
Jackson returned to his small hometown for one reason and one reason only. So, he’s not sure how he ended up in a Santa suit in the middle of a chocolate shop, at the behest of its beautiful owner, instead of high-tailing it back to the city as fast as he can.
Kissed By Winter ~ A Redford Falls Story ~ Book 2
A woman who knows what she wants and a man who knows what he needs.
She’s been on a flight from hell for over eight hours, lost four hours of daylight, and arrived in temperatures twenty degrees lower than accustomed to. Disliking winter for a reason she refuses to discuss, Danielle Lerato would rather be anywhere than in Redford Falls. She needs to get the job done and return home before getting caught up in the small town’s charm—and the arms of the handsome, brown-eyed restaurant owner.
Andrew Bailey’s first encounter with the buttery blonde didn’t go so well, and he well-remembers the chill of the glass of water she dumped over his head. Now, nine months later, a raging storm drops Danielle back into his life. She’s determined to leave, but he’ll do whatever it takes to convince her to fall in love with Redford Falls…and him.
Under The Apple Blossoms ~ A Redford Falls Story ~ Book 3
This spring the blossoms aren’t the only thing blooming in Redford Falls.
A tragic accident tore them apart. She left him behind and broke his heart. Is he strong enough to risk it again?
Police officer, Tyler Kringle, keeps his heart locked behind bars. His first and only love, Maripier Nadeau, left Redford Falls many years ago after a family tragedy. She moved on, leaving him to pick up the shattered pieces of his heart. But now Maripier is home to care for her father and to attend a dedication ceremony in her mother’s honour. Her return rattles Tyler’s cage, causing old emotions to resurface. Once he discovers the truth from the past, can he reclaim the love of his life and lock-down their future before she leaves again?
A Recipe For Forever ~ A Redford Falls Story ~ Book 4
She has one last hope – a small, family-run bakery that might just be baking up second chances.
Dwindling finances has Jess Robinson running out of options. With a past filled with failures, she longs for a new beginning. Applying for a job she isn’t qualified for may be another crazy mistake, but at this point Jess has nothing to lose.
Juggling two jobs, Travis Cooper has absolutely no time for a relationship and isn’t looking for one. But when his mother hires an unqualified baker, he has more to worry about than three-tiered wedding cakes and fighting fires. Will he break his own no-dating-employees rule and make a little room in his life for love?
About the author:
Darlene resides on the Atlantic Coast of Canada where the summers are too short and the winters are too long. An avid reader since childhood, Darlene loved to develop the many stories coming to life in her head. She writes contemporary romances with a focus on plot-driven page-turners. When not working on her next book, she can be found with her husband, her daughter, and her yellow Labrador. Darlene’s favourite pastime is taking summer day-trips to the Valley to soak in the small-town feel.
Social Media Links
Author Web Site: http://darlenefredette.blogspot.com/
Blog: http://findingthewritewords.blogspot.com
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It’s been great having you with us today. Good luck with Redford Falls Series!
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A Witch’s Journey Series #MFRWHooks
First before we get into #MFRWHooks, A Witch’s Journey Serles, I want to thank all the men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces for their service! Their dedication and sacrifice keeps our great nation free. Happy Veterans Day!
HIdden Gypsy Magic, (can be read as a stand alone) third book in A Witch’s Journey Series is #MFRWhooks this week I’m so excited for you to discover the consequences of awakening hidden Gypsy magic! Pssst…learn about wildlife rescue and rehab. Share the magic, mystery, time-travel adventure Grab your copies from Amazon, Amazon UK , Amazon AU , Amazon CA Barnes& Noble itunes , and KOBO
Join the magical adventure, pick up the series today! https://buff.ly/2p28qJU UK links https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tena-Stetler/e/B014E0PEPM
So pull up a chair and get comfy, grab a drink of your choice from the cooler, a Chocolate Chip or Peanut Butter cookie from the plate, and let’s find out a little about Hidden Gypsy Magic and A Witch’s Journey Series! This week new hook in the excerpt.
A Witch’s Journey – Former Navy Seal, Lathen Quartz helps Pepper, a powerful witch, achieve her life-long dream of a wildlife rescue, but can they save the McKay magic & their love? Paying it forward is Lathen’s way of life and the Wildlife rescue helps him do just that by finding jobs and support for his fellow veterans.
A WItch’s Holiday Wedding – A small town paranormal romance/mystery. It’s down to the wire, will the nosy McKay ghosts, Lathen’s werewolf pack, Pepper’s parents, and her best friend help or hinder the wedding and holiday plans? Lathen’s covert military mission threatens life as he knows it. Torn in too many directions will Pepper and Lathen make it to the altar?
Can they overcome the obstacles?
A little about Hidden Gypsy Magic, third book in A WItch’s Journey Series:
Discover the consequences of awakening hidden Gypsy magic!
The Salem Wildlife Sanctuary is Gwen Taylor’s life work. Her Irish Gypsy heritage provides a hidden talent she uses to help the creatures under her care. But even her magical skills can’t help new rescues in dire need of veterinary care.
The opportunity of signing on as the vet for Gwen’s sanctuary dropped into Brock Scutter’s lap after he expanded his practice to include wildlife. The personal attraction he and Gwen experience is undeniable the more their professional and personal lives collide.
Touring the only “non-haunted” house in Salem they both feel a spark of magic. A trip to his family’s cabin uncovers a heritage he didn’t know existed. If they want a future together, it means facing the consequences of awakening hidden Gypsy magic and a race against the clock to correct past wrongs.
A sneak peek between the pages of Hidden Gypsy Magic: The hook.
March came in like a lamb, but a few days later a frigid wind gripped the northeast region of the United States with a vengeance. Gwen covered the box with her tiny treasures inside and shoved open the vehicle door. When the SUV’s door slammed against her legs, she yelped but continued to tightly hold the cover in place over the box. I’ll have bruises tomorrow. Once inside Brock’s vet office, she glanced at the empty receptionist area. “Anybody here?” No one answered, so she eased into a seat and waited anxiously with a cardboard box on her lap. Weak scratching came from the box. Carefully lifting the cover, she peeked inside to make sure the little creatures were safe.
When the front door banged open of the veterinary clinic, she jumped. A cold breeze swept through the waiting room ahead of Delta, the receptionist, who rushed in throwing her arms up in an exasperated gesture. “Sorry, I’m late. Traffic.” She frowned while rounding the reception desk and glanced down at the appointment book, then back up to Gwen. “I don’t have you on my schedule today.” Leaning over the counter, the receptionist pointed to the box. “What’s in there?”
Gwen’s face flushed in anger. “Someone dumped these poor innocent turtles or more accurately Desert Tortoises by the side of the road. They can’t be much more than a few weeks old. Even the spring temps are close to freezing at night. Poor little things were cold, dehydrated, defenseless, and malnourished.” She glanced at the receptionist. Dr. Brock Scutter is expecting me, I spoke to him late last night. Who would do such a thing?
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Baked WIth Love by Peggy Jaeger – Cover Reveal
Happy Holidays! Today I am giving you a sneak peek at Peggy Jaeger’s cover for Baked With Love, A Match Made in Heaven, Book3! Release day is Decemmer 9, 2020, but you can pre-order a kindle copy at amazon now.
Let me tell you a little about Baked With Love.
Innkeeper Maureen O’Dowd lives to cook and bake, spoils her family and friends, and is an expert at keeping secrets, especially about the man who’s held her heart for years.
Police Chief Lucas Alexander is dealing with an aging father and a moody teenage son, and he’s in love with a woman who only wants to be friends.
How can these two fiercely private people reveal their feelings for one another without destroying the friendship they already have? And if they’re successful, will another secret, if revealed, drive a wedge between Maureen and Lucas that can never be repaired?
Buy links:
Amazon Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08M25TQV9
About the Author:
Peggy Jaeger is a contemporary romance writer who writes Romantic Comedies about strong women, the families who support them, and the men who can’t live without them. If she can make you cry on one page and bring you out of tears rolling with laughter the next, she’s done her job as a writer!
Family and food play huge roles in Peggy’s stories because she believes there is nothing that holds a family structure together like sharing a meal…or two…or ten. Dotted with humor and characters that are as real as they are loving, she brings all topics of daily life into her stories: life, death, sibling rivalry, illness and the desire for everyone to find their own happily ever after. Growing up the only child of divorced parents she longed for sisters, brothers and a family that vowed to stick together no matter what came their way. Through her books, she’s created the families she wanted as that lonely child.
When she’s not writing Peggy is usually painting, crafting, scrapbooking or decoupaging old steamer trunks she finds at rummage stores and garage sales.
A lifelong and avid romance reader and writer, Peggy is a member of RWA and her local New Hampshire RWA Chapter.
As a lifelong diarist, she caught the blogging bug early on, and you can visit her at peggyjaeger.com where she blogs daily about life, writing, and stuff that makes her go “What??!”
Social Media links:
Website: http://peggyjaeger.com/
Blog: http://peggyjaeger.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Peggy-Jaeger-Author/825914814095072?ref=bookmarks
Twitter: https://twitter.com/peggy_jaeger
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13478796.Peggy_Jaeger
BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/peggy-jaeger
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDR8RRIlssIyS0FYZWeGqsg/videos?view_as=subscriber
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peggyjaeger_author/
Pintrest: https://www.pinterest.com/peggyjaeger/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peggy-jaeger-296ab878/
Amazon Author Page: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00T8E5LN0
Authors database: https://authorsdb.com/community/15814-peggy-jaeger
Triberr: https://triberr.com/tribe/strong-women–loving-men
It was wonderful having you with us today. Please feel free to stop by anytime. Good Luck with Baked With Love!
It’s a beautiful cover! Don’t you think?
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A Score to Settle by Mike Torreano
Happy Holidays Everyone! Welcome Mike Torreano author of A Score to Settle among others! Pull up a chair, grab a drink of your choice from the cauldron. Take your choice of a bat wing Chocolate Chip or Pumpkin, or Peanut Butter cookie from the plate, and let’s find out a little about Mike and A Score to Settle.
- What inspired this particular story? A Score to Settle is set on the Goodnight-Loving cattle trail in 1870 New Mexico Territory. I was drawn to this locale after devouring the iconic western series, Lonesome Dove. Author Larry McMurtry used an incident in his story that paralleled something that actually happened on Goodnight-Loving. Oliver Loving was shot near Fort Sumner, NMT in 1866. After he died, his partner, Charles Goodnight, carried out his last wish by wagoning him back home to Texas. To me, this is one of the West’s most famous legends and I wanted to weave a story around it.
- What inspired you to write? In fifth grade, back in Ohio, my teacher made us read a book a week, and write a report. You never knew who she was going to call on, so you had to be ready. That first week, she took us to a wall shelf stacked with books. I scanned the titles and stopped at a spine that said, ‘Zane Grey’, and I thought ‘what’s a Zane Grey’? Well, I spent the rest of that year devouring his novels and this kid from Ohio got hooked on the Old West. I could see the Cowboys and Indians racing along red sandstone buttes in the Painted Desert. Good teachers could make all the difference then-and today.
- How long have you been writing? Since I retired in 2013. Before my first novel, I used to jokingly say I was writing a book. I had all the pages numbered, all I had to do was fill them in. Little did I know then how much work it is to complete and polish a story. I’m not a disciplined writer, either. I find snatches of time to flesh out my current scene, but often spend days percolating on where to go from here.
- Why do you write what you write? Contemporary, paranormal, suspense, etc. Interesting question. I’ve thought about that at length, as I write in what is more or less a niche genre, traditional westerns with a dash of mystery and romance. I’ve always been drawn to black and white things, more so than shades of gray. In the Old West, there were things you were supposed to do, and things you weren’t. If you did wrong, consequences were often immediate, and sometimes severe. Even the bad guys knew where the line was, something that’s been blurred over the years. Many places had no law except The Code of the West, which reflected timeless values we could use more of today.
- What’s your approach to writing? Are you a plotter or follow your characters flow (Pantser)? Lord help me, Tena, but I’m a pantser. I’m thinking of writing a non-fiction work titled, The Perils of Pantsing. Not really, but while it’s easier to start a story by pantsing, I’ve found it often gets tougher the deeper into the story I go. I always have a 50,000 foot idea of what happens overall, but a lot of times I find myself wondering what happens in the meantime. We all write at the 5,000 foot level. ‘What happens now’ is my often unwelcome visitor. That’s when I wish I was a plotter. But, with only the most general outline, that allow my characters to do lots of unexpected things. Twists and turns are part and parcel of being a pantser, although I know plotters often encounter surprising happenings along the way, too. And I don’t even want to talk about how hard it is to polish a pantser story. Having said that, though, that’s what seems to work for me
Oh Mike, being a pantser myself, I know exactly how you feel. I’m writing along and all of a sudden a character takes a 180 degree turn and is off and running away with the story. Only choice you have is to follow him/her see where it leads. LOL
SPEED ROUND FOR A LITTLE ADDED FUN:
Speed Round (one word only answer): Yep, I know torture for a writer!<evil laugh>
Favorite movie: The Natural
Favorite book: My next one
Last book read: Battle Cry of Freedom
Favorite color: Hmmm
Stilettos or flipflops: Hiking boots
Coffee or tea: Beer
Ebook or audiobook or paperback: Paperback
Pencil or pen: Pen
Favorite song: Anything by Karen Carpenter
Streak or not: Um, no
Favorite dessert: Banana split
Favorite junk food: Ginger Snaps
Favorite thing to do to relax: Read anything by Tena!
Champagne or gin: Bourbon
Paranormal or Historical: Historical
Wonder Woman or Top Model: Wonder Woman
Favorite TV show: Yellowstone
Hot or cold: Hot
POV: Third close
I’d die if I don’t have: Ice cream
Review or Not: Review
A little about A Score to Settle:
Broken after his family is murdered, rancher Del Lawson signs on to a cattle drive along the Goodnight Loving trail in 1870, unaware he’s still in danger. When he falls for a pretty Army nurse, the killers target her.
If he’s to recover from his grief and build a new life, Del must set out on a gritty hunt for the men who are hunting him.
Meanwhile, Del’s mother, Maybelle, doesn’t know her son survived that murderous night. When she discovers the gold the killers are after, she uses the treasure in an elaborate masquerade to take the murderers down.
Will mother and son’s plans reap justice-or destroy what’s left of the Lawson clan?
A peek between the page of A Score To Settle:
“Tell me your story, Del. We got time.”
Del tried to piece the last few days together. He told Sonny about leaving Rose and—
She interrupted. “That your woman?”
“If she’ll have me. If I ever see her again.” He told her about the search to find Tyson. Riding through Santa Rosa, the trickery about Lost Creek, Potter’s ambush south of town amid the sandstorm. Riding for Wilkins’ ranch and Shade being played out. The desperate walk to find Sinola in the dark.
“You’ve had quite the adventure, Del Lawson.”
Buy Links: Amazon Goodreads Bookbub Books2read
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mike Torreano has a military background and is a student of American history and the Old West.
His debut western mystery, The Reckoning, set in South Park, Colorado, in 1868, was released in 2016 by The Wild Rose Press. The sequel, The Renewal, also in South Park, 1872,was released in 2018. His latest western, A Score To Settle, will be released October 21, 2020, also from The Wild Rose Press. He has a coming-of-age novel, Fireflies At Dusk, set during the Civil War, and his short story, The Trade, a tale of the Yukon Gold Rush, was his first published work in 2014.
Mike’s written for magazines and newspapers for many years. An experienced editor, he’s taught University-level English and Journalism. He’s a member of the Historical Novel Society, Pikes Peak Writers, Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, Western Writers of America and several other western writing groups. He brings his readers back in time with him as he recreates life in mid-to-late 19th century America. He lives in Colorado Springs with his wife, Anne.
Website: www.miketorreano.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/miketorreano
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Mike-Torreano-Author-107581914412283
It’s been great having you with us today. Good luck with A Score to Settle!
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