Release Day Blitz: Love Me Some Cowboy by Lisa Mondello

Love Me Some Cowboy
Lisa Mondello, Jean Brashear, Day LeClaire, Ginger Chambers, Barbara McMahon

Genre: Contemporary Romantic Suspense

ISBN: 978-1-939925-03-9

Book Description:

Who can resist a tough, rugged cowboy? Not these feisty, determined women!

Five full-length novels at a steal of a price!

In Nothing But Trouble by USAToday Bestselling Author Lisa Mondello, city girl Melanie Summers must spend an entire month alone in the Wyoming wilderness with sexy rodeo cowboy, Stoney Buxton, without getting into trouble. Possible? Not a chance in the world!

USAToday Bestselling Author Jean Brashear adds Lone Star flavor with Texas Secrets. Boone Gallagher returns to the only home he's ever known only to find it's been willed to a sexy stranger who's intent on leaving. He must keep her there for thirty days or it will be lost to them both.

Love romantic reunion stories? Then much-loved Harlequin author Barbara McMahon has the perfect book for you! Crazy About a Cowboy brings you Sam and Lisa Haller, who divorced for all the wrong reasons. Now Sam wants his ex-wife back for all the right ones.

Once Upon a Cowboy by Day Leclaire, author of the wildly popular Dante's Legacy series, introduces Cami, a lovable, greenhorn spitfire determined to become a cowboy, despite the objections of her sexy rancher boss.

And last, but far from least, beloved Dell and Harlequin author Ginger Chambers offers a heartwarming treat with Love, Texas, in which Cassie Edwards returns to the hometown she'd forsaken to negotiate the sale of land belonging to the Taylor family. Hard-working rancher Will Taylor, once her girlhood crush, is all man now and fighting hard to save his heritage. When attraction flares, will true love triumph?



Excerpt for Nothing But Trouble : Book 1 of Love Me Some Cowboy-

His jaw tightened. Yes, there was something definitely wrong here. And money had nothing to do with it. It had everything to do with this beauty standing in front of him, who was clueless about what she was getting her pretty little hide into. "No," he replied tersely.

"Mr. Buxton, I need your help."

"Tourist season is in full swing. I'm sure you'll have no trouble finding someone else."

He turned his back to her and began walking along the fence toward the barn, almost forgetting... Abruptly, he glanced up and saw the charred remains of the barn. The place where all his troubles had started just one year ago. It hadn't taken but a second for him to hear her boots digging into the dusty gravel behind him, jarring him from his thoughts.

"Then I'll do it myself," she said to his back.

His whole body stiffened. He angled back to read her face, to see if she was just being a spoiled rotten rich kid, trying to get her way, or if she was actually serious. Seeing her head held high and her arms crossed in front of her, he realized she was dead serious.

And dead she'd be if she stepped one boot into those mountains alone.

"You'll do no such thing."

Frustration flaring, he lifted his dusty hat and forced his fingers through the thick crop of black hair before returning the hat to his head.

"You just don't get it, do you? You're not asking me to take you on a theme park ride where you'll get to see the wonders of the world at a nice safe distance. This is God's country. The creatures that live up there don't know civilization, and you are no better than them. You could--probably will--get killed if you go out there alone." His lips twitched, taking a good long appraising look at the woman in front of him. "You might even chip a nail on that pretty hand of yours."


Links to the first chapter for each of the other books in the anthology

http://jeanbrashear.com/texas-tales/texas-secrets/texas-secrets-excerpt/

http://www.barbaramcmahon.com/excerpt-crazy-about-a-cowboy.php

http://www.dayleclaire.com/excerpt-once-upon-a-cowboy

http://gingerchambers.wordpress.com/love-texas/


What Readers Are Saying About These Authors:

"Emotional depth and situations that tore at my heart. This is exactly what I want from a romance." (about Ginger Chambers, Love, Texas)

"I can never get enough of Day Leclaire's novels. It's all about the characters, and these are especially lovable, funny, and heartwarming ... not to mention sexy. I really identified with Cami's act-first, think-later personality. Adorable!" (about Day Leclaire, Once Upon a Cowboy)

"A great story about second chances at love. A hunky cowboy and a feisty cowgirl and a cute little boy to round off this romance." (about Barbara McMahon, Crazy About a Cowboy)

"I really enjoyed this, er, literary foreplay. I knew that when these two finally made love, they wouldn't just be going through the motions—there were going to be some fireworks....Jean Brashear is a terrific discovery for me." (about Jean Brashear, Texas Secrets)

" Loved this book so much I didn't put it down till I was finished. Highly recommended for a very good read. “ (about Lisa Mondello, Nothing But Trouble)

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Guest Blog: Balancing Time by Lisa Mondello

Balancing Time by Lisa Mondello

You don’t have to be a writer to know how hard it is to balance yourself between work and family. But as a writer who works from home, it’s particularly hard. The whole concept of “work from home” gets lost because when people hear that, the only word they truly hear is “home”.

This has been true for me for nearly 20 years. Since my children were born, I’ve had the pleasure of “mostly” being able to work from home and be accessible to the family while earning income. This kind of thing isn’t for everyone. I know busy moms who would rather have a mouth full of root canals than try to balance work and family from a home office. (And there are days I would put myself in that category!)

The problem with working from home is that your home and your never off the clock all at the same time. Friends and family just assume they can stop over for coffee at any time. Neighbors feel free to leave your name with the UPS driver to drop off packages. And kids and spouses, no matter how supportive, physically see you at home…so you’re home. Whatever crisis is happening at home is yours to deal with. That can be pretty rough when you’re on deadline.

But life happens and it doesn’t stop just because you have a deadline. So trying to balance work/writing and life is important. It’s also an ongoing struggle I haven’t yet mastered. But I’m getting there. Here are some tips.

1. Take your laptop and get out of the house occasionally. It doesn’t have to be every day. But a few hours at the local coffee shop (in the next town so you don’t run the risk of accidentally meeting chatty friends who don’t get why you’re out in public) can do wonders to help you focus and get work done without distraction. I have been able to get a lot done in a crowded Starbucks simply because the noise around me wasn’t my noise. I could tune it out and focus. At home, all noise is my noise and I have to deal with fighting kids, a barking dog and a cat screeching to be fed or get affection.
2. Don’t fight the clock. Yes, you’re on deadline and the clock is ticking. But dinner still needs to be made. Kids still need to get to work or school. The housework…well, that’s another post. Get the kids and hubby taken care of and leave the rest.
3. Don’t answer the phone when you’re working. This one was VERY hard for me because I can’t stand a ringing phone and I always worry someone is trying to get in touch with me for an emergency. So I have given my cell phone to family and have told them to ONLY call for something important while I’m working.

Being a back-to-the-wall writer helps me when I’m on deadline. I can write when in a frenzy. But not everyone can and sometimes I do get frazzled when I think I’m not going to make a deadline. These balancing tips help to keep me from stressing so I can get things done.

Material Witness EXCERPT:

Uneasiness skittered through her, settling in her stomach. It wasn't the same stirring she felt just seconds ago. Cassie refused to believe it to be a premonition, so she passed it off as fatigue.

Jake's presence in her home was too intimate. He'd been an enigmatic stranger at Rory's, and a highly professional police officer at the police station last night. He was much the same now, except in her apartment, surrounded by her personal things, Cassie felt almost…naked in a way she hadn't felt for some time.

“Colombian coffee on the refrigerator door. Filters in the cabinet above the coffee maker on the counter,” she said.

As Jake treaded to the kitchen, Cassie plopped down on her slipcovered sofa and draped the afghan over her legs. This man had been privileged to see more of her than any man had in three years, and she hadn't even known him a full twenty-four hours.

It wasn't only modesty. Scratches from the flying glass and bruises from hitting the floor were now surfacing on her skin. Cassie hadn't felt them when she'd showered last night or before she went to bed, but now that the adrenaline rush had worn off, they were nagging at her.

She reached for the newspaper. “What am I reading?”

“Front page,” Jake called out from the kitchen.

Cassie slapped the newspaper on her lap, fingering the edge of the paper as she examined the headline. “The President vetoed—” she started to say before Jake came back into the room and cut in.

“Bottom of the page, big bold print.”

Her eyes grazed the page of the Providence Journal Bulletin until they settled on the article Jake was referring to. Her whole body collapsed as the newsprint screamed at her. Crime novelist Cassie Lang involved in deadly shoot-out.
Cassie’s heart stopped beating and her hands shook so violently, the newspaper slipped from her fingers and fell to the floor. When she finally found her voice, it was barely audible to her own ears as she spoke.

“You said you weren't going to reveal my name.”

Jake was at the doorway, leaning his shoulder against the doorjamb.

“I didn't.”

“Then how? Who?”

Author Bio:

Lisa Mondello (a.k.a. LA Mondello) has held many jobs in her life but being a published authors is the last job she'll ever have. She's not retiring! She blames the creation of the personal computer for her leap into writing novels. Otherwise, she'd still be penning stories with paper and pen. Her first book, All I Want for Christmas is You, was the winner of the Golden Quill contest for Best First Book and to date has had over 350,000 downloads worldwide.

She is currently the author of 14 novels under the name Lisa Mondello and LA Mondello.

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