Today I have an interview with Margaret Brownley.
Welcome!
And be sure to check out the giveaway at the end
Tell me about yourself
I was always a storyteller and was constantly in trouble as a child for making up stories. The writer part was hard to acknowledge, partly because English was my least favorite subject.
I might have spent the rest of my life scribbling in notebooks and writing long amusing notes to my kids’ teachers had I not “volunteered” to edit my church newsletter. After I made the church picnic read like a Grisham novel, my former preacher took me aside and said, “Maybe God’s calling you to write fiction.” Until that moment, I never had the courage to follow my dreams.
On the personal side: I like to travel, think up reasons not to cook and spend
time with my grandkiddies.
Tell me about your new book
The story takes place in Two-Time, Texas in 1882. In the first book of the series, Left at the Altar, we learn about the feud that gave the town its name. We also meet the three Lockwood sisters. A Match Made in Texas is the middle sister, Amanda’s, story.
What makes westerns so interesting to write?
I love writing about the old west. That was when men were men and women were women but, as the old song goes, a cowboy wasn’t a cowboy unless he was wild, woolly and full of fleas. Of course, the heroes I write about are more likely to be tall, dark and handsome. I’m also fascinated by how the westward movement affected women and forced them to reinvent themselves to survive and even flourish.
Tell us about Amanda. About her being sheriff and all
I do believe that Amanda is my favorite character. Her father said she came out of the womb demanding equal rights. She truly believes that a woman can do anything she sets her mind to and is out to prove it. But then she becomes the sheriff, she is tested like never, before. How can a woman who’s never fired a gun and can’t even resist the charms of her handsome prisoner, clean up the crime-ridden town?
What are you working on now?
I’m working on a new series called Shotgun Brides. The first book, Stop the Wedding will be out next year.
Giveaway
A print copy of
A match made in Texas
US only
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Ends June 10th
Title:
A Match Made in Texas
Author:
Margaret Brownley
Pub
Date: June 6, 2017
ISBN:
9781492608165
Welcome
to Two-Time Texas:
Where
tempers burn hot
Love
runs deep
And
a single woman can change the course of history:
There’s
a new sheriff in town.
Amanda
Lockwood gets more than she bargained for when she’s elected
Two-Time Texas’s first female sheriff. Anxious to prove herself,
she sets out to stop crime in its tracks—taking down wanted man
Rick Barrett in the process. But there’s something special about
the charming outlaw. Common sense says he must be guilty…but her
heart keeps telling her otherwise.
So
what’s a sheriff to do? Gather an all-female posse and ride to save
the day.
Things
sure don’t look good for Rick. If he doesn’t convince the pretty
sheriff to let him go, he’ll soon be pushing up daisies. But
his plan to woo her to his side backfires when he’s the one who
falls head over heels. Now he must choose between freedom or saving
the woman he loves…and the clock is ticking.
Who
knew A Match Made in Texas could be such sweet, clean, madcap fun?
New
York Times and CBA best-selling author
MARGARET BROWNLEY has
penned nearly forty novels and novellas. Her books have won numerous
awards, including Readers' Choice and Award of Excellence. She's a
former Romance Writers of American RITA® finalist and has written
for a TV soap. She is currently working on a new series.
Not bad for someone who flunked eighth grade English. Just
don't ask her to diagram a sentence.
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“Are
you’re askin’ if your virtue is safe with me?”
She
blushed, but refused to back down. The man didn’t mince words and
neither would she. “Well, is it?”
“Safe
as you want it to be,” he said finally.
– A
Match Made in Texas
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