NEW WINNERS & A NEW WEBSITE!
First of all, please accept our apologies for being so late announcing the results of our RIVER NYMPH contest.
After discovering technical problems in late March we were forced to change servers and web hosts, not an easy feat for the two most cyber-challenged people on earth!
The winner of the grand prize is Rita Oakes and the second prize winner is Vicki Henderson.
Glenda Wattersen, Carol Fazolla, Jo Mendez, Dottie Paretski and Perline Geerey were runners up and received signed books.
In Jim’s newsletter, he explains which scenes he wrote. Picking them was certainly not an easy task.
Several writer friends told us we’d made this contest too difficult.
Once we started trying to figure out how to tally the entries when their pages were just a tad off, we realized our friends were right.
So for PALE MOON STALKER in November, we promise to make the contest much simpler!
We’re now delighted to be hosted by NovelTalk!
This is a really reader friendly site and offers great opportunities for readers to learn more about their favorite authors via featured book covers, monthly newsletters, various book promotions and a wonderful pet section.
Click on Pets for a photo of our “boys” when they were babies.
I went to New York the end of March to attend an author’s convention and spent a day at Dorchester, where they showed me the cover art for our November book, PALE MOON STALKER, on a large computer screen.
It was so heart-stoppingly beautiful that I couldn’t wait to tell Jim.
When he saw it in an email, he flipped!
We’ll be mailing out signed cover flats to booksellers and reader’s groups late this summer and will post the mystic, Native American looking cover and its back copy on the home page whet your appetite for Sky and Max’s story.
Watch for more details about their very unusual relationship and adventures next time.
My trip to the Big Apple brought more good news. We have a contract to write the third romance in what we are calling the Wild West Series.
It will be Fawn’s story (she appears as a little girl in PALE MOON STALKER) and the title is CHOSEN WOMAN.
PALE MOON took an unplanned turn into the paranormal that we liked very much.
I’ve written books with Native American mysticism in them before, such as SUNDANCER, THE ENDLESS SKY, NIGHT WIND’S WOMAN and CAPTURE THE SUN, but CHOSEN WOMAN marks the first time a heroine is given a supernatural gift.
Fawn can foresee the future and has been chosen by the Powers to lead her people…but only with the help of the man she is destined to love —a former Pinkerton detective named Jack Dillon.
On a completely different front, Alexa Hunt has returned to offer you another trip to the “dark side.”
Watch for the paperback edition of my second thriller, HOMELAND SECURITY, to be released by Forge this June.
If you missed it or its prequel, CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY, in hardback, now both of them will be available in paperback.
I was really pleased that Forge thought enough of the second book in the series to put it into the more affordable paperback format, too.
It’s time for spring flowers, rain and lots of yard work around the Henke household.
Inky and Pewter, our year old tom cats, are “helping” us. We take them out for daily excursions.
Of course, we don’t get much done while they explore, but it is fun to watch as they graze on the new foliage of budding plants and crouch in “hunting mode” when they see birds fluttering in the trees.
Being bird lovers, we have bells on their “jeweled” collars in the unlikely event either of them gets near potential prey.
Easter may have come early this year, but real spring weather has been unseasonably late across the country.
Here’s hoping you enjoy the magic of renewal in nature…and books. Reading is something we can enjoy rain or shine!
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SERIES |
TITLES |
| Old California Couplet: |
Golden Lady, Love Unwilling |
| Texas Trilogy: |
Cactus Flower, Moon Flower, Night Flower |
| Santa Fe Trilogy: |
Night Wind's Woman, White Apache's Woman,
Deep as the Rivers |
| Discovery Duet: |
Paradise & More, Return to Paradise |
| Colorado Couplet: |
Terms of Love, Terms of Surrender |
| Blackthorne Trilogy: |
Love a Rebel…Love a Rogue, Wicked Angel,
Wanton Angel |
| American Lords Trilogy: |
Yankee Earl, Rebel Baron, Texas Viscount |
| Silhouette Bombshells |
Finders Keepers |
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Sneak and Rescue |
| Thrillers |
Corrupts Absolutely, written as Alexa Hunt |
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Homeland Security, written as Alexa Hunt |
| Wild West |
THE RIVER NYMPH |
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PALE MOON STALKER* |
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CHOSEN WOMAN* |
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SINGLE TITLES |
| Capture the Sun |
| A Fire in the Blood |
| Bouquet (romantic suspense) |
| McCrory's Lady |
| Broken Vows |
| Bride of Fortune |
| The Endless Sky |
| Sundancer |
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* Forthcoming
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