I want to extend a warm welcome to Darlene Franklin. Darlene is giving away a hard copy (US ONLY) of The Pony Express Romance Collection. You can enter by using the Rafflecopter link at the end of the post. (Giveaway ends April 13, 2017. If you are the randomly chosen winner, I'll contact you and pass on your information.) Now, here's Darlene...
One of the challenges of writing about the Pony Express, as romantic as it sounds, was how to get and keep the hero and heroine in the same place for very long! So I decided to make my heroine a woman searching for the father who had abandoned her, whom she believes is the stationmaster at the Chelan Swing Station. I also made her from the South, shortly before the War Between the States. I'm a New Englander by birth and wanted to explore the other side of the war for a few pages.
I was invited to join the Pony Express collection, as I was invited to participate in my first novella collection, Snowbound Colorado Christmas. That novella, Dressed in Scarlet, finaled in ACFW's "Book of the Year" contest (now the Carol Awards). If not for that experience, I might never have turned to writing historical romance. Thank you, Lena Nelson Dooley and Tamela Hancock Murray! That was back at the beginning. This year I'm closing in on fifty unique published titles. That sounds impressive — but it took me fourteen years before had a single book published. That's one of the reasons I tell writers that perseverance is more important than raw talent.
Story blurb...
The Gambler's Daughter is one of nine novellas that happen along the Pony Express route in 1860-1861.
Gambling debts drive Caroline Adams’s estranged father away
from the Chelan Swing Station before her arrival. Can his replacement conquer
the temptations goading them both to prove himself worthy of Caroline’s love?
Amazon link for purchase...
Darlene's bio...
Best-selling hybrid author Darlene Franklin's greatest claim to fame is that she writes full-time from a nursing home. This year she expects to reach fifty unique titles in print, and she's also contributed to more than twenty nonfiction titles. Her column, "The View Through My Door," appears monthly in Bookfun Magazine. Her most recent titles are The Pony Express Romance Collection, Love's Compass, and To Riches Again.
Where to find Darlene online...
Website and blog: http://darlenefranklinwrites.com/
Amazon author page: https://www.amazon.com/Darlene-Franklin/e/B001K8993A/
Twitter: @darlenefranklin
