Barbara Hannay took some time to chat about her new release Outback Brides of Wirralong: Jenna
Tule Author Q&A: Elsa Winckler tackle chemistry & career changes
Tule author Elsa Winckler took some time to discuss her characters and story elements in An Irresistible Temptation, the third installment in The Cavallo Brothers series.
Tule Author Q&A: Elsa Winckler Talks Interior Inspiration
Elsa Winkler had a chance to talk to us about her new release An Impossible Attraction.
Tule Royal Wedding, PLANNING A ROYAL WEDDING 3: BEHIND THE SCENES
GIVEAWAY: We will be giving away a print copy of Liz Fielding’s The Bridesmaid’s Royal Bodyguard. Comment in our post with what you’re looking forward to in Harry and Meghan’s upcoming wedding! As this will be a continuing blog series, make sure to comment on all related posts leading up to the wedding for a chance to win each book in the Royal Wedding Invitations series!
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PLANNING A ROYAL WEDDING 3: BEHIND THE SCENES
Jessica Hart and Liz Fielding
When Prince Harry and Meghan Markle marry at Windsor Castle on 19 May, we’ll all be eager to see the fairy-tale elements of a royal wedding: the majestic setting of Windsor Castle, the gathering of royal guests, the cheering crowds lining the street, the horse-drawn carriage taking the bride and groom through Windsor and then back to the Castle along the iconic Long Walk to a reception in St George’s Hall.
A Release Day Interview with USA Today Bestselling Author Melissa McClone!
1. Tell us a bit about the Ever After series.
The Ever After series consists of three stories (with plans for more) that involve some aspect of Reality TV. Ever After is the name of the production company, and the four person film crew appears in each story. Other secondary characters appear, too, but each romance is standalone. I recently added epilogues to the first two books, The Honeymoon Prize and The Cinderella Princess, to align the series together. It was so much fun to revisit those stories! Continue reading
Madeline Ash takes over the Tule Blog!
Thanks for having me on the Tule blog today to introduce The Playboy in the Sexy Summer boxed set! This novella is set in the peak of summer in Byron Bay, Australia – a coastal town with gorgeous surfers, sparkling blue surf, and soft white sand. This lush location had so many opportunities for sexy summer fun, and I adored writing about sea-sticky skin, salt-encrusted surfer hair, and long, lazy days (and nights) by the beach.
The hero, Parker, was a player in his teenage years: blond, gold-toned, and loaded – and arrogant to the point where he humiliated the heroine Alexia. Six years later, he’s learned humility and wants to make up for the way he treated her.
Alexia is a successful actor, but has reached a point where she needs sexual experience to secure an upcoming role. Her goals starts off simple: find a guy to hook up with. But as her failures accumulate, Alexia realizes she’s running from guys because she wants her first time to mean something. She wants connection and attraction…two things she feels very strongly around Parker, the very man who has treated her poorly in the past. There’s nothing like a rift to force the denial of serious sexual chemistry.
I hope you enjoy this hot, racy beach read!
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Madeline has always lived in Melbourne. She is emotionally allergic to spontaneity, and yet doesn’t mind the weather that drags her into rain when she’s planned for sunshine. She likes to call this her wild side.
She’s a Virgo, vegetarian, and once had a romantic suspense-style dream in which the hero was a shredded lettuce sandwich and the villain was a cherry tomato. The tomato got away. She took the dream as a sign that she’d better stick to writing contemporary romance.
Her stories have spunky heroines, strong heroes, and as much dialogue as she can cram in. As for why she writes romance, she’s in a long-term relationship with the genre and writing such stories makes it happy.
Visit with NYT & USA Today Bestselling Author Barbara Dunlop!
I can’t believe we’ve released Book Five in the Match Series!
I can clearly remember the holiday where my daughter and I brainstormed ideas for the zany senior citizens at the heart of the stories. There are five of them: JW the former Green Beret, Sam who was a NASA genius, quirky, impulsive Daisy, Lizbet a highly successful businesswoman, and earth-mother Hannah.
From their Florida seniors’ residence, they invent the most successful matchmaking program in the world. I knew right away the crew would have endless fun messing with the lives of their grandchildren. Each story is a new match. And each new match brings tougher challenges to the seniors who have to surreptitiously throw their heirs into the paths of their perfect mates and keep them there long enough to let the magic—or the science, depending on who you ask—go to work.
It started with An Unlikely Match, featuring a nerd and an aspiring actress in Southern California. An Impractical Match pairs an uptight perfectionist of an event planner with slightly wild motor cross racer. In An Extraordinary Match, a float plane pilot puts the daughter of his family’s arch-enemy in prison. While a typo in the matchmaking program has a construction contractor reluctantly attempting to match the perfect woman with his brother in An Astonishing Match.
That brings us to number five, An Unpredictable Match. Obviously, the crew can’t leave the brother from book four all alone and lonely. He’s a brilliant, independent, workaholic, coerced by his grandmother into offering his mansion as a film set. She’s a charming film producer battling a tyrannical boss. For good measure, the seniors toss in a beautiful starlet as a red herring.
Summer’s nearly here, and I’m looking longingly outside at the sunshine. Still, I can’t help thinking about book number six…
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Barbara Dunlop is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of fifty romance novels. A three time finalist in the prestigious RITA award, she is also a two time winner of the RWA Golden Heart award. An Unlikely Match, the first book in her acclaimed Match series, was a number one bestseller on Amazon. Barbara makes her home in Yukon with her bush pilot husband and the moose and bears that wander through their yard.
Teri Wilson takes over the Tule Blog!
Hi, everyone! My name is Teri Wilson, and while I’m not new to writing, I’m new to Tule Publishing. I love, love, love writing romance, and I also write for a fun website called HelloGiggles.com, where I cover everything pop culture-related, from the Duchess of Cambridge’s hair to Oreos with Harry Potter’s face in the crème filling. (Seriously, I’ve written about both of those things this week.)
I’m really excited about my book for Tule, The Art of Us, which is a modern retelling of Pygmalion/My Fair Lady with a fine art twist. The heroine, Dr. Harper Higgins, is an art history professor and a Van Gogh scholar. She’s even got a one-eared dog named Vincent. (Aww, right?!) The hero of The Art of Us, Tom Stone, is a brooding former soldier. He’s also a painter.
My inspiration for Tom’s character came from a real-life initiative called The Combat Paper Project. Based in San Francisco, The Combat Paper Project helps warriors adjust to coming back home after serving their country in combat. They believe in the therapeutic process of art and creativity and help soldiers turn their actual wartime uniforms into paper pulp and gorgeous collages. Drew Cameron, one of the founders of this amazing organization says, “The story of the fiber, the blood, sweat and tears, the months of hardship and brutal violence are held within those old uniforms. The uniforms often become inhabitants of closets or boxes in the attic. Reshaping that association of subordination, of warfare and service, into something collective and beautiful is our inspiration.”
You can learn more about The Combat Paper Project at their website: www.combatpaper.org.
I do hope you’ll give Harper and Tom’s story a read. They share an emotional, romantic journey of healing and renewal, because love is its own work of art.
Thanks for reading!
Teri
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Teri Wilson is a romance novelist for Harlequin Books and Tule Publishing, as well as a contributing writer at HelloGiggles.com, a lifestyle and entertainment website founded by Zooey Deschanel and now a division of People Magazine. Teri is the author of UNLEASHING MR. DARCY, now a Hallmark Channel Original Movie. She loves books, travel, animals and dancing every day. Visit Teri at www.teriwilson.net or on Twitter @TeriWilsonauthr.
Visit with Sons of San Clemente author Sinclair Jayne! (And enter to win a free book!)
Broken
By Sinclair Jayne
Heading south again to San Clemente in Southern California is always a hotly anticipated journey, especially now that I live in the Pacific Northwest where this winter has been disagreeably soggy. So there was no procrastination to write the first lines of my second Sons of San Clemente contemporary romance, Broken. My only question as I opened a Word file, which Son? Duh. I had to go with Lane Duke, professional surfer, Kadan Carson’s (hero of Wrecked) best friend. Intellectually I’d like to say it was because Lane made logical sense, but really, it was his gorgeous hair. Long, bright blonde and curly. It had taken on a life of its own in my imagination as I wrote Wrecked, and I really wanted to hang out with him (and his hair) again. On the surface, Lane is the antithesis of what you’d expect a surfer to be. As CEO of a billionaire dollar plus gaming empire, he’s an ultimate Type A: intense, driven, competitive, athletic, rich, and controlling. But he has another side.
Who better to discover Lane’s hidden depths than the heroine, Luz De Luna, who wants nothing to do with him? Luz and Lane have a history that Lane, the ultimate risk taker who’s never met a challenge he didn’t want to get up-in-your-face- personal with, is tempted to dig up. Luz, who’s always taken the safe path, wants to keep their ghosts buried. Deep. As I began to flesh out her history and backstory with Lane in November, Willamette Valley in OR had its first snow. I watched our leafless grapevines get shrouded in snow, and I thought of the Robert Frost poem “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening.” What if you could go back and take the road not taken? What if you had to, especially if you didn’t want to?
That’s what Luz is facing when she returns to her hometown of San Clemente feeling broken. Blazing new path she creates on her own. She’s determined to walk this one solo, only Lane doesn’t do “no” too well. Lane may look like an angel with his halo of golden hair, but he exudes temptation like a devil, and Luz has never been as immune to him as she’d like to pretend.
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Leave a comment for Sinclair to enter to win a free copy of “Wrecked” – Book 1 in the series!
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Sinclair Jayne has loved reading romance novels since she discovered Barbara Cartland historical romances when she was in sixth grade. By seventh grade, she was haunting the library shelves looking to fall in love over and over again with the heroes born from the imaginations of her favorite authors. After teaching writing classes and workshops to adults and teens for many years in Seattle and Portland, she returned to her first love of reading romances and became an editor for Tule Publishing last year. Sinclair lives in Oregon’s wine country where she and her family own a small vineyard of Pinot Noir and where she dreams of being able to write at a desk like Jane Austen instead of in parking lots waiting for her kids to finish one of their 12,000 extracurricular activities.
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