Lost Memories - in print

For those of you who missed my countless FB posts and TW posts, Lost Memories- Honky Tonk Hearts series is now available in print form. Of course it is also still available in ebook form, but for those of you who prefer to hold a book in your hands you may now do so. You may order at  http://www.wildrosepublishing.com/maincatalog_v151/index.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=1026
I also want to thank all those who have downloaded or ordered the print version. Have a wonderful weekend!!

LOST MEMORIES - Honky Tonk Hearts- officially released! This is my first ebook to be published with TWRP and I could not be happier.

http://www.wildrosepublishing.com/maincatalog_v151/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=175_141&products_id=5155

Sherri Thomas

LOST MEMORIES -The Wild Rose Press

LOST MEMORIES -HONKY TONK HEARTS - THE WILD ROSE PRESS

is now available for Kindle users on Amazon for download. I hope you enjoy Darcy and Nick's journey as much as I did.


http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Memories-Honky-Hearts-ebook/dp/B00AU6V1G6

HONKY TONK HEARTS where lonely hearts seem to gravitate to the Lonesome Steer Honky Tonk.

Today I am blogging about my up coming release LOST MEMORIES from The Wild Rose Press -Honky Tonk Hearts series. Stop by and take a peak. Also come celebrate Vonnie Davis's release of Those Violet Eyes
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Stop by for your chance to win a free copy of Mad About Maddie

http://yesterdaydaugher.blogspot.com/

CONGRATULATIONS to all who won the wonderful prizes at the Honky Tonk Hearts Launch Party last night.

And to all of you who took time out of your busy schedules THANK YOU for joining us. It truly was a hopping party.

A big THANK YOU to Stacy Holmes - Great way to kick off a wonderful series.

Dont forget to join me and some of my author friends of the Honky Tonk Hearts series at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheWildRosePress for chances to win lots of great stuff.
Hope to see you there.....

**permission to forward**

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Only two more days until The Wild Rose Press hosts the big Honky Tonk Hearts Series Launch Party!!

This Wednesday May 9th come join us on the main loop for Cowboys Cowboys and more Cowboys, lots of fun with the series authors and a chance to win a special Honky Tonk Hearts prize pack!

Plus a new giveaway was added again to the random draws that will be done during the night's festivities!

You can find all the details here:

http://thewildrosepress.blogspot.ca/2012/04/launch-party.html including details on our blog circut tour.

Hope to see you there!

Check out the next ebook in the series!

The Wild Rose Press - Honky Tonk Hearts

THE WILD ROSE PRESS

Just signed a contract with The Wild Rose Press for Honky Tonk Hearts series for my latest book LOST MEMORIES. Yay!!!!

REVIEW FOR GREENHORN HEART

I woke up this morning to a wonderful review from Beth Hardy at Night Owl Romance. Here is a quick look at what she had to say...

This was a very romantic story about Jolene who has to raise her nine-month old sister after tragedy strikes and handsome but grief-stricken cowboy Seth. Their relationship begins building from the moment Jolene enters the house and it never stops blossoming.

http://romance.nightowlreviews.com/nor/Reviews/Beth-Hardy-reviews-Greenhorn-Heart-by-Sherri-Thomas.aspx

2012

I wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year! Things have been a little crazy with the holidays, which I am sure is the case with most families. This year I am hoping to make a fresh start - new goals - personal and not. Hey, I already started cleaning out cupboards and making room for new junk :-)

This week things have slowed down a bit and its time to get back to the day to day routine of kids going to school, cooking, cleaning, laundry, work, and WRITING.

I am very excited about starting a new journey with two new characters - Jared Randall a mountain man trying to give life to his deceased sisters dream and Angelina Cox who is the Montana DEQ specialist who can put a stop to it all.

Stop back and see what is going on with these two. I will be sure to make random posts about their journey as they reveal it to me. ;)

GREENHORN HEART

Blurb:

At her dying mother’s bedside, Jolene Norris promised that she would keep her baby sister safe from her money hungry aunt and uncle. Unfortunately, keeping that promise is proving a lot more difficult than Jolene thought, and she needs help. Her aunt is out to prove that Jolene is unfit and at the very least unstable to take care of her sister, forcing Jolene to seek Seth Morgan’s help. She needs his home, his land, and his name. Too bad he’s as welcoming as the bulls he raises. Scared that she’ll lose her sister, Jolene makes Seth a deal he can’t refuse.

Seth doesn't have time to take care of a petite woman who is as green as her eyes or the small drooling complication on her hip. He doesn't do babies or marriage, not after his ex-wife killed herself and their three-year-old son. But he desperately needs the money Jolene offers him.

Together they arrange a marriage of convenience, which quickly becomes so much more.

Six Sentence Friday

This week has been crazy with the kids going back to school and hubby had hernia surgery, but I think things are finally setting down in time for the weekend - I hope ;) I was going to post 6 sentences from my latest book Greenhorn Heart, but we are just beginning edits so I will wait on those. In the meantime here is 6 more from HOLDING ON. Enjoy and feel free to post your own 6 sentences.

He needed answers, and he should have the results in another day or two. Did it matter? Not anymore. Inch by inch the knowledge that he fathered Suzy seeped in through his pores. He approached Brandi's room and rapped on teh door. Suddently hearing Suzy's cries throught the door, Dex burst in.

INTERVIEW with EDITOR TRACEY WEST

Today I would like to welcome Editor Tracey
West from Liquid Silver Books. (clapping hands) Thank you for being here Tracey
and agreeing to do this interview with me.

Why don't you start by telling us about yourself?

I’m married,
a Mom of three and love everything to do with publishing. Well, okay, the long
hours can be grueling but there’s always a new story to read, new author to
discover, so sometimes I have to pull myself away from the computer.

I’m an avid reader
even away from my online jobs. More
times than not, I can’t sleep without reading a chapter or two from one of my
favourite authors. My husband just built me a full wall of bookshelves…yeah,
those are already full, so now what?? LOL
I have a few thousand books that I can’t part with – some say that’s
kinda crazy, but hey, it keeps me out of trouble. J

Can you tell us a bit about your
childhood? Your favorite memory?

I grew up in
the country, on a farm with many animals, a garden and a lot of land to
explore. I had two loving and wonderful parents, as well as two older brothers
who taught me a lot about sports and drove me crazy.

Favourite
memory, simply sitting on my father’s lap every chance I had and watching TV
like that, reading the paper with him or just cuddling.

What is your favorite drink and food?

Favourite
food…just one? LOL I love
Italian and Mexican food. I love Caesar salad and Quesadillas especially. My fave snack food is sugar snap peas.

I’m an
addict for French Vanilla Cappucinos.

How long have you been an editor?

I’ve been an
editor for about nine years.

Have you always worked for Liquid
Silver Books?

I’ve worked
at Liquid Silver Books all those years and have edited for multiple authors on
the side for just as long.

What drew you to becoming an editor?

The love of
the process and having the chance to work with creative authors to make stories
shine always keeps me editing.

What is your typical day like?

Since I have
multiple online jobs – mainly Editor & Acquisitions Director at LSB, etc.,
I have to split my time. Morning starts
with answering emails, personal & business, and adding new submissions to
the database to read. Checking the LSB forum for anything new, responding to
any posts there.

Editing – I
usually begin that later in the afternoon when I’m fully alert. LOL I try to
stay focused on each story until close to dinnertime. I take most of the hours
that the kids are home from school until their bedtime with them, so it’s not
until around nine p.m. that I’ll work for a couple hours at the computer
reading submissions. I go to bed, get up and begin the process again. J

What is the easiest and hardest thing
about editing?

The easiest
would be working with and developing a camaraderie/friendship with each author.
I’ve been so blessed that every author I’ve worked with has been exceptional
and brilliant, and just a dear to work with. Also, getting hooked on their
characters/stories that usually turn into a series is pretty easy for me.
*cough cough* It’s an easy thing for me to pick a secondary character then
hound the author for their story. So
far, it’s always worked. J

The hardest
would be saying goodbye to characters/series that the author (and I) feel are
finished. I get very invested when editing, the stories/characters become my
own, the authors become important to me. To say goodbye to any of that is
sometimes hard.

What is your guilty pleasure?

Hmmm,
Reality TV. It’s ridiculous stuff to
watch but I do it anyway. In my defense,
though, it’s created a lot of family TV time that I wouldn’t normally have. I
think there’s too much crap on TV (ie: cartoon comedy) that I won’t allow my
kids to watch, so my daughter and I love the dancing shows, challenge shows
like Survivor, and more. There’s just not enough family shows these days like
there were when I was younger.

The show
that I’m addicted to and watching on DVD, since I am a couple seasons behind,
is True Blood. I watch an hour of it
before going to bed (have to make sure the kids are asleep!). It’s my hour of relaxation.

What do you look for in a book?

Whether my
personal reading or acquiring for LSB, stories must have well developed
characters, with depth and explosive chemistry that pull me in, make me love
and/or identify with them. I don’t want
stories that are too reality-based but I do like there to be a realness to the
story that pulls me in. There has to be imaginative and fully realized plots, and
vivid and evocative settings. Romance, Romantic Suspense and some Paranormal
are my three personal favourite genres.
I also love stories with Ménage a Trois sub-genres.

What are the most common mistakes an
author makes?

Showing
instead of telling, passivity, info dumping that slows the story down too much.
Rushing the pace and interaction between the characters, as well as lack of
depth in character and plot.

If you were granted three wishes by a
genie, what would they be?

For my
children to live in a peaceful world, have long, healthy lives and find the
happiness like I have had since meeting my husband and having children.

If you could go anywhere tomorrow,
where would it be?

Ireland. I’d
love to go, see where my Grandfather’s family came from, stand where they might
have once stood, and just see the beauty of the country.

What word or phrases tingles in all
the right places for you?

Chérie. I
love that French word.

I love when
a man is descriptive in what he wants to do to the female. I like to hear the
words, let them wash over me, be the female he’s speaking to. I love it. J

What's the sexiest thing a man has
ever done for you or said to you or both?

Oh my hubby,
he’s the most wonderful man! He gives me the best massages ever. He has magical
hands and just gives me goose bumps. By the time he’s finished, I’m a puddle of
goo…and seduced! It’s simply sexy when
he just wants to take care of me.

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