Monday, December 16, 2013

Welcome Bess McBride and her Boxed set Series

I'm happy to have Bess McBride on my blog today. Bess, I've read A Train Though Time and loved it, but haven't read the other two books in the series. Thanks for offering all three in the boxed set at a splendid price. Beth is giving away one boxed set today so leave her a comment to be in the drawing.

"Thanks for having me on your blog today, Linda. I got the idea for A Train Through Time, the first book in the Train Through Time series, when I worked for the National Park Service at Glacier National Park, Montana, for the summer in 2007. I've always had a fascination with trains, as do a lot of people, and the Great Northern Railway was integral to the building of the chalets and lodges in the park, as well as having the land set aside. Amtrak's Empire Builder stops near the West Glacier entrance, and I used to hear the train's whistle every day. I knew I had to write a story involving the train, and since time travel romances are my favorite read, I knew it had to be a time travel romance. I channeled my favorite movie, Somewhere in Time, mixed it up with Glacier National Park, the route of the Great Northern Railway's Oriental Limited (now styled as the Empire Builder for Amtrak), and the story began!

Readers asked for another book in the series and I wrote Together Forever Across Time and then A Smile in Time. They all involved time travel aboard the trains along with meeting a handsome man from the early 1900s and some happily ever after…after they figure out the time traveling thing! I'm currently finishing up the fourth book of the series, Finding You in Time which should be released soon. All the Train Through Time books are sweet romances."



Train Through Time Series Boxed Set Books 1-3


Together in one boxed set, the bestselling Train Through Time series:

Book 1: A Train Through Time
Book 2: Together Forever Across Time
Book 3: A Smile in Time

A TRAIN THROUGH TIME: College teacher Ellie Standish thinks she's on a sleek modern train heading to a conference on women's studies in Seattle, but she awakens from a night's doze to find herself on a bizarre historical train full of late Victorian era reenactors who refuse to come out of character. When the leader of the group—one handsome, green-eyed Robert Chamberlain—finally convinces her the date is indeed 1901, a skeptical Ellie rejects any eccentric theories of time travel and presumes she is smack dab in the middle of a very interesting historical dream. She turns the directorial reins of her dream over to one smitten and willing Robert, only to realize that dreams cannot last forever. Someday, she must wake up to reality, though Ellie no longer has any idea what reality is. She only knows that Robert must play an important part in her future. But how can he...if he's only a figment of her imagination or worse yet...a man who belongs to an era long past?

TOGETHER FOREVER ACROSS TIME: Stephen Sadler reluctantly attends the Seattle wedding of Robert Chamberlain to Ellie Standish, the woman who had captured his interest. There he says goodbye to the woman he thought he had fallen for. Only a few weeks later while traveling on a train, Stephen is confronted by the vision of a strange wild-haired woman in a pair of snug-fitting trousers called “jeans” who claims she doesn’t know where she is or how she came to be on his train—until she sees the date on the newspaper, that is.

Dani Douglas cannot travel through time! Her mother in Montana is ill, and she has to get back to her. But the crystal clear blue eyes of handsome Stephen Sadler hold her captive in 1901, and she doesn’t know how to leave him...perhaps forever.

Stephen realizes that Dani and Ellie have much in common, but where Ellie simply captured his interest, Dani has captured his imagination and his heart. Unlike Ellie though, Dani cannot stay, her mother is ill. Stephen doesn’t know how he can let her leave him...perhaps forever. As the train hurtles back and forth across the rails, Stephen and Dani struggle to find a way to be together forever across time.

A SMILE IN TIME: Annie St. John and her sister, Marie, decide that the three-day train ride from Chicago to Seattle to catch their Alaskan cruise was a bit too much, and they swear that next time, they’ll fly. But “a bit too much” doesn’t begin to describe what they find when they wake up from a short doze on their sleek modern train.

Over a hundred years before, Rory O’Rourke heads back to Seattle from a photo shoot in Montana on the Oriental Limited. When a young woman in tight clothing called "capris" falls into his arms, Rory finds his hands full with not one, but two young women who claim they must have traveled back in time. Rory scoffs at the idea, but his innate chivalry will not allow him to resist the pleas of the young women for help. 

You can find Bess on these links.

Thank you for blogging with us today, Bess.  Readers, I hope you'll leave Bess a comment.

Happy Reading and Writing!

Linda
www.lindalaroque.com

Sunday, December 1, 2013

How About A Little Holiday Cheer—$25 B&N Gift Card


Coming December 1-January 1:  HOLIDAY CHEER and a chance to win a $25 Barnes and Noble gift card, as well as other prizes. Join twenty-nine authors as they talk about their holiday celebrations, share their romance novels and provide a yummy recipe.  Find it all on Anna Kathryn’s blog: http://aklanier.com/annas-blog/.
To be eligible for the $25 gift card and author prizes, just leave a comment on each blog post.  Authors will draw names from the comments the day following their post.  Anna Kathryn will draw a winner for the $25 gift card on or about Jan. 3, 2014.

Date
Name
1-Dec
Roni Denholtz
2-Dec
Wareeze Woodson
3-Dec
Bethany Averie
4-Dec
Celia Yeary
5-Dec
Andrea Downing
6-Dec
Anna Kathryn
7-Dec
Caroline Clemmons
8-Dec
Carra Copelin
9-Dec
Chrys Fey
10-Dec
Melissa Snark
11-Dec
Sky Purington
12-Dec
Marie Higgins
13-Dec
Renee Knowles
14-Dec
Linda LaRoque
15-Dec
Jenny Anderson
16-Dec
Cheryl Pierson
17-Dec
L. A. Kelley
18-Dec
Lyn Horner
19-Dec
J D Faver
20-Dec
Tara Manderino
21-Dec
Shauna Allen
22-Dec
Joan Reeves
23-Dec
Terri Rochenski
24-Dec
Anna Kathryn
25-Dec
No One
26-Dec
Sarah McNeal
27-Dec
Tanya Hanson
28-Dec
Loretta C. Rogers
29-Dec
Debra St. John
30-Dec
Charlene Raddon
31-Dec
Kathleen Rice Adams
1-Jan
Anna Kathryn

On December 14th, my drawing will be for an autographed paper copy of Born in Ice to a US resident only. If the winner is International, I'll send an copy.

I hope you'll take part and visit each site. 

Happy Reading and Writing!

Linda
www.lindalaroque.com




Friday, November 22, 2013

Birdie's Nest Give-A-Way

I'll be giving a way 3 signed paperback copies of Birdie's Nest on Goodreads on December 19th. Included will be a mini LCD flashlight with my name. Click on the link to the right to be taken to Goodreads to enter.

Check out all of the give-a-ways. I just spent an hour that I should have been using to write, entering give-a-ways.

Hope you win a copy!

Linda

Sunday, November 10, 2013

Happy Veteran's Day — "In Flanders Fields"

I was born in September of 1945, just after the end of WWII. Patriotism was high throughout my school years. I can't say I remember saying the Pledge of Allegiance every morning in elementary school, but we did sing the Star Spangled Banner through out my secondary and college years before every athletic event and assembly. Everyone stood, took their hats off and placed their right hand over their heart.

Of course, I had a good role model, which is sometimes lacking today. My father was a Master Sergeant in the Air Force.  We were often on base and observed the exchange of salutes and military exhibitions.

In the sixth grade we memorized several poems and recited them before the class. One that has stuck with me all these years is In Flanders Field.

Even today it remains one of the most memorable poems ever written.

In Flanders Fields
By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)
Canadian Army


In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
 
To you from failing hands we throw
 
                                                                              The torch; be yours to hold it high.

                                                                        
If ye break faith with us who die
 
                                                                          We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
 
                                                                                     In Flanders fields.


Desires of the Heart—Poor Sales—Why?—Free at Amazon.com on November 11th & 12th

Desires of the Heart, my time travel set in post WWII, has never sold well, and I'd like to know why.
Is it because of the beginning scene, one rather tough to read, a bedroom scene staring the heroine and her soon to be ex-husband? It is rather rough but was written that way because here the jerk of a husband shows his true colors?

I decided to enroll it in the KDP program at Amazon and offer it for free on November 11th and 12th in hopes readers could help me out. I hope you'll grab a copy and please leave a short review stating whether you like it or not.

Blurb:

Loren Fairchild longs for children, but is barren. At a cottage in Carlisle, UK, she puts her divorce behind her and begins a new life. In 1947 the former owner’s wife disappeared. That same week, according to local gossip, her husband took up with a dark-headed harlot. One morning in 2007, a simple-minded woman appears at Loren’s cottage and triggers events that change Loren’s life forever.

Miles Chapeau misses the wife, the mother of his two children, he’d known before the war. When he returned from WWII in 1945, he learned she’d been hurt in an air raid and has the mind of a child. He loves her and would never forsake his duty, but misses the intimate side of marriage and a woman to share his life. One day she disappears and his existence is turned upside down.
Desires of the Heart is available at Amazon.com/ I hope you'll get a copy and tell me what you think.
Happy Reading and Writing!