 My romantic comedy The Trouble With Love is live and ready to enchant you.
To catch a thief, Susannah Quinn, a by-the-book deputy, and D. E. Hogan (just call me Hogan), an undercover FBI agent, pose as husband and wife. Can two mismatched, pretend lovers, caught in a comedy of errors courtship, catch a thief, recover stolen jewels–and resist the sweet siren call of desire?
Chapter 1 was published March 1, and a new chapter will be published each month until October 2010 brings The End.
To enhance your reading experience, I've created a special soundtrack for The Trouble With Love. Each month a new song will be added to the soundtrack to accompany that month's new chapter. You'll find it on either of my blogs Sling Words and Joan Slings Words.
Open a tab at The Trouble With Love then open another tab at either of my blogs. Scroll to the bottom of the blog page where you'll see the Player. Click Play. Then go back to the tab where my novel is displayed and start reading. The music will play until you hit Stop or you close the tab.
I hope you'll read this serialized romantic comedy and tell your friends about it too. Drop me a note if you like it. I can always be reached at joan at joanreeves dot com. In the subject box, put   TO PURCHASE A BOOK Have you ever wondered how libraries decide which books to buy? Libraries make their decisions on book purchases based on the public's desires and demands. If you have books you'd like to see on your local library's shelves, don't hesitate to make a recommendation to the librarian. Give the librarian the title and the author's name and the ISBN (that number on the back or inside) and ask that they stock that author's books. Of course, my hardcover romance novels are just the kind of book your librarian can order. Ask your favorite library to purchase my books. The titles and ISBNs are featured prominently throughout this site. Thanks for your support! Moonlight On Snow: A Love Story is still available. Add a little love and laughter to your life, read this heartwarming romance free online. Tell a friend about it. Please drop me a note if you enjoy it!
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 Here you'll find book talk. What I'm reading, book reviews, what's out there looming on the horizon, or just articles I think might interest you. Starting in July 2008 and continuing through 2009, each month a published author will be interviewed here. Each month you'll see one of the fabulous authors listed there interviewed in Reading. I hope you'll read the interview and visit the author's blog or website. My goal is for you to enjoy meeting a new author each month. Chances are you may never have heard of the author. The writing world is full of immensely talented writers yet only a very small percentage of working writers become household names. I guarantee you that these authors have books worth purchasing - and worth getting your local library to stock. So embrace the opportunity to explore and discover new talent. Then tell a friend about your find. Stop by each month and get your book fix here.  May 2009 Important Info Website: http://www.michaelhaskins.net Blog: http://chasinthewind.blogspot.com/ Book ISBN: 978-1-59414-638-1 Though Michael's book is sold out, you can find some copies on Amazon or visit his website for more info. I'm looking forward to another Mad Mick Murphy Mystery. I hope you'll visit his website and blog. You'll like what you find. The Standard 10 Joan: How many years from first manuscript to first sale? Michael: My first full manusrcipt was written in the late '80s, however, Chasin' the Wind took a year to write and year to sell and almost two years until its publication date. Joan: What has been your best experience as a published author? Michael: My first book signing in Key West where friends and stangers actually showed up and bought the book. Joan: What has been your worst experience as a published author? Michael: The hard work of promoting the book. Joan: What has surprised you most as a professional writer? Michael: That writing the book was the easy part, promoting it is the hardest part. Joan: If you could write any story, without regard to it selling or any of those other business issues, what would you write? Michael: I would like to write a story where James Dean, Ernest Hemingway and Che Guevara meet and discuss the '50s and '60s and they picture the future. Joan: What do you love about your career? Michael: Seeing my imagination come to life on paper. Joan: What do you hate about your career? Michael: I can't make a living at it. Joan: If you got a big 6-figure advance for a book, what's the first thing you'd buy for yourself? Michael: A bigger sailboat! Joan: What is the best advice you can give beginning writers? Michael: Erase the words give up from your vocabulary and then read a lot and write daily. Joan: What would you like readers to know? Michael: That writing, creating life on paper, is fun and after you're done and rewrite and edit, you think you know how God felt once. Thanks, Michael. I enjoyed your book, and I appreciate your taking time to visit with us.  by Alice Duncan April 2009 Therefore, I decided to have an unmarried woman run away from her Massachusetts home to California during the Gold Rush. The product of a dreadful family, Zenobia Gray was seduced by a man whom she believed loved her. Naturally, when she arrived in California, her beau was long gone. Since California at that time was desperate for women to take care of the work that men didn’t know how to do (in other words, everything except dig holes and stuff like that), Zee at least had opportunities unavailable to her back east. The problem with the book was that, although I’d lived in California for most of my life and had taken classes in California history in high school and college, I didn’t know much about the physical area where my story would take place: California’s Gold Country. As luck would have it, an OLD friend (I emphasize the word old, because she’s eleven days older than I), Lauren Fiedler, invited me to visit Taylorsville, California, with her over the Fourth of July holiday, where we would stay with friends of hers. Well, hecky-darn, Taylorsville was right smack in the middle of where I wanted my book to be set! So I went, had a wonderful time, and managed to get in some real, live research while having tons of fun. Lauren and I stayed with some friends of hers, Joe and Susan Tomaselli (Susan, unfortunately, died in an automobile accident a couple of years ago), and Joe was a mine of information about the area, the old mining operations, etc. He also told me to read THE SHIRLEY LETTERS, a book written by a woman who accompanied her spouse to the gold fields, so I got myself a copy. Boy, it turned out I was exactly right about my assumption that people have always been the same. Poor Mrs. Shirley suffered from migraine headaches and all sorts of things we suffer from today, but she had to cook over a wood fire, get water from the river, had no antibiotics when she or her hubby were injured, and so forth. Thus the redoubtable Zee Gray ended up operating a soup kitchen in Muddy Flats, a run-down gold camp in the middle of the gold country. The reason Sam Ransom ended up in Muddy Flats is an entirely different story. Sam, you see, was on the lam from the law in about as many states and territories as the United States possessed at that time. Sam, determined to go straight at last, decided that the prim and proper Zenobia Gray would be a person to emulate in his new life as a law-abiding citizen. Work In Progress
Writers always have a work in progress. The trick is to actually finish the work. Visit this page to read more about what I'm currently writing. Previously Published
Funny, emotional, and heart-felt are all adjectives critics used to describe my previously published romance novels. Visit this page to see the covers and read about each of my previously published books. For Gifts and Promotion products designed by a writer for writers, shop at Joan's Cafe Press shop The WRITE Way. These unique designs can be found on tee shirts, tote bags, mugs, journals, and more, and they're not available elsewhere.
Everything is priced low for writers' budgets. There is even value-priced bulk orders available for writing organizations. High quality? Unique designs? Low cost? Yes to all! Joan will even work with you to personalize any of the products. Just contact her by email after you've looked at the items in the shop if you don't find what you want. There's something for every writer at The WRITE Way.  Copyright 2002-2009 by Joan Reeves. All rights reserved. For permission to reproduce anything on this web site, please contact: Joan Reeves, P. O. Box 1045, Richmond TX 77406-1045 or email: joan @ joanreeves.com. |
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