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Historical Romances by Five Star- Gale author Joanne Sundell
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NEW SALES TO ANNOUNCE:
During these difficult times in the book industry, I'm humbled, grateful, and just plain HAPPY to announce the sale of my romantic Civil War series to Five Star-Gale, due out in 2010. Book one, THE QUAKER AND THE CONFEDERATE~Hearts Divided will be out 5/10 and Book two, THE QUAKER AND THE CONFEDERATE~Hearts Persuaded will be out 9/10.
NEW LARGE PRINT TO ANNOUNCE:
THE PARLOR HOUSE DAUGHTER was released last December and thankfully received favorable national reviews:
"Historical romance of a satisfying order." PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY
"A classic western of the good, the bad, and the ugly." BOOKLIST
I'm happy to announce that this book will be out in Large Print hardcover from Thorndike Press Historical Fiction in April.
MEGGIE'S REMAINS, set in 1874 Hot Sulphur Springs, Colorado Territory, is scheduled for a July release. I'm so happy to have blurbs from noted authors Heather Graham, Alice Duncan, and Harriet Rochlin!
Blurbs of my historical romances:
p>Matchmaker, Matchmaker, set in 1867 Golden City, is the romantic tale of a young immigrant doctor and the hardships she confronts, struggling with religious differences and love in the rugged Colorado Territory.
A...My Name's Amelia, set in 1880 Colorado Springs, is the romantic tale of a young deaf woman and her marriage to a rancher she's never met. (Soon out in Large Print, too!)
The Parlor House Daughter is set in 1880 Denver, with the heroine born in 1863 Nevada City, Colorado Territory; born in a pine shack, a crib, at the end of the line in the red light district; bound by birth to the world of prostitution.
"The Parlor House Daughter is a compelling story of the Old West, and an unexpected romance, evoking the distant past while celebrating the timeless wonder of the healing power of love." Susan Wiggs, NYT bestselling author
The Parlor House Daughter offers up a heroine as vulnerable as she is spunky. Born into the sporting life, beautiful Rebecca Rose captures the heart of the dashing Morgan Larkspur...and the reader's, too." Suzanne LyonSuzanne Lyon~A Heart For Any Fate "...evokes with gripping realism time, place and pioneer hearts."
And from noted author Alice Duncan: "They were worlds apart. She grew up with the brutal truth, he with lies. Together, swept up in conflicts neither saw coming, their new-found love is tested against dangerous secrets from the past. Joanne writes the best stories! This one is no exception." Alice Duncan~bestselling, award-winning author
I cannot thank these noted, talented, generous writers enough!
Blogs and romance sites to check out ...
Hot Romance Tip of the Week! Visit RomanceJunkies and PetticoatsAndPistols, both wonderfully romantic blogs!
BookExpo America was "all that" and more! Please read my blog "There and Back Again" for delicious dish about the trade show. The event has to be THE DISNEYLAND of the book world. Too much fun. A little hard on the feet, with so much ground to cover ... so many places to go and people to meet!Being a small town girl from the mountains, I'm just glad I found my way onto the LA freeways, found the convention center, then found my way home. A coup de gras, indeed!
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The photo shown is moi` with a Gentoo Penguin on a Feb/08 trip to Antarctica! If only women were around in 19th century Antarctica, then I could pen a historical romance (my fav time) set in Antarctica!
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PLEASE VISIT MY WEBSITE FOR BLURBS FROM MY UPCOMING BOOKS! THE PARLOR HOUSE DAUGHTER AND MEGGIE'S REMAINS. SOON TO BE POSTED, BLURBS FROM THE QUAKER AND THE CONFEDERATE SERIES!
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Matchmaker, Matchmaker and A... My Name's Amelia
A...My Name's Amelia (Five Star Expressions) (Five Star Expressions)
Deafened at a young age, her natural-born means of expression taken from her, Amelia Anne Polley must learn to communicate all over again. More than her ability to hear was taken from her, on the fateful day she fell ill in 1874. Left to grow up in frontier territory, at the Colorado Institute for the Education of Mutes, Amelia is determined to live the life she'd dreamed for herself, before becoming deaf. Her dreams do not include becoming anyone's mail-order bride, especially the handsome, roughened rancher Aaron Zachary's.
Amelia has reasons enough not to marry Aaron, not the least of which she and the weathered cowboy are complete strangers. Different in ways that count, for any man and wife, Amelia and Aaron surely won't suit. Why, they have nothing in common-except secrets-secrets neither wants to reveal to the other, and risk what might happen.
Beyond the language of speech and sign, of reading and writing, and informed expression, is another language, one speaking to emotion and passion, a language far more intimate, and oftentimes, harder to learn. Only if Amelia and Aaron can find their way out of their troubled pasts, overcoming hardship and heartache, will they find their way to each other, and learn to speak the same language-of love.
Amazon Price: $26.95 (as of 12/31/2009) 
Five Star Expressions - Matchmaker, Matchmaker
A Jewish girl of nine, Zoe-Esther Zundelevich gives in to fancy and secretly visits the village matchmaker before leaving Russia with her papa, Yitzhak, for refuge in Amerika. The matchmaker gives Zoe-Esther the name of her promised match, when she is of age. Zoe-Esther dreams of him, carrying her dreams across the ocean and into womanhood.
Times are hard but Zoe-Esther manages the impossible and becomes one of the few women to graduate from medical school in 1867 Philadelphia. Afraid for her papa's life when he's stricken with tuberculosis, she moves him to the Colorado Territory in search of a cure. All she holds dear, Zoe-Esther can never jeopardize her papa's health and happiness. That is precisely what she faces when rugged, handsome Jake Whiskey comes into her life. She must not give in to her attraction to a rake, a gambler, a non-Jew! It would kill her papa, who wants her to marry "nice Daniel Stein." But the name given Zoe-Esther long ago wasn't Daniel. It wasn't Jake either, no matter how much she might wish it.
It's not easy to find work, shelter, or enough food in Golden City, where people don't want a woman doctor and can't say too much good about Jews either. Zoe-Esther has faced hard times before, but never with so much at stake. When she at last meets her match, can she risk losing the man who now has her heart? Can she sacrifice her own happiness for her papa's?
Amazon Price: $26.95 (as of 12/31/2009)
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