This week Mary Connealy and Stephen Bly

Congratulations to Kay for winning Merrillee Whren’s Hometown Proposal, to Cindy for winning Grace Bridges’ Legendary Space Pilgrims and to Patti for winning Erin Rainwater’s Refining Fires.

This week I’m hosting Mary Connealy with Doctor in Petticoats and Stephen Bly with Cowboy for a Rainy Afternoon. If you want to enter the drawings, please leave a comment on one of the post during the week with your email address. I will not enter you without an email address (my way to contact you if you win). If you don’t want to leave an email address, another way you can enter is to email me at margaretdaley@gmail.com. The drawings end Sunday (August 8th) evening.

Bio for Mary Connealy:

Mary Connealy writes Romantic Comedy with Cowboys. She is a Christy Award Finalist and an ACFW Book of the Year winner.

Her current series is the Sophie’s Daughters Series. The tough Texas cowgirls from Petticoat Ranch are all grown up with love stories of their own.

The series begins with Doctor in Petticoats. Wrangler in Petticoats is coming in October and Sharpshooter in Petticoats releases in January 2011. You didn’t think Sophie McClellen’s daughters would grow up to be quiet little things, did you?

Find Mary online at:
Mary’s Website
Mary’s Blog
Seekerville
Petticoats & Pistols

Blurb for Doctor in Petticoats:

Beth and Alex survive a stage coach accident. Beth realizes the derelict in the stagecoach with her is a doctor and she forces him to help tend the injured. Alex finds he can care for the patients as long as Beth is right beside him. . .yelling at him.

Alex saves Beth’s sister’s life, but he only has the courage to treat patients as long as Beth is there. The one way to keep her close it to marry her. Beth thinks he’s a lunatic, but there’s no denying his skill, and she’s so empathic she can see the terrible price Alex pays to help hurting people. Besides, she owes the loco doctor for saving Sally.

She agrees to marry him. Her parents, Clay and Sophie protest the sudden marriage, but when Beth agrees to the marriage they grant their blessing.

And that’s when the real trouble begins. A bounty hunter is on Alex’s trail for desertion from the army. Alex has to live long enough to turn himself in, and then he may face a firing squad. And this all happens right when Alex is getting to be semi-sane and Beth is just starting to like him.

Bio for Stephen Bly:

* authored and co-authored 102 fiction and nonfiction books,
including historical and contemporary westerns
* Christy Award winner, Westerns, 2002, The Long Trail Home
* Christy Award finalist, Westerns, 2003
* mayor of Winchester, Idaho, pop. 308 (1999-2007)
* pastor of Winchester Community Church
* speaker for men’s and writers’ groups, USA and Canada
* roving editor, Big Show Journal
* mentor, Jerry B. Jenkins Christian Writers Guild
* represented by agent Chip MacGregor, MacGregor Literary
* Interviews and Media Kit available, http://www.blybooks.com/
* Fresno State University, CA, Philosophy, summa cum laude
* M. Div., Fuller Theological Seminary, CA, 1974

Married to writer, Janet Chester Bly, 47 years; they’ve co-authored 18 books.
Resides in Winchester, Idaho at 4,000 ft. elev., on the Nez Perce Indian Reservation.
Father of 3 sons: Russell, Michael, & Aaron. The family includes daughters-in-law, Lois, Michelle & Rina Joye, plus grandkids: Zachary, Miranda (& husband Chris), and Keaton.

Third generation westerner, Steve spent 30 years working family ranches and farms in central California.

Hobbies: Collects and restores antique Winchesters; studies histories of Old West; does construction on Broken Arrow Crossing, a false front western village next to his home. He also plays a par game of golf.

Released June 2010: Cowboy For A Rainy Afternoon
Recent books include: Creede of Old Montana (2009), The Land Tamers (re-issued 2009), One Step Over The Border, Center Street/Hachette; The Horse Dreams Series—Memories of a Dirt Road Town, The Mustang Breaker, and Wish I’d Known You Tears Ago (B&H); Paperback Writer (B&H); and Fortunes of the Black Hills Series (B&H Publishers).

Blurb for Cowboy for a Rainy Afternoon:

A 10-year-old boy. Six old cowboys. A ’49 Plymouth with open trunk. A damsel in distress. All the fixings for adventure on a summer’s day in 1954 Albuquerque. Maybe you weren’t born 100 years too late!