This week I’m hosting Debra Clopton with Her Unexpected Cowboy, Ronie Kendig with Beowulf (US only) and Lenora Worth with Bayou Sweetheart. If you want to enter the drawings for the books, 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 (Jan. 12th) evening.
Hero Interview from Her Unexpected Cowboy by Debra Clopton:
How exciting to have Rowdy McDermott the hero from HER UNEXPECTED COWBOY written by Debra Clopton a January 2014 release from Love Inspired Romance.
1. Rowdy, tell me the most interesting thing about you.
I guess what I think is most interesting about me is that I’ve recently became a new man—I made a new commitment to change my life. Be a better man. A responsible man in all aspects of my life. It’s tough—living down a past you regret. But I’m determined to do it and with the Lord’s help and my family’s support I’m going to do it.
2. What do you do for fun?
Boy would that have been a different ten months ago. These days, I stick close to the family ranch, Sunrise Ranch, and I do my job, I run the cattle business of the ranch. I spend my “fun” time working with all the foster boys on their rodeo skills…and I stay away from all the places I used to go for fun.
3. What do you put off doing because you dread it?
Taking showers. I hate to take showers. It’s been about a year since my last one—lol okay I’m joking. I take showers. But really, that’s me just being evasive because I really don’t know how to answer that question. I dread a lot of stuff but I don’t know that I put off anything.
4. What are you afraid of most in life?
That one I can answer. I’m afraid I’ll fail and not become the man of honor that my brothers, Morgan and Tucker and my dad, Randolph, have become. I’ve failed most of my life but now, I’m trying. Trying to become a man my mom would have been proud of if she’d lived.
5. What is the most important thing to you?
That. Becoming an honorable man the boys of this ranch can look up to. Not the bad example I’ve been in the past.
6. Do you read books? If so, what is your favorite type of book?
I’m a John Grisham fan. Not that I read a lot but for some reason I like the flawed characters he writes. I relate to them—maybe a little too much. But I think I like that they have redeeming qualities.
7. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
My recklessness.
8. Do you have a pet? If so, what is it and why that pet?
Well, there are the ranch dogs and I have my horse, I’m just a horse man. I know there are folks out there that love their cats but I’ve never been a cat person—but my new neighbor, Lucy Calvert, she has a cat. A big yellow cat that’s eaten a few too many table casseroles if you know what I mean. I have to admit though that I’m not real fond of that nosy cat but I can’t stop thinking about that pretty lady next door…I’m afraid she’s going to fall out of her hayloft again and I’m not going to be there to catch her like I did the other day. She needs a keeper.
9. If you could travel back in time, where would you go and why?
I’d go back several months ago, when I made the mistake of my life…then again, I guess if I hadn’t made that mistake I wouldn’t have realized how much I needed to change my life…
