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Posted by Suzanne McMinn | PermalinkArchive for March 30th, 2005
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This USA Today bestselling romance author has won a Rita and a Golden Heart as well as Romantic Times and National Readers Choice awards. She was hooked on romance by a Shirlee Busbee novel, and she makes her home in Idaho. Be the first to guess her name and win two of her books!
For the Guessing Game Rules and Instructions, click here . ONE GUESS PER COMMENT. More clues to follow if needed! (See the Comments for this entry for the additional clues.)
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This New York Times bestselling author’s first book was published by Harlequin Superromance in 1985. She’s an eight-time Rita finalist and her numerous previous jobs include raspberry picking. Be the first to guess her name and win two of her books.
For the Guessing Game Rules and Instructions, click here . ONE GUESS PER COMMENT. More clues to follow! (See the Comments for this entry for the additional clues.)
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Guessing games! I’m going to give away some of the books tumbling out of my bookshelves. How do you get them? Ha! You have to GUESS the authors!! I’ll give clues that gradually narrow down the authors’ identities until if I HAVE TO I’ll even post the URL to their websites, LOL. The first person to identify an author wins TWO books by that author. (And yes, you can play for as many of the books as you want to!) These are recent books by well-known, best-selling romance authors. If I said their names, you’d recognize them right away. But I’m not going to say their names. :twisted: There will be six guessing game entries posted–each starts with one clue and further clues will be added regularly until each identity is unmasked! Guess as often as you like because every wrong guess helps narrow down who it is NOT!
ONE GUESS PER COMMENT! But you may guess as many times as you like!
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Today is our one-year anniversary of moving to North Carolina from Texas. I can’t believe it’s been a year and I can’t believe how little I’ve done here. So many rooms to paint, so little time….. When we moved, I was in the middle of writing Cole Dempsey’s Back in Town . I mean, smack in the middle. I took six weeks off the book for the move. I did this huge throw-away binge at the old house before we moved (and my husband marvels at how we moved into a house nearly twice as large and yet I have already managed to clutter it up!). We spent weeks fixing up the old house, repainting, repairing, replacing, before we put it on the market. The sad thing is that when we visited later, the new people re-did almost everything we’d done. ::sob:: They painted the house white (WHITE!) inside and out and even tore out my rose bushes. (WHAT is wrong with them??)
My oldest son was five weeks old when we moved into that house. The hardest thing about moving was leaving all those sentimental memories of my babies in that house. The hallway they ran down on their chubby legs. The kitchen cabinet doors they pulled on until they fell off and had to be repaired. The swings they swung on and the slide they slid down. The trees they climbed and the dock out back where they conquered their fears to learn to dive in the lake. All the birthdays and Christmases and Thanksgivings. All the wails and the laughter. It’s all there in that house.
We’ve lived here a year now–in a house in many ways like the one we left, another house in a small town, on a lake, with two acres of yard, and yet different in a hundred ways—and we’ve made new memories and it feels like home…in a way. But there still isn’t enough history here. I miss the steeped memories of the old house. Can a house ever feel like home when it’s not the home you brought your babies to when they were a day old and fresh from the hospital? Even our first child, who was five weeks old when we moved in, was “born” there in a way. We were already getting ready to build the house when I knew I was pregnant. We stood on the ground where the house would be built when I first told my husband I was pregnant. It was the first house we ever owned, and we didn’t have much money when we built it so it was as much blood, sweat and tears that went into it as dollars. It was our house in a way I can’t imagine any other house being, even the “dream” house we moved into. You can see our old house in Texas in February 2004, not long before we moved, by clicking here , and our new house in North Carolina in April 2004, not long after we moved in, by clicking here .
North Carolina is beautiful and our new home is wonderful. With five of us, the old house was closing in on us, it was so small. But I miss living where my babies were babies . When I was a kid, we moved all the time. I never lived anywhere in my life more than five or six years, and mostly I lived places for no more than a year or two. Maybe that’s why living in our old house for thirteen years is still so hard to forget. I think, more than anywhere I’ve ever lived, that house will always be home in my mind.
Where is home to you?
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This being Texas, the snow you see here melted two minutes later and it was as if it had never happened.
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He finally learned to ride a bike on Easter Sunday, at thirteen years old. (There was no place to ride bikes at our old house in Texas.) Right after this picture was taken, he smashed into the neighbor’s mailbox!
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Hey, a big thank-you to everyone who cracked me up yesterday participating in the three-word story! (See below–it’s still here if you want to play some more!) I believe some of you have a sexual fetish involving pasta, and therapy is an option!! LOL. And now my blog will turn up on Google under keywords: sexual fetish pasta . BRING IT ON.
NEWSFLASH! Cole is on the loose! They keep telling me, so it must be so! (Who are they ? They always know everything!) It’s available in stores now! Go see!! If you don’t want to leave home, it’s shipping from Amazon where they said this morning there were only two left in stock. But they (they!) always say weird stuff then suddenly they have more, so don’t be afraid to order. You can also order from Barnes and Noble where they (!!) say it’s a February 2000 release (THEY can be wrong!!)
Take Cole home. YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO! 
Had a Cole sighting? Tell me about it!
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