Mary Connealy~Real Life Petticoat Ranch

Saturday, January 31, 2009

Romance Historical Fiction Award

Rita Gerlach at Stepping Stones Magazine for Writers

just contacted me to say I'd been awarded the Romantic Historical Fiction Award.

I am honored.

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Great Review of Gingham Mountain

This That and the Other

has a nice review of

Gingham Mountain

I'm always on edge to see

what people will think of a new book.

I mean...sure I like them....

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Today's My Day on Petticoats & Pistols

I’ve got a new book releasing February 1st.
Gingham Mountain.

It’s book three in my Lassoed in Texas series.

The earlier books are:
Petticoat Ranch
And
Calico Canyon

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

A nice review of Calico Canyon

Once Upon a Romance

had a nice review

Calico Canyon

Here

Monday, January 26, 2009

Mary's Books~More Coming Soon

Read all three books in Mary Connealy's award winning series:

Lassoed in Texas

Petticoat Ranch

Calico Canyon

Gingham Mountain

And find Mary's historical Golden Days.

A sweet romance set against the Klondike Goldrush

in the three book anthology

Alaska Brides

And read Mary's whacky cozy mysteries in

Nosy in Nebraska

And be there at the beginning on her newest historical western romantic comedy series Montana Marriages with:

Montana Rose

For more about each book read all about it here

Gingham Mountain Book Trailer

GINGHAM MOUNTAIN

BOOK TRAILER

I think, perhaps, this is NOT my gift. B

ut you can go look if you want...
HERE

Great Grandma Meets Elle

I took my mom to Omaha on Saturday to meet her first great-grandchild.

It was a nice meeting. :)

Elle slept some, ate some, cried some.

In other words,

she performed brilliantly, all the tricks an almost two-week-old knows.

My mom is the grandmother of 28. I think that's the current count.

But now she's starting a new phase, great-grandmotherhood.

The numbers could grow exponentially.

And that's okay because my mom has a capacity for love that is unparallelled.

I dedicated my latest book,

Gingham Mountain,

to my mom, Dorothy Moore.

I had to throw in one snapshot of me and Elle, too.

Friday, January 23, 2009

WRITER TO READER

Writer to Reader
A new blog I've found that connects the writer to the reader in a cool way.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Press Release for Gingham Mountain

I got this from Barbour. The press release for Gingham Mountain, coming in February to a bookstore near you.

Humorous Historical Fiction Author Pens Lassoed in Texas-Book Three

Love derails a woman's best-laid plans in Gingham Mountain, another

humorous historical romance by author Mary Connealy.

The third book in the Lassoed in Texas series, Gingham Mountain is set to release in February 2009.

When Hannah Cartwright meets Grant, a disreputable-looking wrangler, she's determined to keep him from committing two orphan train children to hard labor on his ranch. How long will she have to play the role of schoolmarm before she gets a chance to rescue the children?

Prudence, the town dressmaker, has designs on Grant. Will she succeed in securing his affections?

As Grant struggles to run the ranch and raise six orphans, he finds love making tracks to his heart. Will he be caught in a web of deceit or lassoed by the love of one good woman?

Enjoy this novel full of humor and romance from Mary Connealy, an award-winning author, who lives on a Nebraska ranch with her husband and is the mother of four grown daughters. She is the author of Petticoat Ranch and Calico Canyon.

Also an avid blogger, Mary is a GED instructor by day and an author by night.

For more information on Mary Connealy, visit her Web site or her blogs Seekerville and Petticoats & Pistols

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Only the big stuff

I'm not going to be one of those grandma's who bores everybody with minor details about her beautiful, precious, sweet, innocent, perfect grandchild.

But when something BIG happens, then YEAH, sure I'm going to write about that.

I thought this was worthy.

Elle's first HEADBAND!!!

Have you ever noticed that, at first, when a baby is very first born, you say, "She's two hours old, she's twelve hours old.

Then a day passes and you switch to, "She's two days old. She's five days old."

Then they start saying, "She's two weeks old, she's six weeks old."

Eventually that morphs into, "She's six months old, she's eighteen months old."

About the time they turn two it starts to be 1/2 years. "She's four and a half."

This ends about school age and is only years. "She's six. She's ten."

You know you're getting old when that drops to DECADES.

He's in his forties, sixties, eighties.

Well, Elle is ONE WEEK OLD TODAY.

So she's already graduated.

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Ten Questions about 2008

Here are ten questions for you to answer in the comments section or just for yourself. Reflecting on where we've been will give us a better perspective of where we want to go in 2009.

1.. What went really well for you in 2008?

2.. What did you do that you’re proud of?

3.. Who have you helped out?

4.. How have you grown and developed in your profession?

5.. How have you grown and developed with co-workers?

6.. Who has really appreciated your work?

7.. Who has helped you out and been there for you?

8.. Who have you admired in 2008?

9.. What have been some fun moments in 2008?

10.. Which 5 things from 2008 would you like to have more of in 2009?