Monday, February 16, 2009

Gingham Mountain by Mary Connealy


Mary Connealy's charming and romantic tales of the Old West will warm your heart and tickle your funny bone. Read on and make a comment at the end for a chance to win a copy.

ABOUT THE BOOK: All aboard for a delightful, suspense-filled romance, where a Texan is torn between his attraction to a meddlesome schoolmarm and the charms of a designing dressmaker. When Hannah Cartwright meets Grant, she's determined to keep him from committing her orphans to hard labor on his ranch. How far will she go to ensure their welfare?

Grant Cooper is determined to provide a home for the two kids brought in by the orphan train as runs head-on into the new school marm, who believes he's made slave labor out of eight orphaned children. He crowds too many orphans into his rickety house, just like Hannah Cartwright's cruel father. Grant's family of orphans have been mistreated too many times by judgmental school teachers. Now the new schoolmarm is the same except she's so pretty and she isn't really bad to his children, it's Grant she can't stand.

But he is inexplicably drawn to Hannah. Can he keep his ragtag family together while steering clear of love and marriage? Will he win her love or be caught in the clutches of a scheming seamstress?

If you would like to read the first chapter of Gingham Mountain, go here.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Mary's writing journey is similar to a lot of others. Boil it down to persistence, oh, go ahead and call it stubbornness. She just kept typing away. She think the reason she did it was because she was more or less a dunce around people—prone to sit silently when she really ought to speak up(or far worse, speak up when she ought to sit silently).

So, Mary had all these things, she want to say, in her head; the perfect zinger to the rude cashier, which you think of an hour after you’ve left the store, the perfect bit of wisdom when someone needs help, which doesn’t occur to you until they solve their problems themselves, the perfect guilt trip for the kids, which you don’t say because you’re not an idiot. She keep all this wit to herself, much to the relief of all who know her, and then wrote all her great ideas into books. It’s therapeutic if nothing else, and more affordable than a psychiatrist.

So then a very nice, oh so nice publishing company like Barbour Heartsong comes along and says, “Hey, we’ll pay you money for this 45,000 word therapy session.” That’s as sweet as it gets.

Mary's journey to publication is the same as everyone’s except for a few geniuses out there who make it hard for all of us. And even they probably have an Ode to Roast Beef or two in their past.

There are two other books in this Lassoed In Texas Series: Petticoat Ranch and Calico Canyon.

11 comments:

Eileen Astels Watson said...

I loved both Petticoat Ranch and Calico Canyon. They really are like therapy--they make you laugh like no other book.

I'd love a chance to win Gingham Mountain.

eileenastels[at]rogers[dot]com

Anonymous said...

I haven't read the other two, but i would love to read this one in the series!

Jo said...

This book sounds great and I really want to read it. Please enter me.

Blessings,
Jo
ladijo40(at)aol(dot)com

Ashley E said...

I love this series! Please enter me in the drawing. Thank you!

ashley.vanburen[at]gmail[dot]com

Mary Connealy said...

Hi, Jill. thanks for having me on. Good luck in the contest, ladies.
:)

Stormi said...

I have not had the opportunity to read the first two but would love to read this one, it sounds great.

Stormi
ladystorm282001 at yahoo dot com

Anonymous said...

I'd love to win! Thanks! :)

dana{at}mccalled{dot}com

Anonymous said...

Mary's books are laugh-out-loud funny, full of heart and God's grace! I enjoyed both Petticoat Ranch and Calico Canyon. I've been waiting for Hannah's story since I finished the 2nd book. Please enter me in the drawing.

Blessings,
Becca.dowling[at]yahoo[dot]com

Martha A. said...

I would love to win! I enjoyed the last two books as well! martha(at)lclink(dot)com

Jill said...

Congratulations, Dana. You won Mary's book! Stay tuned, everyone, for more book giveaways.

Anonymous said...

I'm so sad I'm too late for the contest.
How did I not know Mary's latest had come out? Now I'll have to go buy it. I love Mary's books.
So, when will she come to the Twin Cities again?