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Interact with Mary Connealy
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Last On: Apr 16, 2011 - 8:34 PM
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12,686
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Member Since:
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January 22, 2007
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Location:
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Decatur, NE
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ShoutLife Address:
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shoutlife.com/maryconnealy
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Website:
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www.maryconnealy.com
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Genre:
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Romance
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Primary Publishers:
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Barbour
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Influences:
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Julie Garwood, Mary Higgins Clark, Clive Cussler, Louis L'Amour, Lori Copeland
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Similar To:
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Lori Copeland, Deeanne Gist, Cathy Marie Hake, Julie Garwood, possibly Stephen Bly
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Romantic comedies,
favorite:,
While You Were Sleeping,
action:,
Independence Day,
Apocalypse.
ON TV I mostly just watch,
The O'Reilly Factor,
Love:,
and,
American Idol,
too.
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Cowboy Christmas (2009)
Annette Talbot has the voice of an angel and the devil on her trail.
Elijah Walker has been burned by a lying woman and now, pretty Annette is shaping up to be a bigger liar than his ex-fiancé.
Annette is determined to stop always being a coward. She's growing in a backbone and she's going to do it right now. Or well, maybe not RIGHT now. Maybe she'll wait until it's a little bit safer.
Annette has a knack for standing firm when she ought to bend, and bending when she ought to stand firm. She should have bent when Elijah said he'd take care of her. But Annette didn't have the much trouble defying nice guy Elijah.
Elijah's doing his best to ignore this little damsel in distress. But Annette gets pretty much dropped straight into Elijah's unwilling arms. He can't exactly toss her back in the frigid river to float on downstream, now can he?
But helping her isn't the same as trusting her, and that he will never do. Annette decides that she'll practice being brave by standing up to Elijah. Elijah's getting tired of having a snippy woman in his face. And he's really getting tired of catching himself in the midst of kissing Annette. That's not part of his plan to protect his heart.
Winter comes on hard.
Christmas draws near.
And one squabbling couple may get a chance to forget their old hurts and follow their own star to true love.
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Gingham Mountain (2009)
A rancher runs head-on into the new school marm, who believes he's made slave labor out of eight orphaned children.
Grant Cooper 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.
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Nosy in Nebraska (2009)
Three cozy mysteries
Of Mice and Murder
Carrie hates mice and loves the big city. So why is she living in a huge mouse infested house in her dinky hometown? The dead guy in her pantry closet is the most interesting thing that's happened since she came home. Of course the carpenter who's helping her trap her mice and solve the crime is pretty interesting, too.
Pride and Pestilence
Joe Manning comes to town to finally meet his dead beat dad, only to find his father has been murdered.
Bonnie is attacked while she's at work in the Melnik Historical Society Museum, proud home of Maxie the World's Largest Field Mouse. Only her attacker now claims it was an accident, and he claims he's never seen the guy before who's dead in Bonnie's store room.
Bonnie wants to be suspicious but once he stopped attacking her he turns out to be pretty sweet. And lots of people had a motive to kill Sven Gunderson - including Bonnie herself. Gunderson, the true owner of Maxie, wanted his mouse back.
In Melnik, that means war!
The Miceman Cometh
Tyler Simpson is opening a new law office and he's home to stay.
The very British Dr. Madeline Stuart is writing an anthropology doctoral thesis about a small town that worships an oversized rodent. Success with her project should lead to her dream job, a full professorship at Oxford... even better, a guest shot on Oprah.
When a body falls out of a cupboard in Tyler's law office, clutching Maddy's necklace in his cold, dead fingers, Maddy gets arrested and Tyler is appointed her attorney.
But once Tyler finds out Maddy's here to betray his beloved Melnik, he isn't giving her his best effort.
And someone out there thinks blaming the murder on Maddy would be a perfect solution to his own problems. And Maddy's more likely to cooperate with being framed - if she's dead.
Maxie the World's Largest Field Mouse must come through one more time to thwart the criminal in his peaceful, if someone mouse-obsessed, hometown.
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Alaska Brides (2008)
Contains Golden Days winner of ACFWs Book of the Year contest as Best Short Historical
Amy Simons is saving God for when she really needs him. Until then, she'll manage on her own. After a mishap on a bustling Seattle street nearly kills her, Amy is going home to Alaska.
Braden Rafferty, devastated by the loss of his wife and child, needs to get away from his home. He failed his wife and, as he sees it, that makes him a failure to God. His brother's new life in Alaska lures him north in the midst of the Klondike Gold Rush.
A chance encounter on the trip opens recent wounds for both. Amy, frail from her recent injuries, reminds Braden too much of his fragile wife. Amy's independence is crushed when she has to accept Braden's help getting home, and she vows that as soon as her strength returns, she won't need anybody. But when Amy finds out she has no home to go to, Braden must step in and take her to his brother's.
After Amy has another near death experience, she begins to wonder if her accidents aren't accidental at all.
Buy Alaska Brides Online
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Calico Canyon (2008)
Let yourself be swept away by this fast-paced romance, featuring Grace Calhoun, an instructor of reading, writing, and arithmetic, who, in an attempt to escape the clutches of a relentless pursuer, runs smack dab into even more trouble with the 6R's - widower Daniel Reeves, along with his five rowdy sons. When a marriage is forced upon this hapless pair - two people who couldn't dislike each other more - an avalanche isn't the only potential danger lurking amid the shadows of Calico Canyon. Will they make it out alive? Or end up killing each other in the process?
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Golden Days (2007)
After a mishap on a bustling Seattle street nearly kills her, Amy Simons is going home to Alaska.
Braden Rafferty, devastated by the loss of his wife and child, needs to get away from his home. His brother's new life in Alaska lures him north in the midst of the Klondike Gold Rush.
Amy, frail from her recent injuries, reminds Braden too much of his fragile wife. Amy's independence on the trip north is crushed when she has to accept Braden's help getting home, and she vows that as soon as her strength returns, she won't depend on anybody. But Amy finds out she has no home to go to, and Braden steps in and takes her to his brother's.
After Amy has another near death experience, she begins to wonder if her accidents aren't accidental at all.
Golden Days is available through my website, www.maryconnealy.com or the Heartsong Presents website. www.heartsongpresent.com
Heartsong Presents, a division of Barbour Publishing
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Petticoat Ranch (2007)
Sophie Edwards' life is one long struggle for survival, and, more importantly, the survival of her four daughters. She wants to avenge her husband's murder, but she has no idea how to do it. And as if she hasn't got enough to do, now a wounded man is disrupting her family's lonely life.
Clay McClellen left an idyllic, all-male world in the mountains. But, after plunging headfirst over a cliff, Clay finds himself at the mercy of a widow and her four girls.
A suspenseful romantic comedy about a mountain man trapped in a pretty, sweet smelling, confusing all-girl world, from Barbour Publishing
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Petticoat Ranch (2007)
Sophie Edwards' life is one long struggle for survival, and, more importantly, the survival of her four daughters. She wants to avenge her husband's murder, but she has no idea how to do it. And as if she hasn't got enough to do, now a wounded man is disrupting her family's lonely life.
Clay McClellen left an idyllic, all-male world in the mountains. But, after plunging headfirst over a cliff, Clay finds himself at the mercy of a widow and her four girls.
A suspenseful romantic comedy about a mountain man trapped in a pretty, sweet smelling, confusing all-girl world.
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Petticoat Ranch (2007)
Petticoat Ranch
An independent lady rancher with four daughters and a befuddled mountain man who has never been around women, get married for practical reasons on the Texas frontier.
He's just sure he heard the word OBEY in their wedding vows.
She keeps meaning to be submissive, but he needs to give her orders that make sense.
While they try to make there marriage work, the man who killed her first husband to steal her ranch, comes back to silence the only witness to his crime.
Petticoat Ranch: Suspenseful, historical, inspirational romantic comedy
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All My Covers
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12/06/2010 - 6:16 PM
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Where to find me blogging online
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10/30/2009 - 10:15 AM
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I'm a Founding Filly on "Pistols and Petticoats"
A blog dedicated to western romance novels.
And I'm a Seeker. Stop by "Seekerville"
and learn all you need to know about writer's contests.
And for great info on writing, drop by "Edit Cafe"
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Encouraging Word
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10/22/2009 - 10:22 PM
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"Don't be afraid to strive and sweat and pray and fail and strive and pray some more for the desires of your heart. Because my books and this site are proof that dreams can come true. That with God all things are possible."
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Let's see whatcha got.
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10/16/2009 - 12:34 PM
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You know? you write this whole book. Long, wow those babies are long.
Thousands and thousands of pages. Complex plotting. Sagging middles. Up the stakes. Make every scene count.
These are all things we are told to do with a lot of enthusiasm.
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Wildflower Bride
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10/09/2009 - 12:00 AM
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Montana Marriage Series Book 3
Glowing Sun, a white woman raised by the Flathead tribe, has never met a man she didn't want to pull a knife on, including the man who's determined to marry her.
....coming in May 2010
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