Is there a great book in you? Or several great books? Writing the Bestseller offers practical advice and wisdom from a dozen successful authors who have sold hundreds of thousands of books, experiencing all the ups and downs of the publishing industry. What to do, what not to do, as romance and commercial fiction have their own rules. Writing the Bestseller doesn't sugar-coat the work involved. Instead, authors who've been there tell you how to understand the genre and reader expectations. The rewards of writing a bestseller are worth the effort, and these authors share what they've learned over the years so you, too, can succeed in today's competitive market.

Writing The Bestseller: Romantic and Commercial Fiction

Reference

Porter, Jane

Lyles, Rebecca

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

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Some love stories have to begin with a falling-out-of-love story. Mattie Carrigan's been helping her rodeo cowboy husband Wes Bishop run his family's Tennessee Walking Horse operation since they were married nineteen years ago. Blessed with twin daughters who've recently left for college, Mattie is looking forward to this new stage in her and Wes's life. But when she finds a strange key in her husband's jacket, she's forced to admit that Wes has been quiet and distant lately. Turns out he has been keeping secrets. And he's not the only one. Even the rancher next door, Nat Diamond–a friend Mattie could always count on in the past–seems to be holding something back from her. Good Together is for anyone who has ever pondered what it means to be married. Or had to reinvent her life when one breaks down. It's about having your heart broken but being strong enough to survive and love again.

Good Together (Carrigans of the Circle C)

Romance

Carmichael, CJ

Paranormal

Last Year's Bride It’s for the ranch. It’s your duty. A man does his duty, always. His father Sam’s words were carved into Cole McCullough’s brain. His responsibilities lay with Rafter M Arrow, which had been in their family for over a hundred years. Even though they were fighting a losing battle to keep the place going. The ranch always came first, over personal comfort, sometimes reason and definitely women. Sam had seen both his wives walk away, dismissing them as hot-house city girls who couldn’t survive the wilds of rural Montana. So how had Cole ended up making a spur-of-the-moment marriage last year in Reno to TV director Nell, who was as city as they came? Nell was prepared to give it all up to be with Cole. But he knew how it would end: as it had always ended before. It was time to stop living a pipe dream and sue for divorce. But then Nell came back to Marietta with The Compatibility Game, a reality program, in which couples discovered what they were willing to do for love by living and working at Rafter M, and Cole found himself taking part too… Make-Believe Wedding Everyone in Marietta, Montana, is in love and getting married - at least that’s the way it feels to Andie Bennett the night of the Valentine’s Ball. As she watches the man she’s loved from afar for half her life dance with another woman, Andie allows herself a moment of sheer fantasy as she fills out a stray entry form for the Great Wedding Giveaway. Andie channels years of fantasy and yearning for Heath McGregor onto the page, but she never intends to actually enter the Giveaway. Only a crazy woman would do that. But fate has other ideas…. When Heath learns he and Andie are last minute finalists in the Great Wedding Giveaway, he’s completely baffled. How on earth could anyone make such a ridiculous mistake? When it becomes clear that Andie will be humiliated if the slip-up becomes public, Heath does what any good friend would - he suggests they pretend the engagement is real until the Giveaway is over and then quietly “break up” when no one is paying any attention. It’s the perfect solution, except Heath very quickly realises that pretending Andie is his is no hardship at all. In fact, it may just be the best thing that’s ever happened to him…

Love Me Always: A Montana Born Brides Anthology

Literature & Fiction

McAllister, Anne

Mayberry, Sarah

Short Stories & Anthologies

Behind every lost dream lies a second chance… When adored town spinster Joy Talley ends up in a coma after a peculiar accident, she is surprised and incensed to hear what is being said in her hospital room, including plans for her funeral. When she finally wakes, her well-meaning, but bossy, brothers and sisters dismiss her claims, thinking her accident has knocked her off her rocker, but Joy has never felt better, and is determined to set the past right. Now Joy must face her darkest secret and risk reopening wounds caused by an old flame who rejected her more than twenty years ago. But taking risks brings change, as well as a new, younger man into Joy’s life, making her feel like a teenager again. Suddenly Joy’s once humdrum life is anything but boring and routine and the future beckons, exhilarating and bright.

Waking Up Joy

Forkner, Tina Ann

Women's Fiction

Mistletoe Wedding by Melissa McClone Blame the Mistletoe by Dani Collins Her Mistletoe Cowboy by Alissa Callen Cowboy, It's Cold Outside by Katherine Garbera

Christmas in Montana (Bar V5 Ranch)

Collins, Dani

Garbera, Katherine

McClone, Melissa

Callen, Alissa

Genre Fiction

Holiday in Magnolia Bay by Tracy Solheim When Navy SEAL Drew Lanham sees Jenna Huntley rising out of Magnolia Bay, she reminds him of the goddess of the sea, but he has to ignore her siren’s call as he’s home on a brief leave trying to recover from a devastating mission where he lost a teammate. Jenna’s more interested in protecting and studying Sea Turtles and building a local hatchery than in men; except when she first locks eyes with Drew, she realizes he just might be the one man who can pull her out of her lab and into his bed to celebrate Christmas Magnolia Bay style. Just in Time for Christmas by Kim Boykin Miranda Hamilton finally has her shot to chair Magnolia Bay’s biggest Christmas fundraiser, only she’s afraid Logan Mauldin, her childhood nemesis is going to derail the festivities when he signs on as her co-chair. Logan has been in love with Miranda since he first saw her in third grade, and when the Christmas festival plans begin to unravel under Miranda’s watchful eye, he might finally be able to prove to her that he’s the one for her. A Very Married Christmas by Erika Marks Seeing her almost ex husband Beck with a beautiful and much younger woman at the Christmas wedding of her best friend leaves budding cookbook author Marley Ferris feeling more Scrooge than Santa. Pro baseball player Beckett (Beck) Chambers thought that divorcing his childhood sweetheart was a good idea until a day sail to a local island leaves Marley and Beck stranded and spending Christmas Eve together where the unexpected reunion makes them both wonder if this second-chance at love might just prove to be the best Christmas present ever? The Trouble with Christmas by Kaira Rouda Cole Stanton opened his first restaurant on Indigo Island hoping for a fresh start and finally a place to call home, but as Christmas looms, his business struggles. New pastry chef Lily Edmonds has a plan to rescue Cole’s dream, as well as mend her broken heart, but as the attraction between them sizzles will the joy of the holiday season bring them together or will the troubles with Christmas push them apart?

A Carolina Christmas

Rouda, Kaira

Solheim, Tracy

Boykin, Kim

Marks, Erika

Contemporary

This Christmas by Jeannie Moon A Light in the Window by Jolyse Barnett All I Want for Christmas by Jennifer Gracen Goodness and Light by Patty Blount

Christmas in New York

Gracen, Jennifer

Blount, Patty

Moon, Jeannie

Barnett, Jolyse

CHERISH ME, COWBOY True Montana cowgirl Payton Hollis doesn’t have time for men, let alone city slicker eye candy like Cordell Morgan. When he helps her rescue a rejected newborn calf, however, she's shocked to discover that cowboy Cordell is the real thing. His eyes hide secrets, but his mouth promises adventure, and soon Payton and Cordell find themselves breaking all of their own rules. KISS ME, COWBOY She didn’t mean to kiss him… Charlotte Randall falls hat over spurs for military veteran turned cowboy Zack LAST NAME? He didn’t mean to kiss her back… Zack has too many demons for any woman, let alone this one, so he decides to find her a boyfriend - someone so good and so perfect, she'll have no trouble getting out of Zack's life. Too late he realizes that the only cowboy he wants her kissing is him. PLEASE ME, COWBOY Gracelyn Baylee Packard got herself away from small-town Montana to big, rich Texas as soon as she could. When her billionaire boss Jonah Flint informs her it’s her lucky day, she’s going back, Grace doesn’t exactly see things the same way. So what if Jonah needs her to help save his brother from a pre-nup-less marriage? It’s the last place on earth either Grace or Jonah would ever go willingly, yet in Marietta they just might find exactly what neither one of them was looking for... TEASE ME, COWBOY Selah Davis’s one regret in life is not sleeping with her high school boyfriend, Levi Monroe. Little does she know that Levi, like her, is home for the rodeo, and when her friends dare her to proposition him for a one night stand… The more she thinks about it, the less she can get their electric chemistry out of her head. She’s always been the good daughter. Would it hurt just for one night to be a little bad?

Remember Me, Cowboy: The Copper Mountain Rodeo Returns

Crane, Megan

Johns, Rachael

Western & Frontier

Dani Carrigan has always relied on logic when making important life decisions, but when she discovers she's pregnant - and that there's a chance her baby may be born "not perfect"-- logic lets her down.
It would help if the baby's father would pop the question, but widowed father Adrian seems more interested in protecting his six-year-old daughter than committing to his new relationship with Dani.
The last time she felt this alone and scared was when she was 16 and her mother died, leaving Dani to raise her younger sisters with precious little help from her distant and disapproving rancher father. She felt so inadequate then, but is she any more prepared to be a mother now?
Support comes from an unlikely source. Dani always saw her next-door neighbour and friend, divorce attorney Elliot Gilmore, as a charming, handsome, playboy-type. But with each challenge she faces, from pregnancy, to delivery and beyond--Elliot reveals himself a better man than she ever guessed.
Is it possible that Elliot hasn't been playing the field--but waiting for her?

Close to Her Heart (Carrigans of the Circle C)

Everyone has baggage by the time they’re into their thirties. When single mom and Marietta High School teacher Gemma Clayton acquires a strong, family-oriented and very good-looking new neighbor over her back fence, she’s not put off by his complicated past as the attraction flares between them. Her own past is a very different matter, however. Nobody knows what she went through on the night of the 1996 Marietta High School senior prom, between running after Judd and Garth Newell’s car as it left River Bend Park and limping into her friend Neve Shepherd’s street two hours later. But Gemma’s secrets have been rusted up inside her for so long that not even a gorgeous man like Dylan Saddler can help her to break them free.

Long Walk Home (A Montana River Bend)

Darcy, Lilian

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