 | Turning Thirty-Twelve
$5.50 - Sandy James (Published by: Siren-Bookstrand, Inc.)
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| Jackie Delgado didn't want a new man in her life until a dreaded blind date turns out to be more exciting than she'd ever imagined.
When her youngest son leaves for college, Jackie is hit hard by empty nest syndrome and pours herself into her work as a teacher. Bowing to pressure from friends, Jackie agrees to a blind date. But when Mark Brenn MORE... |
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 | Murphy's Law
$5.99 - Sandy James (Published by: Siren-Bookstrand, Inc.)
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Seth Remington had a fortune at his fingertips, but something was missing in his life. Purpose. Knowing he has one last chance to redeem his son, terminally ill Sterling Remington rewrites his will. To earn his inheritance, his son Seth must labor as a groom for a horse trainer. Katie Murphy's orderly existence is turned upside down by Sterlin MORE... |
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 | Free Falling
$5.99 - Sandy James (Published by: Siren-Bookstrand, Inc.)
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| Workaholic Ross Kennedy never learned to enjoy life until he meets the woman of his dreams. If only Laurie Miller can convince him that's exactly who she is.A psychologist with empathic abilities, Laurie rescues Ross, who has been stranded in the middle of a Montana blizzard. The two strangers are completely snowed in and out of contact. In just a MORE... |
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 | All the Right Reasons
$5.99 - Sandy James (Published by: Siren-Bookstrand, Inc.)
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| Can love heal all wounds? Lucas Mitchell returned from Iraq a bitter, changed man, wracked with guilt over his friend's death. He buys an old mansion and deals with his injuries and grief by restoring his new home and rehabilitating retired racehorses.
Joy Kovacs falls in love with Lucas at first sight. Descended from gypsies who are still MORE... |
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 | Faith of the Heart
$5.99 - Sandy James (Published by: Siren-Bookstrand, Inc.)
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| Investigative reporter Joshua Miller has turned his back on life. Since cancer claimed his wife, he can't bring himself to write another story. Then he hears about a fascinating woman who piques his curiosity.After being struck by lightning, Sarah Reid finds herself with a gift... and a curse. She can heal the sick and dying. She soon realizes that MORE... |
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Author's Bio
Sandy lives in a quiet suburb of Indianapolis with her husband of over twenty-five years. She is a high school social studies teacher. She started writing when empty nest syndrome stared her in the eye, completing her first book the year her youngest graduated from high school.
Sandy and her husband own a small stable of harness racehorses and enjoy spending time at the two Indiana racetracks. Her romances often include the world of racing, Murphy's Law being the best book to introduce harness racing to new fans of the sport.
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Author's Profile
Q: What is your writing day like?
A: Um, crazy? I have to literally carve time out of the day to write, but because I love it so much, I find that time. When I get home from school, the Schnauzer's walk comes first. Then I try to edit some of my work before supper. After that, I usually turn something on the television or fire up my iTunes and settle down to write new material. More often than not, the time gets away from me and when I look up, it's miraculously time for bed.
Weekends are better, and I usually split my time between our horses and my stories. Summers are sublime. Writing, writing, and more writing interspersed with Schnauzer walks.
Q: Are you a "fly by the seat of your pants" author or do you plot each story?
A: I'm a "panster" who plots. The best of both worlds. I try to hash out a rough plot, usually in the form of a flowchart, before I begin writing. But so many times, the characters steer me in other directions. They tend to like to talk to me right before I fall asleep at night, but they've also been known to whisper in my ear in those pre-dawn hours where you often find yourself more awake than asleep.
Q: Where do you get your story ideas?
A: From life. I glean stories from the people and things I see around me. When something funny or poignant happens, I can't help but think, "Wow. That would be a fantastic story." Being a teacher of Psychology also gives me a special insight into what motivates people, so I try to bring that depth of understanding to creating and writing my characters.
Q: Which writers have had the greatest influence on you?
A: The first romance I ever read was written by Kathleen Woodiwiss. I imagine she had a huge influence on many women of my age. When I was twelve, I would sneak into my mother's books and try to read a chapter of The Wolf and the Dove, hoping she wouldn't catch me. I fell in love with everything Ms. Woodiwiss wrote. When she passed away, I felt as if I'd lost a family member.
The author whose books I will read over and over is Julie Garwood. I sink into her stories. It's a bit ironic she's so very popular because she breaks all the "rules." And for her it works. When I write, I don't try to conform to the rules either. I write what makes me laugh, what makes me cry, and what I love.
Q: What made you start writing?
A: I was reading a book by a fairly well-known romance writer and I was excited because it was a romance about a married couple. A rarity to say the least. But the author went to great lengths to say the thirty-nine year old heroine still looked seventeen. I think I pitched that book across the room in disgust. Then I set out to write a romance about a married couple with the woman being thirty-nine and having all the same problems as every other woman of that age. Once I started writing, I was hopelessly addicted.
Q: What's coming up for you?
A: I'm thrilled to say that BookStrand has contracted my "Damaged Heroes" series! Murphy's Law is the first book. Free Falling, All the Right Reasons, and Faith of the Heart represent the rest of the series. I'm proud to say that each of the books in this series was a winner or finalist in a Romance Writers of America chapter writing contest. I'll confess to being a Contest Diva before I was published and have entered a few since my first book came out. I have been lucky enough to final eight different stories in contests, and I'm always looking to add to that list. My first book with BookStrand, Turning Thirty-Twelve, was a finalist in the prestigious Colorado Romance Writers Award of Excellence Contest for Best Mainstream Romance and recently won the Aspen Gold Readers Choice Contest for Best Contemporary Romance of 2009. I'm also pleased to be a double EPIC finalist for both Murphy's Law and Free Falling!
Q: Why "Damaged Heroes"?
A: No one is perfect. My heroes have been hurt before, each in a different way. That hurt left behind scars. Don't we all have those kinds of wounds? What makes each of these men a hero is that he learns to rise above and become the kind of man his heroine deserves.
Q: Do you have a way for readers to contact you?
Of course! I'd love to hear from my readers! Please drop me a line at sj@sandy-james.com. And don't forget to visit my website to keep up with the horses my husband and I have racing. www.sandy-james.com
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