{"id":17,"date":"2018-12-31T10:27:33","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T10:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=17"},"modified":"2018-12-31T10:27:33","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T10:27:33","slug":"romance-roundupby-beth-stifflemire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Romance RoundupBy Beth Stifflemire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"articleHeader\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"u2438-6\">\n<h1 id=\"u2438-2\">Romance Is in the Air<\/h1>\n<h1 id=\"u2438-4\"><span>February 12, 2015<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"u2434-106\">\n<p id=\"u2434-3\"><span id=\"u2434\">Fun fact:<\/span> Did you know that on Amazon\u2019s recently released a list of cities that buy the most romance books, the city of Round Rock, Texas placed #9? Just goes to show that Texans love their romance reads. And in this season of valentines, chocolates, and love, if you\u2019re a romance reader there are plenty of juicy options on the horizon to stock your bookshelf plentifully, from Harlequin romance to hot new releases in popular series.<\/p>\n<p id=\"u2434-6\">Expect numerous sizzling new releases from Texas authors for your reading pleasure\u2014from mainstream to indie, they\u2019ll be cranking out this spring back to back. An avid romance reader and writer myself, I can\u2019t wait to tackle all of them!<\/p>\n<h1 id=\"u2434-9\">Texas Romance Book \/ Author Events Spring 2015<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u2434-15\"><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wildwickedweekend.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span id=\"u2434-11\">3rd annual Wild Wicked Weekend,<\/span><\/a><\/span> Feb. 19\u201321, 2015, San Antonio. For romance readers who are extra wild!<\/p>\n<p id=\"u2434-23\"><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abilenewritersguild.org\/workshop.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span id=\"u2434-17\">Abilene Writers Guild Annual Workshop and Luncheon,<\/span><\/a><\/span> March 21, 2015, Abilene. Special guest speakers include author <span id=\"u2434-21\">Laura Drake<\/span> on \u201cWriting Emotion.\u201d Based in Midland, 2014 RITA winner Drake will also be conducting a workshop at the event. (Note there will be no Thursday evening meeting of AWG in March.)<\/p>\n<p id=\"u2434-29\"><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.romanceslamjam.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span id=\"u2434-25\">20th annual Romance Slam Jam,<\/span><\/a><\/span> March 26\u201328, 2015, Dallas. For readers and writers of Black romance.<\/p>\n<p id=\"u2434-35\"><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rtconvention.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span id=\"u2434-31\">32nd annual RT Booklovers Convention and Bookfair, <\/span><\/a><\/span>May 13\u201317, 2015, Dallas. For romance readers and writers.<\/p>\n<h1 id=\"u2434-38\">Upcoming Romance Book Releases By Texas Authors<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u2434-40\">in order of release date<\/p>\n<p id=\"u2434-48\"><span id=\"u2434-42\">Ally Broadfield,<\/span> <span><a href=\"http:\/\/allybroadfield.com\/?page_id=448\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span id=\"u2434-44\">One Last Kiss<\/span><\/a><\/span> (second book in the It\u2019s His Kiss Series)<\/p>\n<p id=\"u2434-56\"><span id=\"u2434-50\">Suzane Butler,<\/span> <span><a href=\"http:\/\/suzanbutler.com\/books\/coming-soon-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span id=\"u2434-52\">Scoring His Heart<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Texas Highlanders Ice Hockey #3 Book)<\/p>\n<p id=\"u2434-67\"><span id=\"u2434-58\">Lauren Canan,<\/span> <span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurencanan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span id=\"u2434-60\">Lone Star Baby Bombshell<\/span><\/a><\/span> and <span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurencanan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Terms of a Texas Marriage<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"u2434-74\"><span id=\"u2434-69\">Jenn Langston,<\/span> <span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jennlangston.com\/books.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span id=\"u2434-71\">Winning the Duke<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"u2434-85\"><span id=\"u2434-76\">Cara Carnes,<\/span> <span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.caracarnes.com\/#!coming-soon\/cqmg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span id=\"u2434-78\">A Shadow\u2019s Embrace<\/span><\/a><\/span> and <span><a href=\"http:\/\/a%20wolf%e2%80%99s%20promise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span id=\"u2434-82\">A Wolf\u2019s Promise<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"u2434-93\"><span id=\"u2434-87\">Laura Griffin,<\/span> <span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lauragriffin.com\/books\/#comingsoon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span id=\"u2434-89\">Far Gone<\/span><\/a><\/span> (The Tracer Series)<\/p>\n<p id=\"u2434-101\"><span id=\"u2434-95\">Kate Baray,<\/span> <span><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1AaKwht\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Witches Diary<\/a><\/span> (Lost Library Book 4)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romance Is in the Air February 12, 2015 Fun fact: Did you know that on Amazon\u2019s recently released a list of cities that buy the most romance books, the city of Round Rock, Texas placed #9? Just goes to show that Texans love their romance reads. And in this season of valentines, chocolates, and love, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}