Jennifer Uhlarik: Wedded to Honor

Jennifer Uhlarik discovered the western genre as a pre-teen, when she swiped the only “horse” book she found on her older brother’s bookshelf. A new love was born. Across the next ten years, she devoured Louis L’Amour westerns and fell in love with the genre. In college at the University of Tampa, she began penning her own story of the Old West. Armed with a B.A. in writing, she has won five writing competitions and finaled in two other competitions. In addition to writing, she has held jobs as a private business owner, a schoolteacher, a marketing director, and her favorite—a full-time homemaker. Jennifer is active in American Christian Fiction Writers and lifetime member of the Florida Writers Association. She lives near Tampa, Florida, with her husband, teenaged son, and four fur children.

Wedded to Honor: A novella in The Convenient Bride Collection

According to her father’s will, 20-year-old Honor Cahill must be married in order to inherit the 5500-acre California ranch she and her father have run together until his recent, unexpected death. If she is unmarried, her greedy half-brother Nate will inherit the ranch. Honor posts an ad in the Matrimonial News, but can an Eastern-bred Harvard graduate truly help her save her northern California ranch? 

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Erica Vetsch: A Bride for Bear

EVERYTHING WRITERLY welcomes author Erica Vetsch! 

Erica Vetsch is a transplanted Kansan now residing in Minnesota. She loves history and reading, and is blessed to be able to combine the two by writing historical fiction set in the American West. Whenever she’s not following flights of fancy in her fictional world, she’s the company bookkeeper for the family lumber business, mother of two terrific teens, wife to a man who is her total opposite and soul-mate, and avid museum patron.

Here is a short summary of Erica's novella A Bride for Bear which is featured in The Convenient Bride Collection.

Bear McCall is a Colorado mountain man who'd rather poke a grizzly in the eye than find a wife, but then a distant relative saddles him with three young girls he can't seem to rid himself of. Could Emmylou Paxton be the mother the girls need--and the one to soften Bear's craggy heart?

For more about Erica and a listing of all her books, see her blog site:

Erica Vetsch - Faith, Love, & History-Ever-After

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Hot Off the Press: One Way to the Altar

The Convenient Bride Collection, featuring One Way to the Altar, a novella written with debut author Christina Linstrot Miller, was released yesterday by Barbour Publishing. The book is now available for purchase!

So why Montana?

Years ago, when I wrote my novel Threads of Love, I became interested in the southeastern part of Montana. The Badlands intrigued me and the Yellowstone River added a measure of romance to the area. This was the land of Little Big Horn and General Custer’s Last Stand. I spent many hours researching the towns on the old Northern Pacific Railroad line, and used a book titled, Photographing Montana 1894-1928: The Life and Work of Evelyn Cameron. So when the call came out for novellas featuring marriages of convenience, I chose to create a fictitious town near Fallon and Terry. The pretend town in my story is called “One Way” because there’s just one way in and one way out…unless a person has a mind to swim.

Other authors in The Convenient Bride Collection are: Erica Vetsch, Amanda Barratt, Mona Hodgson, Melissa Jagears, Maureen Lang, Gabrielle Meyer, Jennifer Uhlarik, and Renee Yancy.

Co-authoring Experience

Co-authoring always has its challenges. Writing One Way to the Altar was no exception. As a pastor's wife, editor and writer, Christy has a full plate...and, as a wife, mom, author with other contracts and attending college, so do I! Whew! We live in a busy, busy world. However, with God's help, Christy and I overcame the obstacles. A unique voice developed, a combination of both our writing styles, and a beautiful story emerged. I'd like to think my friendship with Christy is stronger today because of our co-authoring experience.

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