Lori Wilde
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Erotteluhuomautus:
(eng) Laurie Blalock Moeller Vanzura writes as Laura Anthony and Lori Wilde.
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Yleistieto
- Virallinen nimi
- Blalock Moeller Vanzura, Laurie
- Muut nimet
- Anthony, Laura
Wilde, Lori - Syntymäaika
- 1958
- Sukupuoli
- female
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- Texas, USA
- Asuinpaikat
- Weatherford, Texas, USA
- Koulutus
- Texas Christian University
- Lyhyt elämäkerta
- Laurie Blalock was born on 1958 in Texas, USA. She started writing at age eight. She credits her father, Fred Blalock, as the guiding force behind her career. She can't remember a time when she didn't want to write. She even went to nursing school so she could have a schedule flexible enough to allow her to write on the side. She nursed for 20 years, working in a variety of settings from the newborn nursery to the recovery room, to dialysis. But she never lost her desire to write. She sold her first book in 1994 as Laura Anthony, but later discovered she had a flair for comedy and branched out under the pseudonym Lori Wilde. She has achieved a lifelong dream and now pursues writing fiction full-time.
First married with Anthony Moeller, now she is married with Bill Vanzura, her own real-life hero. She continued living in her native Texas, with a red heeler/Australian shepherd dog, Cinnamon, and four ducks, Quacker, Big Guy, Affleck, and Sheepidy. She is an adventuresome, she traveled Europe as a teenager, hiked volcanoes in Hawaii, trod on glaciers in Alaska, shot white-water rapids, water-skied, snow-skied, raced all-terrain vehicles, bodysurfed in the Gulf of Mexico, and photographed grizzly bears in Yellowstone. She's taken flying lessons, rode in a hot-air balloon, completed two marathons, and performed with a professional jazz band.
You can visit her web site: www.loriwilde.com or write to her at loriwilde@yahoo.com - Erotteluhuomautus
- Laurie Blalock Moeller Vanzura writes as Laura Anthony and Lori Wilde.
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Valentine, Texas (previously published as Addicted… Tekijä: Lori Wilde
rabck from love2cook; Rachel is painting the giant billboard lips black in her full wedding regalia. Sheriff Bordy needs to figure out how to get her down and the mayor wants her arrested. The book takes off from there, with multiple couples fighting getting together and trying to be anti-romance....in Valentine, Texas
I try to read one of Lori Wilde's Christmas-themed Twilight, Texas romance books each year, and this one was also available at one of my libraries. I started reading these books in 2014, when Wilde visited my town of Granbury, Texas (the inspiration for Twilight), in the holiday season as part of a promotion, and my (then) book club was the (nominal) host for a meet-and-greet.
Unlike The Cowboy Cookie Challenge that I read earlier this month, this book does not have characters from earlier books in the Twilight series as major players. In fact, this book could also be categorized as part of the Cupid, Texas series, in that it stars the fourth Lockhart brother and the fourth Alzate sister from three earlier novels in that series.
So where does Twilight come in? The premise is that wedding planner Aria Alzate is recovering from a concussion, and is the wedding planner for a college friend's pre-Christmas wedding in Twilight. Remington Lockhart has recently returned to the family ranch near the fictional Cupid, which is based on Fort Davis, the seat of the real Jeff Davis County, in the Trans-Pecos region of West Texas. He's out of the Army after a bad parachute jump left him missing two fingers, and is recruited to take Aria on the long drive (which takes nearly seven hours, from Fort Davis to Granbury).
The story is told in third person, with chapters alternating between Aria and Remington. They have known each other since childhood, but are very different. She's fun-loving and spontaneous, preferring to be adaptable rather than stick to set plans. Because of his earlier life in the Army - and perhaps due to losing his mother at a young age - he's more serious, and believes in planning for every possible outcome - having a backup (or three).
They get to know (and maybe understand) each other better on the long drive, and in observing interactions with other people. A spur-of-the-moment exit from the freeway puts them in the small fictional town of Armadillo (!), where they get stuck after helping a driver who slid off the road in the increasingly icy conditions. Lucky for them, Remington booked a room in various towns along their route, just in case. However, the room just has one bed, and there are no other rooms or beds available.
Long story short - fabulous sex ensues. And wouldn't you know, when they get to Twilight, they have separate rooms - but they adjoin. Both are convinced, though, that although they definitely have chemistry, they're too different to be together, and they return to Cupid separately. It takes them until New Year's Eve to figure out their differences are actually complementary.
Lots of romance tropes in this one: grumpy/sunshine opposites attract on a holiday road trip fling - he's a scarred military cowboy/rancher, both are afraid to commit, and there's only one bed when they're trapped by an ice storm. They are fated mates due to a magic spell - there's a (silly) Alzate family legend involving hearing a humming sound when you kiss your true love - which is what united the other Lockhart brothers and Alzate sisters in marriage.… (lisätietoja)
Unlike The Cowboy Cookie Challenge that I read earlier this month, this book does not have characters from earlier books in the Twilight series as major players. In fact, this book could also be categorized as part of the Cupid, Texas series, in that it stars the fourth Lockhart brother and the fourth Alzate sister from three earlier novels in that series.
So where does Twilight come in? The premise is that wedding planner Aria Alzate is recovering from a concussion, and is the wedding planner for a college friend's pre-Christmas wedding in Twilight. Remington Lockhart has recently returned to the family ranch near the fictional Cupid, which is based on Fort Davis, the seat of the real Jeff Davis County, in the Trans-Pecos region of West Texas. He's out of the Army after a bad parachute jump left him missing two fingers, and is recruited to take Aria on the long drive (which takes nearly seven hours, from Fort Davis to Granbury).
The story is told in third person, with chapters alternating between Aria and Remington. They have known each other since childhood, but are very different. She's fun-loving and spontaneous, preferring to be adaptable rather than stick to set plans. Because of his earlier life in the Army - and perhaps due to losing his mother at a young age - he's more serious, and believes in planning for every possible outcome - having a backup (or three).
They get to know (and maybe understand) each other better on the long drive, and in observing interactions with other people. A spur-of-the-moment exit from the freeway puts them in the small fictional town of Armadillo (!), where they get stuck after helping a driver who slid off the road in the increasingly icy conditions. Lucky for them, Remington booked a room in various towns along their route, just in case. However, the room just has one bed, and there are no other rooms or beds available.
Long story short - fabulous sex ensues. And wouldn't you know, when they get to Twilight, they have separate rooms - but they adjoin. Both are convinced, though, that although they definitely have chemistry, they're too different to be together, and they return to Cupid separately. It takes them until New Year's Eve to figure out their differences are actually complementary.
Lots of romance tropes in this one: grumpy/sunshine opposites attract on a holiday road trip fling - he's a scarred military cowboy/rancher, both are afraid to commit, and there's only one bed when they're trapped by an ice storm. They are fated mates due to a magic spell - there's a (silly) Alzate family legend involving hearing a humming sound when you kiss your true love - which is what united the other Lockhart brothers and Alzate sisters in marriage.… (lisätietoja)
From the book jacket: Kelsey James always played by the rules and look where it got her—dumped and half-drunk in a poofy white dress, her Christmas wedding ruined. Then her best friend talks her into going on her “honeymoon” anyway, daring her to a “Christmas of Yes.” It’s about time she lets loose a little, so Kelsey agrees to say “yes” to fun, to romance, and to adventure! And adventure leads her right smack into the arms of sexy Noah MacGregor.
My reactions:
Two immature people with lust in their hearts, but somehow think this is love. There are some nice steamy sex scenes to distract from all the drama of Kelsey’s unhealthy relationship with her narcissistic mother. And while this is part of the Twilight, Texas series, where legend has it that if you throw a penny into the fountain, you are sure to be reunited with your high school sweetheart, the legend is barely mentioned in this episode.
I think Wilde was trying too hard to be “relevant.” Just give me schmaltz (and sex) … that’s all I’m looking for when I pick up books such as this.… (lisätietoja)
My reactions:
Two immature people with lust in their hearts, but somehow think this is love. There are some nice steamy sex scenes to distract from all the drama of Kelsey’s unhealthy relationship with her narcissistic mother. And while this is part of the Twilight, Texas series, where legend has it that if you throw a penny into the fountain, you are sure to be reunited with your high school sweetheart, the legend is barely mentioned in this episode.
I think Wilde was trying too hard to be “relevant.” Just give me schmaltz (and sex) … that’s all I’m looking for when I pick up books such as this.… (lisätietoja)
I try to read one of Lori Wilde's latest Christmas-themed Twilight, Texas romance books each year, and this one was available at one of my libraries. I started reading these books in 2014, when Wilde visited my town of Granbury, Texas (the inspiration for Twilight), in the holiday season as part of a promotion, and my (then) book club was the (nominal) host for a meet-and-greet.
The Cowboy Cookie Challenge revisits some of the characters in The First Love Cookie Club, the first book I read in this series. That book was published in 2010, and one of the characters was a little girl (about age 8) named Jazzy (Jasmine) Walker. Well, she is one of the main characters in this story, and is now age 23 and a pediatric nurse at the local hospital. (Her stepmom, Sarah, the heroine in First Love, is also a character.)
Jazzy meets handsome, widowed Roan Sullivan while caring for his daughter Trinity during a tonsillectomy - she catches him when he almost faints. She's attracted, despite a nine-year age difference, even though she's waiting to hear about a job with traveling nurses. Jazzy is eager to get out of town and escape her former boyfriend, Danny - and his fiance, Jazzy's former best friend (and current co-worker), Andi.
But before she goes, Jazzy feels compelled to beat Andi at SOMEthing, so she enters the cooking baking contest that Andi wins every year. This time, though, the cookies must be baked cowboy-style - over a campfire - and it just so happens Roan (and his deceased wife Claire) used to give instruction in and win cowboy cooking challenges all the time. Jazzy convinces Roan to prepare her for the contest - and you can imagine what happens from there.
The snow-covered scene of the front cover isn't typical for our holiday season, but it's a Christmas story, so there's gotta be snow, at least on the front cover. (There is a weekend ice storm, but as the author writes on page 279, that - and the balmy weather that immediately follows, is "typical of December in North Texas.")
There's some sex (that the ice storm facilitates) and the romance is predictable (although this one only has a few tropes I can identify: widower cowboy/rancher and child care/first responder aka pediatric nurse have an age gap fling in a small town during the holidays). Nevertheless, I enjoyed seeing old characters from former books reappearing, and matching up places like "Ye Old Book Nook in the town square" (page 56) with reality.
This is the 13th novel in the Twilight, Texas series (there are also two novellas, and a collection of four short stories). They do not have to be read in order, although the later novels are more enjoyable (because of the character connections) if they are. This was an easy, light read, perfect for the holiday season.… (lisätietoja)
The Cowboy Cookie Challenge revisits some of the characters in The First Love Cookie Club, the first book I read in this series. That book was published in 2010, and one of the characters was a little girl (about age 8) named Jazzy (Jasmine) Walker. Well, she is one of the main characters in this story, and is now age 23 and a pediatric nurse at the local hospital. (Her stepmom, Sarah, the heroine in First Love, is also a character.)
Jazzy meets handsome, widowed Roan Sullivan while caring for his daughter Trinity during a tonsillectomy - she catches him when he almost faints. She's attracted, despite a nine-year age difference, even though she's waiting to hear about a job with traveling nurses. Jazzy is eager to get out of town and escape her former boyfriend, Danny - and his fiance, Jazzy's former best friend (and current co-worker), Andi.
But before she goes, Jazzy feels compelled to beat Andi at SOMEthing, so she enters the cooking baking contest that Andi wins every year. This time, though, the cookies must be baked cowboy-style - over a campfire - and it just so happens Roan (and his deceased wife Claire) used to give instruction in and win cowboy cooking challenges all the time. Jazzy convinces Roan to prepare her for the contest - and you can imagine what happens from there.
The snow-covered scene of the front cover isn't typical for our holiday season, but it's a Christmas story, so there's gotta be snow, at least on the front cover. (There is a weekend ice storm, but as the author writes on page 279, that - and the balmy weather that immediately follows, is "typical of December in North Texas.")
There's some sex (that the ice storm facilitates) and the romance is predictable (although this one only has a few tropes I can identify: widower cowboy/rancher and child care/first responder aka pediatric nurse have an age gap fling in a small town during the holidays). Nevertheless, I enjoyed seeing old characters from former books reappearing, and matching up places like "Ye Old Book Nook in the town square" (page 56) with reality.
This is the 13th novel in the Twilight, Texas series (there are also two novellas, and a collection of four short stories). They do not have to be read in order, although the later novels are more enjoyable (because of the character connections) if they are. This was an easy, light read, perfect for the holiday season.… (lisätietoja)
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