Giveaway and Author Interview: Deep Trouble

Welcome to Writing for Christ Mary Connealy, it is great to have you here!

Mary Connealy writes fun and lively romantic comedy with cowboys for the inspirational market. She is the author of the successful Lassoed in Texas, Montana Marriages, and Sophie's Daughters series. She is a Rita Award and Christy Award finalist. She lives on a ranch in Nebraska with her husband and has four grown daughters and two spectacular grandchildren (pictures available upon request).

Onto the interview...

Do you have a favorite genre to read/write?

For some reason lately I’m crazy for Regency romances. I’ve always liked them okay but lately that’s almost all I’m reading, with the exception of some favorite authors who write outside that genre. I wonder what’s up with that? I have no desire to write them. I’m just really enjoying the witty repartee in the Regencies. In my cowboy romances, my heroes tend to answer questions with a grunt. Which I love writing, because I love the attitude or the cowboy. As for writing, I am romantic comedy with cowboys. Historical romance in a Stetson.

Do you have a nugget of writing advice that has completely changed how you view writing?

I think the best, most fundamental advice I have been given and that I give now, is to keep writing. Write every day. Open that document and make forward progress. Yes, study, take classes, enter contests, submit work to agents and editors, attend conferences, make contacts, join a critique group, read great writing blogs like Seekerville………….but none of it is worth a thing if you don’t put words on the page. Write.

What do you enjoy most about being a published author?

I love everything about being a published author……..well, maybe not so much with the public speaking. But I’ve found something of a comfort level with it. Yeesh. But everything. The first creation process, the revisions, the editors I’ve worked with, the people I’ve met and the places I’ve gotten to go. It’s all amazing and wonderful.

Places for readers to learn more about you?

http://www.seekerville.blogspot.com/
http://petticoatsandpistols.com/ http://mconnealy.blogspot.com/
http://www.maryconnealy.com/

Thank you for being with us today!

Okay readers, here is your chance to enter to win Mary's latest release: Deep Trouble

Please leave an email adddress! If I draw your name and there is no email, you will not win.


For extra entries:
~Be a follower
~Be a subscriber


Contest is only open in the U.S. and void where prohibited. Chances of winning are based on the number of entries and winner is draw from a non-biased third party- Random.org. I am not responsible for any lost or damaged items for said prize.


Thanks for coming by to enter! Contest ends on May 13th.