Guest Post & Giveaway: Learning the Ropes by T. J. Kline
Learning
the Ropes
Rodeo
#3
By:
T.J. Kline
Releasing
September 30th
Avon
Impulse
Blurb
Rule
#1 - Don’t lose focus...
Barrel
racer Alicia Kanani has had a long road to the top - and she’s not
quite there yet. Finances have always been tight, and in the glitz
and glam world of professional rodeo, that means that second best is
probably the best she can hope for. With the National Finals coming
up, she’s certainly not looking for a pair of cowboys to distract
her.
Rule
#2 - Don’t gamble what you can’t live without…
Playboy
Chris Thomas is sure Alicia’s the perfect woman for his
level-headed team roping partner, David Greenly. It seems like a
match, until Chris realizes he wants Alicia for himself. The stakes
have been raised; David and Chris are supposed to be a team, and this
time, they’re on opposite sides.
Can
Alicia rope this playboy’s heart, or will they find themselves too
tangled up to let true love in?
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Romancing the Readers would like to welcome Author T. J. Kline. She was wonderful enough to let us into her thoughts for today! Welcome!
5 Reasons to
Write Romance
I’m often asked why I would waste my
time and talent writing romance when I could write something else,
something that would be taken seriously, something that might change
lives. Well, I have put together my top five reasons for writing
romance novels.
1) Romance novels teach you to hope.
If you ever feel down, depressed,
lonely or sad, you have only to pick up a romance novel and your
entire outlook on love can’t help but be changed. With characters
larger than life, romance heroes and heroines battle unimaginable
circumstances and end up changed for the better and knowing that love
was worth the battle, no matter the cost. Hope reigns supreme in
romance novels and teach you to never, ever give up on true love.
2) Romance novels can liven up your
romantic relationships.
With the wide varieties of subgenres in
romance novels, you can’t help but find yourself changing, growing
or learning from the romances you read and allowing them to change
your own romantic relationships. Whether it’s learning something
you can use in your own bedroom, or finding that you judged a
character’s motives without giving them a fair chance, you will
come out of a romance novel altered from who you were at the start.
It simply can’t be helped.
3) Romance novels remind you that no
one is perfect.
The characters in romance novels might
be larger than life but every one of them suffers from faults,
usually with some character trait that would drive a wedge in
real-life relationships, but we view them differently once we see two
characters we come to love and sympathize with overcome them. Once we
see it’s possible, even in a fictional realm, we begin to view
those same flaws differently in our lives outside the covers of a
novel. We remember that we, too, are imperfect, imperfect characters
in need of forgiveness, empathy and love.
4) There is a voracious appetite for
romance novels.
Whatever the reason for reading a
romance novel, there is an unending supply of romantics who want to
devour more. Romance is an appetite that is never satisfied and
because of that, there are never enough authors to fill the void. I,
personally, have talked to many readers who cannot get enough and
read several hundred books a year. Romance is a genre that readers
never tire of and continue to buy on a constant basis.
5) Everyone loves a “happily ever
after” (HEA)
There is a reason
Disney had built a legacy on happily ever afters. There isn’t a
heart that doesn’t want to see the hero get the girl, the underdog
win and the happy ending. It’s wired into our DNA. We don’t feel
right when we are left with a cliffhanger or an unexpected ending. We
might want a fresh outlook on the story but, deep down, we all long
for the cliché finale when the couple comes back together and the
promise of tomorrow fills the page.
Author
Info
T. J.
Kline was raised competing in rodeos and Rodeo Queen competitions
since the age of 14 and has thorough knowledge of the sport as well
as the culture involved. She has written several articles about rodeo
for small periodicals, as well as a more recent how-to article for
RevWriter, and has published a nonfiction health book and two
inspirational fiction titles under the name Tina Klinesmith. She is
also an avid reader and book reviewer for both Tyndale and Multnomah.
In her spare time, she can be found laughing hysterically with her
husband, children, and their menagerie of pets in Northern
California.
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Oh this one looks cute! With you on those reasons. Good for reading them too :D
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ReplyDeleteThis sounds good. I see there are more and more contemporary westerns out lately.
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