MARRY ME, COWBOY
Copper Mountain Rodeo novellas
After an amazing research and brainstorming trip
to Montana with fellow authors Jane Porter, C J Carmichael and Megan Crane,
this short novel was so much fun to write. I also watched an excellent Canadian
documentary about life on the rodeo circuit, which gave a really gritty and
vivid insight into what these brave… and possibly crazy…
competitors go
through.
Jamie MacCreadie and Tegan Ash are both pro rodeo riders, and it shows
in their relationship. They’re stubborn and strong and passionate, and they’re not
going to start out just by holding hands.
Read
a Little, Want it All
LILIAN DARCY was born on Valentine’s Day. This auspicious
date, as well as a love of reading, set her destiny as a writer of romance and
women’s fiction from an early age. She has also written extensively for
Australian theatre and television, under another name. Her plays have been
professionally performed by some of Australia’s most prestigious theatre
companies, and have received two award nominations for Best Play from the
Australian Writers Guild, while in 1990 she was the co-recipient of an
Australian Film Institute award for best TV mini-series. She has now written
over eighty romances for Harlequin, as well as several mainstream novels, including Cafe
du Jour, originally published by Mira Books
Australia. She has received five nominations for the Romance Writers of America
Rita™ Award.
GETTING TO KNOW LILIAN
ANGI: How often do you get lost in a story?
LILIAN:
Any time I read a book
that’s worth finishing to the end. I’m an addictive reader, find it really hard
to return to the real world until I've finished the last page.
ANGI: What’s the first book you remember reading?
LILIAN:
A book for beginner
readers called “The Money Cat” which I cannot find the author for, even on the
miraculous internet. In my memory, it was evocatively written, had the most
amazing mystery in it, and was a real page-turner, but if I read it now, it
would probably go, “Here is the cat. It is made of china. It is a money box.”
ANGI: Can you tell us about a real-life hero you've met?
LILIAN:
I’m going to say my
husband, because he lives with a lot of health problems but rarely complains
and manages to accomplish so much.
ANGI: What do you like about the hero of your book?
LILIAN:
Jamie MacCreadie is a
little brash, and easy to misjudge. In fact, heroine Tegan does misjudge him,
for nearly two years before the story starts. I love that when we look closer,
we see all the gold that’s hidden below the surface.
ANGI: Is there a playlist you’d recommend for reading your latest release?
LILIAN:
Country music, all the
way. Not the traditional kind, but contemporary country that has strong
influences from rock and roll. And because Tegan is Australian, I’m going to
suggest Australian artistis like Kasey Chambers, Sara Storer, Missy Higgins,
Keith Urban and Troy Cassar-Daly.
ANGI: Where do you read and how often?
LILIAN:
I’ll read anywhere and
everywhere. In the bath, in front of the fire, out in the fresh air, in bed, on
the couch. Just not in a moving car, bus or train, because I get travel sick. I
so wish this wasn’t the case, or I would have read about ten thousand more
books than I have.
ANGI: What sound or noise do you love?
LILIAN:
The sound of my husband
in the kitchen, cooking, because he is brilliant at it, and I know it means I
am in for a fabulous meal.
ANGI: What was the first story you remember writing?
LILIAN:
“The Adventure at St
Barbara’s Girls’ School” – an English boarding school story, heavily derived
from other such stories (Hey, did you know that the Harry Potter books are
deeply influence by English boarding school stories, so I’m in good company)
and co-authored by my friend Jill. It remains an uncompleted masterpiece which
I still have somewhere.
ANGI: Who’s your favorite villain?
LILIAN:
Snape. And Fanny
Dashwood in “Sense and Sensibility.” They are both so real. I have met Fanny,
in many guises, and my heart goes out to Snape. I could have healed him. I
could. Send him to me, J K Rowling. I will even improve his hair. (Please note
: This is not an I-fancy-him thing. Or, okay, the younger Alan Rickman maybe.)
ANGI: What is your biggest vice?
LILIAN:
Yeah. Reading.
ANGI: How is it working with hot guys and sexy women all day?
LILIAN:
It’s exhausting. I can’t
even tell you. No one should have to do it.
ANGI’S GOTTA ASK: I noticed on your website there are several quilts. Are you a quilter
and do you have a favorite you could share.
LILIAN'S
GOTTA ANSWER: I used to be a
quilter. Then I started posting pics of my quilts on my website and got stage
fright and stopped quilting. So I’m not sending a picture of one, because I’ve
just been thinking lately that I might be ready to creep back into quilting
again, and don’t want to put myself off. Yes, I do know this sounds weird. 
FIND LILIAN:
UP NEXT for LILIAN:
LATE LAST NIGHT
River Bend series
Montana Born Books, Tule Publishing Group
PREVIOUS RELEASES by LILIAN:
THE ONE WHO CHANGED EVERYTHING
Cherry Sisters
Harlequin Special Edition
A MARRIAGE WORTH FIGHTING FOR
Harlequin Special Edition
2013 RWA RITA finalist
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