Time Travel to the Old West with Yvonne Jocks

I figured it out. I'm not from around here….

Amnesia was easier.

Stranded in 1870s Dodge City, Lillabit remembers: She's Elizabeth Rhinehart, a modern woman thrown back in time against her will.

Also? Someone may be out to kill her.

Her only hope of returning home lies with a trio of scientists in Colorado. To get there, Elizabeth needs passage with someone she can trust... perhaps someone like the no-nonsense trail boss who first rescued her from the desert. But even if Jacob Garrison lets her rejoin his cattle drive to Wyoming--once he learns both her secrets, will he let her go home? Will she want to?

Turning is the 2nd book and continuation of the somewhat romantic, sometimes comic, cattle-drive time-travel OverTime series. It ties up several major elements of the story--but we have 2 books to go! 

EXCERPT 

Yvonne Jocks wasn't born in Texas, but she got here as fast as she could. Among other places, she lived in Illinois, Arizona, and Louisiana en route. Now she's settled in the DFW area, where she teaches community college and lives with her pets and many, many imaginary friends!

CLOVER: How often do you get lost in a story?

YVONNE:  All. The. Time.  I went through a frighteningly long period where I only read a novel or two a year—in part because I kept thinking, "I would do it this way, or use that word," and I hope I've come out the other side of that!  But even then, I remained addicted to television shows (especially when I can watch one after the next, on DVD collections) and movies. I can remember some plotlines more easily than I can remember my own life. I can remember details about characters better than I can remember details about some relatives. My greatest romantic loves have been fictional.

CLOVER: I saw a picture of you swimming up close and personal with a dolphin. I’ve always

wanted to do that. How was that? Any fear or just excitement?

YVONNE:  The only fear I had was a fear of contributing to the exploitation of dolphins.  Because of that, my friend Pam and I paid double to tour the behind-the-scenes running of the sanctuary, seeing how carefully they monitored the dolphins' health and making sure they only used bred-in-captivity dolphins, before we went ahead with the Dolphin Swim. What a relief, because it had always been a dream of mine, too! Being that close to a dolphin, petting her and looking in her eyes and hanging onto her fin while she pulled me through the sea water was nothing short of magical!

CLOVER: You’ve written about goddesses and witches, and also cowgirls. If you were forced to write in just one genre, which would you choose?

YVONNE:  I think I would implode if I had to choose. Then again, most of my stories are about normal world women who recognize that, beneath the surface, there's some kind of magic. Can that count as a genre?

CLOVER: Absolutely!!! I’m definitely good with that genre.

CLOVER: If you couldn’t be a writer anymore, what profession would you take up?

YVONNE: I teach community college English – my favorites are literature and creative writing classes – and that provides a stability and schedule to my life that I desperately need. Over the last few years, when I was writing very little, I was still teaching… so that would probably become my fallback position!

CLOVER: What’s the first thing you do when you finish writing a book?

YVONNE: I stand up from the computer and feel a little dizzy, like some important part of my existence is fading away—at least temporarily. I don't actually like that feeling, which is why I love writing a series so much.

CLOVER’S GOTTA ASK:   What has been your most rewarding publishing moment?

YVONNE’S GOTTA ANSWER:   Now that one's easy – it was in Reno, Nevada, in 2005, when my Silhouette Bombshell, AKA Goddess (w/a Evelyn Vaughn), won the Rita award for best novel with strong romantic elements.  I will always cherish the validation of that moment.

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WHAT ARE YOU WORKING ON?

This summer I hope to rerelease two historical romance novels, book 1 & 2 of the Rancher's Daughters series, Forgetting Herself and Proving Herself. In the meantime, I'm working steadily on OverTime Book 3 – Slipping, which I mean to have finished by the end of the year.

YVONNE WANTS TO KNOW:

If you got to go back to the Old West, what would you most want to see or do?

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