The Wylder West

Before we let you head off, just a couple more questions... Do you have any hobbies that you’d care to chat about? Skydiving? Baking? Traveling? Whatever interests you—we’d love to hear about it! I have some other talents. I like to oil paint, sew costumes and I make quilt tops for charity with my daughter. I bake pastries and I like to try new things. My daughter and I just tried henna for the first time and we are going to make a regency bonnet. I like creating things. There is a great power in creation. What drew you to write for Wylder?  I love history. I love historical romance. I love the time when we had to write letters, when communication required much more effort. I love researching little tidbits of interesting minutia to share in my stories that bring the time alive for my readers. I also kinda wish I could wear a dress around all day  Are you working on anything new? Do you have plans for a next story that you’d care to share?    I have a whole slew of...

Amey, it's so great to have you on The Wylder West blog this week! Thank you for joining us!  We've heard a bit about Wylder Bride and I think it's fair to say you've got most of us completely intrigued! This one is definitely going on my must-read list.  Do you have any other published work? I have two other novels and two novellas. The Swiss Mishap won third place in a Book Buyer's best contest for Contemporary Romance. And August Blues is my most recent release. It’s about a romance writer who meets the critic who panned her book and he’s hot. They both sound wonderful!  Thank you for this excerpt from The Swiss Mishap :  Marie Claire hung up, a huge grin on her face. “I sent your CV to Eve Claremont. Eve agrees to you give interview. Her English communication is trés bien... better than mine.” Madame Claremont will interview her? A nervous shiver filled her horribly stressed body. Just then, the door opened again. Out came a pencil-thin woman in a pencil-l...

Excerpt from Wylder Bride : Boston, 1879 Maisie Brinley refused to descend the stairs for dinner. Her mother invited the stuffy, self-absorbed, yet wealthy, Ralph Pope to dine tonight. They hadn't invited him to discuss the politics of moving to the gold standard, either. No, this dinner party would end in a marriage proposal.  Perhaps he would arrive tonight on his newly acquired bicycle all the way from the financial district, rebuilt nearly seven years ago after the fire of 1872. When she last saw him at the Boston Common earlier in the spring, he looked so silly balanced upon the two-wheeled contraption. Tying a knot in her sheets, Maisie stifled a laugh against her hand. Leaning out the third floor window to view the other stately brick mansions with mansard roofs along the South Slope of Beacon Hill, she dropped the lengthy rope ladder made from her tightly woven bed sheets to the brick streets below. How would she manage the climb in her skirts? Thankfully, her kid leather b...

Amey, now that we've heard a little bit about Wylder Bride --which sounds amazing, by the way--do you mind filling us in on your early writing career? I'm wildly curious about it and I'm sure other readers are, too.  How did you get started writing? When I was little, I used to write mysteries and I read a ton of Nancy Drew. The stories didn’t really make sense, but to my nine-year-old mine, they did. I also wrote plays that had the same amount of lines for each person because I wanted everyone to be equal. I'm so kind like that.  ;)  But then in college, I took some creative writing classes. Mostly I just loved how books transported me and made me feel certain things. I wanted to do that for other people. What was your journey to publication?  I hit 31 and I lamented to my husband how I always wanted to be a writer but never did. I started lots of books, hit about 20k words and the whole thing fell apart. He told me to sit down and write a scene for a story I had be...

  Amey, welcome to The Wylder West blog!  So glad to have you as this week's author spotlight. I'm sure readers are looking forward to getting to know you and hearing about your Wylder West story! Please tell us about your Wylder story—we love Wylder and want to hear all the lovely details! My story is called Wylder Bride . I always wanted to rewrite one of my favorite stories Cyrano de Bergerac to give Cyrano a happy ending. I love reading historical romance so when the Wild Rose Press issued a call for submissions for stories set in the time of mail-order brides, I had to submit my idea. I love how it turned out. So Maise Brinley is part of the Boston elite mini 1879. She longs for adventure and for a man who cares more about love than wealth creation. She comes across letters for mail order brides and decides to answer one special letter.   Cyrus is a disfigured gunsmith who went to Wylder to hid his face from females. When his best friend asks him to write letters for...