Mary Jo Putney

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Patricia Rice

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Susan Fraser King

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Anne Gracie

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Andrea Penrose

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Christina Courtenay

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Dragons and more!

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Because…Dragons!

Mary Jo

DragonAudioI'm been under the deadline hammer for far too long, and even missed the fact that the audiobook edition of my novella, The Dragon and the Dark Knight, had gone live in July!  (The time it takes for audio platforms to approve projects various greatly.) The narrator is the ever wonderful Siobhan Waring.

Since time is in short supply, I decided to rerun the blog I did in 2020 when the e-book version was released. The Dragon and the Dark Knight!  

I've written a number of novellas and shorter works because they're an enjoyable change of pace and give me the chance to go to new and different places. They can also be quirkier or more humorous than full length novels.  In short–fun! 

 

 

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Anne Gracie Holiday Novella

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The Christmas Bride   
Mary Jo here to interview our own Anne Gracie about her brand new, just released novella, The Christmas Bride!  Part of Anne's much loved Chance Sisters Series, it's a delightful holiday story that is pure Anne Gracie.  So… GracieChristmasBride361

MJP: What inspired you to write The Christmas Bride?

AG: When I first envisaged the Chance Sister series, I thought I’d like to play with the notion of four “sister” brides for four “brother/friend” grooms, but the early stages of a series or a book are always pretty fluid for me, and by the time I got to Jane’s story (The Spring Bride), I knew her much better, and I realized that she needed a different kind of hero, and that Ash wouldn’t suit. So he got left behind. Which kind of suited him at the time. But I got lots of emails from readers asking about Blake Ashton, who was one of the original four partners (in The Autumn Bride), and I agreed — he needed a story.

MJP:  Tell us about the hero, Blake Ashton.

AG:  Blake Ashton, or Ash as his friends call him, is brilliant with figures, which is why he's been able to become a partner in the Far East trading company Flynn & Co.. However Ash has a secret shame, and that's what keeps him from returning to England—it's been ten years. When he's more or less forced by his partners to come to England for a business meeting he intends to show his face and then return immediately to the Far East. But the best laid plans . . .

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Because…Dragons!

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IMG_5226Mary Jo

I'm happy to announce the first ever digital release of my novella, The Dragon and the Dark Knight!   I've written a number of novellas and shorter works because they're an enjoyable change of pace and give me the chance to go to new and different places. They can also be quirkier or more humorous than full length novels.  In short–fun! 

The Dragon and the Dark Lord was originally published as a longish novella in the DragonCover Lovers anthology with Jo Beverley, Barbara Samuel, Karen Harbaugh, and me.  The four of us were friends and enjoyed working together, and we did three different romantic fantasy anthologies: Faery Magic, Dragon Lovers, and Chalice of Roses.  Most anthologies are started by an editor, then they look for authors, but for these three, we authors put together our ideas and sold publishers on them.  Which has also fun.

The four stories in the anthology were all very different.  I loved twisting some of the traditional. dragon tropes. <G> Here's the blurb for my story:

Base-born Sir Kenrick of Rathbourne has earned his living as an itinerant tournament knight. His skill supports him and his squire, but his dream of a manor and wife and family seems impossibly distant.  Then he hears of a wealthy baron in Cornwall who is looking for a champion to slay the dragon that is terrorizing his lands. The reward will be a manor by the sea.  Kenrick believes dragons are only a legend–but the prize makes the story worth investigating.   

But there really is a dragon–and a dozen knights have failed to vanquish it.  And when he finds a luminous lady in distress, the real challenge is protecting her and her dragon…

 

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Another Wedding of the Century

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by Mary Jo No, the title of this blog has nothing to do with that fancy shindig at Westminster Abbey last month.  I blush to admit that it’s still another release with my name on it.  I’ve never had a busier publishing spring: March—Dark Mirror, a new YA paranormalApril—The Bargain, a reissued Regency historicalMay—Nowhere Near Respectable, a new Regency historical And now for June: The Wedding of the Century. My story is called “The Wedding of the Century,” and that was picked up as the title for this anthology, the third time the novella has been released.  It’s a long …

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