Bed, Bath & Beloved is out now!

When Annie Riker and her sister inherit a decrepit mansion from an unknown great-great grandmother who struck it rich in the Klondike Gold Rush, they move to Montana to turn it into a bed and breakfast. Annie’s primary goal is to find a safe place to raise her young daughter.
Jack Cabrini, CEO of the construction company working on Albion House, moves to Bitter Falls to handle the project himself. His primary goal is to find a safe place to raise his young sister. When he gets to know Annie and her little girl, his goal becomes to build a family.
But trouble follows Annie and Jack, and they must confront danger and their growing attraction head on.

This is the third (last) in the Bitter Falls, Montana, stories. It's out now from The Wild Rose Press in ebook and in print. Like the other two Montana romances, you can order it from www.thewildrosepress.com, fictionwise, amazon.com, or bn.com.

"Lovin' Montana" available now

August 17, 2009 ---
The big news, writing-wise, is that "Lovin' Montana" is available now in ebook format and in print from www.Amazon.com, www.Barnesandnoble.com, and www.thewildrosepress.com
The other big news is that "Love with a Welcome Stranger" won first place in Contemporary Single Title in the Write Touch Readers' Award given by Wisconsin RWA.
On the personal front, I've had a great summer. Southeast Alaska by plane and ferry in June, and family time on the Oregon coast in August. When I figure out how to download the pictures from the new camera, I'll post two or three.

Winner of the EPPIE Award!!!

I'm so happy to say -- On March 7, 2009, "Love with a Welcome Stranger" was named the Winner of the 2009 Eppie Award for Best Contemporary Romance. The awards were given at the national conference (in Las Vegas) of EPIC, Electronically Published Internet Connection, an organization that promotes e-pubs.
"Love with a Welcome Stranger" is also available in print from Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com.

MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR

After an extremely busy December with four concerts by our church choir (along with other performers at the church), and singing at the Christmas Eve service, we enjoyed a quiet Christmas at home. Quiet--and cold. Right now, at 10 a.m. Christmas Day, it's sleeting on top of the snow we had a couple days ago.
For the week after Christmas we'll be out at the Pacific Coast of Washington, at a little town north of Ocean Shores. The weather will be dreadful with storms coming in off the ocean, but perfect for writing, reading, and watching movies.
For Christmas I got the COMPLETE set of MASH, the movie and all the TV episodes. Wow!
I know what I'll be doing on New Years Eve!!!!!
Best wishes to all!
Lynnette

Outstanding article about publishing industry

Wow! I just read the following article by agent Richard Curtis.
http://www.ereads.com/2008/12/behind-publishings-wednesday-of-long.html

He says to read it twice, and I was thinking, Huh? Why would I read it TWICE? But he explains at the end that the article -- which sounds as if it were written yesterday, was written in 1992.
He points out how abysmally STUPID and DOOMED the publishing industry's way of doing business is. In short, they overprint books and the bookstores (who have nothing to lose) have unlimited right of return. There's a lot more to it, but at the bottom is the practice of withholding authors' royalties against potention returns.

He points out (NOW) that what he predicted in 1992 (some of which I'll quote below) has come to pass with Amazon, electronic publishing, and Print on Demand publishing. Here's some of what Curtis said, in 1992:

"In the coming era of "demand" publishing, we will see direct electronic delivery of text to reader-users without dependence on distributors, or even on paper. The technology for producing portable electronic books containing or accessing whole libraries is now at hand. . . . Thanks to the multimedia and interactive features of the new breed of computers, tomorrow's electronic books will entertain readers with audio and video displays that will make traditional books look as crude as cuneiform writing on stone tablets. Gone will be the disgustingly wasteful system of merchandising books, along with the creative bookkeeping that permits publishers to hold authors' money for years."

I recommend you read the whole article. Thanks to Kelli Finger, writing as Abbey MacInnis, for the heads up about this.
Lynnette

December news

"Love with a Welcome Stranger" came out in ebook on September 19, and the reviews are very good. I'll post some of them here in a few days. It will be available IN PRINT on January 2, 2009. You can order it from www.amazon.com, or ww.bn.com (Barnes & Noble) or from the publisher at www.thewildrosepress.com.

On November 30 I received notification that it's a FINALIST for a 2009 EPPIE AWARD for Best Contemporary Romance. Winners will be announced March 7 at the EPIC conference in Las Vegas.

Other big news -- the second romance set in Bitter Falls, "Lovin' Montana," will be released in ebook and also in print on August 14, 2009.
The beautiful cover (designed by Rae Monet, who also did the cover of "Love with a Welcome Stranger") is on the first page of my website, www.RainshadowRomance.com.
Lynnette Baughman

My new book coming SOON

"Love with a Welcome Stranger" will be out in ebook on September 19 (as expected), but date of the print edition has been moved up to January 2, 2009.
This contemporary western romance is a twist on a true feature article I did for Reader's Digest a few years ago. The real story was of a young woman who'd lost about a year of her memory (totally and always lost) in a horrible car crash. She had no memory of meeting, falling in love with, and marrying the man everyone said was her husband. She endured long months of painful rehabilitation, learning to walk, feed herself, and all the other things we take for granted. No matter how many times she saw the video of herself at her large wedding, she felt no connection to the man.
Finally, he realized he had to win her all over again, so they dated and slowly she fell in love -- for the first time, and yet -- again.
Their story was in a dozen magazines and was featured on Oprah, Dateline NBC, Inside Edition, and more TV shows. It was made into a book and a TV movie.
So, in real life, the young woman was surrounded by people who knew the truth, that she loved this man enough to marry him. She was the only one who didn't understand it.
In my fictional story, only two people know that Mandy (daughter of a wealthy businessman) and Cam (a poor cowboy who worked on the ranch) had a love affair when she was 18 and he was 24. Those two people are Mandy and Cam. At the end of that summer, Mandy left Montana and Cam behind--in anger--and moved to California to live the life of a Hollywood starlet. TWELVE YEARS LATER --- Mandy is shot by a deranged fan and has to relearn simple things. Some of her memory returns; some events are lost.
Her memory of Cam West--and their love affair--is part of what's lost.
When she returns to Montana and meets a handsome, successful horse breeder, she thinks she's falling for a stranger. Cam tries to avoid her, and tries to hold on to his righteous anger, but he's in big trouble. He has to tell her the truth, but how and when can he give her such a shock? And while he's walking that tightrope, he's lost in memories of the Mandy he knew so intimately.
Visit www.thewildrosepress.com to order the ebook. When it comes out in print, you can order from Amazon.com or bn.com.