August ’12 Free Book!
If you love romances set in the old west, you’ll love this month’s free book, written by my friend, Keli Gwyn.
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Keli’s debut novel
From the back cover: “Widow Elenora Watkins heads to California with her nine-year-old daughter, eager to become a partner in a mercantile. When the mulish owner withdraws his offer because she’s a woman, Elenora opens her own shop. Widower Miles Rutledge is not about to get involved with another willful woman like his late wife, but the beautiful Elenora may be too hard to resist. When another man appears about to claim Elenora’s heart, Miles searches for a way to win her . . . while putting her out of business.”
A fun, sweet read with lots of authentic information about life in the 1870s, our August 2012 Free Book is a new trade-sized paperback. Your name will be entered in our Tuesday, August 28 drawing if you answer our question.
Q4Y: If you could open any kind of retail business that you wanted – where you wanted – what would it be?
I would love to have a craft shop.
Wilma Metcalf
It would be a book store for sure. I love books
I don’t think I’d do a good job running a bookstore, Patricia, but I’ve often thought that I could happily LIVE in one!
I wish our little town had a craft shop, Wilma. Maybe you could open one here? Ever think about living in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. You have to love snow!
Next to a book store, I think a card shop would be wonderful. I love browsing for cards and always have a stack tucked away for special occasions or everyday encouragements. Finding ones with *the* perfect message for a particular recipient always gives me a rush. LOL!
I don’t think a mercantile would suit my abilities too well, but it’s apparently just the thing for Keli’s Elenora.
I would open up book store & place to have coffee while checking out all the fabulous books. Not sure whether I would get any work done!!
I would love to own a sentiments store – full of things that people loved when they were younger, but gave away or lost and want to find it again for their child(ren).
Wow, talk about creative, Caroline!!
I have always loved to get my hands dirty so I would love to start a greenhouse.
I love to see flowers grow..
It would have to be a yarn shop, of course I’m getting into quilts now too.
I would have a store filled with “things” that help, heal, and encourage hope from my perspective. So I would have therapy products, bible study materials, coffee/teas, knitted wears, books, etc. Most importantly, I would have a learning lounge where various topics would be discussed in loving manner.
I love your knit products, Nancy – now quilts! That’s great!
That definitely fits with your Life passions, Kim. What a wonderful idea.
Sounds like an idea for a book, Caroline… Kind of the opposite of the one Stephen King wrote some years ago.
Well, if Nancy O. won’t let me go into the yarn shop business (my 1st choice also!), I would open a laundromat. Sounds crazy, but we really need one in this area. :>)
Sounds great, Bonnie!!
I would open up a Christian book store that also had a place you could lounge and read, have something to drink and just rest and relax and enjoy the solitude.