Much Ado About Miners
by Jacquie Rogers
Genre: Western Romance
The third novel in the Hearts of Owyhee western romance series!
Cupid’s bullet...
Hired gun Kade McKinnon interrupts a bank holdup and is shot by the teller, Iris Gardner, whose victims have a tendency to be the next groom in town. Will he be the groom this time?
Cupid’s bow...
Iris Gardner, a smart, independent bank clerk, fell in love with Kade when she was too young to know better. So when he walks back into her life and her bank, it's only fitting that she shoots him ... by accident, of course.
Cupid’s blindfold...
Kade doesn’t know Iris’s company is the one who hired him to escort a bullion shipment, and Iris doesn’t know Kade owns the security company, but they both know robbers are on their trail. Which is more likely to be stolen—the silver, or his heart?
DREAMCAST:
DUKE THE CAT:
DUKE THE CAT:
Iris:
Kade:
Phineas:
FUN FACTS:
1. The cover for Much Ado About Mavericks
is my nephew, Kyle Walker. He’ll also be
on the cover of Hearts of Owyhee #5, Much Ado About Mustangs.
2. I was once a professional photographer and still
prefer 35 mm over digital, but use digital exclusively now.
3. I Majored in Political Science In College
4. Our house is filled with books and despite
having more bookcases than ten normal families, I still don’t have enough shelf
space, so we have boxes of books all over the place.
5. Kindle is my friend... Because there is no more room for printed books
6. My Favorite sport is Rodeo and baseball.
7. When I write, I light a scented candle,
specifically pumpkin pie spice scent.
Before Thanksgiving, I made my daughter go to the store and buy all the
pumpkin pie spice candles they had (over a dozen).
8. I grew up on a dairy farm in Owyhee County,
Idaho, where my Hearts of Owyhee series is set.
Books by Jacquie Rogers
Hearts of Owyhee series (western historical romance)
#1: Much Ado About Madams
#2: Much Ado About Marshals
#3: Much Ado About Miners
#4: Much Ado About Mavericks
I'm a former software designer, campaign manager, deli clerk, and cow milker, but always a bookworm. Reading is my passion—westerns, fantasies, historicals of any era, all with a splash of humor and a dash of romance.
While I'm a country girl by birth, I currently live in suburbia with my very patient husband where we’re humble servants of The Cat Annie. I don't think you can ever take the country out of a girl's heart, though, which is why my stories often take place in Idaho where I grew up. (Hearts of Owyhee series and some of my short stories, too.)
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1. First off tell us a little about
yourself.
Nothing like coming
from a family of storytellers. When the
other kids were out playing, I sat in the corner and listened to my grandpa and
his uncles one-up each other with hunting stories. My cousins (same age as my mom) were
hysterically funny. I grew up on a dairy
farm in Owyhee County, Idaho, where my Hearts of Owyhee series is set. The cool
thing about the area and time was that the modern era hadn’t quite made it
there yet, so I was immersed in the Old West way of life—Saturday night card
parties and dances at the Grange, the Homedale Rod & Gun Club, and 4-H
(dairy, of course). But while I was
chasing Holsteins, I was dreaming of Texas Longhorns. Even so, I didn’t start writing until twenty
years later, nor did it ever occur to me that I should. Now I’m hooked.
I married a city boy
and we moved to an even bigger city, Seattle, Washington. He’s an audio engineer, my IT Guy, and can
fix just about anything. We have a
rescue cat, Annie, who was feral but has since decided she likes to be warm and
fed—but she still won’t sit on our laps.
Right now, my daughter and her four little boys live here, so the place
is in chaos about 20 hours a day, but they’re sure cute. Most of the time. Ha!
My most frequent
internet haunt is the Pickle Barrel Bar and Books on Facebook, so stop by and
say hi! https://www.facebook.com/groups/JacquieRogers/
2. At what age did you start writing? What
was the first thing that you written?
It never occurred to
me that I should be a writer, so no, I wasn’t one of those who started writing
the moment they could hold a crayon. My
kids were in high school at the time. I
got pneumonia and couldn’t get out of bed.
That’s when my daughter convinced me to read a romance novel. After reading two or three a day for a few
weeks, I dreamed a book—so I wrote it.
That book will never see the light of day for two reasons. The first is that a movie came out a couple
years after I wrote it, and that movie was almost identical to my book, which
upset me greatly. The second is I don’t
have any more stories in that genre (science fiction romance) hitting me over
the head.
3. Can you tell us how you came up with
the idea of your latest book/project? Did anything inspire you to write it?
Much Ado About Miners was purely to satisfy my readers. The heroine of this book, Iris Gardner, shot
the hero in the beginning of Much Ado
About Mavericks, and she’s also the sister of the heroine in that
book. Readers wanted Iris’s story, so I
wrote it. All I knew is the book had to
start off with her shooting the hero, and she did a good job of it. Then the story just sorta unfolded.
4. Can you tell us about your next
book/project? Do you have a title/release date?
My next release in
the western historical romance genre is Much
Ado About Mustangs, the fifth book in the Hearts of Owyhee series. In Much
Ado About Miners, I introduced the McKinnon family. The second brother, Kade, is the hero in that
story. His younger brother, Josh, is the
hero in Much Ado about Mustangs. I might write one more book in this series
featuring the older brother, Bram.
In between, I’ll have
a couple of traditional western releases.
5. If you weren’t a writer what do you see
yourself doing?
My first heart’s
desire was to be a baseball announcer on television. That didn’t work out. I’ve done a lot of different things, but
whatever would’ve chosen other than writing, I doubt it would last long. I have a short attention span and about five
dozen craft and sewing projects, all unfinished, to prove it.
6. Who are some of your favorite authors?
Mary Renault, Maggie
Osborne, James Reasoner, Kathleen Eagle, Caroline Clemmons, and a whole bunch
more.
7. What are your top 5 books that you have
read?
I couldn’t even begin
to answer this. For one thing, just about
every book hits this list for a while after I read it. For another, I don’t remember titles and very
seldom names. I can remember the year I
read them, though.
8. What was the last book you have read?
What book are you reading right now?
The last novel I read
was Gabe by Caroline Clemmons, which
was excellent as usual—I love her writing.
Before that, I read Bound for the
Promise Land by Troy Smith—an incredible book! Honestly, it should be made into a
mini-series. I’m currently reading Prodigal Gun by Kathleen Rice Adams,
who’s very talented and we’ll be hearing a lot more from her. In between, I read several short stories
written by the other authors in Wild
Texas Christmas and Cowboys,
Creatures, and Calico: Vol. 2, as well as Ann Charles’ ARC of Look What the Wind Blew In.
9. Would you ever co-write with another
author? If yes do you have someone in mind?
I’ve done that
several times. Ann Charles and I
co-wrote two non-fiction books. Caroline
Clemmons and I wrote a duet, Mail-Order
Tangle. Right now, I’m writing the
first chapter to Wolf Creek, Book 17:
Comanchero Trail, which will be released in a few months. Troy Smith is head wrangler of the Wolf Creek
series, all of which are released under the house name of Ford Fargo. It’s like a multi-player role-playing
game. Each participating author has a
character (or two—I have dairyman Gib Norwood and madam Abby Potter) and after
Troy comes up with a plot, we write our chapter. All the chapters are written simultaneously,
and then Troy glues them together. For
the current project, I’m writing chapter one in my character’s point of
view. That would be Abby Potter, madam
of Miss Abby’s Boarding House. These
books are in the traditional western category and published by Western
Fictioneers.
10. Does music inspire you? If yes what type
of music usually does?
I don’t listen to
music when I write, so no play lists.
But Sleight of Heart was
inspired by Heart’s Magic Man, you
know, the one with the magic hands.
That’s a great song. I love music
but generally the music plays in my brain just like a movie score, which is why
I can’t listen to other music when I write.
This part is
optional.
1. Favorite Animal
I’m an animal lover
and you’ll find just about all of them in my novels and stories—dogs (Winky in Much Ado About Marshals), cats (Deputy
Duke in Much Ado About Miners is
quite a character), pigs (A Flare of the
Heart in Hearts and Spurs),
chickens and goats (Don’t Go Snaring My
Heart in Lassoing a Groom), and
on and on. Just about all my books have
animals that are characters in their own right, and most of them have mules. The Muleskinners series features eight draft
mules named after Greek gods.
2. Favorite food
Hands down—strawberry
shortcake, but only if the shortcake is the real deal.
3. Favorite Holiday
Labor Day. It’s a relaxed, family day that doesn’t beat
the dickens out of my credit card, and the weather is still nice.
4. Favorite Genre to read
Western historical
romance, and a close runner-up is traditional western, but I also enjoy fantasy
and fantasy romance.
5. Favorite color
Red
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