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Jacqueline Hopkins discovered the world
of romance novels when she read the likes of Kathleen Woodiwiss, Penelope Neri,
Johanna Lindsey and June Lund Shiplett’s Journey to Yesterday and Return
to Yesterday—two of her favorites. So she started writing romances in the
mid to late 1980s when she was first in the military and then continued when
she got out of the Navy by becoming a member of SIC Romance Writers of America,
and started the Aloha Chapter of RWA in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1989. Jacqueline’s
research into her family history sparked her current WIP of a time travel
historical cowboy romance where her heroine may get to meet Jacqueline’s US
Deputy Marshall ancestors from the Indian Territory. She loves photography,
traveling, scrapbooking, her grandkids and country music, where she finds
inspiration to write heroes who look like Alan Jackson. Jacqueline was born in
Oklahoma and has lived in New Mexico, Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Washington,
California, Florida, Connecticut, Hawaii and Iceland, and traveled to London,
England; some of these places she has lived while stationed there in the US
Navy from 1981-1988. Jacqueline hopes her love of travel and meeting new people
shows in the details in the books she likes to write. She currently lives in
Idaho in her sister’s house taking care of their mother while her husband works
in the oil fields in North Dakota; this living arrangement has given her the
opportunity to write full time. So many ideas, so little time!
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Book Blurb for Wilderness Heart
Lyn
Taylor loves her job as an Idaho wilderness hunting guide, but her world is
complicated. It is a man's job in a man's world where she must constantly prove
she is very capable and qualified to guide men on their hunts. On top of her
father barely engaging in life since the death of Lyn's mother, Lyn has second
thoughts about marrying and having a man in her life.
But that was before she met Nic Randall, a lumber man, who comes from Montana to find timber to be bid on and milled. He is convinced she can't handle the job as their guide because she is a woman and she is, of course, insulted. Nevertheless, neither has much choice and are forced to spend day and night together for the seven day hunt. Lyn is not happy -- just how much is a confident, independent woman suppose to put up with?
But that was before she met Nic Randall, a lumber man, who comes from Montana to find timber to be bid on and milled. He is convinced she can't handle the job as their guide because she is a woman and she is, of course, insulted. Nevertheless, neither has much choice and are forced to spend day and night together for the seven day hunt. Lyn is not happy -- just how much is a confident, independent woman suppose to put up with?
Blurb
on my Recipe
Mom’s chili was what we ate on our
snowmobile rides all over kingdom come of Idaho and it was very tasty and
warmed you right up. If she put a lot of Cayenne pepper in it, you couldn't each too much. If there were other families riding with us and they ate the
chili, someone would always ask, “Why doesn't the chili have beans in it?”
My mother would reply, “Because true
chili doesn't have beans in it and we like it this way.”
So Lyn, my heroine, made the chili
for every guiding trip she was on and it always elicited an argument from one
of the men about the lack of beans in it, and this trip with Nic was no
different in Wilderness Heart.
I hope you enjoy the Wilderness Chili as well as reading
about Lyn and Nic’s little conflicts, and the overall book as I did writing
it.
Enjoy Jacqueline's Chili recipe in Passionate Cooks!
Come find out more about Jacqueline
Thank you Michelle, for having me as your guest today. I love the colors of your blog...font on black is so much easier to read on my tired eyes.
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