Pat grew up on a farm in central Kansas but now makes her home in Wichita.
She is a wife, mother, and grandmother, as well as a neonatal ICU nurse.
Her first book, His Bundle of Love, made its debut in January 2006 from Steeple Hill Books.
Since then she has had several releases from Steeple Hill with more to come.
Keep a look out for Pat's next book, or visit her at www.PatriciaDavids.com to keep up on her latest news
Patricia Davids
Starla wears many hats. She is a gerontologist by degree, an office administrator by career, and a writer at heart. She publishes a number of newsletters for church groups and businesses, writes articles, and has had dozens of short stories published.
Older and wiser now after a prior failed marriage, a vagabond-lifestyle photographer and a highly successful entrepreneur are drawn together again by his mother and her business. Can they get beyond the past and find love once more?
The book is available as a print-on-demand order from any bookstore.
ISBN 0595122868
Or you may go to Iuniverse.com
Crooked T Ranch by Kay Starr
An ex-bull rider needs time to figure out what to do with his life after being forced to give up the rodeo circuit. He accepts a job as foreman of a ranch in Wyoming, wanting no additional complications. Sometimes what we want and what we get are very different things. Suddenly his life is complicated by the boss’s headstrong daughter, home for the summer, and ordered to work under his authority.
The novella is available as a download. Contact Starla for information.
Nina M. Sipes
w/a Blatant Appeal
Nina brings 35 years of practical experience in tutoring, educational training, behavioral science, and advocacy (child, parent, teacher, and educational staff) into the hands, hearts, and minds of the public. Now living in rural Kansas, she writes novels under the name of Blatant Appeal and also manages to indulge in the occasional bit of mischief.
Most of her novels center around The Proving Zone.
The first of the Proving Zone series is The Proving Zone-Tory's Story
Tory thought she was an intelligent, capable, healthy, loving individual. All she had to do was walk 1,000 miles, surviving natural perils, and her own preconceptions to prove it. The payoff? A life she dreamed of and risked everything to attain.
Santa Wears Spurs,
Bah Humbug,
Deadline...Whenever,
The Dude Ranch,
Valentine's Cowboy,
Her Personal Trainer,
Thankful For,
Mistletoe and Holly,
Hawke's Lady
Below is a list of a few of her Novellas available. You may contact Starla for more information
If You Love Me is a novel
Joan Vincent
Joan is a native Kansan and has been a lifetime resident, except for a brief stint in Arkansas while her husband was in the Air Force. She and her husband, Vince, live a few miles from the farm on which she was raised.
Inspired by her love of reading and history, Joan began writing in 1977 when the youngest of her three children was five. That summer, while confined to bed several weeks with a back injury, Joan read over 200 Regencies brought to her by her sister Vera.
THE BETROTHAL (2005)
The two cousins could not be more opposite. Louisa Elliot nurtures a defiant spirit, while Lady Meg never dares to rebel or speak out. Orphaned as children they were raised by their overbearing grandmother, who has definite plans for them. The cousins are distraught when the countess decrees they shall be wed-Louisa to a timorous squire and Meg to the haughty Duke of Hargrove. Louisa vows to rescue them from this fate.
From the moment the duke, Meg's intended, frees Louisa from a hollow log, his heart is ensnared and his carefully honed life set awry. Rumors of
THE PROMISE ROSE (2003)
A tingle of pleasure startled Lady Barry as she accepted the hand of the masked stranger at the Raneleagh Gardens. But he was now the Earl of Prideau and no stranger, having broken his pledge of love in their youth. Suddenly he is everywhere she turns. Lady Barry, struggling to free her late husband's estate, Gromley Hall, from his debts, finds her life turned awry with the revelation of his identity. Attempts are made on her stepson's life and she is accused. This charge does not worry her as much as Prideau, who torments her. When a summer house party is arranged at Gromley Hall, all
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By the last one she decided she, too, could write one of these. In 1979 she sold her first Regency to Dell Candlelight--Thomasina, which made a Dalton mass media list. Over the next three years Joan sold seven more Georgian and Regency works to Dell.
In 1983 financial pressures took Joan back to teaching. She taught in a self-contained sixth grade until 1991 when she began dividing her time between the sixth grade and developing a computer lab. By 1993 she was full time in the lab. She went on to install a Windows lab and gained certification as a Novell Network Administrator.
After retiring from teaching in 2000, Joan returned to writing. In the fall of that year her sister, Vera, insisted they attend a Romantic Times conference. Joan's success in a preconference writing seminar revitalized her work. In June 2002 she sold the Promise Rose to Avalon Books.
Joan is currently seeking publication for her Napoleonic spy mystery "Honour" series--story blurbs can be found on her website. Her hobbies include sewing for and playing with her young grandchildren Roman and Sarah, crocheting, quilting, and flower arranging. Her husband claims her favorite hobby is filling an ever-increasing number of bookcases with books on all facets of 18-19th Century English, French, and Spanish life and politics.
financial ruin put about to aid the duke's capture of an enemy agent add credence to the misinformation Louisa gathers to discredit him and save her cousin. Then Louisa discovers she loves the duke.
Hargrove is forced to court Meg in order to see her spirited cousin. As Louisa's wedding date approaches, Hargrove decides to throw caution to the wind. Despite a tryst set with a French spy at his summer home, he invites the countess' party. Amidst madcap chases, nefarious dealings, and kidnappings, and despite mounting evidence that Hargrove is a traitor, Louisa risks all to prove his innocence.
ISBN 0-8034-9717-2 June 2005
pieces of the puzzle are in one place. Will Prideau be discovered as the villain or will he, as Lady Barry's heart dares to hope, solve the mystery and once again present her with a promise rose?
