Fiona McGier, EroticRomance Author

2 appearances based on this book since June is the month for brides! (Husband and I celebrate our 30th anniversary this June...how time flies!)

1-Come read my interview at Romance Novels in Color.  There's an excerpt from The Reluctant Bride, and I ask for comments in answer to a fun question.  On Sunday, June 8th I'll pick one lucky reader to get an eBook, so she can enjoy finding out what choice Pamela finally makes.
http://romancenovelsincolor.com/giveaway-by-fiona-mcgier/

2-I put up a blog at Coffetime Romance to celebrate the fact that not all brides turn into "bridezillas"...sometimes the monster is her mom!

http://coffeetimeromance.com/CoffeeThoughts/the-reluctant-bride-not-a-regency/
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On Sunday, June 8th I'll be at the 50 Authors From 50 States blog run by my friend, author Annette Snyder, talking about the great places there are to see and experience in northern Minnesota, where I've set my latest book series.  Leave a comment and on Monday, June 16th I'll choose one reader's response to win an eBook of For The Love Of His Life, set in Grand Marais, MN.  So you can fall in love with Grand Marais also!

http://annettesnyder.blogspot.com

And on Monday, June 9th I'll be at Dawn's Reading Nook where she'll interview one of my naughtiest characters: Alexandra Blackstone from
Only One Man Will Do. This is the 2nd Minnesota Romance, but this one is set mainly in Minneapolis.

http://dawnsreadingnook.blogspot.com/2014/06/welcome-author-fiona-mcgrier-her.html

FYI--The 3rd Minnesota Romance, Her Last Resort, will be out later this year.  Ivan, the friendly Russian resort owner finally gets a love of his own!  He's in his 50s...so is she.  Hey, you're never too old, right?

This month's question:
What is the most inspiring, romantic, or dangerous setting you ever read or written?

That's easy!  I'm not a world-traveler kind of gal.  If we ever get to retire, I'd like nothing better than to have a cabin by a lake for the summer, then to drag our camper around the country for the rest of the year, seeing all there is to see in the good ol' USA.  I'm just not the globe-trotting type.

So when I think of a setting that's inspiring, I think of places we've been to, the small towns we've camped near, where I felt relaxed and at-peace. My current favorite slice of heaven is up at the furthest north-eastern corner of Minnesota--specifically: Grand Marais.  This is a quaint tourist town with an arty-flair, right on Lake Superior, in the shadow of the Sawtooth Mountains.  The scenery is rugged and beautiful, though judging by our time spent there last summer, I can see how it would be a formidable challenge to enjoy in the overly-long winter season lasting from about October through to June!  We spent the last 2 weeks of July up there last year, and on the rare days when it got above 60 degrees and it wasn't raining, we went swimming. In previous years it had been in the 90s...we hope for somewhere in-between if we can make it up there this summer.

But the camping just north of town is gorgeous, and the lakes along the Gun Flint Trail leading north are pristine and beautiful. My inspiration for  For The Love Of His Life was the unhappiness I felt one year as we were driving south to head home.  I wanted to stay!  Wah!  And I began to think how wonderful it would be to fall in love with a native, so you could stay in Grand Marais forever! And that's just what my egotistical bad boy actor, action-movie star Raul Roderick does...after he manages to convince Veronica that he's telling the truth about his feelings for her, since she accuses him of being like all actors: "You lie for a living."

I set the sequel, Only One Man Will Do, in Minneapolis, but the third book in the series, Her Last Resort, will be released later this year, and it's set once again in Grand Marais. To learn more about how much I love small town romances, please listen to Hummingbird Place blog-radio this Monday, May 26th, at 7:30pm EST, as I join in with 3 other authors to discuss small-town romances: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/hummingbirdplace/2014/05/26/small-town-romances

How about you?  What's your favorite setting to read or write about?

To find out what the next author on our Round Robin thinks, click here:

http://rhobinleecourtright.com

That's right!  FREE! The romance authors cookbook is free until midnight, May 10th. Head over to Amazon now and get your copy!  So you can make my black beans and rice, like J.T. did for Patty in Recipe For Love. 
And you can bake a sour cherry pie that will thrill everyone, like Veronica did in For The Love Of His Life!

I have 2 recipes in this new cookbook, which is organized as "savory" and "sweet".  I have a vegetarian black beans and rice recipe for the savory part (from Recipe For Love, my second Reyes Family Romance), and my never-fail from-scratch pie crust recipe with the sour cherry filling (from For The Love Of His Life) that my family loves! All recipes include a quote from the romance novel they're featured in, along with author contact info. 

What are you waiting for?  Head to Amazon to download this gem for the low cost of only 99 cents!  Woot!
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00K08SI3S/ref=cm_sw_su_dp

I wasn't sure what I thought about the sale of Harlequin publishing to News Corp, the firm own by Rupurt Murdoch.  But when I read this blog, I knew.  Why is it that whenever something involves primarily women, it's a joke? No one would think of insulting a publisher of any other genre, but when it's romance, written by and for women, it's a dirty joke waiting to be told.
We've come a long way baby?  I think not.
http://heidicullinan.wordpress.com/2014/05/02/breaking-news-media-still-sexist-in-reporting-of-romance-industry/

And for another view, the Smart Bitches have an offering:
http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/blog/media-coverage-of-the-harlequin-acquisition-it-could-be-worse.-no-actually#.U2PyOTD7M7s.twitter