Nothing But Trouble
Lisa Mondello
Lisa Mondello
Genre: Contemporary Western Romance
ASIN: B005O549IA
Number of pages: 148
Word Count: 40,000
Book
Description:
Contemporary Western Romance Novel
What's a girl to do all alone with a rodeo cowboy for 1 month in the Wyoming wilderness?
Melanie Summers has something to prove! Being a zoologist is her dream and the only thing standing in the way of her going on an African expedition is her father and his fear.
So she strikes a deal. She has to spend a full month in the Wyoming wilderness and show her father she can handle being in a remote area while managing her Type 1 diabetes before he'll agree to fund the expedition to Africa and allow her to go. But her daddy isn't the only one convinced she'll fail...
But she's not about to let any man underestimate what she can do. Especially not the sexy rodeo cowboy she's hired to help get her through the month in the wilderness.
Yes, he knows what he's doing. But so does she! Yes, he's ruggedly handsome...well, he can't help that, can he? But no sexy cowboy is going to keep her down!
Stoney Buxton needs to raise cash fast to save the family ranch after a barn fire injured his father and left the family finances in ruin. Re-entering the rodeo circuit seems like the best way to get the money he needs. That is until Melanie Summers shows up at his ranch flashing easy money.
To everyone else, Melanie's offer seems like the answer to all his prayers. But one look at her long legs and pouting lips and Stoney knows this high society gal is going to be nothing but trouble...for his cowboy heart.
What's a girl to do all alone with a rodeo cowboy for 1 month in the Wyoming wilderness?
Melanie Summers has something to prove! Being a zoologist is her dream and the only thing standing in the way of her going on an African expedition is her father and his fear.
So she strikes a deal. She has to spend a full month in the Wyoming wilderness and show her father she can handle being in a remote area while managing her Type 1 diabetes before he'll agree to fund the expedition to Africa and allow her to go. But her daddy isn't the only one convinced she'll fail...
But she's not about to let any man underestimate what she can do. Especially not the sexy rodeo cowboy she's hired to help get her through the month in the wilderness.
Yes, he knows what he's doing. But so does she! Yes, he's ruggedly handsome...well, he can't help that, can he? But no sexy cowboy is going to keep her down!
Stoney Buxton needs to raise cash fast to save the family ranch after a barn fire injured his father and left the family finances in ruin. Re-entering the rodeo circuit seems like the best way to get the money he needs. That is until Melanie Summers shows up at his ranch flashing easy money.
To everyone else, Melanie's offer seems like the answer to all his prayers. But one look at her long legs and pouting lips and Stoney knows this high society gal is going to be nothing but trouble...for his cowboy heart.
Researching the Western Novel by Lisa Mondello
If you ever take a writing course, the first thing the
instructor will tell you is to write about what you know. That’s fine for your first novel or two. But pretty soon, writing what you know gets boring
just like reading only what you know is boring.
Sooner or later, every writer is going to have to step
outside their comfort zone and write about something they don’t know. Writing about cowboys and cowboy life was it
for me!
Now, if you’ve read some of my books already, then you may
be scratching your head since you know that out of the 12 books I’ve published,
5 have been cowboy books!
There is a very good reason for this. While it’s easier to write about things you
already know about, nothing is more fun than writing about what you don’t
know. And when you find a subject you
love (and who doesn’t love a cowboy) you want to write about them over and over
again.
For me, this all started with NOTHING BUT TROUBLE. While I am an avid camper, the idea of
trailing into a mountain range as vast and beautiful as the Grand Tetons was a
bit intimidating. Add the fact that I
was writing about a rancher who happens to be a bull rider and I knew I was way
out of my comfort zone. But that was
okay. I dove right in, learned as much as I could about bull riding so that I
knew I could talk about it in the book without making flubs. I also learned about camping and hiking in
the Grand Tetons, which are quite a bit bigger than the White Mountains of New Hampshire
where I was used to camping.
As a writer, it’s important to know much more detail about a
subject than you’ll actually use in your story in order to give authenticity to
the story. Knowing what to put in and
what to leave out so the reader doesn’t get overloaded with detail is a
balancing act all writers do.
After writing Nothing But Trouble, I realized I really loved
writing about cowboys as much as I love reading about them. So I wrote my Texas Hearts series as a follow
up. My western romance research has paid
off! You can check out Nothing But
Trouble and my Texas Hearts series at all online book retailers including
Barnes and Noble, Amazon, Kobo and iTunes.
Here is a bit of trivia for you. I fell in love with a character in Nothing But
Trouble so much that I had to give him his own book in my Texas Hearts
series. If you read Nothing But Trouble,
you’ll recognize Mitch Broader later on in Her Heart for the Asking and in his
own book, His Heart for the Trusting.
About
the Author:
Lisa Mondello (a.k.a. LA Mondello) has held many jobs in her life
but being a published authors is the last job she'll ever have. She's not
retiring! She blames the creation of the personal computer for her leap into
writing novels. Otherwise, she'd still be penning stories with paper and
pen. Her first book, All I Want for
Christmas is You, was the winner of the Golden Quill contest for Best First
Book and to date has had over 400,000 downloads worldwide.
She is currently the author of 14 novels under the name Lisa
Mondello and LA Mondello. You can find more information about Lisa Mondello at
http://www.lisamondello.blogspot.com
@LisaMondello
No comments:
Post a Comment
Thanks for commenting!