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Summer
greetings, friends!
Many thanks to Facebook friend, MK
McClintock, for inviting me to join all of you at Books and Benches!
My publishing history
includes LEADVILLE LADY- 2006 and HEARTS ON THE WIND – 2008,
which were my second and third hard cover historical romances with Five Star
Expressions. HEARTS ON THE WIND, a Cinderella love triangle set against
the 1876 backdrop of the emerging Northern Pacific RR is still available
through my website: www.lesleebreene.com. The RWA
award-winning FOXFIRE - 2001, my debut historical, a gold
robbery/kidnapping on the AT&SF RR in the middle of Kansas, may be found at
AuthorHouse.
Was her captor an outlaw or a hero?
Since then, I’ve ventured into the
contemporary west for my most recent soft cover novels.
STARLIGHT RESCUE, (First printing 2011- Treble Heart Books) a contemporary
romance, is set beneath the Wyoming Big Horn Mountains on an animal
rescue ranch. It received an RWA PASIC Book of Your Heart Award in the
contemporary, Single-Title category.
Starlight Rescue is Available for Kindle
My newest release, JOURNEY
TO SAND CASTLE (2013
Soft cover and e-book), is a contemporary inspirational romance
set in the San Luis Valley next to the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. "Leslee
Breene confronts conflict, resistance, and prejudice...in a well-written story
of love and redemption." ~ Heidi M.Thomas, WILLA Literary Award.
To read first chapters go to: http://www.amazon.com/Journey-Sand-Castle-Leslee-Breene/dp/1484958977/ref.
Recent Reviews for
Leslee Breene's Books
“STARLIGHT RESCUE will make
you fall in love…not only with the heroine who has a heart as big as the
mountains she calls home, but also with the animals she rescues.”
~ Deb Stover, Award-winning author
- read
full review
“ In JOURNEY TO SAND CASTLE, Leslee Breene describes
several journeys that interweave three broken lives. She develops interesting
characters and includes details about the San Luis Valley, that beautiful, historic
part of Colorado—complete with the sounds of a flight of sandhill cranes…”
~Sonya
Ellingboe – Editor, Highlands Ranch Herald (P. 29) - read full
review
Launch
party at Einstein Bros. Bagels, July 2013, with pals from Bally’s water
aerobics class. What fun!!
I also
love short fiction and have been fortunate to be published in various
magazines, won The Moonlight & Magnolia and ByLine Magazine first place
awards. Three short stories were finalists in the 2009, 2011 and 2012 Women
Writing the West LAURA (Ingalls Wilder) Competitions. To read the five
top stories in each year, please go to: http://womenwritingthewest.org/laurajournal.html.
Why Do I Write What I Write?
As a
native of Colorado, I’ve always loved the West, its history and its people.
First mesmerized by the short story, I studied and ventured along that path.
Short fiction is demanding, but very satisfying to create characters and story
frame that intrigue the reader, make him/her become involved. Romance was
emerging at that time as a major genre, and novel-length fiction easily
followed. Romance and adventure are the West! LaVyrle Spencer, Maggie Osborne,
and Joan Johnston are a few of my early women’s fiction icons.
As far
as a writing process, I’m something of a rogue tortoise. So many time demands
make a routine writing schedule nearly impossible for me. At this stage of my
life, my sister and I are care-giving for our ninety-plus mother who has
dementia—not a challenge to be taken lightly. I work in writing deadlines as
best I can. Many writers are in the same boat. We need to support each other,
and we do.
Stay
tuned for my new releases and Free giveaways: www.lesleebreene.com.
