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Merry Christmas Giveaway

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It’s Christmas season! Who wants free books and some yummy goodies??? I am giving away autographed-by-me copies of the Of Rags and Riches collection (which includes my story Union Pacific Princess) and the First Love Forever Collection (which includes my story, Heartfelt Echoes). Also included is a package of biscotti and a sampling of different teas.

Here is a bit about each collection, and my story in each:

Of Rags and Riches Romance Collection

Love Flourishes during America’s Gilded Age

Journey along in nine historical romances with those whose lives are transformed by the opulence, growth, and great changes taking place in America’s Gilded Age. Nine couples meet during these exhilarating times and work to build a future together through fighting for social reform, celebrating new opportunities for leisure activities, taking advantage of economic growth and new inventions, and more. Watch as these romances develop and legacies of faith and love are formed.

Union Pacific Princess by Jennifer Uhlarik – Cheyenne, Dakota Territory, 1867
In the hell-on-wheels rail town of Cheyenne, grieving Boston socialite Dara Forsythe must choose between her estranged father; Connor, a bigwig with the Union Pacific Railroad; and Gage Wells, a former Confederate sharpshooter bent on derailing the Transcontinental Railroad’s progress.

Other authors in this collection are Susanne Dietze, Kathleen Y’Barbo, Natalie Monk, Michelle Griep, Erica Vetsch, Jaime Jo Wright, Anne Love, and Gabrielle Meyer.

First Love Forever Romance Collection

A first love is never easily forgotten…
and coming face to face with that person again can be awkward when the heartstrings are still holding on to the “what ifs.”

In settings from 1865 to 1910, nine couples are thrown back on the same path by life’s changes and challenges. A neighbor returns from law school. An heiress seeks a quick marriage. A soldier’s homecoming is painful. A family needs help. A prodigal son returns. A rogue aeronaut drops from the sky. A runaway bridegroom comes home. A letter for aid is sent. A doctor needs a nurse. Can love rekindle despite the separation of time and space?

Heartfelt Echoes by Jennifer Uhlarik
1875—Virginia City, Nevada: A short, urgent letter mentioning his childhood love, Millie Gordon, forces deaf Travis McCaffrey to turn to his estranged birth father for help rescuing the woman he can’t forget.

Other authors in the collection include Susanne Dietze, Cynthia Hickey, Marcia Gruver, Carrie Fancett Pagels, Martha Rogers, Lorna Seilstad, Connie Stevens, and Erica Vetsch.

That’s eighteen novellas by fifteen different authors, plus tea and biscotti to enjoy while you read.

To enter, please:

Follow my website (www.jenniferuhlarik.com–Scroll to the top of the page, then look for the floating “follow” button in the lower right corner of your screen), and
Leave me a message telling me you’ve followed and which collection you’re most excited about.
Be sure to include your email address so I can contact you if you’re the winner.

The drawing of the winning name will be on the evening of Thursday, December 20. Good luck, everyone, and Merry Christmas!

(I will ship only within the USA. If you’re outside the country, I’m so sorry…)

An Anniversary Of The Worst Kind

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Black Kettle Quote Today is an anniversary. A terrible one. On this day one-hundred-fifty-four years ago, Colonel John Chivington led an army force of 700 men through the night to surround a peaceful encampment of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians. Only weeks before, this very same colonel had promised Black Kettle and other chiefs of these tribes a peace treaty. They’d been instructed to fly the American flag and a white flag over Chief Black Kettle’s tent, and as long as those flags remained in place, the tribes would be at peace with the Army and Colorado’s territorial government.

But on November 29, 1864, just moments before dawn, Colonel Chivington’s men were instructed to fire on the sleeping encampment. Within the tents, there were mostly women, children, and the elderly. The fighting-aged men had gone to their hunting grounds to lay in food for the winter as they awaited the peace treaty.

If you’re interested in reading more of the true history of what led to this horrendous attack and what happened during and after, please see my blog post on the Heroes, Heroines, and History Blog. And keep watching there for more information about the historical players involved in this attack (my blogging day is the 25th of each month–though I won’t be blogging about the massacre on Christmas day. LOL). In upcoming posts, I will be delving more deeply into who the historical players were and why they acted as they did.

Speaking of…if you love history, follow Heroes, Heroines, and History. Thirty historical fiction authors have banded together to write a posts on historical topics every day of the month–a new post and new topic every day. Also, if you want to be kept in the loop of what’s upcoming with me, please be sure to follow my website for updates!

Cameo Courtships Collection

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I have some exciting news! As of a few weeks ago, I signed my tenth contract!

Cameo Courtships Contract

The Cameo Courtships Collection will feature four historical romance novellas set between 1852 and 1895, with two stories taking place in Pennsylvania, one in Colorado, and one in Louisiana. The idea behind the collection is that an heirloom cameo, once owned by Queen Victoria herself, is passed between various memebers of a family, and while in possession of the piece, each heroine will find her love of a lifetime.

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My story, titled Taming Petra, is about an unladylike, buckskin-clad frontierswoman who falls for a straight-laced preacher. The two team up to retrieve the heirloom cameo she loses to a cheating brothel owner during a high-stakes poker game in 1875 Colorado.

I’ll begin writing this story in the next week or so, and the collection will release on June 1, 2019. Hope you’ll look for the Cameo Courtships Collection, as well as my two other 2019 releases–my first novel, Sand Creek Serenade (coming in March) and another 4-in-1 historical romance collection, Smitten Presents: The Cowboys (coming in August). And as always, thank you for your support!

2018 Selah Award Finalists

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2018 Selah Finalist Sticker I am happy to share the 2018 Selah Award Finalists. There are some wonderful books and authors on the list, and I’m humbled that two of my titles are listed among them!

The Outcast’s Redemption from “The Secret Admirer Romance Collection” made the cut in the western category.

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Union Pacific Princess from “Of Rags and Riches Romance Collection” was among the novella finalists. Such a great honor!

Winners will be announced at the Awards Ceremony of Blue Ridge Mountain Christian Writers Conference on May 23, 2018. The ceremony will also be available on Facebook Live.

Congrats to all my fellow finalists!!! Here is the complete list.

2018 Selah Awards Finalist

Listed Alphabetically by Book Title

Children’s

Children’s Picture Books

Does God Take Naps by Crystal Bowman & Teri McKinley

I Love you the Mostest by Michelle Medlock Adams (Illustrated by Paige Snedeker)

My First Day of School by Michelle Medlock Adams

Fiction

Middle Grade Novel

Stranded on Thin Ice by Sharon CassanoLochman

The Wish I Wished Last Night by Shelley Pierce

Trial at the Ridge by Kinsey M. Rockett

YA Fiction

Escape to Vindor by Emily Golus

Merlin’s Wood by Anne Hamilton

Suburban Dangers by Megan Whitson Lee

Contemporary Romance

Magnolia Storms by Janet W. Ferguson

Saving Parker by Dan Walsh

The Secret Life of Bethany Hollenbeck by Bethany Turner

Contemporary Women’s

Abide With Me by Shellie Arnold

A Fragile Hope by Cynthia Ruchti

The Long Highway Home by Elizabeth Musser

First Novel

Still Waters by Lindsey P. Brackett

Tinsel in a Tangle by Laurie Germaine

Turtles in the Road by Rhonda Rhea and Kaley Rhea

Historical/Biblical

Devil in the Dust by Cara Luecht

The Gates of Sheol by Karl A. Bacon

With This Peace by Karen Campbell Prough

Historical Romance

My Heart Belongs in Ruby City, Idaho by Suzanne Dietze

The Return by Suzanne Woods Fisher

The Sound of Rain by Sarah Loudin Thomas

Mystery/Suspense

Anchored by Death by Catherine Finger

Murder is No Accident by Ann H. Gabhart

The Faithful One by Michele Chynoweth

Novella

Abundance of the Heart by Connie Stevens

Keara’s Escape by Anne Greene

Union Pacific Princess by Jennifer Uhlarik

Romantic Suspense

Doubly Dead by Lisa Wessel

Moving Target by Lynette Eason

Unintended Consequences by Dan Walsh

Speculative Fiction

Children of the Forgotten by Charles Franklin

The Genesis Tree by Heather LL FitzGerald

The Revisionary by Kristen Hogrefe

Western

Meghan’s Choice by Donna L. H. Smith

Rush by Jayme H. Mansfield

The Outcast’s Redemption by Jennifer Uhlarik

Nonfiction Books

Bible Study

Breaking the Chains (compiled & edited by Katy Kauffman)

Following God Onto the Stage by Alisa Hope Wagner

The Unexplainable Church: Reigniting the Mission of the Early Church by Erica Wiggenhorn

Christian Life

7 Steps to Get Off Sugar & Carbohydrates by Susan Neal

Marriage: Make It Or Break It by Andrea Merrell

When God Says Wait by Elizabeth Laing Thompson

General Nonfiction

Rhinestones on My Flip-Flops by Jane Jenkins Herlong

Spiritual Prepper by Jake McCandless

The God You Need to Know by Linda Evans Shepherd

Inspiration & Gift

Loved Baby: 31 Devotions Helping You Grieve & Cherish After Pregnancy Loss by Sarah Philpott, PhD

Ordinary Graces: Word Gifts for Any Season by Lucinda Secrest McDowell

Too Blessed to be Stressed: Inspiration for Every Day by Debora M. Coty

Memoir

Forgiveness in the First Degree by Margot Starbuck, Randol Hammer, & Phillip Robinson

Just a Little Girl by Victoria Sarvadi (With Allison Bottke)

Your Dream God’s Plan by Tiffany Smiling

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My First Novel

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Sand Creek Serenade Signing 2 So I had a real thrill recently. I had the pleasure of signing my first-ever contract for a full-length novel on Monday, March 19, 2018. Smitten Historical Romance will be putting my novel, Sand Creek Serenade, out in about a year. Here’s me signing the deal!

Sand Creek Serenade is a historical romance set in 1864 Colorado Territory. My heroine, Sadie Hoppner, is a young female doctor finishing her medical studies under the watchful eye of her older brother, Dr. Ben Hoppner. They both practice medicine at Fort Lyon where Ben is the fort’s surgeon and a Captain in the Army, and where Sadie has received special permission from the post’s commander, Major Ned Wynkoop. Sadie receives attention from both her brother’s best friend, Lieutenant Gabriel Farrington, and also the Cheyenne brave, Five Kills. You’ll have to read the story to find out who the real hero is!

I’ll keep you posted on release date, the cover, and any other pertinent information as we get closer to this story’s big day! Thanks for your interest!

The Story Behind The Brigand and The Bride

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Hi all! Jennifer Uhlarik here. I’m so excited to share with you the story behind the story on The Brigand and The Bride, my selection from The Mail-Order Brides Collection. So…where did the idea for this story come from? As I pondered the idea of a mail-order bride story, I knew it needed to be different than a previous mail-order bride story I’d done (Wedded to Honor from The Convenient Bride Collection). I began thinking of different scenarios and quickly struck on the idea of a woman marrying a stranger to escape her outlaw family. Probably not the most original of ideas—but then, every story’s been told a million times already. It’s the fun twists you add that makes a story unique. So as I pondered the heroine that was taking shape in my mind, I saw a scene begin to unfold.

The heroine hurries through town, anxious about being caught by her brother. Rather than heading straight to the church, she stops in the seamstress’ shop to pick up a suit for her mail-order groom—something they’d pre-arranged through their letters. Suit in hand, she goes to the church, lays out the clothes and grooming supplies for him, then waits in the sanctuary. A bit later, the hero rushes in, shaves and cuts his hair, dons the suit, and steps out of the room, where the pastor’s wife shoves him down the aisle, scolding him for his lateness.

The scene played so vividly in my mind’s eye that I knew I had to write it and find out how the rest turned out. From the couple’s first awkward face-to-face meeting to the “quickie” wedding that ensues, I was giggling and grinning ear-to-ear. I sure hope you’ll read The Brigand and The Bride to find out why!

The Brigand and the Bride by Jennifer Uhlarik
1876, Arizona
Jolie Hilliard weds a stranger to flee her outlaw family but discovers her groom is an escaped prisoner. Will she ever find happiness on the right side of the law?

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Jennifer Uhlarik discovered the western genre as a pre-teen when she swiped the only “horse” book she found on her older brother’s bookshelf. A new love was born. Across the next ten years, she devoured Louis L’Amour westerns and fell in love with the genre. In college at the University of Tampa, she began penning her own story of the Old West. Armed with a B.A. in writing, she has won and finaled in numerous writing competitions. In addition to writing, she has held jobs as a private business owner, a schoolteacher, a marketing director, and her favorite—a full-time homemaker. She currently writes historical novellas of the American West for Barbour Publishing. Jennifer is active in American Christian Fiction Writers and lifetime member of the Florida Writers Association. She lives near Tampa, Florida, with her husband, college-aged son, and four fur children.

Bestseller List

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I am thrilled to announce that The Courageous Brides Collection placed at #16 on the Evangelical Christian Publisher’s Association (ECPA) Bestseller List for fiction during the month of September. Thank you, Readers!!! It’s because of you!

And NOW…The Cover Reveal!

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After checking with my publisher that I have permission to share, here is the cover of my July 1, 2017 release–Of Rags And Riches Romance Collection! Isn’t it beautiful? Barbour does a fantastic job with their covers, and I couldn’t be more pleased with the way this one turned out.

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New Contract News

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So…I have been busy writing away on my Secret Admirer Romance Collection story (see that news from my earlier May posting!) and haven’t taken the time to share some long-overdue news. I have yet another contract to report. Barbour Publishing has contracted my story Union Pacific Princess to be included in their upcoming July 2017 release of the Of Rags and Riches Romance Collection–Nine Stories of Poverty and Opulence During the Gilded Age. I could not be more pleased! I started this story years ago and, due to various circumstances, never completed it, so it will be wonderful to see the story through to the end. The setting is the hell-on-wheels rail town of Cheyenne, Wyoming, during the building of the Transcontinental Railroad. Congrats to all my collection mates: Gabrielle Meyer, Erica Vetch, Michelle Griep, Susanne Dietze, Anne Love, Natalie Monk, Jaime Jo Wright, and Kathleen Y’Barbo. I am proud to be counted among you gifted gals in this collection!

Look for Of Rags And Riches Romance Collection in a store near you on July 1, 2017.

Happy News!

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Last year was one of those years where writing just didn’t seem to happen. At least, not in the form of finished projects. I spent the bulk of my writing time creating many new ideas–all written in synopsis form–but never really got to writing any of them into completed manuscripts. So while progress was made, it felt like nothing was really happening because I wasn’t seeing the word count go up on any one project.

Well, I’m thrilled to announce that one of those many synopses I have written is now contracted with Barbour Publishing. They have offered me a contract for my novella, The Outcast’s Redemption, to be included in The Secret Admirers Romance Collection. This will be my fourth novella with Barbour, and I couldn’t be more excited.