Is over at Romanc­ing the Book. Enjoy!

Is over at Tote Bags ‘n’  Blogs. Enjoy!

Happy Valentine’s Day every­one! Eat some choco­late, smell some roses, and go enjoy a day with your lover or loved ones … or both!

Okay, so the Jennifer-Estep-takes-over-the-entire-Internet blog tour is slowly wind­ing down. I’ve got a cou­ple of posts lined up next week, and that’s it for a while. I do want to men­tion once again that I’ll be over at Bit­ten by Books on Feb. 18. That will more or less be end the of the Spider’s Bite blog tour, and I’ll be giv­ing away tons of prizes over there. So be sure to check that out.

And I want to say thanks to every­one who let me guest blog on their site or reviewed the book. I appre­ci­ate your time and inter­est in my work.

So what else have I been up to? Well, right now, I’m read­ing through my lat­est draft of Ele­men­tal Assas­sin 5 and get­ting ready to give the book a final pol­ish. After that’s done, I want to go back and work on A Touch of Frost, my young adult novel that’s kind of like Veron­ica Mars meets 300. And I need to do some work on the Spy books, the other urban fan­tasy series that I’m hop­ing to get off the ground. Oh yeah, I’d kind of like to write this urban fan­tasy west­ern idea that I’ve been think­ing about too.

I’ve also been design­ing book fly­ers, book­marks, mail­ing out books to con­test win­ners, start­ing a Face­book fan page, and doing all the other behind-the-scenes stuff that authors do. It’s a glam­orous life, ain’t it?

Also, start­ing next week or there­abouts, I’m going to dive back into my reg­u­lar blog posts. One thing that I think I’ll talk about is roy­al­ties. We’ll see.

Wher­ever you are, I hope you stay safe and warm this weekend!

Fin­ished Alaskan Rene­gade by Kate Bridges. This is a his­tor­i­cal romance set in the wilds of Alaska.

Nurse Vic­to­ria Wind­haven needs a body­guard to escort her through the Alaskan wilder­ness so she can go tend to some injured min­ers. But Brant Mac­Quaid is not what she had in mind — espe­cially since he once broke off an engage­ment to her sis­ter. Now Brant is a bounty hunter who’s on the trail of a dan­ger­ous crim­i­nal who’s fled to Alaska to escape the law. Sparks fly as the two set out into the wilder­ness, but falling in love isn’t the only dan­ger that they face …

I’ve said it many times here on the blog, and I’m sure that I’ll say it again — but I’m an absolute sucker for west­erns. I just love the genre. I enjoy just about every west­ern romance that I read, and this one was no exception.

Bridges has a nice, easy-to-read style, and she really makes the Alaskan set­ting come to life. I also liked how the rela­tion­ship between Vic­to­ria and Brant grad­u­ally devel­oped, and the fact that they both gave in a lit­tle in order to get their hap­pily ever after.

Over­all, if you like west­erns like I do and are look­ing for a quick read on these cold, snowy days, give this book a try. Thumbs up.

Up next: Fire by Kristin Cashore.

Books in my TBR pile: About 20.