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Heart of a Knight #1

For the past several days, Heart of a Knight has been bouncing in and out of the #1 spot historical romance spot at Amazon Kindle. Stephanie Laurens knocked me out for a day (curse her superstardom and brilliance ;) ) but Dark Thomas bounced back up again to #1 tonight.

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The fun side of ebooks

This is what can be fun about the shift in the way books come to market. A Bed of Spices was my first historical. It’s a dark, wildly romantic Romeo and Juliet tale, and I loved it madly. It was, however, set in an unusual location, and it did not sell all that [...]

Ramona’s Sunshine Fruit and Honey Bread

(A recipe from How to Bake a Perfect Life. )

These are actual texts from my sister a few days ago:

Feb 5, 2011 7:13 pm Making sunshine fruit and honey bread

Feb 6, 2011 12:36 pm OMG OMG OMG. That bread is soooooo good I could prolly eat the whole thing!!!

Feb. [...]

February special: medieval romances only .99

In honor of the month of February and all things love, I will be offering both of my Kindle medieval romance novels for just .99 each.

A Bed of Spices was my first medieval. It’s a Romeo and Juliet story, set against the thick forests and castles of medieval Germany,but don’t let that put you off. [...]

Target Club Pick!

HOW TO BAKE A PERFECT LIFE featured at Target.

I’ve actually known about this for a couple of months and could not say a word. At last I am free to announce it to all of you. How to Bake a Perfect Life is the Target Club Pick. There is a special edition [...]

Release day!

HOW TO BAKE A PERFECT LIFE

by Barbara O’Neal

Available TODAY in trade paperback from your local retailer, or these on-line venues

Also available as an ebook for Kindle, and Nook [...]

A lovely review

from Publisher’s Weekly

How to Bake a Perfect Life

Barbara O’Neal, Bantam, $15 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-553-38677-6

The Rita Award–winning author (as Barbara Samuel) of The Lost Recipe for Happiness returns with the absorbing story of Ramona Gallagher, a 40-year-old woman whose joy in running a bakery in Colorado Springs helps her [...]

Heart of a Knight in ebook

Now available!

HEART OF A KNIGHT Barbara Samuel

RITA award winner

FROM AMAZON REVIEWS:

Lady Elizabeth D’Auvers returns to her beloved home, Woodell Castle, after a self-imposed exile to save herself and her stepchildren from the plague sweeping Britain. Afraid that she will find death and ruin, she is relieved to discover that [...]

A Bed of Spices now available in ebook format

A BED OF SPICES is a wildly romantic tale of forbidden love set in the turbulent middle ages. Solomon and Rica meet by chance at the herbalist’s cottage and fall deeply in love despite the divisions of religion, class, and expectations — but how can they possibly find a happy ending with so [...]

The damp, dewy beginning

I’m at the beginning of a new book. This is probably my favorite part of writing—every possibility exists. There is a freshness to the material, a scent of dew and dawn filling my work hours. There is always the chance that this time I will have matured enough, learned enough, that I will be [...]

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