Books by Arlene Culiner are featured today on Saturday's Blurbs #MFRWAuthor #Semi ghost town #Blake's Folly #Desert Rose

 

A Room in Blake’s Folly

 

If only the walls could speak…

 

In one hundred and fifty years, Blake's Folly, a silver boomtown notorious for its brothels, scarlet ladies, silver barons, speakeasies, and divorce ranches, has become a semi-ghost town. Although the old Mizpah Saloon is still in business, its upper floor is sheathed in dust. But in a room at a long corridor's end, an adventurer, a beautiful dance girl, and a rejected wife were once caught in a love triangle, and their secret has touched three generations. The six stories in A Room in Blake’s Folly tell the tale.

 

Purchase Links: https://books2read.com/BlakesFollyRomance

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt3VkYUTVNk

 

All About Charming Alice

 

Trust in love and solutions will appear

 

Alice Treemont has no intention of falling in love. Living in Blake’s Folly, a semi-ghost town, she cooks vegetarian meals, rescues unwanted dogs, and protects the most unloved creatures on earth: snakes. What man would share those interests?

 

Jace Constant is in Nevada, doing research for his new book, but he won’t be staying. He’s disgusted by desert dust on his fine Italian shoes and dog hair on his cashmere sweaters. As for snakes, he doesn’t just despise them: they terrify him.

 

So why does the air sizzle each time Alice and Jace meet? A romance would entail far too many compromises.

 

Purchase Link : https://books2read.com/Charming-Alice

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l2VyHtsY7A

 

Desert Rose

 

Secrets are the best protection against love

 

Rose Badger is the local flirt, and if the other inhabitants of backwoods Blake’s Folly, Nevada, don’t approve, she couldn’t care less. With a disastrous marriage and a dead-end career far behind her, settling down is the last thing she intends to do. Newcomer Jonah Livingstone is intriguing, but with his complicated life, he’s off limits for anything other than friendship. Besides, Rose has a secret world of her own—one she won’t give up for any man.

 

The last person geologist Jonah Livingstone expected to meet in a semi-ghost town is the sparkling and lovely Rose Badger. But Rose, always surrounded by many admirers, doesn’t seem inclined to choose a favorite. So why fret? Jonah keeps his personal life well hidden…and that's the best way to avoid disappointment.

 

Purchase links: https://books2read.com/RosesDesert

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Trailer : https://youtu.be/tHPrIciT0XU

 

Arlene Culiner is Visiting and Talking about Panster or Plotter #MFRWAuthor #Writing #Storyteller #Non-fiction #Hungarian village #Women's fiction

 

 1.Are you a panster or a plotter or perhaps a bit of both? Which comes first - characters or plot for you?

 

I can’t really answer this, probably because I don’t analyze my way of functioning as a writer or as a visual artist. I’m a natural storyteller, so I suppose I do both at the same time.

 

2.What are you working on now? Is this a book in a current series or something totally new?

 

I’m finishing a non-fiction manuscript about life in a small Hungarian village. Those Absent on the Great Hungarian Plain will be published by Claret Press, London, in February. I’m also finishing a standalone women’s fiction, Words for Patty Jo. The style is something quite new for me, also the story is a departure from my romance books. Yes, there is a romance, but it is subtle and off-stage for much of the story.

 

3.Do you have some kind of object or place that figures in most of your books? I use gems a lot, hospitals and caves.

 

Good food, especially spicy, herby vegetarian meals. Also good wines. The settings for my stories are always out of the way places — small communities, semi-ghost towns, places no one goes to. And they’re filled with cranky characters.

 

4.Do you write everyday or just when the spirit hits?

 

When the spirit hits. Why force myself to do something I don’t want to do? Life is too short for nonsense like that.

 

5.Where can we find you?

 

In my house in a small French village: https://www.jill-culiner.com/

On my romance website: https://www.j-arleneculiner.com/

On my history book site: https://www.jillculiner-writer.com/

On SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/j-arlene-culiner

And here: https://linktr.ee/j.arleneculiner

 

7.Who are your favorite authors? What about a book you’ve enjoyed?

 

I don’t have a favorite. I have many authors I love, and there are many books that I’ve read recently that are excellent: the brilliant Istanbul history Midnight at the Pera Palace by Charles King, Kapka Kassabova’s Street Without a Name, that describes life in communist Bulgaria. I also very much enjoyed Stephen Henighan’s Lost Province about his year spent in Moldava.

 

I could continue listing wonderful books for a long time, but, as you can tell, I love those that take me elsewhere, that are rich with information, and that are beautifully written.