MY BOOK WON AN AWARD! #IDA WINNER2017

When I was already having a great weekend, I received notice that GRANT ME THE MOON had won 1^st place in the International Digital Awards sponsored by Oklahoma chapter of RWA. You may have heard me yelling Whoo Hoo! from wherever you are.

Is it all right to admit I love this book? I hope so, because I do and plan another soon featuring this hero’s brother, Brad. I’m elated to learn that someone else liked the story—and relieved.

Hero and I grew up in Lubbock, Texas above the Caprock Escarpment and forty miles from Post. For many years he and I traveled from the Dallas-Fort Worth area to Lubbock visiting family. On each trip, we drove through the town of Post, in Garza County, at the foot of the Caprock Escarpment.

Garza Hotel in Post
Note red brick street

For several reasons, this town appealed to me. First, it was founded by cereal magnate C. W. Post as an Utopian community. If you’ve been to Post, you might find it less than Utopian and more a small town on dusty ranch land cut by Highway 84. Part of the downtown still has red brick streets (or did the last time I was there).

Second, I love small towns. Post called to me as a nice place to live. Appearing a quiet community, it’s only forty miles from the more metropolitan Lubbock. So, you have the benefits of a small town with the amenities of the city less than an hour away.

Third is the fact that it has a prehistoric site called the Garza Site, contemporary with the Clovis era. Hero and I enjoy rambling through American Indian ruins such as Chaco Canyon, Hovenweep, and Mesa Verde among others. How annoying we can’t visit the Garza site because it’s on private land.

Clovis spearhead

Not to be deterred, I created an even better find on Grant Grayson’s ranch. See how great life is as an author? I can make up stuff about anywhere. Like most writers, I like research and delved into what the Grayson Ranch site might feasibly include.

Here’s the blurb of GRANT ME THE MOON:

All Tory Fraser intended was to show her high school history club students a local archaeology dig. How could she know the excursion would involve a murder? Or that one of her students would be suspected as the killer? And she had no idea she would meet the man of her dreams.

Grant Grayson has taken over management of his family’s Grayson Ranch near Post, Texas to give his grandfather a less arduous schedule. A flash flood washed away an old talus slope on the ranch to reveal a prehistoric cave that is a Clovis site. Being a good citizen, Grant invited the nearest large university archaeology department to excavate the cave. When a gorgeous blonde high school teacher asks his permission to take her students to the site, how can he deny her? 

Tory and Grant are drawn in to the investigation to clear her student but unintentionally make themselves a target. They must evade the killer and protect those they love.

You can find GRANT ME THE MOON here:

Amazon US: http://a.co/iy1DX2X

Amazon UK: http://amzn.eu/g1QwOmL

Amazon CA: http://a.co/5cBYOeQ

 My wish for you is that you have a safe and pleasant November--and read a lot of books.