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A New Venture

August 11, 2021 / Marsha Ward / 0 Comments

New and Improved

For the last few weeks, I’ve been working on something new. It’s also something that is improved for people who have difficulty reading books in regular font sizes. I’ve been creating Large Print editions of The Owen Family Saga.

The first book is the origin story of the Owen Family, the prequel to the Owen Family Saga series, entitled THAT TENDER LIGHT, in which Rod Owen and Julia Helm meet on a spring day in 1840. It was love at first sight, which was fortunate, because after her cousin’s wedding took place in Virginia, Julia was going to return home to Pennsylvania. If she left, Rod probably never would have seen her again. But love found a way to keep her from leaving.

In preparing the large print books, I referenced advice from the Council of Citizens with Low Vision International, an affiliate of the American Council of the Blind, and the American Printing House for the Blind. All text is aligned left with a ragged right margin, uses 18-point font or better, and italics are shown by underlining words. Arial, a sans-serif font, was used in THAT TENDER LIGHT.

If you’re on the look-out for Large Print books, for yourself or an avid reader with low vision, these books will be a real blessing. My plan is to release one book or volume of a book twice a month, if possible.

THAT TENDER LIGHT: An Owen Family Novella, was released at the end of July, and is now available on Amazon. Look for the plain blue cover.

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Now in Print with a New Cover!

September 7, 2018 / Marsha Ward / 0 Comments

This has been a year of updates and new looks. I’ve been putting new covers on several of my works, and in some cases, publishing print editions for works that warranted that diversity. Today I’ll tell you about one of these books.

Rapid Recipes for Writers . . . And Other Busy People

On the last day of July, I purchased a cover I’d admired for some time from Tell~Tale Book Covers. Before that day, I never could figure out a story for the cover, though, so it remained at the site in the pre-made covers area. Suddenly, it occurred to me that I could put it on an evergreen recipe book that I first published back in the 1980s, Rapid Recipes for Writers . . . And Other Busy People. That’s why I bought the cover.

The premise of the recipe collection is that the 31 recipes included provide one new quick recipe a month to place before the household at mealtime. “Your family will never suspect that you’ve been slaving over a hot keyboard all day long if you spring these quick and yummy dishes on them.” That accounts for the smiling woman on the cover. She has a secret!

Rapid Recipes for Writers . . . And Other Busy People

I also published this quirky recipe book in print, for those who like to hold it when they cook. It debuted on September 1. I hope you’ll take a look at the ebook or the book in print. The paperback will make an excellent gift for the Holidays.

E-Books: Smashwords (all formats) | Kindle | NOOK | Kobo | Apple iTunes Bookstore
Print: Amazon

(The E-book is FREE in most online retail outlets. In US Kindle Store, it’s almost always free, but do check before you click to “buy”.)

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Cover Reveal: Lies & Secrets

March 26, 2018 / Marsha Ward / 0 Comments

Cover Reveal for Marsha Ward’s new collection of short stories, Lies & Secrets, due to release March 29.

Here’s the content description:

Scandalous: An Owen Family Story

Young Julianna Owen didn’t think flirting with Parley Morgan at the barn raising would lead him to put his hands where they ought not to be. But even worse, her sister discovers them, and Parley abandons her, running off into the woods.

Julianna’s strict father has found where she is hiding, and her world on the Colorado frontier is crashing down around her ears. She thought love and romance was only about going on picnics and holding hands, not rough kisses and hurtful pawing.

Now the consequences of her actions might be beyond what she can bear.

In the 1866 Owen Family universe, Scandalous shines a light on teen hormones run amok during a trying time in the family’s story, as it ties up a loose thread from the novel Spinster’s Folly.

Broken: A Shenandoah Neighbors Story

Rida Owen didn’t know married life on the Colorado frontier could be so difficult. Nothing in her Catholic upbringing prepared her for long, lonely nights when her husband, Bert, goes drinking. And womanizing. And then comes home to beat her.

Her mother-in-law thinks she’s stuck up when she doesn’t participate in homestead washday. Rida only wants to hide her bruises and preserve her marriage.

Then a neighbor from her past stops to say hello and reveals a secret of his own.

Broken is a Shenandoah Neighbors story that reveals a dark corner of the Owen Family universe in 1875.

Bloodied Leather: A Shenandoah Neighbors Story

Isabelle Gilbert chafes against the restrictions that Victorian life puts on a young lady.

Forced to accept a betrothal to Percival Egmont, an English ex-patriot like her father, she is disturbed by his passion for prize-fighting—and other pursuits. And what if Mama spots the bruise on her cheek?

Then shared secrets perplex Isabelle even more.

A Shenandoah Neighbor story, Bloodied Leather extends the Owen Family universe into 1886.

Lies & Secrets: Three Historical Short Stories will be available exclusively on Kindle for a period of three months.

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New Cover on The Man from Shenandoah

February 3, 2018 / Marsha Ward / 0 Comments

It’s hard to believe that The Man from Shenandoah was first published 15 years ago. Yes, that’s FIFTEEN years.

It’s time for a bit of a sprucing-up, so I’ve put a new cover on the novel:

Here’s what the novel is about.

Carl Owen doesn’t intend to lose anything—not his land, not his cattle, and certainly not his girl—ever again!

The young cavalryman returns from the Civil War to find the family farm destroyed, his favorite brother dead, food scarce, and his father determined to leave the Shenandoah Valley to build a cattle empire in Colorado Territory. Crossing the continent, Carl falls in love with his brother’s fiancée while set to wed another girl, but he might lose everything if the murderous thug Berto Acosta has his way. Carl battles a band of outlaws, a prairie fire, blizzards, a trackless waterless desert, and his own brother—all for the hand of feisty Ellen Bates.
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The new cover is on the e-book right now at the major online retailers, and will appear on the print book soon. Here’s where you can buy it, if you don’t have it in your digital library yet.

E-Books: Smashwords (all formats) | Kindle | NOOK | Kobo | Apple iTunes Bookstore

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