Montana

On the Rocky Mountain Front, about two hours south of the Canadian border, lies the small town of Choteau, Montana, population 1,691. The county seat, the town is most famous for dinosaurs and David Letterman. Like a lot of small towns, it has a mixture of old businesses, some of … Read More

Today is release day for Second Chance Christmas. As is appropriate after Thanksgiving, I am thankful for many people who have collaborated in the creation and publicity for this book. Julie Sturgeon and Tara Gelsomino from Crimson Romance (an imprint of Simon & Schuster) have been stalwarts for a long … Read More

Second Chance Christmas, my latest Christmas romance set in my town of Missoula, Montana, hits the shelves on November 27, 2017! This book has a new twist. I’ve upped the intrigue. Not only do Reese and Findlay need to find their way to each other, but they need to figure … Read More

DH and I decided to escape the smoke a bit and go to the movies. We chose “Wind River,” set on the Native American reservation for the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho (traditional enemies) Native American tribes in Wyoming. It is an excellent movie, but definitely not a romance. The … Read More

About 27 miles long, Flathead Lake is the largest freshwater lake after the Great Lakes. It’s a mecca for hot Montanans in the summer.   My DH and I often drive up the west side of the lake on our way to Glacier National Park. The views are beautiful, and … Read More

Travel to Yellowstone–Not without Adventure My DH and I had been looking forward to our camping trip to Yellowstone National Park for months. It’s the 100th anniversary of our national parks, and we were eager to travel to one before the year ended. Two years ago our trip had been … Read More

Love on the Wind by Casey Dawes Mountain Vines Publishing Releasing on October 12, 2016 All Becky wanted to do when she was growing up was to get out of Hardin, Montana, a small town with a conservative bent close to the Battle of the Little Big Horn National Monument. … Read More

A chunk of the story, Christmas in Montana, that I just finished, takes place in a small Montana town–Phillipsburg, population 840. This past weekend, my DH and I swelled that population to close to 4,000. The occasion was the 2nd Annual Aber Day Kegger Reunion, a classic in the Montana … Read More

After I explained our recent vacation to him, a friend asked, “Why don’t you just stay home? It would be easier.” Because then there would be no stories. This one began on a mid-July Friday morning. We headed northeast, over a mountain pass, through Great Falls, then down into the … Read More

Yesterday, I started my new story, tentatively titled, Montana Christmas Miracle. The hero, Logan, comes to Montana to visit his uncle. The heroine, Julie, is the assistant in the sweet shop in Sweet Montana Christmas. How important are the settings of romance novels? These two people play their story against … Read More