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Amy Barry | Conversations in Character with Morgan McBride
Author Guest / May 31, 2023

Book Title: MARRYING OFF MORGAN MCBRIDE Character Name: Morgan McBride   How would you describe your family or your childhood? The McBrides are chaos. Uncontainable and uncontrollable – each and every one of them is a force of nature. It’s like living with a cabin full of hurricanes. I love them but, hell, they make my life a hardship. It’s just my three younger brothers and my kid sister since Pa ran off and Ma died, leaving me to raise the pack of kids by myself. And what do I know about parenting? The only role model for a father I had was a drunk. But I did it. I raised them up. Well, all except for Junebug, who may yet be the death of me.   What was your greatest talent? Planning. There was no time for fun when I was dragging myself up to manhood – I can’t play a fiddle like my brother Jonah, or work an anvil like Kit, who’s a first-rate blacksmith. But I can lay in supplies enough for the hardest winter, and make sure the horses are shod and the cabin is leak-proof. I can take care of business. And that’s no small…

Amy Barry | 20 Questions: KIT MCBRIDE GETS A WIFE
Author Guest / August 23, 2022

1–What is the title of your latest release? KIT MCBRIDE GETS A WIFE 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Without telling him, Junebug McBride decides to order up a mail order wife for her backwoodsman of an older brother. But she’s not going to sell some poor woman a false bill of goods – in her ad, she’s going to tell the TRUTH (poor Kit!) 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? KIT MCBRIDE is set in the Elkhorn Mountains of Montana in 1886. I knew I wanted somewhere remote and somewhere starkly beautiful. Bucks Creek is a town consisting entirely of McBrides. It’s a small and extremely isolated place. When the heroine, Maddy, arrives, she’s the only woman for miles around. 4–Would you hang out with your heroine in real life? I wouldn’t just hang out with her; I’d drag her off to have some fun! She’s been a housemaid since she was twelve and hasn’t had enough fun in her life! 5–What are three words that describe your hero? Big. Brawny. Sweet. 6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? I learned a lot of new words – not least of…