Mary Karlik – Lasso My Heart, Cowboy Romance & Writing on the Road
In this episode of Miles Beyond the Page, host Michelle Miles welcomes romance author Mary Karlik back to the show to celebrate her latest Tule Publishing release, Lasso My Heart. Set in the fictional Texas town of Spring Creek, the novel blends heartfelt romance with familiar connections to her updated indie YA series through subtle Easter eggs that longtime readers will enjoy discovering.
Mary shares the real-life breakup that inspired the novel’s opening, her first experience writing a dual-timeline story with flashbacks, and the significance of the "frog box" thread that weaves throughout the series. She also discusses her four-book contract with Tule Publishing and previews future stories set in the rodeo world, featuring a rodeo doctor, an injured bull rider, and a smokejumper.
Michelle and Mary dive into the realities of writing while traveling, developing emotionally authentic characters, embracing discovery writing, and balancing the business side of publishing. They also discuss promotion, advertising, deadlines, rejection, and overcoming the creative doubts every author faces.
🎧 Join Michelle and Mary for a warm conversation about cowboy romance, publishing, and finding inspiration wherever the road leads.
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Mary Karlik (also writing as Mary J. Wilson) combines her Texas roots with her Scottish heritage to write happily-ever-afters from Texas to Scotland.
Her five contemporary young adult romances are set-in small-town Texas. She is also published in epic fantasy with her Fairy Trafficking series set in Scotland.
She also writes adult contemporary romances set in Scotland and Texas. When she is not writing or reading, Mary enjoys hanging out with family and friends, traveling around the world, or hill walking in Scotland while struggling to speak Gaelic with her Scottish husband.
She lives in both and Scotland and Texas.
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