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Welcome to the World of Author Beth Trissel
Historical, Light Paranormal, and YA Fantasy Romance Author, plus nonfiction. Avid gardener, farm wife, grandma, and animal lover. The Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and surrounding mountains are my inspiration. I'm published by the Wild Rose Press and have indie titles.Visit My Website
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CIVIL WAR TIME TRAVEL ROMANCE SECRET LADY WON BOOK OF THE MONTH!
‘A great read filled with romance and dash of suspense. Fans of time-travel romance won’t want to miss this novel!’
Inspired by Events that Occurred to My Ancestors in the Colonial Frontier
GHOSTLY HISTORICAL ROMANCE NOVEL
HISTORICAL/PARANORMAL ROMANCE NOVEL
KIRA, DAUGHTER OF THE MOON WON BOOK OF THE MONTH!
RED BIRD’S SONG
NA HISTORICAL ROMANCE NOVEL THROUGH THE FIRE
SHORT STORY–.99 IN KINDLE
HISTORICAL/PARANORMAL ROMANCE NOVEL
HISTORICAL ROMANCE NOVEL THROUGH THE FIRE
“A catless writer is almost inconceivable,”~ Barbara Holland
I HAVE THREE PLUS
“I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don’t know what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose.” P.G. Wodehouse
NA HISTORICAL ROMANCE NOVEL THROUGH THE FIRE
GHOSTLY ROMANCE NOVEL SOMEWHERE MY LOVE
The Dove of the Holy Spirit
LOGAN FROM HISTORICAL ROMANCE NOVEL KIRA DAUGHTER OF THE MOON
BROTHER WOLF
Ask David Book Review Site
NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ROMANCE RED BIRD’S SONG
High 5 from the Pen & Muse for Historical Romance Into the Lion’s Heart!
White Elk
"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice."Autumn trees in the Alleghenies
They don’t make movies like this anymore. Sigh.
Hawkeye
“Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.” Wesley, The Princess Bride
The Princess Bride
FOR SOMEWHERE MY LOVE
‘As I read Somewhere My Love, I recalled the feelings I experienced the first time I read Daphne DuMaurier’s Rebecca long ago. Using deliciously eerie elements similar to that gothic romance, Beth Tressel has captured the haunting dangers, thrilling suspense and innocent passions that evoke the same tingly anticipation and heartfelt romance I so enjoyed then, and still do now.’ ~by Joysann for Publishers Weekly at Beyond Her Book (blog feature now removed)
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- The Age-Old Uses of Chokecherry
- The History and Romance Behind 'Scarborough Fair'~
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Old Southern Recipes from Charleston Receipts
PARTY ‘TILL YOUR HEELS FLY OFF: MEGA AUTHOR BLOG HOP (STOP # 28)
Welcome to the mother of all blog tours.
As a participating author, my theme is Summer in the Big House, Old Southern Plantation Recipes~
A gracious welcome to my stately plantation home. Please have a seat in the wicker chairs on the veranda and relax in the shade of the towering live oaks. Listen to the warbler singing high overhead in the moss-draped boughs and savor the sweetness of jasmine while I serve refreshing mint juleps and peach upside-down cake prepared with old Southern recipes from Charleston Receipts.
This cookbook ‘was first published in 1950 and the oldest Junior League cookbook still in print. It contains 750 recipes, Gullah verses, and sketches by Charleston artists. Inducted into the McIlhenny Hall of Fame, an award given for book sales that exceed 100,000 copies.’
My copy is actually my mother’s book which she purchased in the early 1960’s while our family was on vacation in Charleston South Carolina. I kind of borrowed it from her and still have it. 🙂
For each cold goblet use:
Several mint leaves, sugar syrup (2-3 teaspoons), Crushed, dry ice, 2 ounces bourbon, 1 sprig mint
Crush leaves and let stand in syrup. Put this into a cold silver julep cup or glass and add ice which has been crushed and rolled in a towel to dry. Pour in the whiskey. Stir, not touching the glass, and add a sprig of mint. Serve immediately.~
Peach Upside-Down Cake:
1/3 cup shortening, 2/3 cup sugar, 2/3 cup milk, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 2 eggs, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 and 2/3 cups flour, 1/8 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon almond flavoring
Cream shortening and sugar. Add remaining ingredients and beat well. Pour over peach mixture. Serves six.
Peach Mixture: 1/3 cup butter, 1 cup light brown sugar, 1 1/2 cups sliced peaches
Place butter and sugar in a sheet cake pan and heat slowly, stirring constantly until well browned. Add peaches. Cover with cake batter, bake 3/4 hour at 350. Turn out peach side up. Serve hot or cold with whipped cream. Other fruits may be substituted for peaches. ~
For my blog hop prize, I’m giving away an ebook of my Revolutionary War romance novel, Enemy of the King, and Native American historical romance novel Through the Fire.
Blurb for ENEMY OF THE KING:
1780, South Carolina: While Loyalist Meriwether Steele recovers from illness in the stately home of her beloved guardian, Jeremiah Jordan, she senses the haunting presence of his late wife. When she learns that Jeremiah is a Patriot spy and shoots Captain Vaughan, the British officer sent to arrest him, she is caught up on a wild ride into Carolina back country, pursued both by the impassioned captain and the vindictive ghost. Will she remain loyal to her king and Tory twin brother or risk a traitor’s death fighting for Jeremiah? If Captain Vaughan snatches her away, he won’t give her a choice.~
Blurb for THROUGH THE FIRE:
At the height of the French and Indian War, a young English widow ventures into the colonial frontier in search of a fresh start. She never expects to find it in the arms of the half-Shawnee, half-French warrior who makes her his prisoner in the raging battle to possess a continent––or to be aided by a mysterious white wolf and a holy man.~
Thanks for visiting me. Leave me a question or a comment here at my blog below. Please also leave your email address so I can notify you in case you are a winner!
THE NEXT STOP ON OUR FUN BLOG HOP IS AUTHOR RACHEL VAN DYKEN SO POP ON OVER TO : http://deliciousromancebyrachel.blogspot.com/2011/06/party-til-your-heels-fly-off-author.html
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The Old Homes Behind Historical Romance Novel Enemy of the King
Mysterious old homes, shrouded mountains and valleys hidden between misty ridges; the lure of Eastern Woodland Indians and Scots-Irish settlers in colonial American…this is what I know and love. But in writing Enemy of the King I spread beyond my Virginia home base and journeyed into the Carolinas at the height of the Revolution. Enemy of the King is my version of The Patriot with flavors of Daphne Dumaurier’s Rebecca. Instead of Mel Gibson playing the lead in my historical romance, I have the very kewl Captain Jeremiah Jordan.
Pleasant Grove, the home featured in Enemy of the King, was drawn from Drayton Hall, the oldest preserved plantation in America that’s open to the public, located outside the city of Charleston, SC:
I also incorporated elements of my ancestral Virginia home, circa 1816, located outside the historic town of Staunton. Called Chapel Hill(pictured above) this Georgian style brick house has been in the family for going on eight generations. The old kitchen, a separate building from the main house, no longer stands but I remember it from my childhood. Some outbuildings still remain; among them the smokehouse and stable. The house itself is filled with a wonderful collection of heirlooms. The miniature china dogs I played with as a child turn up in Enemy of the King.
The ‘snake thing’ in Chapter One is drawn from an incident that happened to me at Chapel Hill when I was a girl. Back in my contest circuit days, more than one judge told me a snake couldn’t possibly get into a house and wind around the antlers of a buck mounted up on the wall. They can and one did; a rather horrifying discovery for a child to make in the wee hours on her way to the bathroom. And then there’s the fact that I always suspected the house was haunted, not sure by whom…
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