About the Book
Book: Chase Your Dreams West: A Ginne West Adventure (Book 5)
Authors:Monique Bucheger and G. L. Rasmussen
Genre:Contemporary Upper Middle -Grade
Release date: November 22, 2024
12-year-old best friends, Ginnie
West and Tillie Taylor, navigate changes in their family. Tillie’s
long-absent birth father reappears and she has to juggle two dads
while Ginnie’s mischievous Uncle Jake escalates their prank war.
Meanwhile, Tillie desperately wants a horse of her own while Ginnie
is determined to follow her late mother’s equestrian legacy as a
trick rider, something her dad has forbidden.
Can Ginnie shape her own destiny and persuade her dad to support her ambitions? Get ready for a heartwarming adventure filled with friendship, family, and the power of chasing your dreams!
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About the Authors
Monique is a bestselling
author, a certified Farland Fiction Coach, and an empowerment
speaker, dedicated to championing the underdog, in both her writing
and real-life adventures.
Having a heart for families in crisis, Monique creates stories that capture the essence of real-life challenges and triumphs, with a touch of humor.
Monique’s upper middle-grade series, ‘The Ginnie West Adventures,’ delves into sensitive and weighty themes such as parental loss, abandonment, and overcoming abuse. She delivers stories not only for tween readers, but for those young at heart.
Drawing from her experiences nurturing a dozen of her own children and fostering over a hundred more, Monique’s experiences shape her books, creating novels in a number of genres, including a historical family saga, contemporary family dramas, a fun picture book, and a middle grade series weaving whimsy and heart into her tales.
A country boy by birth and by
choice, Gary spent his youth working on the family
farm, for local farmers and ranchers, on horseback or playing
sports. Offered scholarships in Agriculture and Advertising Design,
he opted for the bright lights and big city. Eight years in the
advertising field convinced him that wasn’t where he wanted to
be.
Gary freelanced in design and illustration, converted his love of writing for advertising to a newspaper column about the country lifestyle. He has also worked as a ranch manager, cowboy, rancher, and horse trainer. An avid painter and author, Gary shares his talents through mentoring others, is a past president of the Western Art Guild and Idaho Writers League and is an active member of Western Writers of America.
Gary and his wife, Margie are the parents of four children and ten grandchildren and have traveled extensively throughout Europe, Great Britain and the United States.
More from Monique
Chase Your Dreams West: A Ginnie West Adventure took me too long to finish. I was working on it when one of my sons was killed in a car accident. I paused writing for a few years as our family adjusted to losing Ryan.
An author friend invited me to a writer’s retreat a few years ago, knowing I was stuck and that week unlocked a lot of things for me. Including deciding to change where I placed what is now the first four chapters. I wrote them two books ago thinking they would make a great denouement, but after my son’s death, I realized they would make a better beginning.
This book is a little different from the first four as Ginnie explores horsemanship training with her mare, Calliope–with her dad’s blessing, and perhaps is given a little help from her mom. Ginnie is given back one of her mom’s journals and gets to know the mom she doesn’t really remember and her dad didn’t really talk about… until recently.
Blog Stops
Artistic Nobody, November 18
Life on Chickadee Lane, November 19
Simple Harvest Reads, November 20 (Author Interview)
Guild Master, November 21 (Author Interview)
Debbie’s Dusty Deliberations, November 21
Fiction Book Lover, November 22 (Author Interview)
Texas Book-aholic, November 23
Stories By Gina, November 24 (Author Interview)
Happily Managing a Household of Boys, November 24
Locks, Hooks and Books, November 25
Tell Tale Book Reviews, November 26 (Author Interview)
Library lady’s Kid Lit, November 27
Jodie Wolfe – Stories Where Hope and Quirky Meet, November 28 (Author Interview)
Truth and Grace Homeschool Academy, November 29
For the Love of Literature, November 30 (Author Interview)
For Him and My Family, December 1
Giveaway
To celebrate her tour, Monique is giving away the grand prize of a $50 Amazon gift card and an eBook copy of the book!!
Be sure to comment on the blog stops for extra entries into the giveaway! Click the link below to enter.
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Interview
How did you get started in writing? For advertising
Do you have a favorite scene in your newest release? Ch 38 and the scenes/chapters leading up to it.
What genres do you write? Humor, Family Drama, Adventure, Western, Fiction and Non, Upper Middle-Grade
What is one thing you hope readers will take away from your story? Life is an adventure and always worth living.
Who are your favorite authors? Most of the classics, many contemporary and Patrick McManus
How do you get your story ideas? I ask “What if…? or What would…? a lot. What would it be like if your best friend became your stepsister? What would it be like to have a good stepmom–and still miss the birth mom you barely remember? What would it be like to live in a three-generational family? What kind of things would your mom/grandma/aunt write in a diary? As a kid? As a new mom? Write to you as their cherished child? Grandchild? What kind of treasures would you find of your mom’s that your dad stored/ hid in a barn loft?
What advice can you give to writers trying to break into the publishing world? Don’t write to break into publishing, write what you would want to pick up and read multiple times.
What qualities do you look for in a hero and heroine? Imperfect people who are willing to try new things–even if they make mistakes, fix them, do the hard “right” thing, give themselves and others grace as they figure out what is important to them and why.
What do you plan to work on next? I want to write the West Family Saga–starting in 1983 when Ginnie’s great-uncle (the patriarch of this branch of the West Family Tree is an 11-year-old boy growing up with his 5 brothers. My co-author, G.L. and I have been discussing cool plot points for different West family members.
What foods do you eat when writing to keep you going? At the moment I am partial to white cheddar Poppables and magic cookie bars. Occasionally I like a good salad as well.
If you could vacation anywhere, where would you go? I have been everywhere I want to be. I’m working on becoming a curmudgeon in my desert domicile.
Where can readers connect with you?
My website will have the latest news on the books and will often have the best deals on them, though you can find them at your favorite retailers.
Monique’s website is: https://authormoniquebucheger.com/
If you buy the print books through me, I will sign them for you.