Book series by Linda K. Hubalek

Would you like a good deal?  The first books from three of my series are being featured in a Wichita Groupon right now until March 23, 2011. You get autographed copies of Butter in the Well, Trail of Thread and Planting Dreams, the first book in each of my three pioneer women series.

Individually the books would cost $11.95 (for a total of $35.85, specially priced as a group for $32.95) but your groupon will buy the three books for $14.00 plus the cost of Kansas tax and shipping.

You can read more about it on the Groupon site, or just click on the link on my website to get the details.

And if you’d just prefer to read these endearing pioneer stories as an ebook instead, you can read them on a Kindle or Nook.

It will be interesting to see what happens the next few days with the Groupon. Wish me luck!

In 1938 my mother’s great aunt Martha Pieratt gave her a quilt. At that time the quilt was over 100 years old and had been handed down through her mother’s Kennedy family.  Doing some research on it while planning my Trail of Thread book series, it turns out to be the Cleveland Tulip pattern and it came with Martha’s mother Maggie Kennedy when she moved from Ohio to Kansas in 1858.

Quilts and quilting seemed like a perfect theme for the stories of my mother’s side of the family, so I wove a quilt theme into this book series and featured twelve quilt patterns in each book.  The titles also went with the quilt theme.

My Trail of Thread book was about Deborah Pieratt’s wagon trail journey to the Kansas Territory in 1854. The second book, Thimble of Soil featured Margaret Ralston Kennedy’s decision to move her family from their safe Ohio home to the unsettling territory in 1855. And the final book in series, Stitch of Courage, followed Maggie Kennedy Pieratt during her young years as she marries James Monroe Pieratt during the Civil War.