Betty Jo Schuler is an author and former elementary teacher who writes for children, teens, and adults. Published in both fiction and nonfiction, she has eleven electronically published books with five of them also available in paperback. Three are EPPIES award finalists. Camp Cheer, an interactive mystery, was a 2001 young adult book nominee. In 2002, Winning Chance, a romantic comedy, was a contemporary romance finalist. No Rain, No Rainbows, a collection of short stories for teens, is a 2003 finalist in the anthology category. (Winners will be announced in March 2003). An instructor for Writer's Digest Magazine, Betty Jo teaches an online course, Fundamentals of Writing for Children. This Indiana resident has a BS in Education from Miami University and an MA from Ball State University of Indiana. You can visit her website at http://home.webworks2000.net/bschuler/bettyjo.html.

Winning Chance
genre: Romance: romantic comedy
Lori Hayes never takes a risk, but when someone enters her in a TV show contest and she wins a Dream Date with gorgeous hunk, Chance Dawson, sparks fly. Chance, who leaves nothing to chance, has a life plan, and a house is the next step, then a wife. Lori, who's just starting to live it up, doesn't want to settle down in a Dream Home. Alternate first prize, a pair of sports cars, is her choice and will be easier to divide. She's scared of flying, and these two opposites are traveling by prop plane, bound for a tropical island where spies lurk behind palm trees and outside their bedroom door. The mattress company sponsoring the contest wants them to fall in love, not what they want at all. The only thing hotter than the friction between these two opposites is the spark of attraction that bursts into flames.
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ISBN: 931742-95-2 (electronic)
ISBN: 1-931742-95-2 (paperback)

Male Wanted
genre: Romance: romantic comedy
Taylor Gayle advertises in The Town Crier for a male to date, but Max Stuart misprints her ad to indicate she's looking for a "sadomasochistic male to mate" and includes her address. To atone for his mistakes, Max becomes her live-in protector. Now, who's going to protect this high school librarian from the unbelievably sexy newspaper editor? And who's going to save Max from this feisty Plain Jane's charms? Max finds Taylor in her long skirts and oversized specs as tantalizing as a package in plain brown wrap with no return address. She thinks he looks like a CEO but can't handle the simplest task. She thinks he's short on ambition. He thinks she should relax. She wants a serious man. He wants a fun-loving woman. They want one another. Neither are what they seem. But while these two fake their ways into each other's lives, they find a love that's real.
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ISBN: 0-7599-0488-X (electronic)
ISBN: 0-7599-0615-7 (paperback)

Gracie's Holiday Hero
genre: Romance: inspirational romance
It's the first day of December, snow is in the air, and Gracie Singleton Saylor's shopping for a Christmas tree when she runs smack into Merett Bradmoore, her high school hero. She can tell at once he's not the happy-go-lucky guy he used to be. Fifteen years ago, Gracie's family faced a holiday without food or gifts and the handsome high school senior came to their rescue. Gracie, a freshman, fell a little in love with Merett that night and she's believed ever since that dreams do come true. Seeing that Merett, widowed with a seven-year-old daughter, has changed, Gracie is determined to return his gift of optimism. But can she return his hope without losing her own? Enter the zoning board, an old enemy, and the personal problems of her two sisters, Hope and Faith. Mix in a mischievous cat named Spook, a huge furry mutt named Dumbbell, and a man who's showing the spirit of Scrooge, and you wonder. Can holiday magic triumph?
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ISBN: 1 920741 03 8 (electronic)
ISBN: 192074115-1 (paperback)