Roxanne Snopek

USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR ROXANNE SNOPEK writes contemporary small-town romance, usually with a dollop of crazy, and a dog or two. Praised for her strong heroines and true-to-life heroes, her stories always contain complications arising from modern family dynamics. As a former veterinary technician, mother of three grown daughters and wife of mumble-mumble years, animals, kids and husbands are her forte. Emotional conflict, tears, angst... those wretched "growth-opportunity" moments your friends comfort you about... that's what she writes, and readers love it. Her romance novels have hit the Kindle Top 100 list numerous times as well as the Barnes and Noble Top 10 list. Earlier in her career, thanks to her veterinary experience, Roxanne wrote a series of non-fiction books about the human-animal bond, as Roxanne Willems Snopek. During that time, she spoke with many fascinating people, and learned much about service animals, particularly dogs for children with autism. She loves including bits about this in her fiction. So far, she's written two books with autism service dogs (Three River Ranch and Finding Home) and one with therapeutic horseback riding (His Reluctant Rancher), all of which were born out of her earlier research. She's also got feral cat colonies, wild mustangs, match-making dogs and lots of other animals. In her spare time, Roxanne loves to wrangle her suburban wilderness garden, which she shares with deer, coyotes, bear, bobcat and even a cougar, though thankfully she hasn't seen that one. She dabbles in many things, including painting (she uses leftover indoor house paint), piano (still plans to take that Grade 8 exam... one day), yoga (once completed a 100-Day Bikram Yoga challenge), cooking (I can hear you laughing from here, honey) but her favorite thing is, of course, reading. Her list of favorite authors is long and ever-changing, but includes Robyn Carr, Barbara O'Neal, Wendy Corsi Staub, Lois Greiman, Barbara Kingsolver, Sandra Brown, Leah McLaren, Sheila Roberts, Lianne Moriarty... and on and on... you get the picture. She loves to connect with other book-lovers, so she'd be thrilled if you dropped by her various social media pages. And be sure to click FOLLOW on this page, too, to receive updates about her new releases. Visit her blog at: www.roxannesnopek.ca (Be sure to sign up for her newsletter) Follow her Facebook at www.Facebook.com/RoxanneSnopekAuthor (you can sign up here, too, if that's more convenient) And of course, you can follow her on Twitter as well @RoxanneSnopek Thanks for stopping by!