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Hello! My name is Barbara Goodwin. I'm a senior flight attendant for a major international airline.
About eleven years ago I started writing. I took three online courses, one from The Institute of Children's
Literature, and two from The Long Ridge Writers Group. All three courses were invaluable and I'm so glad I took
them. If it weren't for those courses, I wouldn't be published now!
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Hearts Flight
Barbara Goodwin
Grieving fifty-year-old Emma McDaniel
steps onto a DC-3 in 1944 Los
Angeles to fly to Washington, DC,
to pick up her husband’s remains. A strange turbulence, flashing lights and a vortex cloud cause Emma to hit her head
on the ceiling and pass out. When she awakens the stewardess is different, the airplane is different. Shocked, she finds she’s
in the twenty-first century!
Handsome, tall, fifty-two-year-old Thomas
Wells is a captain for the airline Emma’s flying on. From the moment they meet inflight there is an instant attraction,
plus a strange connection. When Emma blurts out that she can’t be in the year 2006, Tom is shocked—but not for
the usual reasons.
Is there more to Tom than meets the eye?
Why are neo-Nazis pursuing Tom and telling him to leave the past in the past? Why did Emma find a letter in a scrapbook about
a secret mission by the OSS in 1944 where the airplane and its Army Air Forces
pilots disappeared? Whose Army Air Forces uniform is hanging in Tom’s closet?
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What's New?
Hearts Flight
will be coming out in Print by June, 2008! I'm very excited to have a second book in print. Check my website or go to
Cerridwenpress.com.
My next book, Hiding In Plain Sight, a
sexy, romantic suspense novel, published by Whiskey Creek Press
is now available for sale. This is my first book
in print!! I'm very excited. I've posted a book
blurb here and an excerpt on my excerpt page. Please go to WhiskeyCreekPress.com to order the book now! Thanks!
I've received 2 reviews for "Hiding in Plain Sight." ReviewYourBook.com
said, "Hiding in Plain Sight is like a thrill ride. This action-packed story will keep readers on the edge of their seat."
Thank you, reviewer Debra Gaynor!
Independent Reviewer Amanda Kilgore said, "There are not many books like
this...With a fast pace, good plot, and plausible characterizations, this is an all around winner." Thank you Ms. Kilgore.
My ebook, Executive Attraction, is on sale now. It's a romantic comedy about middle-aged flight attendant
Jillian Stanton who meets the man of her dreams on a snowy New York street. Read a light-hearted, tender story that will
make you laugh and put away your cares for a few hours.
I received my first review of Executive Attraction from
The Romance Readers Connection. Reviewer Rista Tompkins said, "This is a sweet story and a light read. It is always nice
to have the heroine be an older and more "normal" woman." She called it "an enjoyable read." Thank you Ms. Tompkins!
Great news! My publisher, Cerridwen Press has accepted three
more books! I've started a five book series, the Love
Beyond Time series of time travel books where each
book takes place in a different time period! The first book, No Future Christmas takes place in 2110 and
is a futuristic romantic suspense novel. The second, No
Silent Christmas takes place in 1925 in the days
of the silent films and Prohibition and the third book, No
Time For Christmas harkens back to 1890 where the
hero is on the longest camping trip of his life. Look for those in 2008. See a theme here?
Hearts Flight is now available for online purchase at BarbaraGoodwin.com and Cerridwenpress.com. The print version
will follow and I'll update this website when I'm notified of the print release date. I call it a time travel, romantic adventure
with elements of mystery.
I've now had 5 reviews of Hearts Flight, all very good! The
latest 4 Angel review out of 5 angels from Fallen Angel Reviews said, "Hearts Flight is a fascinating look at the possibility of time travel. The premise is wonderful and the way
the time travel happens is great...If you enjoy a creative version of a time travel tale and a romantic suspense with a twist
of humor, you like Hearts Flight." Thank you reviewer Steph! Romance Divas' L.K. Campbell said, "Hearts Flight has an intriguiging plot
that builds to a satisfying conclusion...It was refreshing to read a sensual romance between two middle-aged characters."
Coffee Time Romance's Maura said, "The story is a very good
one for those that like either time travel or WWII related stories. The plot is full of twists and turns and can be very
exciting at times, and the villians are twisted and evil enough for any reader." I can't ask for more than that!
Online website Romance Junkies has given Hearts Flight a 4.5 rating out of 5! Wow! Thank you reviewer Kathleen Rowland. To read the review go to www.romancejunkies.com.
I love to read and write. I consider my books to be sexy, romantic
adventure stories with elements of time travel, mystery and comedy. I want to write for the baby boomers since they deserve
love and romance too!
My twenty year old nephew is a professional dancer and is now filming High
School Musical 3. Once again he's a principal dancer in the movie. It's going straight to the theaters and we can't wait
to see it! He had such a wonderful experience filming HSM2 that he couldn't wait to audition for HSM3. That's him in the
pictures below. I'm so proud of him.
My two sisters are great fun and we laugh all the time together. My mother
is the greatest. Thanks for the GG of L Mom! (That's the Great Gift of Life)
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Buy HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT. Now in print. On sale now!
Senior flight attendant Judy Winston
is on the wrong flight at the wrong time when hijackers try to take over her airplane while it’s still parked at the
gate. During the evacuation she’s abruptly thrown down the emergency slide
by DEA agent Chase Danton.
Chase has seen enough in his lifetime. He watches the brave flight attendant save the passengers—now he has to save
her. The DEA suspects that a ring of airline employees are smuggling drugs on
flights and Agent Danton recruits Judy to go undercover at her airline.
Who is the ringleader? It must be someone high up in the airline…
Chase’s demanding, no-nonsense
attitude grates on Judy. Strong-willed, she won’t bend to his demands—or
will she?
When the drug smugglers find where Judy’s been Hiding In Plain Sight, Chase vows to protect her as they
fall into a highly-charged, passionate and dangerous love affair.
Buy Executive Attraction now!
Executive Attraction Barbara Goodwin
Who
would have thought a freak spring snow storm in New York would bring twice divorced
flight attendant Jillian Stanton the man of her dreams? And who would have thought
she’d make a fool of herself when he pulls her off balance and she slides down the front of his pants her face stopping
just above his crotch?
That’s when Jillian knew
the ultimate humiliation.
Yet handsome Vice-President Bill Cole is intrigued by the clumsy beauty. Can the airline executive, who wants to cut Jillian’s pay and benefits, find a way to pierce her heart? Or will Jillian’s tough outer shell be too thick to crack? When Bill rescues her from a man with a knife will Jillian open her heart to love and passion? And can she accept his position at her airline as the chief negotiator intent on gaining more wage cuts?
Flying
between New York and Los Angeles, Jillian ignores the electric sparks that fly
when they’re together and pushes away the handsome stranger. But home, in Orange
County, California, Bill won’t allow Jillian to ignore him.
Come
fly with Jillian on the adventure of a lifetime!
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| Here's Doug and Ioan Gruffudd on a flight to New York January 2008 |
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