About Becca Turner
Becca Turner was raised in Missouri except for a couple of formative years in SW Oklahoma that left her with an Okie accent.
At 11, when her best friend announced she was going to become an author, Becca said, “Me, too!” And the idea stuck.
Becca began her author journey under a different pen name in 2008. Along the way she met good editors, bad editors, self-published, and signed on to her dream publishing house, entertained loyal readers, and had plenty of writing adventures that held both ups and downs.
In 2018, after personal struggles led to a battle with depression, Becca set her computer aside and put her writing on hold. While she pursued other skills, including learning how to do podcasts, she occasionally dabbled at writing but never put in serious effort to finish a novel. Until a car wreck in early 2021, where she whacked her head and apparently jiggled the words loose again. Since then, she's focused on published contemporary western and historical romance novels set in a small Oklahoma town. Her motto is, "The West isn't won until a cowboy holds your heart."
She lives in Missouri with her husband and two dogs.
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Booklist
Only an Okie Will Do Series
Book one: Cowboy Kind of Trouble
Book two: Cowboy Kind of Commitment
Book three: Cowboy Kind of Reckless
Book four: Cowboy Kind of Peace
Book five: Cowboy Kind of Spark
Book six: Cowboy Kind of Harmony
Book seven: Cowboy Kind of Courage
Book eight: Cowboy Kind of Hooked
Book nine: Cowboy Kind of Grit
Under Oklahoma Skies: An Only an Okie Will Do Collection
Under Oklahoma Stars: An Only an Okie Will Do Collection
In the Oklahoma Winds: An Only an Okie Will Do Collection
Only an Okie Will Do Historicals
Book one: Love Won't Run
Book two: Love Remembers When
Book three: When Love Returns
Book four: Where Love Begins
Book five: When Love Arrives
About Only an Okie Will Do Series
This multi-book series is set in the fictional town of Swells, Oklahoma in the present day. Each book can be read as a standalone, although they're enjoyable in order as they span a couple of years. In 2024, Cowboy Kind of Courage (Only an Okie Will Do #7) finaled in the sensual category in the Oklahoma Romance Writers Guild Heart Awards.
About Only an Okie Will Do Historical Novels
The newest Becca Turner series, these sweet romance novels are set in the late 19th century when Oklahoma was still a territory. Each book can be read as a standalone and enjoyed in any order or as books 1-5.
Upcoming releases
When Love Arrives (December 2, 2024)
When Ethan Caldwell discovers a lost train ticket to Oklahoma Territory, he sees a chance to escape disease-ridden Memphis. On his journey, he encounters a conman plotting to swindle a widow through a proxy marriage. Caldwell is appalled but feels powerless to intervene—until a catastrophic train wreck changes everything.
Abigail Lorance, still grieving her late husband, is ready to remarry despite her in-laws’ objections. After the derailment, everyone mistakes Ethan for Abigail's new husband. As he helps on her farm, she begins to fall for him, but the truth of his identity threatens to unravel their budding romance. When her in-laws hire an investigator, Abigail's trust is shattered. Can she ever forgive him after learning the truth?
Author interview questions
Q: How do you find time to write?
I used Google Docs on my phone. I can be literally anywhere and start a novel or continue one I'm working on. It's easy to transfer a Google doc to Wors for formatting when I'm ready.
Q: What is your favorite part of being a writer?
Creating realistic characters that readers love, hate, or love to hate. I also enjoy exploring situations from different character perspectives. Finishing a novel is probably the hardest and most rewarding parts of writing.
Q: What is the most surprising thing you learned while writing your books?
That I have the drive to finish writing an entire book. Mine aren't terribly long. They range between 9000 word short stories to 20000 word novellas to a little over 65000 word novels. It's a well-known fact in my family that I'm short on patience, so writing a whole book is a big accomplishment.
Q: What inspires you to write?
One of the beautiful things about writing is that there are stories everywhere. I'm in my cowboy phase, so I follow lots of rodeos and bull riding and cowboys on social media. Louis L'Amour novels are some of the first stories that made me want to be an author. When I read or hear an interesting situation on the internet or even the radio, it can spark a new story idea.
Q: What's your favorite romance trope?
Grumpy/sunshine is my favorite. I joke that my husband and I are like that trope except we're both grumpy/grumpy.
Q: What comes first? Characters or plot?
It depends on the story. Each one is unique. Sometimes a secondary character will inspire a plot. Sometimes a plot needs a perfect hero or heroine. It's a toss up.
Q: What was your hardest scene to write and why?
In Cowboy Kind of Trouble there's a scene where the main male character Will is in his bathroom. He's a paraplegic with no hope of walking again. He lost his bull riding career and his wife in the wreck that left him handicapped. He lives with the fear that he's worthless because he can't help on the family ranch anymore. So he's holding a bottle of prescription painkillers and contemplating his end. The hardest line to write was: He was too afraid to die so easily and just as afraid to live. But what the hell did he have to live for?
As someone who battled depression and anxiety, that scene captured my feelings about how to face the future.
Q: Does writing energize or exhaust you?
Writing is usually energizing. Unless I'm writing a particularly hard scene like something involving a character death. Editing is the exhausting part. It makes me want to take a nap.