This is Farewell, but not Goodbye
This will be my last blog post for my Gems and Read Next opportunities. That’s right, this Thursday post is going away. But the information will still be available twice a month in my Insider newsletters. Have you signed up to receive them? If not, you can do it from my home page and receive a free story– or two – as a bonus.
I have loved sharing this information with you each week and so I will continue to share the ideas, but not in blog format. As I write more novels per year, the ability to blog and write newsletters and still get books into publication became too much of a challenge. And I am not too proud to say I can’t do it all.
So farewell from here, but see you in the newsletter!
What to Read Next IS the Gem of the Week: All Wrapped Up… Free
Seven of my favorite and some of romances best authors have teamed up to write six hot, sexy and very fun holiday stories just in time for Christmas. And their gift to all of us? The book is free, their Christmas treat for us.
The Merry Mistake by Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward
Note to self: Ask Santa for glasses this year. When I accidentally mistook a gorgeous man resting outside my building for a homeless person in need of lunch, we got into it. I’d only been trying to do a good deed around the holidays, but he called me righteous. I called him something far worse. If only I didn’t have to see him again. But fate had other plans.
Finding Perfect by Colleen Hoover
A short story that brings back several of Colleen’s most beloved characters. Told from the point of view of Daniel from Finding Cinderella, readers will finally get the story they’ve been begging for more of. For the best reading experience, make sure you’ve read all three books that come together to make up this heartwarming and fun Holiday short story; Finding Cinderella, Hopeless and All Your Perfects.
A Rock Chick Christmas by Kristen Ashley
What’s Christmas with the Starks like? Get a peek into the Rock Chick world and how Luke copes with Ava going Christmas gaga and just what he will, and won’t, do for his girls during the holidays.
Just Say When by Jill Shalvis
When the one you want …
Is the one you can’t seem to have…
Can love conquer all?
The Pact by Elle Kennedy
Thanks to my hectic schedule as a pro hockey player, my girl and I are spending more time apart than together. Luckily, I have a solution—a romantic New Year’s Eve getaway in the mountains, just me and Grace and plenty of sexytimes. Except this blizzard has other ideas…
The Package by K. Bromberg
Christmas week can’t get any worse for Jules Jilliland. Dumped by her boyfriend, rear-ended on the freeway, and fired from her job, she finds herself stuck in an elevator with a handsome stranger. When their packages are accidentally swapped, will it end up being a misfortunate accident that suddenly brightens her holidays?
Not Just for Authors: For the Readers and Writers on Your List
Still need that last-minute gift for the literary love of your life? Etsy is awash in creative gift ideas. Search “literary gifts” to find a broad choice. Amazon is a wealth of information. Books for writers and would-be writers abound.
Need some examples? Here are a few of my favorites:
2020 Literary Calendar: The Pleasures of Reading: A full color, literary calendar for 2020! It features people reading in all types of situations, as book lovers and bibliophiles are apt to do. Prefer a different calendar? There are 29 literary calendars on Etsy to select from.
Novel Teas, A Classic Gift for your Favorite Book Lover – English Breakfast Tea : #14 on Oprah’s gift list. Need I say more?
Good Grammar Pencils Set: Your choice of a set of two (2), six (6), or a full dozen, #2 Graphite Lead Hexagon Engraved “GOOD GRAMMAR TURNS ME ON” pencils
The Writer’s Lexicon Volumes I and II by Kathy Steinemann are bibles for authors trying to avoid tired and overused phrases, descriptions and clichés. Ms. Steinemann is a wealth of information for authors, not just in these books but on her blog and emails. Introduce your author friends to her and they will thank you.
The Writers Helping Writers Series: This six-book series covers everything a writer needs at their fingertips to be their best. Including The Emotion, Negative Trait and Positive Thesauruses, Thesauruses for Rural and Urban settings and finally the Emotional Wound Thesaurus, because every great writer knows that flawed characters are characters readers identify and sympathize with. Identifying their backstory wound is crucial to shaping that character’s behavior, Get all six books as the perfect literary gift.
More to add to your What to Read Next list:
Mid December All Romance Promotion
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