#Reader’sChoice! Help me pick my next story!

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What shall I write next? Members of my Chrissy Munder Holiday Club Collection got first dibs on voting, but now it’s your turn. I have two different stories I could write for this year’s Advent Calendar, but which one should I write? Story A? or Story B? Hmmm, you notice there’s no actual detail there on what … Read more…

2019: The Challenge is Real!

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The reading challenge that is. Want to join me? I’m continuing my series of “I’m so behind posts” with a determined effort to remind myself I’m exactly where I need to be. You feeling it? Anyway, yep. It’s a New Year. New goals. New aspirations. New determination.

One of the many things on mine, and it seems, almost everyone else’s list of Things That Will Be Done in 2019 is read more. I’m a voracious reader. I have been all my life. But, somewhere, in between life, jobs, family, miscellaneous responsibilities, writing, laundry, and who knows what else reading starts to take a second and third seat. I’m still consuming books like bonbons, but I want to be more intentional about it this year.

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#MistletoeMonday – The Reason for the Season Excerpt

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The Reason for the Season. Holiday Romance in two languages.
One of the most amazing milestones in my writing career was learning that a translation of The Reason for the Season was available on AmazonJP. The translation was done by Aki Fuyuto and the awesome cover art is by Etsumi Ninomiya. It really blew me away.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yep. Pretty darn cool.

For those of us who don’t happen to read Japanese, the American [notice, dear British friends, I did not say “English” 🙂 ] version is available from Dreamspinner Press who will happily send the ebook to your Kindle for your holiday reading pleasure, or offer your choice of many other formats.

Reason for the Season Cover

 

The Reason for the Season is one of my favorites as I wrote it during one of our first (and sadly, now all too commonplace “snowpocalypses”). A little bit road story, a little bit sweet romance, I was thrilled when it was offered in a Japanese translation l in 2013 by the magazine Dear+.

Here’s an excerpt for readers of both versions:

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