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Hello, Readers!

The Romance Gems are hosting a wonderful Easter Egg Scavenger Hunt for this month’s contest. Check out my post on the the Romance Gems blog, then play for your chance to win one of three Amazon gift cards! Click HERE for more details.

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[image error]Most of you probably know that I strongly believe in supporting our local libraries.

What you may not know is that Macmillan Publishing has decided to enact a policy which limits libraries to only one eBook copy of new releases.

I think this sets a bad precedent and is indicative of a trend that will be harmful to the overall health of our libraries.

Luckily, I’m not alone. The American Library Association is currently collecting signatures to petition Macmillan to reverse this detrimental decision and they are asking YOU to weigh in.

Please join me in signing the petition. It only takes a few seconds, but could have long-lasting effects to our society.

And support your libraries!

Tell Macmillan Publisher CEO John Sargent That You Demand #eBooksForAll

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Secret Hunger is on sale for only $0.99! It’s the perfect gift for under a dollar.
It’s rare that I put my books on sale. The last time was back in 2017. Get it HERE.

She’s chasing dreams.

Olivia, a café owner and cook, never regretted forsaking her dreams to finish raising her sisters after the death of their parents. Now grown, they’ve moved out of the house, leaving Olivia free to pick up where she left off — if she can find the courage to start over.

He’s hunting nightmares.
Mason is a Boston police detective, recuperating from a tragic incident that left his partner dead. All he wants is to heal and get back to the job of hunting the killer down. The last thing on his mind is romance.

Finding love wasn’t in either of their plans.
But as things heat up between Olivia and Mason, events happen that make her realize she’s drawn a far more sinister kind of attention. Suddenly, she finds herself fighting not only for her dreams, but her very life!

This is a romantic suspense novel with a HEA and NO cliffhanger! Readers 18+ This is the first book in the Harper Sisters Trilogy, but each book can be read as a stand alone.

Pick up your copy TODAY! http://amzn.to/2d3iaQi

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Secret Gifts is now available!


Join me in celebrating my new holiday novella.

Grab a copy TODAY.

Amazon eBook

Amazon paperback

Signed paperback

Blurb:

Tom wants to move their relationship to the next level, but will Jackie’s past get in the way of their future?

Jackie Davis is no stranger to hardship. After a strict upbringing, her parents abandoned her when she got pregnant out of wedlock. Years later, she’s the co-owner of a successful café, mother to a beautiful six-year-old daughter named Abby, and dating a man who makes her heart race. For the first time in a while, she’s actually excited for the holidays.

When Tom Molsem applied as a cook at the local café, he wasn’t looking for a relationship. Haunted by demons from his military service, he was just happy to have a job he could handle. Now he’s the co-owner of that same restaurant and dating a woman who helped lay those ghosts to rest. With the past buried, he wants to build a future with his newfound family.

Tom and Jackie are eager to celebrate Christmas, but when Abby goes missing, the two must band together and discover the true gifts of the season: love, forgiveness, and new beginnings.

I mentioned towards the beginning of the year that I joined an author group called Romance Gems. So far, every month they’ve hosted a contest and/ or giveaway and April is no exception.

Every day, an author will be posting links to their social media. One of those links will contain an Easter Egg. All you have to do is read the post, find the egg, then report back to Romance Gems what color the egg was. Winner gets a $20 Amazon gift card!

For more details, check out their “Monthly Giveaway” tab.

Oh yeah, and since my day to post is on the 10th. Head over to Romance Gems to read about my Birthday Traditions and be sure to comment and tell me how YOU like to celebrate.

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After my mad sprint to complete Secret Gifts, you may have noticed that I haven’t been posting very much about my writing.

That’s because I’ve decided I need to go back to basics and strengthen my plotting skills.

NaNoWriMo was such a good reminder that I can write quickly when I don’t resent the characters and the story.

Secret Dream was such a struggle throughout 2018… It constantly felt like I was trying to shoehorn a square peg into a round hole. I need to take a step back and rethink the story.

In fact, I’ve pretty much decided to scrap the 40,000+ words that I’ve already written and start completely fresh. (Which is painful to think about, but necessary at this point.)

However, I’d rather not make the same mistake twice. My good friend, Lynne, has been recommending The Story Grid for ages now and I’ve decided to take her advice and work through the textbook.

My plan is to sit down March 1st with a plot in hand and tackle Secret Dream with a better idea of where I’m going.

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On February 1st, twenty-three popular authors including NY Times and USA Today bestselling authors, unveils the ROMANCE GEMS, a wonderful new group blog where the focus is on Readers.

Each of us will have an assigned day to blog. You can catch my posts on the tenth of every month.

Looking for conversations about Life, Love, Books, Romance, Sex, Kids, and all the other really important things in your world?

Drop by and check out ROMANCE GEMS!

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In honor of our grand opening, be sure to enter our Rafflecopter Contest for ebook gift bundles, Amazon gift cards, plus…

One lucky reader will win a Kindle Fire!

Throughout February, we will feature a weekly “Comment & Win” Random Drawing for an Amazon gift card. Read and comment with your email address written out on the daily posts.

You can enter the Rafflecopter Contest and the”Comment & Win” Random Draw as often as you wish. The more you enter, the greater your chances of winning.

If you’ve been looking for a Gem of an Author and/or a Gem of a Romance, look no further. You’ll find both at ROMANCE GEMS.

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The 25th annual 2019 NECRWA Conference will be held this April in Burlington, MA and there are only two more days to register with the early-bird price.

If you’re a romance author, you should definitely check out this conference (especially if you’re in the New England area.) Workshops specifically geared towards romance authors include: how to write about taboo topics, exploring polyamory, how to write queer romance, and centering the female perspective – as well as many others.

Whether you’re a romance author or not, you should check out this conference!

We’ll have workshops on character development, world building, fastdrafting, plotting, ebook pricing, how to hire virtual assistants, digital and face-to-face marketing, plus so much more.

Our master class will be focusing on how to add humor to your work and will be taught by Damon Suede.

These are topics that ALL authors can benefit from.

Early-bird pricing ends February 1st, so why aren’t you registered already?

https://www.necrwa.org/conference/

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I’m pleased to say I’ve joined a new author group called Romance Gems. It’s a talented collection of romance authors writing in a variety of romantic sub-genres. I’m looking forward to learning and sharing my journey with them.

I’ll be writing a blog post for them once a month.

For now, check out my introduction post!

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Hey all! I’ve dropped a few hints on social media that I was working on a holiday novella for NaNoWriMo which is set within the Harper Sisters universe.


 


Secret Gifts follows Jackie and Tom, who are two side characters you may remember from the first book. This picks up a little over one year after they got together in Secret Hunger. Tom wants to take their relationship to the next level, but will Jackie’s past keep them from having a future?


 


I will be sending out a roughly edited version of Secret Gifts to my newsletter subscribers on Monday. Fair warning, I literally wrote this less than a month ago. (A little over 14,000 words of it was written on the last day in November.) This will not be the fully polished edition that I’ll publish in 2019, which means it is subject to change.


 


However, I wanted to give my readers a little gift for the holiday. This is the only chance you have to read it for free before it’s official. If you’d like a first-peek at it, then be sure you click on the link and sign up!


 


Sign up HERE!


 


**Special thanks to Lynne Favreau and Chris and Holly Hammond for making this possible. Also, isn’t this cover GORGEOUS?!**