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HAVE A CHAT WITH YOUR FAVORITE LIBRARIAN.

I love libraries and now, finally, my last three books are available for libraries to purchase in paperback and e-book.

Call ’em up, and they can order them for you.

Wishing you a happy day and a pile of great books from the library.

Greetings everyone!

AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER: Mrs. Claus has approved my new Christmas book, Bellini’s Christmas Burlesque Show, a funny love story set in Montana, complete with a hilarious burlesque show, a lively Montana bar named named Lady Whiskey’s, and two people who need a little holiday magic in their lives.

You can pre order the e-book today on Amazon only, (THANK YOU!!) release date for e-book and paperback is November 30th. LINK

Here’s a short and sweet summary:

Bellini O’Donnell’s mother, Whiskey, has had her uterus stolen.

By a doctor, of course, but Whiskey needs Bellini to come home for Christmas to help her recover. “Pack the cats in suitcases,” Whiskey insists, “grab your notebooks and drawing paper, steel your loins, and come home to Montana!”

Bellini doesn’t want to “steel her loins.” She doesn’t want to return to Kalulell, especially over Christmas. She doesn’t want to run her mother’s raucous bar. She doesn’t want to organize the annual holiday pageant ingloriously named, “Lady Whiskey’s T and A Christmas Burlesque Show.” She doesn’t want to set eyes on Logan.

No, Bellini, who lives in a pink and white cottage in Oregon, is a children’s book author and illustrator, an introvert with four cats, and a Scrabble and chess enthusiast who wants to stay home. She likes being a “house hermit.”

But she also wants to help her beloved, charismatic mother, so she has no choice. Bellini packs up her four screeching cats and flies home, telling herself she can avoid the love of her life, Logan Hamilton.

Who knew they would meet in kindergarten painting Christmas trees and adding a red puff ball to Rudolph’s nose and that would lead to the best love story ever…until it ended.

Bellini never told Logan why she broke up with him after high school. She didn’t tell him about the threats. She didn’t tell him what he would lose if they stayed together. She honestly believed she was making the best decision for him, no matter that the secrets broke her heart.

As soon as Bellini is back in snowy Christmas-loving Kalulell, she sees Logan, who apparently has never forgotten her, either.

Protective, romantic, charming, he is the same as always: Irresistible. Even Mrs. Claus’s heart would be atwitter.

But their reality has not changed, and Bellini knows they still can’t be together unless a Christmas miracle is around the corner…

Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas! Wishing you time to read and relax!

Cathy

FREE E – BOOK GIFT FOR YOU.

Happy Thanksgiving!

I put my E-Book “A Different Kind of Normal” on sale for ZERO dollars until Friday to thank you for reading my books.

ONLY ON AMAZON.

Have a happy Thanksgiving next week!

I truly mean it this time: Coming soon!

And, Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays!

I can hardly see. Everything is fuzzy, even the cats.

My brain won’t think anymore.

I read one sentence after another, then I read it again and again because it’s not sticking in my cerebellum.

My back is hunched over and I feel like a grumpy gnome.

I am sleepless.

I am edgy.

I am snappy and I have the sneaking suspicion that Innocent Husband is avoiding me.

Finally, I get to the last page, then the last paragraph, then the last sentence.

I tell myself that when I am done proofing this %@^ Christmas book I can have cookies.

And…finally…

I am done.

I close my fuzzy eyes. I breathe. I unbend my crooked back. I stretch like an old cat.

My very last edit of Bellini’s Christmas Burlesque Show is complete.

I have edited this book seven times (or eight, but who is counting?) which is five times less than I used to edit my books.

When I took a years-long break from writing books, one of my new rules when I “re-became” a writer again, was that I was going to edit my books less so I didn’t conk myself out.

I have avoided conking myself out, but barely.

Bellini’s Christmas Burlesque Show is currently being formatted and uploaded to Amazon.

I hope you like it. I hope it makes you laugh. I hope it makes your heart thump – in a happy / romantic, not scary, way.

I hope it brings some sweet holiday spirit to your life.

With the help of the elves, Bellini’s Christmas Burlesque Show will be coming to you soon, I promise.

Cheers, all. Happy Thanksgiving. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays. Stay sane.

Cathy

TWO FREE E – BOOKS. Happy Holidays! Here’s a pre-holiday gift for YOU from ME because I like you.

My E-books, “The Last Time I Was Me” and “Julia’s Chocolates,” are FREE for five days, from November 3 – November 7.

Look for the specific covers, below. On Amazon only.

Julia’s Chocolates: https://shorturl.at/8gguB

The Last Time I Was Me:

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Cheers!

Three elf-approved love stories to keep you happy and calm during the (hectic, in-laws visiting, exhausting) Christmas holidays. For you or for fun friends or sisters or aunts or mothers or mothers-in-law.

Only available on Amazon.

https://shorturl.at/UZr1G

Here’s a short little summary about each sweet, hopefully funny, story.

Christmas in Montana

Laurel Kelly has been the manager for the hard rock band, Hellfire, for ten years. She’s travelled around the world and listened to eardrum-splitting concerts and head banging rehearsals. Her nerves are shot, her exhaustion complete. Unfortunately, after heading home to Montana to find a little peace with her eccentric mother and aunt, she finds that their frilly apron business is struggling, and they’ve sold the family home to Laurel’s ex-boyfriend, Josh. Josh was Laurel’s soulmate. She had never gotten over him and had never told him the truth about why she’d left him years ago. Laurel will need help from Mrs. Claus to sort this mess out.

Suzanna’s Stockings

Just in time for Christmas, Suzanna Everts is in a coma in the hospital. Lucky for her, with a little holiday magic from her friend, Magdalena Hernandez, she’s able to leave her body and explore her small Oregon beach town. One teeny, tiny problem is that Suzanna is invisible, and no one can see or hear her. Of course, being invisible has its plusses. Suzanna gets a close up look at her fiancé, watches an acquaintance drive her car straight through the front windows of a furniture shop she owns with her husband, discovers her sister’s secret and, finally, falls in love with the right guy, just in time to light up the Christmas tree.

A Very Merry Christmas

Meredith Ghirlandaio has too much going on this Christmas season. She’s running a Bed and Breakfast in an old brick home in snowy Telena, Montana, and her sister’s rebellious children have come to live with her because their mother has run off, her inner child “crying for freedom.” In addition, Meredith was (unwillingly) elected to chair the Telena Christmas Concert, complete with the “Wise Women’s Christmas Skit,” about hot flashes and push-up bras, and the “Old Timers Still Kickin’ It Band.” But the person who is causing her the most angst is Logan Taylor. She must resist that cowboy-hat wearing giant. If she doesn’t, she’ll have to tell him her secret. She can’t do that. Especially not at Christmas.

Many years ago, in the North Pole, amidst the leaping reindeer and the busy elves, these stories were previously published in “Our First Christmas,” “Holiday Magic,” and “Comfort and Joy.”

Cheers, all. Eat some cookies.

Cathy

Greetings.

This is a photo of Innocent Husband and I on Halloween. We are waiting for the trick or treaters and dancing about like goofy ghouls do.

Can we call this a marital moment? After a groovy dance move, I told Innocent Husband that I’m going to wear my scary mask and my red hat to bed tonight.

He said, “Good. I’m looking forward to it.” He’s very funny.

And, clearly, spooky!

We are odd. Quirky. We accept this. We have been together a very long time and this is our excuse.

This year, however, Innocent Husband complained about wearing the pink, light-up, glittery cowgirl hat. It was “too girly” he whined. “Why do I have to wear the pink hat?”

Buck up, Innocent Husband, I said with docile gentleness, as is my way as an obedient, subservient wife. (Insert hysterical laughing here.)

Be the man! Gather up your masculinity, turn on your testosterone, and quit complaining! Plus, you look cute!

He sighed and did what he was told, which is best.

The cats swirled around his jivin’ legs. Even they weren’t fooled by the frightening mask. Simon meowed. Leroy stared impatiently. He wanted Innocent Husband to sit down for a snuggle.

Innocent Husband sighed again. He knows, at heart, that he’s a cat-man and their faithful servant.

As to our very favorite trick or treaters? We probably embarrass Rebel Dancing Daughter, Adventurous Singing Daughter, and Darling Laughing Son on a regular basis with our words and antics.

We are too old and creaky to care. We made ‘em, we raised ‘em, we fed ‘em and housed ‘em. They are now adults. If we are too much for them they can gather themselves up and go to a bar, order tequila, play pool, and recover.

Poor kids. WE LOVE YOU. Dance on!

Happy (late) Halloween from the Lamb ghouls!

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Happy (almost) Halloween! My new book, WANTED: Christmas Miracles is out TODAY for those of you who want to start celebrating with Mrs. Claus and Rudolph early.

I have three elf-approved, funny love stories to keep you happy and calm during the (hectic, in-laws visiting, exhausting) Christmas holidays.

Only on Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/r54yn65p

Christmas in Montana

Laurel Kelly has been the manager for the hard rock band, Hellfire, for ten years. She’s travelled around the world and listened to eardrum-splitting concerts and head banging rehearsals. Her nerves are shot, her exhaustion complete. Unfortunately, after heading home to Montana to find a little peace with her eccentric mother and aunt, she finds that their frilly apron business is struggling, and they’ve sold the family home to Laurel’s ex-boyfriend, Josh. Josh was Laurel’s soulmate. She had never gotten over him and had never told him the truth about why she’d left him years ago. Laurel will need help from Mrs. Claus to sort this mess out.

Suzanna’s Stockings

Just in time for Christmas, Suzanna Everts is in a coma in the hospital. Lucky for her, with a little holiday magic from her friend, Magdalena Hernandez, she’s able to leave her body and explore her small Oregon beach town. One teeny, tiny problem is that Suzanna is invisible, and no one can see or hear her. Of course, being invisible has its plusses. Suzanna gets a close up look at her fiancé, watches an acquaintance drive her car straight through the front windows of a furniture shop she owns with her husband, discovers her sister’s secret and, finally, falls in love with the right guy, just in time to light up the Christmas tree.

A Very Merry Christmas

Meredith Ghirlandaio has too much going on this Christmas season. She’s running a Bed and Breakfast in an old brick home in snowy Telena, Montana, and her sister’s rebellious children have come to live with her because their mother has run off, her inner child “crying for freedom.” In addition, Meredith was (unwillingly) elected to chair the Telena Christmas Concert, complete with the “Wise Women’s Christmas Skit,” about hot flashes and push-up bras, and the “Old Timers Still Kickin’ It Band.” But the person who is causing her the most angst is Logan Taylor. She must resist that cowboy-hat wearing giant. If she doesn’t, she’ll have to tell him her secret. She can’t do that. Especially not at Christmas.

Many years ago, in the North Pole, amidst the leaping reindeer and the busy elves, these stories were previously published in “Our First Christmas,” “Holiday Magic,” and “Comfort and Joy.”

Greetings, all.

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