Christine Feehan's Blog - Posts Tagged "holiday"

I love the Christmas holiday so much! It’s always been a special time for me and for my family. I realize not everyone celebrates Christmas, but I hope you’ll celebrate your holiday with me this winter season!


WalMart is releasing Dark Celebration with a limited edition cover. You can only get this special cover edition by going to WalMart to purchase it. And, it’s a limited run, so once these are gone, they are truly gone.

Dark Celebration has always been special to me. I receive more reader requests for another reunion book than just about any other request. This book was a gift to my readers, bringing together old friends like Mikhail, Gregori and many other Carpathians from years gone-by.



Over on Facebook we’re doing a giveaway where you have a chance at winning one of eight stockings stuffed with gifts from one of the older Carpathian characters! Mikhail, Raven, Jacques, Shea, Gregori, Savannah, Darius and Tempest each have a representative stocking that reflects that character and there are a lot of goodies in those stockings! I hope you’ll stop by Facebook by November 16th to enter!
Facebook Contest

And as an added bonus, you can enter for ALL the stockings! So lots of chances to win! And the books are signed!

You can read the first chapter of Dark Celebration here-

My publisher is doing something they call Berkley Bookmas and I participated by sending pictures of my Christmas tree and answering a few holiday questions. It was really fun!

Several blogs are running the article about my holiday traditions and you can participate in the $100 giveaway here- Berkley Bookmas

The blogs are wonderful to support authors and books so I hope you'll choose one to go and comment on and share your favorite holiday tradition!

Pick a blog! Check them all out if you like book blogs!

Vampire Book Club

Novel Grounds

Booked & Loaded

Coffee & Characters

Rantings of a Reading Addict

Just Another Book Bitch

The Good, The Bad and The Unread

Literary Escapism

3 Degrees of Fiction

And do celebrate with me early! Judgment Road will be out January 23rd! It's on pre-order now!


Thank you!

Living a life of seclusion, abuse and death I always imagined the survivors that would eventually escape and become Torpedo Ink wouldn’t know much about Christmas. Perhaps they’d learn about it if it were associated with an assassination they were assigned, or hear about it in some secondary way, but they’d not actually experience it. Even so, Christmas in Russia isn’t the same as Christmas in America. There are different traditions and it’s even celebrated on a different day since Russia uses a Julian calendar. Christmas in Russia is celebrated in January as a rule. Also, it’s the New Year that is the bigger celebration in Russia.

Even when they went undercover for several years to bring down The Swords they lived an outlaw life full of danger and subterfuge. They would be aware of traditional practices of the holiday, but more as observers and outsiders.

Knowing about something and how it works isn’t the same as experiencing it for yourself, so regardless of how many Christmases the members of Torpedo Ink observed, it would be their first year in Caspar, CA. that they would actually participate in Christmas as a family. And of course, it would be Blythe who would insist they be active in all aspects of the celebration.
There’s something about Christmas, about holidays that bring family and friends together, that feels magical. Like love. It can slip through the toughest exterior and shine light into the hearts of those who are courageous enough to have hope. No matter how small the hope. Or how buried.

It’s not often that a writer gives a gift to her characters. I love this band of outlaws that look to care for one another and mete out justice to those who would harm the weak or innocent. One day I hope to give them all a Happily Ever After. For now, I’ll give them Christmas.
A Torpedo Christmas cominglater today on my Goodreads Blog and website. The initial story will be here on Goodreads and a slightly longer story will appear on my website later. I'll include links at the end of the story in the later blog.



Find out more about the Torpedo Ink series here- TORPEDO INK

Learn more about Vengeance Road, the next book in the Torpedo Ink Series coming January 29, 2019 - VENGEANCE ROAD

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I love the holidays and most people know that about me. My great love is my family and the holidays bring us all together in this shared spirit of Christmas. My family loves to laugh so there’s always antics and jokes. Happiness is ageless, timeless and boundless and I know I am truly blessed to be surrounded by my family and friends this season.




I wish the same joy and love to all of you. Regardless of what you celebrate, we can all celebrate those things together.
All the best,

Christine Feehan

I just hit 50,000 followers here on Goodreads! I’m so excited! I’ve been on Goodreads since February of 2013. I’ve met and interacted with so many amazing readers. I’ve been invited to meet the wonderful people at Goodreads in San Francisco. I’ve met great people there. I’d like to give a special think you to Mimi Chan who has such enthusiasm and a true love of books, authors and readers.




First, let’s reflect a bit.





The year has just flown by. 2022 was a challenge.
I love that readers gave Savage Road a chance and that the book did even better than I expected. Thank you! The fact that this book hit so many bestseller lists just blew me away.

Phantom Game was so fun to write. I appreciate reader following along in this very different direction for the series. Just wait until you read Ghostly Game!
Shadow Fire took us to our first non-Ferraro hero – Eli! The arranged marriage trope is a favorite and this couple ended up such a power couple.

Red on the River was the next in my romantic thriller series. I learned a valuable lesson with that book – I am NOT a good card player. LOL

Dark Whisper allowed me to take some new turns with this series. I got to go back to the Lycans, which I really enjoy.

And then Leopard’s Scar was a surprise even to me! I thought I knew who I was going to write about and then two very new characters came out demanding their story be told first! LOL

2022 was special for a lot of reasons but for me I was extremely proud that this was my son, Brian Feehan’s, first book release- Harmony of Fire. I really enjoyed doing some promo together. We did interviews and went to Hawaii for an event. So much fun!



Now let’s look into the crystal ball toward the future!
I’m hopeful that 2023 will be even better.




Brian has a new book coming out Feb. 21st called Harmony of Lies. I’m so excited for him! He is now a USA Today bestselling author and I hope readers will discover him. His series is so different! And if you'd like a signed and personalized copy of Harmony of Lies you can find it at Gallery Bookshop!



My 2023 line up has new releases, re-releases with new covers and mass market releases!




Recovery Road is my first new release of the year. It will be out January 24th. This is Master’s book and it was a bit surprising for me as well.

Ghostly Game brings us back to Team 3 in San Francisco. I’ve never written a GhostWalker novel quite like this one and I’m so curious as to what my readers will think. That book will be out May 2nd.

Shadow Dance will be released Aug. 22nd. At least tentatively. When the release dates are this far out they are always subject to change. This book takes us to the New York Ferraros where Geno, the head of the family in New York, is our hero. Not to worry, you’ll still see some of our Chicago family.

Dark Memory is the next Dark/Carpathian novel, and it will be released, tentatively, Oct. 3rd. We’re still with the ancients. I’m about to start work on that book very soon.
I am hoping to attend some events this year but can’t really say which ones just yet.

For those of you who have been waiting for a new Carpathian Guide, we hope to that that up in 2023! If you've never seen the guide you can see it on my community. Sign up here.

If you’re still reading this rather long blog, thank you.

To celebrate the milestone 50,000 followers here on Goodreads I thought I’d do a giveaway here from my blog.



Comment which 2022 book you loved most or which 2023 book you’re looking forward to the most and that will put you into the random drawing for a prize. I’ll be drawing three names to receive signed books and one special winner is going to get an amazing gift basket!
I’ll do the drawing on Friday Jan. 6, 2023 at 0900 Pacific Time. I’ll post the name of the winners in the comments on Friday so be sure to come back and look to see if you won!

This is open internationally. Please only post one comment to enter.


Prize includes international translations as well as US and UK-

Dark Ghost - US
Shadow Fire - UK
Savage Nature/ Leopard- Drake - French
Highway to Desire/Vendetta Road - German
Shadow Warrior/Vittoria - German
Dark Tarot tote
CF Pen
Collector Cards
Red on the River Clutch
Stuffed Hippo
Stuffed dog



Good luck everyone!

Let me leave you with a little cheer from my Christmas holiday!