Ho Ho Ho, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. I love this time of year and what a fun way to end a year. Only 10 more days until we see 2019.
Today is the first day of winter and we have been getting some nasty weather. Twice, in as many days, we have lost power. Not good, but at least it’s at night so I can go to bed with warm blankets and a good book.
Speaking of good books…. I found Noelle Adams with Bookbub. I’m not sure if Hired Bride was free or on sale but a definite find. I hadn’t read anything of Noelle Adams but have since purchased another book.
If you are an author you might want to note the excellent branding that Noelle has. I love marriage of convenience plots and it’s looking like that is the main plot points in her stories. She also writes in series, but stand-alone books. I get caught up in her characters so I know I will be picking up stories to follow her secondary characters.
Hired Bride is part of the Beaufort Brides series. There are 3 books in this series. I just started Part-Time Husband (Trophy Husbands) and I love it.
I’ve been watching a lot of Christmas Hallmark movies and the tag I’d attach to Noelle Adams books is “Hallmark story with heat”. The stories are predictable and sweet but …., there certainly is an erotic element in them. Of course, this is only the second one I’ve read so far and Part-Time Husband is hotter than Hired Bride so I may revise on the heat level as I read more.
Buy yourself a good book for Christmas. It’s a gift you’ll love.
Although every day is a day to be thankful, this is Thanksgiving week for those of us who live in the States. It isn’t as busy for me as it once was when we had the holiday dinner at our house and I spent the days leading up to it grocery shopping and cooking. All around a full work schedule. I remember one year when I had just started on the pies (around six in the evening) and all of a sudden I didn’t have any water. We did have this amazing guy who had put in the well and he came right out. He fixed the pump, thank heavens it wasn’t the well, though he worked until almost eleven o’clock. He told us his wife was home baking pies for the homeless shelter. What an exceptional family. Yes, I stayed up late, but how can you not remember and be thankful for people like these.
I love to write stories. Especially on days when words flow faster than I can type. What I don’t like is marketing. Maybe it’s because I was raised in an era where it was considered bad manners to ‘toot your own horn’. Or in more modern day terms proclaim your own success or accomplishments. And yet now, to successfully sell something you have to market it. And more and more, that is expected of the author or an artist. Even successful stars are promoting their own movies. At least they are good, even great, at being in the public eye.
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