My Retrospect Returns with a Free Kindle Book ~ Jean C. Gordon

Hope you had a blessed holiday season and are off to a wonderful 2025.  I'm up to 2011-2012 in my book retrospect.

Inside Tidbits

As I've mentioned, early in my writing career, I was aiming to sell to the Harlequin Romance line. In 2011, I didn't make that sale, but I did sell to Harlequin Love Inspired. I was at a romance writer's conference pitching another already finished book to editors. It kept getting shot down because the hero and heroine were estranged but still married. When I got to the Love Inspired editor, I pitched my book, and the editor asked if I had anything else. I pitched a story that was no more than an idea I had. She said to send her a proposal for that one. I quickly wrote three chapters and a synopsis and sent it off to Harlequin. Not long afterward, I got The Call for Small Town Sweethearts and started my time with Love Inspired.

The 2021 Sweet Romance Rerelease

After Small Town Sweethearts went out of print with Love Inspired, I updated the story and rereleased a sweet (rather than inspiration) version, Trusting Her Heart, as the first full-length romance in my Paradox Lake Sweet Romance series.

Spending time in the small town of Paradox Lake, NY, is the last thing that Emily Hazard wants to do. Her childhood memories, including the despised nickname Jinx, are anything but fond. However, Emily’s brother Neal is deploying overseas and needs someone to stay with his teenage daughter Autumn while she finishes her senior year. Emily is going to attempt to juggle working remotely as an assistant art director for an advertising agency in New York City and keeping an eye on her niece.

With his career and life in flux, Drew Stacey is currently working for a group of non-profits that is planning to rent the Hazard family's campgrounds on Paradox Lake for a summer program. Deciding it's a good idea to have a man around while he is gone, Neal has asked Drew to stay at the house with Emily and Autumn while Drew prepares the campgrounds.

A minor fender-bender as soon as she hits town, has Emily battling old insecurities. However one person doesn’t view her as a slightly klutzy disaster magnet, and that's the disturbingly attractive Drew. The spark between them is immediate, but Emily’s emotional blinders regarding the town threaten to derail any prospect of a relationship. Can Emily see beyond the past?

Any fan of sweet romance will love settling into the stories of small-town love in the Paradox Lake Sweet Romance series. Grab your tea or coffee, settle into your favorite chair, and be swept away into the cozy Adirondack town, where complex characters navigate challenging situations as they find their way to love. Whether it’s love at first blush, old flames reuniting, or second chance romance, you’ll find pure reading enjoyment and satisfy your craving for sweet, wholesome romance.

Welcome to Paradox Lake


Part of an ongoing series full of familiar faces, each story will stand on its own. With novel and novella lengths available, there’s something for everyone. Paradox Lake is written by USA Today's Bestselling sweet romance author Jean C. Gordon, who’s penned stories for the No Brides Clubs Series, Indigo Bay Series, and Harlequin Love Inspired, as well as for multiple sweet romance collections.

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Happy New Year! Roxanne Rustand

How were your Christmas and New Year's Eve this year? Busy, or quiet and peaceful?

Ours was busy, with at least twenty of us here to celebrate. Now that all of the cooking and cleaning and gift wrapping is behind us, the house seems so quiet.  

Our living room isn't large by any measure. But it does feel good to just sit back in a recliner in my heavy velour pajamas and fuzzy Christmas socks (as you can see), with a Kindle in my hands.

I love every single minute with our kids, grandkids and extended family. But now it's time to get to work! 

The business of writing doesn't follow a day job  time clock, as I set my own deadlines. But now I need to get busy on a boxed set of my own, my part of a ten-author anthology that will be out in late May, and  a new release this spring. Next month I can let you know about those titles.

I would love to hear about the foods you enjoy at Christmas. You will be an inspiration to me when we reach Christmas 2025!  

Leave a comment, and you will be in a drawing for any one of  my ebooks.  You can see them my clicking HERE,  Be sure to select "sort by publication date" at the right, though, as otherwise some very old titles show up at the top.

Wishing you all my best in 2025!

Roxanne Rustand

www.roxannerustand.com

Lyn Cote Announces her FIRST PROMOTION--4 BOOK SERIES FOR 99C

Small town, big hopes, warm hearts

Small town Hope, WI, is happy to welcome Habitat for Humanity as they volunteer to building homes on its newest street, New Neighbor Lane. But each family helping build their new house, needs more than a structure to live in. Past hurts, such as financial hardship, abandonment, loss of family members or painful divorce have left them hurting and doubting God’s love for them. 

But God isn’t finished with them. He has plans for them, plans to prosper them and not to harm, plans to give them hope and a future. CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE OR SEE THE COVER ! SALE STARTS TODAY AND ENDS JANUARY 7TH! Why not tell a friend? Lyn

New Year, New Series by Laura Scott

 

Good morning from Laura Scott! 

I'm not sure how this year went by so fast, but it sure did. The new year is right around the corner. Do you have any big plans? I do not. My idea of celebrating the new year is sitting with hubby watching fun movies until it's time for the ball to drop. 

If we can stay up that late. Because we are old and value our sleep, lol.

But even if we don't watch the ball drop, there's sometime special about the start of a new year. I love the possibility of new beginnings. This was not the best year for our family we have had some big struggles along the way. (Prayers appreciated!) I'm hopeful things will get better moving forward.

And speaking of new beginnings I'm thrilled to be kicking off a new series in 2025! This is my Sullivan K9 Search and Rescue series featuring a large family who turned a former Wyoming dude ranch into a search and rescue operation after losing their parents to a plane crash. The dogs are the real heroes of these stories and I'm having a lot of fun writing about the various dog breeds with their different personalities. 

If you like dogs and enjoy reading about brave men and women working with their well trained K9 partners, you may want to give this series a try. Scent of Danger will release on January 7, 2025. 

Best wishes and blessings to you and your family in 2025! 

Scent of Danger by Laura Scott $3.99

Search and rescue and love...

Kidnapped in Wyoming!

DEA Agent Doug Bridges is upset to realize his half-sister has been kidnapped after her night shift at the hospital. He goes into full agent mode to investigate, but soon runs into dead ends. Winter in northern Wyoming is no joke and he needs help, fast. It doesn't take long to track down Maya Sullivan and her Siberian Husky Zion and he convinces them to help find Emily.

The oldest of nine siblings, Maya knows Emily and doesn't hesitate to offer her K9's tracking skills. But two episodes of gunfire and an attack on Maya leads to more questions. Are they related to Emily's kidnapping? As a blizzard threatens to blanket the city with a foot of snow, May and Doug are in a race against time. Will they find Emily and a chance at love before it's too late?

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Sold Out by Pat Simmons

 

I've been a published author for 17 years, and during the many book signing events I've attended, my sales have varied. Early in my writing career as a Christian author, God chastened me for complaining, "Nobody is buying my book." The Lord let me know it wasn't about me, but HIM.

That moment changed my way of thinking that day at Border Books.

I do a lot of military base signing, and I always pray before I start and ask God to send the people. Recently, I was in San Antonio, and the move of God was unexplainable. After six days at three bases, I sold out of 246 books! I praise God because there was no way humanly possible that I could sell 75 in one day and not know it. God sent the people!

Jesus has a way of reaffirming His promises according to the Scripture. So, as many of us celebrate His birth on Christmas Day, I rejoice that Jesus not only died for me, but when He rose, He gave gifts. Besides my salvation, one of them was that He sent the people so He could minister to them and I could entertain them in my writings.

Merry Christmas, friends. I pray that God sends whatever blessing you need. Thank You, Jesus.

Check out my Christmas stories. The ones with the white stars are on sell.

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Are you WRAPPED UP IN CHRISTMAS yet? by Janice Lynn

Christmas is just a few days away. Is your shopping done? Have you already eaten too much? I sure have. :)

With our family, we only have one more Christmas event to go to as we did with my Grandmother on December 1st, our kids/GRANDS on December 8th, and with my parents, siblings, and their families yesterday. So, essentially we've been doing Christmas all month. :)

What about you? Are all your Christmas celebrations on the day of or are they spread out over several days or weeks?

 Christmas is definitely an all month long celebration in my Wrapped Up in Christmas series. My fictional town of Pine Hill, Kentucky is all about Christmas and making merry. My publisher, Tule, is making your Christmas brighter, too, as they are currently giving away the ebook version of WRAPPED UP IN CHRISTMAS. How cool is that?  

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USA Today, Wall Street Journal, & Publishers Weekly Bestselling author JANICE LYNN lives in Tennessee with her Prince Charming and their princes and princesses, her vivid imagination, an adorable Maltese named Halo who's the true royalty of the house, and bunches of unnamed dust bunnies that moved in after Janice started her writing career. In addition to writing romance, Janice is a nurse practitioner, a quilter, a military mama, and an avid supporter of the Quilts of Valor Foundation. www.janicelynn.com