Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home.
— Carol Nelson

Yuletide decorations and festive lights are going up everywhere, the air's turned cold, Charlie Brown, Frosty the Snowman and the Grinch are popping up on the TV, and Santa Claus is back patiently posing for pictures in shopping malls. There's no turning back now, Christmas is on the way! Personally, I never get through the month of December without thinking intermittently of Nick Severson, the main character of my first published book, I Know It's Over. It's not just that the novel begins on Christmas Eve but that I was actually writing the opening chapters of I Know It's Over during the Christmas/New Year's Eve season. Nick's point of view felt so raw and intense that it's never fully left me.

Two of my other novels also either begin or end around the Christmas season. Just Like You Said It Would Be starts on New Year's Eve before jumping back to the previous summer in Chapter Two. Two-thirds of the way into the novel we return, along with main character Amira, to New Year's Day. The last few chapters of my adult book, Come See About Me, occur around Christmas with the final action occurring just before New Year's. 

During the month of December you can pick up e-copies of any of these books for $1.99 (or equivalent foreign currencies) at Amazon outlets, Barnes & Noble, Kobo and Apple Books. Click on the book titles to learn more about the novels.


Wishing you peace, health, happiness and snowflakes that feel like kisses!


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