Seasons Greetings 22nd December 2016
I hope you are all ready for Christmas and haven’t found it too stressful. Although I do tend to leave things to the last minute, only making my Christmas cake three weeks ago, everything always seems to come together in the end – famous last words maybe? The tree went up last Sunday with a colour scheme this year of red and gold. It is the first time I have risked the ‘good’ baubles since we had the two younger cats, Wilfie and Milo, but they are now three years old and I’m hoping will be less interested in climbing the tree and whacking the pretty, sparkly, dangly things. To be fair, Wilfie has only knocked a couple of the unbreakable ones on to the floor from the lower branches where we had positioned them so keep your fingers crossed.
Well, I owe you all an apology. I was hoping to have a Christmas short story written to let you have for free on my website but I hit a snag. I liked the idea I had come up with so much that I quickly realised it deserved to be more than a short story. It will instead be a Christmas novel for next year. So, because I’m feeling a bit guilty, I thought I would put together a little Christmas give-away. There will be three lucky winners and each will receive some ‘smellies’, a Christmas stocking and a calendar. This is not just any calendar, it is the IngramSpark calendar and I was delighted to be asked to appear in it for the second year running as one of their most successful independently published authors, so it is thanks to those of you who have bought paperback copies of my Liberty Sands books. You don’t need to do anything to be entered into the draw apart from being signed up to receive my newsletter – good luck.
If you prefer to read ebooks don’t order my Liberty Sands trilogy on Amazon until Boxing Day. There is going to be a price reduction promotion running until the new year which could save you up to six pounds if you get in early – tell all your friends!
Last week it was lovely to finally meet some of the Reading (as in the place) chapter of the Romantic Novelists‘ Association when we met up for Christmas lunch. Because of work commitments at QVC I had been unable to attend any of the monthly meetings during the year although there were a few familiar faces from the RNA summer and winter parties.
I was sat across the table from Rachael Featherstone whose debut novel, Puzzle Girl, is published in March – one to watch out for I think as the plot sounded really inventive.
Well, the kitchen is beckoning as I really do need to make some mince pies. Thanks so much to all of you who have continued to support me in my writing in 2017 – there are some great new stories coming your way in 2017.
Enjoy Christmas and see you next year
much love
Julia xx
