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Christmasvaganza: Music Monday

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Happy Monday everyone. Not many days to go until Christmas now and I’m flying back to Sweden on the 22nd. The number one item on my Santa wish list is hugs from my beloved daughter, so I’m going back to collect. And also to eat my parents’ food!

But before all that, let’s talk about this week’s song choice. I’ve chosen Do They Know It’s Christmas by Band Aid, and I’ve literally loved this song since its release in 1984. I was twelve years old and it’s as if Midge Ure and Bob Geldof (who wrot...

Christmasvaganza: Sunday Review

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Lately, I’ve been feeling in the mood for something historical. I had a period in my life back in the day, when all I read was historical (M/F) romances and I adored them. These days, I prefer contemporary, but every now and then longing for gentlemen and historical settings flare up in my chest and I want to indulge.

And when I hosted Ruby Moone’s release blitz last week, I found what I was looking for. So here’s my review of The Mistletoe Kiss.

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[image error] Widowed bookseller Lawrence Fenton has spent...

#RainbowSnippets

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Weekends means Rainbow Snippets-time here on the blog, since I’ve joined the  Rainbow Snippets group on Facebook. According to their description, “it’s a group for LGBTQ+ authors, readers, and bloggers to gather once a week to share six sentences from a work of fiction—a WIP or a finished work of even 6-sentence book recommendation (no spoilers please!).”

Don’t forget to like my page on Facebook or follow me on Twitter. I’d also be happy to become friends on Facebook if you’d like 

Christmasvaganza: #SuperShort

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All I Want For Christmas

I couldn’t take my eyes off him. He looked so…relaxed. His shoulders weren’t up by his ears like they usually were. He smiled all the time, flashing his adorable dimple, and whenever he looked at me his eyes sparkled with love, causing my stomach to flutter.

But best of all: he never let go of my hand.

We wandered down the sidewalk without a care in the world, all our troubles left behind. They would be there waiting for us when we got back home, but here— hundreds o...

Christmasvaganza: Special Guest Addison Albright

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Please help me welcome my dear friend Addison Albright to the blog today. She’s answered my holiday questions and she also has a very special treat for you: a flash fiction story based on three prompts I gave my guests. If they wanted, I asked them to choose one of the prompts and write a flash fiction story, but since Addison is amazing, she incorporated all three of them! It features her regular flash fiction characters Harrison and Mason and their adorable kid Jaxon.

Seriously, guys, I la...

Christmasvaganza: Swedish Holiday traditions

 

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Today’s Swedish Holiday tradition is Lucia. Lucia is celebrated on this date, December 13, and is probably the most Christmassy of traditions except for the actual Christmas.

Lucia is an ancient mythical figure with an abiding role as a bearer of light in the dark Swedish winters. The first recorded appearance of a white-clad Lucia was in 1764 but the custom did not become universally popular in Swedish society until the 1900s.

These days we’re celebrating with a candle lit procession with...

One dollar? ONE DOLLAR??

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Wohooo, today you can buy my book Cinnamon Eyes from my publisher JMS Books for less than a dollar! Ninety-nine cents!! That’s a steal guys! If you haven’t read it yet, now’s the time to buy it.

But only today, so hurry over and clickety-click the link.

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Praise for Cinnamon Eyes:

Jules at The Novel Approach gave it 4 out of 5 stars

“Cinnamon Eyes is full of emotion, and features two main characters whose love absolutely jumps off the page. Friends-to-lovers stories are my jam, so I’m picky a...

Blog tour: Memory of Me by Jess Thomas

BLOG TOUR

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Christmasvaganza: Music Monday

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Happy Monday everyone, I hope your week was good. It’s time for another Music Monday here at Christmasvaganza.

This week’s song is All I Want For Christmas Is You. However, I’m not a Mariah Carey fan, and to be perfectly honest with you, I didn’t use to be a fan of this song either. Until I heard this version. I love the feeling of Steve Grand’s rendition; it’s so very different from the original. Less hysterical, if you know what I mean 

Release blitz and #giveaway: The Mistletoe Kiss by Ruby Moone

 

Buy Links: Amazon US | Amazon UK Length: 26,600 words Publisher: JMS Books   Blurb
By 1816, widowed bookseller Lawrence Fenton has spent a lonely lifetime hiding who he is. He has convinced himself his feelings for his far too young, gorgeous, but troubled assistant Christy Shaw are nothing more than pride in his protégé and concern for his plight.

Christy’s life involves walking fine lines: one between his mother and his abusive stepfather, one where he must keep his needs hidden, and h...