Marcia King-Gamble's Blog, page 128

A Great Holiday Read by Lynn Lovegreen

It’s the time of year when people are looking for holiday romances. My friend Mercy Zephyr has written a sweet contemporary transgender romance that I really enjoyed reading. Here’s my interview with Mercy:



How did you come to write this book?



This is the first book I wrote. It was coming up on the holidays, and I felt left out of the festivities; transgender women don't exactly get

Receiving Critiques

Hi everyone! 

I am Young Adult and Middle Grade author Barbara Binns, writer of contemporary and realistic fiction for adolescents and teens. As my tagline says, I write Stories of Real Boys Growing Into Real Men - and the people who love them.  





Critiquing another writer's work can be a thankless task. Too often, writers are seeking praise. Maybe a few spelling or grammar corrections,

I’ll be Home for Christmas By Eleri Grace

Many classic Christmas songs, stories, and films date to the
1940s, to WWII in particular, and with good reason. Almost half the popular
Christmas tunes performed and played today were written and originally
recorded in the 1930s-40s, with the majority of the remainder dating to the
1950s-1960s.



Why such an outpouring of creativity in celebration of
Christmas? Homesick American soldiers,

Here's to those Holly, Jolly, Holiday Reads!

By: Marcia King-Gamble

www.lovemarcia.com

















Dear Readers:



Don’t you just love this time of year?  I know I do. There’s something about the
holidays that puts me in a good mood, and makes me hopeful that the upcoming year
will be even better.


When the shopping, baking (not that I bake,) and festivities
are all over, there is nothing like curling up at the end of the

Sue Moorcroft's The Christmas Promise

The Christmas
Promise is my winter
release in Canada this year, both in ebook and print (look out for it in
paperback in your local Costco store). The US liked the Canadian cover so much
that they’re bringing it out too - this year as an ebook and next in paperback.





The Christmas
Promise came out in the
UK in 2016 and the ebook went to #1 in the Kindle UK charts. It stayed there
for about

"Let It Snow"

by Diana McCollum


This year for November Romancing the Genres are reviewing Christmas books. I chose “Let It Snow”, by Nancy Thayer. I had never read anything by Nancy Thayer, so she was a new author for me.



It’s a sweet Christmas story which takes place on Nantucket Island. The heroine Christina Antonioni is a gift shop owner in one of the ‘sheds’ on the wharf. The other shop owners are her

What We Found On Lipari Island, Italy.

I met Sam's mum not long after I started dating him. He's the kind of guy that takes you into his warm heart and so is his mum. I hadn't known her long before she started sharing her memories of growing up on Lipari before she emigrated to Australia. She loved the outdoor life on Lipari, playing sport and swimming were her loves. Family was very important to her and she would embark on a long

Finding the Christmas Spirit

Hi Everyone,

I couldn’t
find a Christmas book to review, so I wrote a quick Christmas story instead.
Hope you enjoy. 


“The
Christmas spirit is gone.”

“What do you mean? Gone?” Merry
Enbrite stared at her assistant, not really seeing any of the features on
Elvina’s petite face. 

Elvina shrugged, examining her
long red-and-white striped acrylic press-ons; the tiny rhinestones scattered

Bah...humbug...sort of.

<!--[if gte mso 9]>

A Little Romance a Little Mystery by Paty Jager

Boy do I have a red face! This month we were asked to suggest a holiday themed book. I had one on my Kindle from an author I enjoy, so I read it and when I headed over to Amazon to capture a cover and link for it...it's not there. Because it was a short story, I'm thinking it was something her newsletter peeps received.

Anyway, it was A Christmas Miracle in Pajaro Bay by Barbara Cool Lee. I