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Bread and Promises: A Thornton Vermont Christmas Story: Hamish

The weather on the night of the Thornton Tree Lighting made the possibility of angels easy to believe. The temperature had snapped cold again, and a brisk squall left a powdered sugar dusting of snow to cover the hardpacked slush. The village was garlanded in fir boughs and ribbon, and the sky wore stars like […]

Bread and Promises: A Thornton Vermont Christmas Story: Juliet

 Juliet looked up from the yellow-ware bowl where she was cutting cold butter into flour, lemon zest, and Earl Grey tea leaves, as Kate swirled through her own front door some twenty minutes later, flushed and glittering from the freshly falling snow. “Juliet, I’m sorry I didn’t text you…” Kate draped her coat over a […]

Bread and Promises: A Thornton Vermont Christmas Story: Hamish

A sullen drizzle rolled in on the heels of the recent snow, warming the air and turning the charming snow to wet, cold muck. It wasn’t unlike home. Hamish gave Kate a token argument when she invited him to stay with her for the holiday. He’d be in the way. They were newlyweds (at which […]

Bread and Promises: A Thornton Vermont Christmas Story: Juliet

Of all the things Juliet Chen anticipated finding in Thornton, Vermont, a clumsy Highlander was the last. So what if he’d had a truly adorable dimple? A girl just didn’t run into a red-headed Scotsman in a snowy village four weeks before Christmas. That nonsense was for the Hallmark Channel.  She collected her ham and […]

Bread and Promises: Juliet

Of all the things Juliet Chen anticipated finding in Thornton, Vermont, a clumsy Highlander was the last. So what if he’d had a truly adorable dimple? A girl just didn’t run into a red-headed Scotsman in a snowy village four weeks before Christmas. That nonsense was for the Hallmark Channel.  She collected her ham and […]

Bread and Promises: A Thornton Vermont Christmas Story: Hamish

“It’s no’ the Highlands, but it’ll do.” Hamish Munroe laid his Scots accent on thick for the college student who’d driven him down from St. John’s to Thornton, Vermont.  In truth, the snow dusted village, set into a vast glacial valley between two old mountain ranges and a long, glittering expanse of lake, took his […]

Bread and Promises: Hamish

“It’s no’ the Highlands, but it’ll do.” Hamish Munroe laid his Scots accent on thick for the college student who’d driven him down from St. John’s to Thornton, Vermont.  In truth, the snow dusted village, set into a vast glacial valley between two old mountain ranges and a long, glittering expanse of lake, took his […]

An Every Day Love Story Moment: Buck’s Landing

Do you ever wonder what happens to characters after you close the book? Do you wish you could just peek into their lives down the road a few years and see what happily ever after looks like? Me, too. Writing a series like Thornton, that follows friends and siblings, those moments happen organically. Of course […]

I Just Named My Muse ‘Karen’

Inspiration is a tricky beast. Last week, I shared this Tumbler meme on my Facebook page: I was kidding. Mostly. Then Friday morning I realized the submission deadline for the Word Count Podcast was coming up hard. I stared at the prompt photo for a bit, completely devoid of ideas, and then BOOM! Inspiration by […]

A Book By A New Cover

It’s been a crazy month, punctuated by nor’easters that closed school and threw our family routine into a tailspin, but that’s meant more time to work on the writing. Always a silver lining! And to give an old story a facelift. Buck’s Landing is almost six, can you believe it? To celebrate, I have a […]