YIKES! IT���S HERE AGAIN���
Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday, fellow readers. Hope you had a hale and healthy year and are looking forward to another one.
What better time for good wishes than Christmas Eve? I cannot believe how fast this past year has gone. I’m hoping Santa put ointment and Band-Aids under the tree for all of the cuts and bruises the past year has visited on me.
Still, DH and I have been lucky. No major health issues. When you get down to basics, that is the most important part of our lives. From what I���ve seen of life in general, without good health, nothing else is much good either.
One major event for us this past year was an automobile upgrade. My 10-year-old car was badly battered after years of sitting in the parking lot where I work at my real job. DH���s old pickup had gone beyond reasonable repair. So we donated the pickup to charity and traded the car in on an SUV. Now we���re a one-car outfit. Silly me, I thought scaling back to one vehicle would save money on insurance. Wrong. The insurance premium on the new rig is higher than it was on both older vehicles.
I released Book #2 of the ���Sons of Texas��� trilogy, THE CATTLEMAN. It���s now for sale at all of the online retailers as an e-book. If you would prefer a print copy, one is available from Amazon.
I did a blog tour to kick it off and raffled a new Kindle Fire for people who visited the various blogs. I was unfamiliar with any of the book blogs where I was a guest. I had no idea there were so many. I felt like I had been living under a rock!
The ever-changing publishing landscape is just that���ever-changing. Amazon sort of yanked the rug from under self-publishing authors with its new subscription service. It���s like Netflix for books. Good deal for readers, not quite as good for authors. I don���t know how many readers have joined, but authors are grumbling and some are starting to bail. Hopefully, it will sort itself out soon.
I put only one book into it, mostly as an experiment. Given the experience I’m having, I���m glad one book is all that���s there. 
When its term expires, I���ll be taking it out. So if you���ve joined Kindle Unlimited, it’s part of their monthly package. Or if you are not a member of KU and want to read three of my Anna Jeffrey books for a discounted price, check out THE CALLISTER BOOKS. It���s a bundle that includes THE LOVE OF A COWBOY, THE LOVE OF A STRANGER and THE LOVE OF A LAWMAN���.
The bundle is $6.99 at Amazon. That���s $2.33 per book. After its term in KU expires, I���ll be putting it for sale with other online retailers as well.
I have a steamy novella underway. MIRANDA���S MAN.��
I hope to be releasing it within the next few months. Here’s the cover. Let me know what you think.
And I will soon be starting Book #3 of the ���Sons of Texas��� trilogy, THE HORSEMAN. No cover yet. This book will be about Troy and the woman who finally captures his heart, Chloe. I will also wind up the Lockhart family story. I have the last chapter in my head, but I haven���t come up with the first chapters yet. Oh, well. I suppose backward is good as long as you come out at the right place in the end.
Enjoy the holiday, everyone.
