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Happy Thanksgiving!

This is a time for American’s to stop their harried lives, spend time with family, and eat way too much food, all while reflecting on their lives with gratitude. For all of us around the globe, it’s been a very tough year, making it harder to find reasons to be grateful. Perhaps we are not spending the holiday with our family, we are isolated with Covid or struggling to put food on the table. 

No Matter What, You Help me be Grateful.

It is easy for me to be grateful, because I have you. I can thank each and every one of you for your continued support of my efforts as a writer and realize how fortunate I am to have you in my world. Your reviews, your emails, your feedback, even just knowing you are out there reading this, helps me press forward when temptations lure me from my writing. Knowing you are waiting for my next novel pushes me on. Your reviews, good or bad, help me do better. Your positive feedback is uplifting. I am grateful to each of you.

Focusing on Gratitude is Good for You.

What better time to focus on gratitude than the month of Thanksgiving? Did you know that being grateful helps your health and well-being? Reports show that feeling optimism, joy and gratitude improves your immune system and lowers blood pressure – and don’t we need both of those now! 

These are trying times, but with help from Robin Long and her Balanced Life Sisterhood, here are tips for cultivating gratitude: 

o   Make it your mission – perhaps challenge yourself for a month, or a week and record the benefits. 

o   Keep a Gratitude Journal – write in it daily 

o   Post a daily list – put it where you can see it often

o   Look for things to be thankful for – it will change the way you look at the world 

o   Do it with friends and family – many people say something they are thankful for as they sit around the Thanksgiving table. Why only one day? Do it all the time. 

o   Turn things upside down – someone hands you lemons? Make lemonade. 

o   Don’t give up – do this regularly and it will recharge you and become habitual. 

We have a name!

Big news on the double dare front – our character name contest winner has selected a name for an upcoming character. Congratulations again to Joy Giachino for winner the contest. Bigger congratulations to her on the birth of a new granddaughter. The upcoming character and Joy’s granddaughter will share the name Maverick May. Watch for Maverick In a double Dare romance soon! 

Need more romance? Here are some special promotions happening now:

Steamy Romance November Freebies! Looking for something to warm a chilly night? Find a hot, hot romance in this promotion through November 30th

Black Friday Freebies – Forty hot and sweet romances available now through Black Friday weekend, December 5th.

Start A Series You have a few days left to discover your next romance series, starting with these first books available through December 1.

Seeking your next romance read? I offer you six to consider this month: 

The Billionaire Doctor: Love me Doctor (Book 1) by Evelyn White

Jane Caldwell is a nervous wreck as she awaits the results of mammography. Fearing the worst, she steels her resolve, but her efforts prove futile when the most handsome man she’s ever seen in her life waltzes in the room to deliver the news.

Billionaire’s Fake Marriage by Jennifer Hartley

Two options.

Either get married or lose the ranch.

Perfect. Just perfect.

I avoided commitment my entire life only to end up being completely mesmerized by the woman I’d hired to clean my apartment

I’d love for her to play my fake wife.

It’ll help save my ranch and keep her close.

But for this to work, we’d have to have rules in place.

No sleeping together.

Inspection by Lainey Davis

He closed off his heart when he lost his wife. She is trying to start fresh. Can they rekindle an old flame?

Elizabeth and her son move into a cute house in a cute neighborhood...directly across from her high school boyfriend. But Kellen Brady is a man now. A man with as much baggage as she's

As they get to know each other again as neighbors, they start to wonder if their story together could have a new chapter. Can the two of them wade through these muddy waters together without risking heartbreak?

Hot Daddy's Friend by Anna Kane 

Sara has always played by the book. She’s been a good girl, but that hasn't gotten her very far. Desperately needing a break for her reality (especially her love life) takes a solo trip to her father’s beach house. The last thing she expects is this special guest. 

Less expected is all these feelings and sparks of romance the two will share in this long weekend.  

Cowboy's Forbidden Nanny (Cowboy Billionaire Secrets Book 3) by Monica Bolt

The day I found out that I had a daughter was the day my whole life changed. Being a single dad and running a billion-dollar ranch isn’t easy.

Especially when your nanny quits unexpectedly.

So now, here I am… trying to do everything on my own until Penny shows up.

The woman with no filter.

She says and does whatever she wants, and maybe that’s why I’m drawn to her.

Penny is ambitious. She wants more out of life and for her career than I’m prepared to help her with.

But does she have any place in her life for me? And my daughter?

Erotic Stories by Mariano Flynn

Brazen, dirty, forbidden, passionate, provocative stories for women and men.

You won't be the same person after reading them

In the tradition of an American Thanksgiving, I would like to mention a few people (besides you guys) for whom I am grateful. 

My sisters (and nieces and friends) – These are the amazing women who shaped my life and continue to shape it daily. They are supportive, funny, thoughtful and kind. They are a shoulder to lean on when the going gets tough. They amplify my joy in celebrating when things go well. They enrich my life (and keep me humble!) 

My other sisters – The sisterhoods of women who support my health, my life and and my career. 

• The Balanced Life Sisterhood where I get pilates classes, encouragement to care for myself, recipes and general uplifting. You can too at https://thebalancedlifeonline.com/friend/ref/31265/
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• The Society of Women Winning Online – Jen Snyder, and the women who have joined her society, are some of the kindest, most giving strangers I have ever called friends. While we have never met, they offer me help with software or Pinterest or a rough day when I want to go back to bed. Their honesty and commitment to one another is a sight to behold. 

With gratitude,

P.S. In case you missed my favorite planners for 2021,here are those links once more: Day Designer, Erin Condren, and Thyme is Honey. These are the one's I use myself or give as gifts.

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