Ho ho ho friends! Hot take - multicolored Christmas lights are the best. I love Christmas lights, specifically the multicolored old fashioned style. I use the LED style to be energy efficient but they have the covers that make them look like the old C9 and C7 bulbs. We get a real tree (and sometimes they have a funky lean) and don't have this year's yet but here's a picture from our 2023 tree so you can get the vibe.

Hit reply and tell me your favorite part of the holiday and share pictures if you want! I love to see what everyone does, even if it's with white lights. LOL.

I have a lot to share so settle in because you're going to want to know about how to get FREE BOOKS!

First up, the authors of The New Romance Cafe are doing an advent calendar style giveaway from December 1 - December 23. You just need to be a member of the group and check in each day for the posts (some days will have two authors posting for double the fun!). You have to answer the membership questions and agree to the rules to join the group so we can keep it a cozy place but it's worth for the community and the goodies. My day is December 13 (aka my birthday!) and I can't wait to give all of you a present! Here's the link to join the group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/thenewromancecafe

Another giveaway I'm participating in is on December 5 in Abbie's Dangerously Dark Darlings group. It's Secret Santa Days and over 300 authors will be posting giveaways. You'll have Saturday to catch up before the giveways close on Sunday, December 7. www.facebook.com/groups/dangerouslydarkdarlings

That's it for giveaways right now. Next up is getting ready to introduce Ollie and Phoebe to everyone. I love every book I write and most of my characters (I love to hate Velveeta the sociopathic squirrel shifter, sorry not sorry) but Ollie is such a sweetie! He's gentle and innocent but wowsers! He goes after what he wants.

Bashful Pucking Bigfoot releasing wide on December 12. It's book 4 in my Paranormal Hockey League series. It can be read as a standalone but it's more fun if you read the others.

What do you get when a bashful-as-puck hockey-playing Bigfoot shifter accidentally announces on national TV he’s still a virgin and his best female friend offers to help change his status? Flutters.

Ollie

I did my best to be the best team captain of the Spokane Sasquatch I could be. Even if it meant going out of my comfort zone and being a contestant on Bigfoot Finds a Bride to get publicity for my team. When refusing to have my first kiss be with a stranger and captured on camera results in getting cut from the show, my hockey team trades me away. Now I’m in New Jersey as the newest forward for the Atlantic City Devil Birds and all I want to do is focus on playing hockey. Well, hockey and my sexy cupcake baking roommate Phoebe Albright...

Phoebe

I’ve had a crush on Ollie King ever since his brother married my sister. I knew he didn’t date much but I didn’t realize how innocent he was until he spilled the sprinkles on reality TV. Now he’s been traded to my local hockey team and he’s my roommate. I offer to help him gain more romantic experience and act as his fiancé to allow him to focus on meshing with his new hockey team. I wish it wasn’t fake, but he’d never fall for a woman like me. I fear he’ll appreciate my talents in the bakery more than in the bedroom…

When feelings that were never fake become even more real, will our hearts admit the truth and find forever? Or will fear keep us from risking it all and savoring the sweetest love?

Bashful Pucking Bigfoot is a shifter hockey romance full of humor, heart, and heat. If you want to laugh, sigh, and swoon, not necessarily in that order, with funny, sexy shifters, this is the book for you!

I'm remaining in my Bigfoot era in 2026 and it's a wonderful place to be!

Bigfoot Finds Her Groom will release February 15, 2026 and is up for preorder! Violet is Finn and Ollie's younger sister. It's part of the Monster Brides Romance multi-author series and will be a Kindle Unlimited exclusive until June 2027. The cover is illustrated by the talented Kit Fox!

When love isn’t picture perfect, sometimes you need a blank canvas to create your heart’s masterpiece.

Violet

I can't believe my luck when I get my dream artistic commission to paint a historic lighthouse. It would be perfect if I didn’t have to deal with Cameron Leeds-Hewitt, the lighthouse’s grumpy occupant who insists I keep the painting of his home secret. I love my new life living close to my brothers and teaching art along the coast of New Jersey after leaving the woods of Oregon—and heartbreak—behind. I’m not risking my heart again, no matter how tempting this not-as-grumpy-as-he-seems man is.

Cameron

I love my life enjoying the serenity of the marshes surrounding my infamous family’s historic lighthouse where I live as the caretaker. Isn’t it enough I deal with young twenty-somethings in the history courses I teach at the local university? I don’t need one showing up on my doorstep with an easel and my meddling matchmaking witch of a cousin’s blessing. I tried the love-and-marriage thing years ago and the glare of the spotlight was too harsh. Violet King is too beautiful and talented to remain undiscovered as an artist. I can’t risk my heart, or the serenity of my home, hoping this time I'll be enough to stay for.

Can two healing hearts trust in each other and finally get the chance at happily ever after they deserve? Or will stubbornness and fear break their hearts all over again?

Monstrous grooms and beastly brides? Don't be afraid of falling in love... it's super-natural! Explore the entire Monster Brides series, one tantalizing happily-ever-after at a time!

If you want to start at the beginning of my Bigfoot family read Bigfoot Finds A Bride, also part of the Monster Brides series exclusive to Kindle Unlimited. It's the story of Ollie and Violet's older brother, Finn, and his second chance with the one he let get away.

What I'm working on now -

I'm currently writing a novella (it will end up around 30k words, similar to Bigfoot Finds A Bride) about Lily King, cousin to the siblings. Her story will come out late spring/early summer 2026. And she told me she has siblings, maybe my Bigfoot era isn't quite done yet...

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That's it for now but I'll be back. Yes, I said that in my really bad Arnold Schwarzenegger voice. You knew I would. LOL.

Enjoy the cocoa and cookies!

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