World cup can't stop me reading
Dec 01, 2022 5:55 pm
Hello fellow reader,
December and the World Cup are competing for center stage at my house these days. At the moment our porch looks like this: awaiting the final game of the first round.
While I'm a proud American, it's my husband who is the soccer fan, so I try no to usurp that.
Actually, I kinda like it. As you can tell. I also get a kick out of making my family look a bit ridiculous. Lol. Anyone else watching the World Cup?
While we slowly get Christmas wreaths up and stocking hung, I'm continuing to write Crossing Zamora, the book that got me across the finish line for NaNoWriMo since it is the writing I focused on this past month. Not that it's December 1st though I'm itching to get Cornered finished and I also have to finish up a non-fiction project that I'm a bit behind on.
And yet! I'm a bit disappointed in myself because I can't come up with a good Christmas short story so far. I wanted to have one at least drafted but perhaps that will still come. Maybe once it snows....
I started reading a book in French class that I remembered I had actually already read (in English) in college. I can't remember how I found it, but I'm so glad that I've rediscovered it. The writing is incredible. The way Sagan (the writer) tells so much in just a few words or a one line of dialogue is very impressive. Something I yearn to achieve in my writing!
The name of the book, even in English, is Bonjour Tristesse. Have you read it? You can find it here if you are interested in it. Let me know what you think if you've read it or decide to read it!
Before I go on to books for you, I want to invite you to a webinar I'm hosting next week with author Sarah Elisabeth Sawyer. Sarah is a historical fiction author who also teaches writers how to depict Native American characters well.
Being Choctaw herself, it's important to Sarah that other writers have access to learning about the cultures and differences in Native American culture. That's why she promotes her webinar Top Question Fiction Authors Have About Native Americans.
The webinar I'm hosting for her will take place on December 9th at 1pmEST/12CT. If you're interested, you can sign up for it here. It's free!
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A mighty king. A cursed prince. A dark secret.
Can the old midwife keep it buried, or is she doomed to the stake?
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Manhattan, 1908. Margaret Jennings is nursing a bruised heart. Socially tainted by a broken engagement and ignored by her parents, she’s humiliated when a night of rebellion leads to an arrest and another family scandal. Shipped off to Oklahoma to help a friend with her down-on-his-luck brother, she takes on the task of facing the grumpy man with good-spirited wit.
Dr. Bart Peters will never be enough for his father. Penniless and on the verge of losing his practice and home, he’s furious when his sister shows up on his doorstep accompanied by a beautiful upper-crust stranger. Expected to head back to New York with his tail between his legs, he marches off to the saloon for some much-needed whiskey—only to wind up injured and unfit for travel.
Excited by a chance to postpone a return to her staid existence, Margaret volunteers to stay and care for the unhappy physician with a hidden tender side. While Bart does his darndest to drive away the charming woman who seems both a match for his vinegar and a salve for his spirit.
Will their verbal fencing and simmering chemistry lead to the unconditional love they desire?
Stealing souls from under the noses of the guardians of the underworld is hard work, but for immortal Cat Sidhe Rory, it's all he has ever known. Hiding behind humour, he masks the dark waters closing overhead, but the longer he puts a smile on his face, the more real the threat becomes.
The world is beginning. Darla can’t wait.
Darla is an explorer, endlessly fascinated by the land above. As a selkie, she remains trapped under the waves except for once every seven years. But, as luck would have it, now is her time to escape the waves. Desperate to sate her hunger for adventure, she finds her way to the surface, ready to experience all of the wonders of the world for the very first time.
But the fae world is ending. What will they risk to save it… and each other?
That's all for this week. Next week I'll have more for you. A December full of books!
Kat