While everyone who celebrates Christmas recuperates from too much food and tries to squish the last of the wrapping paper into the trash bin while children-- whether in your home, or the neighbor's-- make ridiculous amounts of noise with whatever toys were just added to their collection...

And everyone who observes Hanukah and/or Kwanzaa get started with those traditions...

And especially if you have a new ereader to fill up with all the romance ebooks it can hold...

Today is one of our favorite days; a Stuff Your eReader promotion from Romancebookworms.com!

I've been participating in these for a few years now, and I'm sure I'm not the only romance author you know who's letting you know about the promotion-- so you probably know how these things work.

If not, it's not super hard to figure out: Click the link (or the image) find your reading platform from the options on Romancebookworms, then proceed to be completely overwhelmed by the number of options available.

But whether you are cleaning up, starting to wonder when the house guests go home, or just ramping up your holidays-- it's worth taking a moment to lock yourself in the bathroom, claim that you're out of milk or coffee or toilet paper and volunteer to run to the store to pick it up, or go out to the barn to gather the eggs, milk the cow, or whatever excuse you can get away with...just don't forget your phone or ereader and don't go past the reach of your internet, because the promotion only lasts for one day.

My contribution for this one is

A Promising Beginning from the Match-Maker series:

If you haven't read any of the match-maker books yet, this is a great opportunity to check one out and get hooked on the series. And trust me! It won't matter one bit that this is the last book in the series (currently,) because the series is not interconnected and really can be read in any order at all.

News from the writing cave:

Have I mentioned that I'm currently doing the "sticks & bricks" life? (As the nomad community refers to traditional housing.) And that the stix & brix house doesn't have a kitchen?

It's been used as a business for thirty years and one of the reasons I'm here-- when I could be soaking up sunshine in Arizona where all the other nomads are right now-- is to play HGTV and help restore it back to house status.

We are part-way there.

This week, I took on the job of assembling the final two of the kitchen base cabinets; which came flat-packed like so much Ikea furniture.

One cabinet had no instructions with it, and the other cabinet had none of the necessary hardware.

Youtube was suspiciously unhelpful as well, leaving me with nothing but a screw driver and a handful of miscellaneous screws that I found in the BFF's tool kit.

I am beyond proud to say that the kitchen base cabinets are all assembled now! Complete with all four drawers that properly open and close as designed.

Seriously-- I feel like someone owes me a reward for this accomplishment. Like, a week-long spa vacation and a parade. If you've ever put together flat-packed furniture, you understand my sense of triumph.

And that is this week's excuse for still not having a release date for the next book.

Every time I sit down for a writing session, I get giddy with the expectation that it's almost done. I start looking at the calendar and thinking it's time to put up the pre-order...and then something else comes up.

Oh yes-- and I may have also low-key started a new Moonshine Ridge mountain man story. Low key, though! It's coming after the Delta O ranch series. I think.

I can't multi-task, but I am easily distracted.

Here's your obligatory "see you next year" sign off!

~Rocklyn

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