Life

Darkness to Light

Every year, holidays come and go. Every year, people decorate their houses and yards for various of the holidays. And every year, I drive past hundreds and hundreds of these decked-out residences. And yet not until this year did this particular symbolic revelation occur to me. Are the relevant phenomena more pronounced this year — or is there something in…

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End-of-October Link Roundup

Hello, friends! Anybody else enjoying the fall weather? This pregnant mama is so grateful for the cooler weather — plus my daughter is obsessed with leaves, so this is quickly becoming her favorite season! I had a bunch of things I wanted to show you all, so I thought I would do one big linky post to get it all…

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Announcing… A Very Bookish Christmas!

Okay, I said I had some exciting things coming up this month, and here is the first — announcing a new project that I’m a part of! It’s called A Very Bookish Christmas, and it’s a collection of four Christmas-themed novellas to be released November 28th. But not just any novellas — these are unified by a delightful theme. Each…

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If Gift Cards are Burning a Hole in Your Pocket

I hope you all had a Merry Christmas! I bet I’m not the only one who received a number of awesome gift cards in my stocking. If you got an Amazom gift card or two, here are a few indie reads that I recommend you use them on! (Yes, I know my books are on the list… what can I…

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Life

Your Christmas Lights are Showing

It’s been fascinating, now that I live in a neighborhood instead of out in the country, to see the Christmas lights go up this time of year. And by go up, I don’t mean I actually see the placement of the strings of lights as it’s happening. I don’t think I’ve seen that once thus far. Instead, I see the…

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“I think they felt hopeful to her.”

I won’t announce that “I’ve been on a blogging hiatus” since you already know that if you follow my blog at all. I’m sorry for not warning you all ahead of time — the holidays just got so busy and I got out of the habit. But I’ve been thinking of blogging ideas for the new year, and I’m excited…

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