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 If your goals for 2025 included reading more books or reading more often, then I'm here to help you out with five tips to get more reading in. #5-- Audiobooks are a no-brainer! You can put them on your phone, put in headphones and make chores less boring. I have listened to many hours of audio while exercising, folding laundry and running errands in the car. If you're a commuter and spend extra time in the car, there is no reason for that time to go to waste. Enjoy it instead with audio. If you like Audible, you can sign up here. OR.... BONUS #1: Many authors are now offering audiobooks for free on their YouTube Channel. Subscribe to my YouTube for free audiobooks.   (Coming soon!) I'll create another post with all my sweet/clean friends who have FREE audiobooks up on their channels. #4-- Find a designated time. I read just a few minutes before bed. I've discovered that even if I read a few pages before bedtime, I'm more relaxed and have cooler dreams than if I ...

 Hello friends! What's coming down the pike for 2025? Are you excited? What books are you most anticipating? Seasons of Sugar Creek Book 4 Three Spring Wedding s (outlined, not started.) Helping of Hope book 3 The Cookie Platter  (15k words so far) Chains Of Deceit by A. E. Zeigler (40k words so far) Books/series in planning stages: (Hopefully happening beginning in 2026) Gauche Girl book 2: Wing Girl (plotting stages)--Reverse Cyrano de Bergerac. She writes song lyrics and but gets a job as a social media manager for a famous singer and starts communicating for her boss via social media with a hot DJ (LiveR@ from book 1) . Everything is fine until she falls in love with him. Mark of the Beast : Baker's Dozen book 3 (plotting/planning stages) These take me a long time to write because of all the research! I have a few ideas of where it's going, I just need to dig into the details. Serving of Self Series: firefighter's series set in the same world as the Helping of Hope ...

Young Adult fantasy is my favorite genre. If you look at my shelves, they are filled with YA fantasy books. I love YA because it's clean, it's adventurous, it's all about growth, making mistakes, and taking responsibility. It was about putting off more mature decisions like intimacy until you're older and focused on the emotional relationship in the romance. YA lit is written for CHILDREN ages 12-18. However... Recently that's changed. I'm not sure when or why. I opened a book a while ago and was SHOCKED to find a scene in YA fantasy where they legit had S3X! It was euphemized. But it was totally obvious what they were talking about and they were clearly in bed. Another book talked about how they were gloriously naked after a tactful description of the act. GLORIOUSLY NAKED? WHAT THE HECK????  I know that some people are like, I let my kids read whatever they want and they're turning out okay. Fine. I get it. You can let your kid read Game of Thrones or wh...

 Waaaaaaay back in 2010 when we were still in grad school, my husband met a Japanese man at church who had come me to St. Louis on business. Since my husband lived in Japan as a missionary for two years and is fluent in Japanese, we invited him over for dinner after the services. I made homemade pizza which was fast and easy for me to make and fed a lot.  Then my husband offered to take him to the train station so he could catch his flight. (He offered to take him all the way to the airport, but the man insisted on taking the train--public transportation is much more common in Japan and it wasn't much of a hassle to take the train to the airport and our family had taken it many times.) During dinner, the man casually asked my husband what he missed as food from Japan. My husband listed off a few things including Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki. The Osaka-style was more of a pancake where it's prepared omelet-style of throwing everything into a bowl and then cooking it. Hiroshima-s...

  November is national bell pepper month. Do you know what that means? That means that sweet romance writers all over the internet are celebrating sweet romance. Get it? Bell peppers are sweet. Sweet romance don't have any spice? I hope you're laughing or at least looking at this screen amused. So what does that mean for you, dear reader? Lots of sweet/closed-door/fade-to-black romances coming your way!  How do I find what I'm looking for in the midst of these books? We've divided the sweet category up into different categories: Cherry --Sweet novellas Bell --all sweet full-length novels Shishito --action and adventures (romantic suspense) Mini sweet --light and adorable Sweet Banana --complexity PNR, Sci-fi Romance etc romantasy Cubanelle--love and food!  (Mine is in here!) CLICK HERE FOR THE LINK TO ALL OF THESE And giveaways. Paperback giveaways!! I love getting paperbacks in the mail. Be sure to check the dates (some haven't started yet...) and check and see if...

 I found this list and I'm going to be joining these authors in a promo. I want to check them out! If you have read any of these let me know! The Duchess: Tales of Kelnore Hannah E. Carey The Princess: Tales of Kelnore Hannah E. Carey Tutored By a Fae: An Enemies to Lovers Soulmates Romance Layla K Wood Trained by a Fae: A Fated Mates Romance Layla K Wood Crowned A Traitor : A Hellish Fairytale Book 1 Kate Callaghan Peaceweaver Everly Haywood Rejected By a Fae: An Enemies To Lovers Soulmate Romance Layla K Wood Motor Girl and the Endless Race A. A. Achibane The Three Fates Aisha Urooj A Hare in the Wilderness S E Turner A Winter of Fish and Favor E. M. Epps Queen of Deception Epic Fantasy Romance Healer's Blade Kyrie Wang Mask of Deception and Sacrifice Callie Thomas The Almost Queen Laura Greenwood Wicked Woods Complete Series Box Set Kailin Gow ...