Birthday Box Set Bonanza!
It’s my birthday week!
And that means lots of fun and goodies for YOU!
Ten of my fabulous box sets are discounted to just 99 cents for five days (because I’m celebrating turning 55).
Click on your favorite one below–or snap up all ten. Why not? It’s an unbelievable deal!
{Note: some of the links might go only to Amazon because the books were not updated yet at the other vendors. If your vendor isn’t linked, don’t worry– the sale should be happening there, too!}
Love in a Small Town Box Set I
The Perfect Dish Romance Collection
The Anti-Cinderella Royal Romance Box Set
The Career Soldier Collection (Fort Lee Tour of Duty)
A Year of Love in a Small Town Volume 1
A Year of Love in a Small Town Volume 2
A Year of Love in a Small Town Volume 3
Diagnosis: Love Box Set One
Diagnosis: Love Box Set Two
The Recipe for Death Box Set
#AprilReadingChallenge: April TBR
Welcome to April! It’s my favorite month of the year . . . for many reasons. First, of course, it’s spring. When I lived in a more season-oriented climate, April was the first month when we could count on more warm days than cold ones. And it was the month of daffodils, tulips and forsythia. The air was filled with fragrance.
And April is *my* month–I celebrate my birthday on the 7th!
This year, I also have a huge release on that same day. AGE OF AQUARIUS goes live on the 7th.
So when I saw this reading challenge for April, I thought . . . why not?
APRIL 1st: April TBR
This is always complicated, because often reading time is hard to find. *But* I know some of my favorites are releasing amazing books this month, so . . .
Man Candy by Melanie Harlow I discovered this author very recently, reading her latest release If You Were Mine and then the one before it, After We Fall. (Yes, I’m reading them backward, but it doesn’t make any difference.) Man Candy is on this month’s list, for sure! These are terrific, well-written romances with tons of heat and well-developed characters (you know how important that is for me!). I highly recommend them
The Hot Shot by Kristen Callihan Yes, I am a sucker for all things KC and especially her Game On books. These are consistently well-written, amazing football romances, and I am counting the days until April 18th!
All in the Landing by Olivia Hardin This is not an exact link as it’s not up for preorder yet, but I happen to know it’s coming April 25th . . . and I’ll have it in MY hot little hands even sooner! Wahooo! This is a new book in my favorite Rawley Family series by Olivia, and since I got hooked in the prequel, All in the Takeoff, I can’t wait for this one.
What’s on YOUR April TBR? Well, along with the above, might I suggest . . .
Age of Aquarius Coming April 7th
Zone of Action: Career Soldier Book #4 Coming April 18th (Cover in the newsletter this week!)
Daddy’s Music
Today is very special: not only it is #MusicMonday, it would have been my daddy’s 73rd birthday. And it’s been ten years today since I was able to celebrate with him.
He’s been on my mind a lot lately, for many reasons. First, of course, because his birthday is today. And then there is a scene at the end of my just-finished book (WHEN WE WERE US) and again at the start of the next book (HANGING BY A MOMENT) that brings his loss back to me.
And today being a Monday is perfect, because when it comes to music, my father was my biggest influence.
Most of the music I love comes from a place that was part of my daddy. He introduced me to rock n’ roll, to R&B and to pop, as well as country. He told me stories about songs–gave me history and a real connection with the artists and their lives, too.
Today’s playlist contains my father’s favorite music, or songs that were significant in his life. For instance, I know that he did a lip sync to Stagger Lee when he was a freshman in high school. He loved Buddy Holly, too–always. When he was a plebe at West Point, he heard echoes of the song The Lion Sleeps Tonight in upperclassmen’s rooms and was intrigued by the WEEM-oh-wep. And he was so excited about I’m Into Something Good that he made an unheard-of middle of the week phone call to my mom to play it over the phone.
When I was older, he often came home from work excited about a new song he’d heard on the way home. I think that’s how I first heard The Tide is High and Mickey.
He suggested True Love Ways as the first song my husband and I danced to at our wedding. And he also chose Disney Girls as the song he and I danced to–our father/daughter dance. I still can’t hear it without crying.
I hope you’ll check out Daddy’s Play List–and that it makes you smile.
Happy birthday, Daddy.