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Christmas in July one day promotion

It’s Christmas in July, with more than 75 books to choose from! Click here to choose!

Includes If Mistletoe Could Tell Tales

WANTED: love stories for a carriage-maker’s daughter, an admiral’s child, the unwanted wife of an earl, a nabob’s heiress, a duke’s cousin, and a fanatic’s niece

In this 2017 box set, you’ll find Jude’s four published Christmas novellas plus two Christmas-themed stories from her lunch-length reads collections. All together in one 97,500 word volume for your reading pleasure.

Candle’s Christmas Chair __(A novella in The Golden Redepennings series)
They are separated by social standing and malicious lies. He has till she finishes his mother’s chair to convince her they belong together.

Gingerbread Bride (A novella in The Golden Redepenning series)
Mary runs from an unwanted marriage and finds adventure, danger and her girlhood hero, coming once more to her rescue.

Magnus and the Christmas Angel __(from Lost in the Tale)
Scarred by years in captivity, Magnus has fought English Society to be accepted as the true Earl of Fenchurch. Now he faces the hardest battle of all: to win the love of his wife.

Lord Calne’s Christmas Ruby
Lalamani prefers her aunt’s quiet village to fashionable London, its vicious harpies, and its importunate fortune hunters. Philip wishes she wasn’t so rich, or he wasn’t so poor.

A Suitable Husband
A chef from the slums, however talented, is no fit mate for the cousin of a duke, however distant. But Cedrica can dream. (first published in Holly and Hopeful Hearts, a Bluestocking Belles collection.)

All that Glisters (from Hand-Turned Tales)
Rose is unhappy in the household of her fanatical uncle. Thomas, a young merchant from Canada, offers a glimpse of another possible life. If she is brave enough to reach for it.

Available for a short time only at this holiday special price!

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Where I’m at with 2024, nearly one third of the way in.

Here we are one third of the way through 2004. So far, January and March’s publications have been published. I just learned this week that The Sincerest Flattery has been pushed back to May, but it is on pre-order, as is The Blossoming of the Wallflower, for July. Not Inviting the Wild, yet, but it is with the publisher for editing.

The two August publications are both written. Hold Me Fast is out for beta reading, and I’m editing the novelette for Hot Duke Summer. I don’t yet have a cover for Thrown to the Lyon. I’ve started writing it and The Trials of Benedict.

I’ve a few other stories that need to be put between covers when I get a minute to think about them. News about those as they come to hand.

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Backlist spotlight on To Mend the Broken-Hearted

The ebook of To Mend the Broken-Hearted is set to Free at all retailers for the month of March, starting now. In fact, since the first in series, To Wed a Proper Lady, is only 99c, and the other two novels are $3.99, you can buy all four novels in the series for under $10, and add the 2 novellas and 1 set of vignettes in Paradise Triptych, plus the novella Melting Matilda, for less than $3 more. That’s a lot of reading!

To Mend the Broken-Hearted

Ruth is a healer, not a social gadfly. She’s glad to leave the foreign world of the ton to run an errand for her sister-in-law. She doesn’t expect to be caught up in a smallpox epidemic, nor to meet the man of her dreams.

War and betrayal have wounded Val beyond bearing. The woman who arrives at his retreat with patients who need shelter says she’s a healer. But he is beyond healing. Isn’t he?

Book links at Books2Read https://books2read.com/Broken-Hearted
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Coming in 2024

 

This is very much the story so far. I’m already signed up for an anthology in July, as well. And all the stories on the top row are already written (except for an epilogue for Inviting the Wild, which I plan to finish before Wednesday), so I hope to have time for Concealed in Mist and an Unpitied Sacrifice. Mind you, by June I need to be started on my Roman Empire time travel series for 2025. So we’ll have to see how the year goes.

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A retrospective on 2023

I’m taking a look back at 2023. It was my first year of publishing with Dragonblade Publishing, and the year of my first Bookbub Featured Deal. Those two factors and my massive publishing push where the great hurrahs of the year. Lots of small satisfactions, too. Some amazing reviews, some wonderful people met along the way, a few outstanding moments with friends. 2023 had its problems and its worries. I lost six weeks of writing in the last third of the year to a family bereavement followed by an illness, and the sales of certain well-reviewed books were less than inspiring. I do wonder what a writer needs to do today to get noticed. As in any industry, there are many people out there selling the one exclusive sure to work answer. How does one find out who has the snake oil and who the golden ticket?

All in all, a mixed year. Now what will 2024 bring? I’ll have a go at a partial answer to that question next Sunday!

2023 was the year I published at least one book a month. It took a bit of doing, but I made it! Of course, the first six were written before the year started. On the other hand, the first four for this year were written in 2023, plus another for a bit later in the year if I do the box set I have in mind.

24 January 2022 The Golden Redepennings: Books 1 to 4

16 February 2023 Lady Beast’s Bridegroom, book 1 in A Twist Upon a Regency Tale

22 March 2023 The Husband Gamble

29 March 2023 The Flavour of Our Deeds, book 5 in The Golden Redepennings

28 April 2023 The Talons of a Lyon, a book in the Lyon’s Den Connected World

11th May 2023 One Perfect Dance, book 2 in A Twist Upon a Regency Tale

20th June 2023 Chaos Come Again, book 1 in Lion’s Zoo

11th July 2023 Grasp the Thorn (House of Thorns revised and republished), book 2 in Lion’s Zoo

8th August 2023 Snowy and the Seven Doves, book 3 in A Twist Upon a Regency Tale

26th August 2023 Crossing the Lyon, a short story in the multi-author book Night of Lyons

7th September 2023 Perchance to Dream, book 4 in A Twist Upon a Regency Tale 

10th October 2023 Love in its Season a novella in the Bluestocking Belles 2023 box set Under the Harvest Moon

15th November 2023 One Hour of Freedom, book 3 in Lion’s Zoo

26th December 2023 Christmastide Kisses, a Bluestocking Belles with friends collection

29th December 2023 The Darkness Within, book 4 in Lion’s Zoo