I have a Christmas surprise for you! I’m releasing a free novelette to my email subscribers! It’s a sweet story about an exchange student in 1955. If you’re already a subscriber, check your inbox for the story!

If you are not yet a subscriber and want to subscribe now to have CHRISTMAS FOR CAROLA sent to your inbox, just punch your email in below! I hope you enjoy reading it! 🙂

Please leave a comment below if you enjoy the story!! 🙂 Happy Reading and Merry Christmas!

I have a surprise for you! In just a few days, I’ll be releasing a novelette to my email subscribers! It’s a sweet Hallmark-style story set in the 1930s, and this is the amazing cover!

If you want to subscribe now and have CHRISTMAS WITH THE MOONS automatically sent to your inbox, just punch your email in below! I hope you enjoy reading it! 🙂

Please leave a comment below if you enjoy the story!! 🙂 Happy Reading and Merry Christmas!

My Christmas surprise continues! The second part of my brand-new novelette, In Search of a Story, is now ready to download! This novelette is in serial format, so I’m sending you a couple of chapters every few days. (Part 3 will arrive in your inboxes on December 18!)

I hope you enjoy reading it! 🙂

Here’s the plot of the story:

In 1920s England, governess and struggling authoress Myra Capulet attempts to impress the impossible eldest son of her employers – who also happens to be an influential editor.

Hit the button below to subscribe! (If you are already a subscriber to my newsletter, check your inbox—your PDF with Part 2 has arrived!)

Please leave a comment below if you enjoy the story!! 🙂 Happy Reading and Merry Christmas!

I have a surprise for you! The first part of my brand-new novelette, In Search of a Story, is now ready to download! This novelette will be in serial format, so I’m going to send you a couple of chapters every few days. (Part 2 will arrive in your inboxes on December 14!)

I’m beyond excited to share this story with you, as it was such a delightful tale to write. I particularly love writing stories set in England, because so many of my favorite books are by British authors. I hope you enjoy reading it! 🙂

Here’s the plot of the story:

In 1920s England, governess and struggling authoress Myra Capulet attempts to impress the impossible eldest son of her employers – who also happens to be an influential editor.

Hit the button below to subscribe! (If you are already a subscriber to my newsletter, check your inbox—your PDF has arrived!)

Please leave a comment below if you enjoy the story!! 🙂 Happy Reading and Merry Christmas!

My brand-new novelette, Christmas in Concord, is now ready to download! I am so thrilled to share this story with my readers. I wrote this retelling in honor of the 150th anniversary of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel “Little Women”, and it’s just in time for the holidays!

I’ve always been fond of the concept of retellings, and I was excited to hit upon this idea. I hope you enjoy reading it! 🙂

Set in 1944 Massachusetts, “Christmas in Concord” tells the story of an unforgettable holiday on the home front. When Isabel May and her three sisters are uprooted from their beloved home just before Christmas, they aren’t sure what to expect. However, Isabel soon finds herself busy tutoring a lonely little girl, befriending the gregarious boy next door, and catching the attention of the delightfully old-fashioned Jack Rivers. But when her best-laid plans begin to unravel, can Isabel find a way to make their first Christmas in Concord a success after all?

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I can’t wait for you to read the novelette! Are you a fellow fan of Little Women? Leave a comment below! 🙂 Happy Reading and Merry Christmas!

I am so excited to reveal the cover of my new holiday novelette: Christmas in Concord! 

In honor of the 150th anniversary of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel “Little Women”, I’ve written a new retelling in time for the holidays!

Set in 1944 Massachusetts, “Christmas in Concord” tells the story of an unforgettable holiday on the home front. When Isabel May and her three sisters are uprooted from their beloved home just before Christmas, they aren’t sure what to expect. However, Isabel soon finds herself busy tutoring a lonely little girl, befriending the gregarious boy next door, and catching the attention of the delightfully old-fashioned Jack Rivers. But when her best-laid plans begin to unravel, can Isabel find a way to make their first Christmas in Concord a success after all?

And…drum roll, please…

Here is the cover! My sister Emily created this gorgeous cover for me. It suits the story to perfection!

I can’t wait for you to read the novelette! Are you a fellow fan of Little Women? Leave a comment below! 🙂 Happy Reading and Merry Christmas!

November has been an extremely busy month for me, as I’ve been working industriously on writing the second book in my middle-grade series for National Novel Writing Month (or “NaNoWriMo”). I’m very pleased to announce that I have completed the NaNo challenge, writing 50,625 words in the month of November for a total of 61,903 words. I’ve been planning out scenes for Norvia of Walloon Lake for well over a year, so it feels good to finally have the first draft complete!

I love the feeling of satisfaction that comes after that finishing a novel, but I think I’m even prouder of the fact that I stuck with my goal of writing 50,000 words in one month. It’s so important to stay consistent with your writing, and keeping up with at least 1,667 words a day during this time helped to get me back into the groove of outputting a significant word count day in and day out. Writing a 1,000 words a day—my typical word count—will feel easy after this busy month!

One of the reasons I especially love working on my Norvia series is because it’s set during the First World War—an underrepresented era in fiction. I enjoy exploring this unique time in American history, describing the opulent homes, gorgeous clothing, and old-fashioned charm. I spent hours in the lead-up to NaNoWriMo researching all aspects of my character’s world in 1915; poring over maps and old photographs and books of the era and catalogs and newspapers and…well, the list goes on. 🙂 And I found even more areas to research while writing this initial draft, so the process will continue!

Now that my novel is complete, I’m turning my attention toward a 1940s-era Christmas novelette that I’ve been working on since October. I’m also preparing to begin writing a YA novel set in 1935, which is on my schedule for January. I can’t wait!

P.S. Today is my great-grandparents’ 96^th wedding anniversary—they were married on Thanksgiving Day in 1922. The “Norvia” character in my middle-grade series is based on my great-grandmother, so this day is always special to me. 🙂