Hi all - While early 2020 was definitely a slow stretch for me, I'm ending the year with a bang (or, um, maybe a few bangs ;) ).
Five exciting pieces of news in here:
1. Two new books coming in 2020
2. Want a holiday card from me?
3. Audiobook sale on Apple Audiobooks
4. Hasty is still on sale on Amazon
5. Clark wants to use a chainsaw on our Thanksgiving turkey
1) My New Books
You have two new Christmas books coming, so let's one-click:
YES - more Lydia, Jeremy and Mike. <3
Tree picking in glorious, downeast Maine. Snow. Santa. Roaring fires, people you love, and a good life.
What more could a guy want?
Or, rather, two guys?
Mike and Jeremy have a quiet life with Lydia, on her parents' family campground in Verily, Maine. It's a little boring, sure, but after the craziness of their old lives, what's wrong with boring?
Besides, Jeremy and Mike find Lydia anything but.
As Christmas looms, and an unexpected oops leaves them all in a state of uncertainty, they have to ask themselves: Is it time to let life be a little less boring?
And what's inside that slim box Lydia's giving them both on Christmas morning?
Christmasly Obedient is a holiday book in Julia Kent's USA Today bestselling Obedient series.
Coming November 24, 2020 on:
Apple Books
Amazon (all countries)
Nook
Kobo
Google Play
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ALL NEW Declan and Shannon book:
Christmas is nostalgia heaven for my family (unless you count the Christmas tree fire, which we won't...).
Mom owns more holiday decorations than twelve area malls combined. Dad prides himself on hand-chopping the best live tree, while my older sister perfected peppermint cookies to the point of orgiastic bliss, and my younger sister has memorized every Christmas carol with her fingers for a piano bash that goes on and on.
And on.
But this year, Christmas is different.
This year, the McCormick men are joining the Yankee Swap.
You know how it works, right? Bring the craziest gift you can possibly find, pick a number, open the presents in order and play “steal the gift” until person Number One gets one last chance to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.
My husband, Declan, is on a mission to win. He's so sure he can find the absolutely, positively, unreservedly weirdest gift that he's willing to go to any extreme to find it.
Any extreme.
That's right.
He's going thrift store shopping with my mother. The billionaire and the frugal queen are on a quest.
Only one will win.
And on Christmas evening, after we're stuffed silly, sung out, the kids fall asleep and the adults break out the bizarre presents and the alcohol, it'll be showtime.
Because there ain't no competition like a McCormick competition.
But the Jacoby family has a trick or ten up its sleeves, too.
Coming December 23, 2020 on:
Apple Books
Amazon (all countries)
Nook
Kobo
Google Play
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2) Want a Holiday Card from Me?
Two years ago, I sent holiday cards to readers, and I'm doing it again this year. Sign up here to get on the list. <3
3) Apple Audiobook Sale
Shopping for a Billionaire 1 and Shopping for a Billionaire 2 are being featured on Apple Audiobooks. Check out the sale. <3
4) Hasty is Still on Sale
Amazon has discounted Hasty from 5.99 to 1.99 in the Amazon US and Amazon Canada stores (sorry folks in other countries - I don't control this). You can get the audiobook, narrated by the wonderful Erin Mallon, for just 7.49 when you own the eBook, so go for it now while it's on sale. I don't know when the sale ends.
5) Clark Wants to WHAT?
I accidentally bought a 25 pound turkey. It's a long story involving a local farm and my bleary late night eyes.
We are a family of 5. Two of us do not like turkey. We are not hosting a big Thanksgiving this year due to COVID, so...
When I told Clark, the first question he had was, "It's not a live turkey, right?" When I looked at him like he was nuts, he informed me that the question was not out of bounds given some of my previous behavior, and he was just checking.
(Funny enough, when I informed our 22 year old I'd accidentally bought such a huge turkey, I was asked THE SAME QUESTION, which makes me wonder how I have alienated my family to the point where they genuinely believe I would order a LIVE TURKEY for Thanksgiving. I need to do a major self-inventory here, folks).
When readers on Facebook suggested we cut the turkey, Clark said, "My new Husqvarna!"
(Note: that's not a marital device. It's a chainsaw brand).
I leave you with the image of a guy with ONE FUNCTIONING EYE, who actually fought off a live turkey on our property last year using a plastic lawn chair, using a chainsaw to cut a turkey.
This is going in a book somehow.
:)
Happy reading,
Julia
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