Happy Friday Eve! What’s everyone reading? Thanks to your suggestions, I picked up Ruth Ware’s latest, and will be digging in this weekend! Nothing like having a good book to look forward to. 😌📚💕
My daughter bought me a year of new books through the Brilliant Books book club. The first book I'm reading now, Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
Just started The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel. Only 2 chapters in but so far so good.
Just finished Jacee Dugard's Bio and now reading this. Why do I do this to myself? So intense and sad.
Trying to write a love scene with the neighbors discussing their septic tank right outside my window, is not romantic.
I tried reading one while my dad was watching his old sitcoms in the next room. There’s nothing sexy about the Petticoat Junction theme song.
Eeeewwwwww
I reached the halfway point in my book on Friday. This is a big deal for me, since it’s by far the hardest book I’ve ever had to write. Continuing to write though the loss of one of my best friends has been a daily challenge, and one that every day, I’m not sure I can tackle. But every morning when I open my computer, I feel her with me. There have been signs, warmth, memories, love, all giving me a gentle shove from behind. I know that when I do finish this story, it will have been a team effort.
I love you, Nola. ❤️
Thank you....
I started the BEST book, and now I’m reading slowly because I don’t want it to end. Murder mystery set in a snowy mountain lodge? Yes, please! 🔪💀👀 What are you reading?
Are you reading Ruth Ware's One by One? I read that about two weeks ago and loved it! My current read is Amanda Quick's Close Up.
Ooo. I just started the third in the Spell Weaver trilogy by Annette Marie. I love her stuff.
I’m currently re-reading Stephen King’s On Writing.
I'm still reading A Promised Land by Barack Obama. In my defense, it is a little over 700 pages
Reading the Harry Dresden series! There is something about Wizards named Harry. Haha
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The Cowboy Comes Undone is only 99 cents right now! This such such a gorgeous story. If you love romance, you’ll adore this book. ❤️ #smalltownromance #contempraryromance #booklover #readztule
Thanks! Got my copy
Wishing you all peace and love in this new year. 🥂✨
Same to you Kaylie!
Happy New Year to you and your family Kaylie.🥰
Getting ready to sit down and write. This book has been a challenge. Trying to keep motivated by giving myself rewards when I meet my word count goal. Today, it’s coconut chocolate cookies!
Yummy!
Merry Christmas and happiest of holidays! I hope your season is full of peace and love (and lots of good books!). ❤️🎄✨
Merry Christmas 🎄❤️
Merry Christmas 🎄
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Same to you Kaylie!
Happy to report that the blurb has been successfully wrangled. Can you tell I’m working on a cowboy book? 😬
Working on a blurb this morning. This is soooo haaaard. 😩😩
I hate those damn things!!!
Happy Friday! One more day of writing, before two days off to wrap presents and watch Christmas movies in my pj’s. 😬🎄✨
❤️Interview ~ MONTANA CHRISTMAS MAGIC by Kaylie Newell, Author readyourwrites.blogspot.com/2020/12/interview-montana-christmas-magic-by.html #ContemporaryRomance #Christmas #FirstinSeries #TheColeBrothers #readzTule Tule Publishing Group
I love it! So funny my kid has been trying to get me to adopt a dog, and in the book he does! Lol. Only half way thru it and i love every character. ❤
Nice interview. I was secretly hoping my favorite line from the book was included though lol
If you’re looking for a lovely Christmas story to curl up by the fire with, A Family for Christmas is a delight from start to finish. 🎄✨ #readztule #christmas #romancebooks #smalltownromance
Today in the Tule Book Club, I’ll be sharing my favorite Christmas cookie recipe (hint: it’s no bake!) and doing a fun giveaway. Stop by and say hello! 🎄✨
Writing. Take note of the entirely empty sectional, and the 70 pound doberman who has me pinned up against the very end. Any closer and he’d be in my lap (which, let’s be honest, is where he’d really prefer to be).
Such a baby. ❤️
He LOVES you😳😂
I lost one of my dearest friends this week. I haven’t been able to write since. I’m going to give myself a few more days, and then I’ll have to open the computer again, as I have a deadline. But it’s going to be hard. In fact, I worry that I won’t know how to do this without her. To which, she’d tell me to pull up my big girl panties and get to work. 💗
Sometimes trauma cattle prods my creative process. Think about what she’d tell you,as I know she was your critique partner. Perhaps you can work some of her influence and inspiration into one of the characters? My advice is to use it some how. Then this project will always have a bittersweet tie to her.♥️
You aren't doing this without her. You are doing it with years of her advice under your belt. Right now her support isn't as obvious, but it's there.
I’m so sorry Kaylie, I lost one of my best friends on thanksgiving day. She may of had four legs but she was one in a million and never had an unkind word to say about anything. Time heals this empty hole in our hearts and they would want us to cry and then laugh but also start to pick up the pieces and move forward. It’s ok to give yourself time to grieve, because it’s part of the healing process. And maybe out of the crying and the laughing at the funny memories will come creatively and that’s what she would want. So it will come but it takes a little time...💔🥺❤️
So sorry to hear this news 😥
Kaylie Newell - Nola would want you to keep writing. Why not mention her in your book dedications... Now there's a motive to get you going. <3 Finish line here you come. 🙂
Thinking about how Dee would have kicked my butt if I'd stopped writing because I lost her did help me get back to work. Actually, it helped me find the courage to approach Jane and Tule Publishing Group. It will be hard, but I'm here if you need an empathetic ear. And just remember how proud she was of you.
So sorry for your loss! I hope you find comfort and peace in those sayings that she would say to you and she will always live on in your heart. Hugs friend! ❤️
You can. She will be so proud. 💕
Receive her spirit, and it will fill you with inspiration.
My heart breaks for you 💔
Sorry for your loss 😔
I need to start writing, but this is what I’ve been doing instead. #authorsofinstagram #readersofinstagram #dobermansofinstagram #friday #dogs #writer #love
Me getting ready to start my new book. If I look slightly terrified, I am. 😏 #authorsofinstagram #readersofinstagram #readztule #romancebooks
Your thumb has a halo!
Starting the latest release today, looking forward to some relaxation time. We all love your work and look forward to your next project! 🤓 still love to read. And paperbacks not on an electronic device. Lol
Starting my new book this week. I’m nervous. I’m always worried if this is the book where all my creativity runs dry and I just sit there with a blank look on my face for two months. 😳
Remember, the hardest part is putting ass to chair LOL. You got this girl!
How about a pandemic love story!! Maybe about a couple who meet online (maybe a work out group and then arrange to meet in a romantic spot after the pandemic. Lockdowns are hard on single people.
Haha! You? Nahhhh...😘
No worries from me. You’ll do just fine!
You’re going do it. ❤️
I am so with you--starting my new this week, too, and I have the same exact fear!
You'll smash it as always x
You are a great writer!! Love your books 📚 ❤
You haven't let yourself or your readers down yet!
I got book mail today! This is the best part. 😊 #authorsofinstagram #readersofinstagram #romancebooks #readztule
Woohoo
Exciting news!! CHRISTMAS AT SLEIGH BELL FARM is only 99 cents! “My new favorite Christmas read...” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Grab it while it’s toasty warm! ☃️#christmas #readztule #authorsofinstagram #readersofinstagram #contemporaryromance #smalltownromance #christmasromance
Just shared on The Indie Bookshelf! ❤️👏📚
Edits on the agenda today. These are for Montana Rancher’s Kiss, the second book in my Cole Brothers Series, out next spring! 📚❤️
Sweet!
Montana Christmas Magic is out in the world today!🎄✨✨ #authorsofinstagram #romancebooks #ContemporaryRomance #smalltowncharm #readersofinstagram #booklover #Christmas #christmasromance #readztule #NewRelease
I keep thinking this picture is actually YOU! 🙂
Another great book!
This is so exciting! I’m so proud of Tule and all of Tule’s amazing authors! 🎄✨✨
Christmas at the Graf
You need to be in that mix!!!!
Coming next week! ❤️
You're gonna love this book!
Reading it right now! So much going on so its taken me longer then I want but I love it!!! As always such a good story with such great characters! ❤️
SO close to having a review ready for you!!! 💛💛💛
A walk at dawn this morning. 🌄 It was chilly! #walking #walkingthedog #authorsofinstagram #tuesday
Beautiful!
My dog is channeling me this morning. But we’ve got a book due, so up and at ‘em! #authorsofinstagram #dobermansofinstagram #mondaymotivation
Nola’s book is out in the world today, and this makes me SO happy! A Family For Christmas is a beautiful story about opening your heart, and getting a second chance. You’ll love it, I promise. ❤️🎄✨ #readztule #booklover #christmas #romancebooks #readersofinstagram
This book is almost ready to leave the building! The polishing is my favorite part. ❤️ #authorsofinstagram #readztule #romancereadersofinstagram #colebrothers #booktwo
Wow, another one already!
Hurry up! I can’t wait!!! 😬
This Wednesday! Tule’s Christmas parties are always so much fun! 🎄✨#readztule #christmas #readersofinstagram #bookstagram
It’s Banned Books Week. ❤️ Misunderstood books written before their time, are honestly some of my very favorites. Speak is such an important story, and it’s beautifully written, too. What are your favorite banned books? #authorsofinstagram #readersofinstagram #bannedbooksweek #literature
We had some rain last night, and it washed all the smoke away. Today, I’m thankful for fresh, clean air and pretty skies. #authorsofinstagram #autumn #thursday
Reviewers, if you’d like to read my October release, give me a shout! 🤓📚 This is a sweet, Hallmarky-type romance, featuring a heroine with a grilled cheese food truck, and a hero who’s fostering his first rescue dog- a big, goofy bloodhound who will bring them both together. ❤️ #authorsofinstagram #readersofinstagram #booklovers #bookreviewersofinstagram #christmas #christmasromance #romanceblogger #readztule
October 28th!
When does this book come out
Would love to read
🙋🏼♀️
You know I'd love to read it!
BTW, I was able to do a review on Goodreads but reviews are not allowed yet on Amazon
Lady, you know I'd LOVE to read it!!!
It's like a candy cane and a chocolate bar fell into each other and created a love child!
#footstackfriday courtesy of my oldest and her new Vans! #authorsofinstagram #readztule #booklovers #romancebooks
Pooka shells!
Excellent series!
So cute! ❤️
This last week has been a tough one. I’m so looking forward to fall! 😬🎃 #authorsofinstagram #autumn #pumpkinspice #readersofinstagram
This was taken at our house Tuesday afternoon. By Wednesday morning, 80% of students in Phoenix, and 50% of students in Talent had lost their homes. Our little Oregon valley is gutted, heartbroken, suffering. These are families we know, whose kids have grown up alongside ours. They are our friends and neighbors. Many of them had to leave with only the clothes on their backs and are now sifting through the ashes, trying to locate anything from their homes, including precious pets. Hundreds of families here (1000 homes lost in Phoenix, 600 in Talent) have set up GoFundMe’s to try and raise enough money to meet their basic needs while they figure out how to start over. I’m going to post a list of families in the comments who are struggling to reach half their goal. If you could find it in your heart to give even a few dollars, or share with your friends, it would be so very appreciated. These are good people who will pay it forward when they can. #almedafire #oregonwildfires
It’s day seven of the #afallkissatmidnight challenge! A hero or heroine with an interesting job. I had to pick one of my own books here- Betting on the Bull Rider. It’s not because the hero rides bulls, which is interesting, definitely. But it’s because Alice, the heroine, is a funeral home director. This is a field of work that I’ve always found pretty fascinating. Morticians do important work. I wanted Alice to be able to introduce my readers to her world, and I wanted her to be layered and funny, sexy and sensual, and everything people might not think of right away when they think of a funeral home director. ❤️ #bookstagram #booklovers #readersofinstagram #readztule #authorsofinstagram #mortician #romancereader
Day six of #afallkissatmidnight challenge! Shelfie Sunday 🙂 My favorite bookshelf. Notice my adorable offspring right above my head, and our wedding picture next to them (20 years and counting!). Right behind me is my parents’ wedding picture (they’ve got us beat- 65 years this summer!). And then books. Lots and lots of books. 😍📚 #boostagram #authorsofinstagram #readztule #family #shelfie #booklovers #bookworm #shelfiesunday
Day five of the #afallkissatmidnight challenge! A book with a twist. This one was easy for me- nobody does twists better than Liane Moriarty! Nine Perfect Strangers is one of my favorites by her. Just a wonderful story. Who writes your favorite twists? 📚#boostagram #booklovers #readersofinstagram #bookstagramchallenge #literature
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