Showing posts with label Christmas books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas books. Show all posts

Sunday, November 24, 2019

CHRISTMAS IS COMING

For some, winter is upon us with snow, Christmas decorations, gift shopping and more.
If you're like me (Last minute Lulu) the only thing Christmasy around here is my reading material. I love to read holiday Feel-Good books at this time of year.
Christmas is a time when goodwill is alive and kicking more so than any other time of year and I like to revel in that. So many women (and maybe men?) love watching Hallmark movies and this year that network started earlier than ever with more choices than in past years. The Lifetime Channel has It's a Wonderful Lifetime, a lineup of Christmas movies that began right after Halloween.

It's for this reason I write Christmas Romances for the holiday season. I usually write Suspense Mysteries with the possibility of Supernatural (ghosts and such) but this time of year, I head into those heartwarming stories like nothing else will do.

For anyone who appreciates a heartwarmer, I have 3 short novels published this year as stand alone books.
And, I have a novella inside Christmas at Mistletoe Lodge, a box set of 10 Holiday stories from USA TODAY Bestselling Authors. All books are under $1.00.

I hope I bring a smile and some goodwill to you in my romances. Crystal Creek is optioned to be a movie in the lineup next year and will film in a few months!

Christmas in Whistler 
Daria Stark faces a lonely Christmas with her two young children promised to her recent ex-husband and his competitive girlfriend who’s out to ruin Daria’s Christmas. Hoping for distraction, she leaves Seattle for the picturesque Canadian ski resort, Whistler Mountain, where a friend has a gorgeous mountain lodge. A second house guest has Daria tempted by the attentions of the charming vintner, Pierre Charbenaud. With her ability to read auras, Daria fears this man is too good to be true. Days spent skiing the mountain with Pierre and nights in front of the fire have Daria under the mistletoe with the dashing vintner. Falling for the mysterious man who rescues dogs and speaks four languages has Daria worried it’s just a vacation fling and that it’s not.
Christmas in Whistler is a Sweet/Sensual Romance, with implied moments of intimacy. No swearing, no violence.

Christmas Cookie Recipes are included at the end!
99 cents
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00PF2OXLA/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1


Christmas in Crystal Creek
A road closure and snowstorm traps country music star, Luanne Billings in a small town at Christmas and she finds herself at Crystal Creek Inn's Holiday Extravaganza while waiting to fly out to an important performance in New York City in Time Square. Nick Dales, the town doctor, befriends Luanne, helping her realize what the real Christmas spirit means when she meets his young patient waiting for a heart transplant. When a brief opportunity to escape presents itself, Luanne must decide between a career-changing performance and helping a child in need.
99 cents


Maui Kalikimaka
Lena Patterson's ex-husband has the children for Christmas and things are looking lonely for the young mother. Her friend, Pepper, is housesitting a beachfront home on Maui and invites Lena, and her new rescue dog, to fly over from Kona.
Big Island coffee farmer, Kalani Shipton must evacuate his house as Kiluaea's lava flow threatens to take his home. He ends up on Maui and finds himself in the company of a woman he once propositioned in a drunken stupor. And told he was a stud in bed.
Thrown together by circumstance, the two realize that there is more beneath the surface of their first impressions. Once a playboy partier, Kalani is now sober and working towards atonement and Lena is a soft-hearted mother, not just a sexy divorcee. As Christmas approaches, hearts open and secrets are revealed to make the possibility of love even more complicated as Lena falls hard for the handsome Hawaiian business man with a suspicious past.
99 cents


The Christmas Challenge inside the Box set Christmas at Mistletoe Lodge
A hermit psychologist, Tori Jackson, takes her blog's Christmas Challenge to be more sociable and attends her BFF's destination wedding in Mistletoe, Oregon. At the lodge, she tries to stay in the shadows but Matt Kingfisher, a handsome and benevolent doctor with a cute dog, has the room across the hall and encourages her to leave her room for the festivities. After a year of hiding, Tori finds that Matt gets her heart racing again only to discover he has a game-changing secret—about her.
2.99 
www.bit.ly/MistletoeLodge

And for anyone who likes a little edgier Christmas story (with Suspense)

Dream Come True
Picturesque Carnation, Washington seems like the idyllic Christmas vacation until Jamey Dunn has a prophetic dream of his father’s house burning to the ground. When Jamey and Tina rush from Maui to Washington State, they discover suspicious neighbors, creepy pranks, and explainable occurrences that lead them to use dreams and intuition to determine who wants Jamey's likable father dead, and why. But, what they are up against is something they couldn't have ever imagined, something sinister and beyond their collected pool of experience with not only criminals, but the after life. In a mad rush to Christmas Eve, the twosome are desperate to prevent the prophetic dream from becoming a heart-wrenching reality and to save not only the Dunn family home but the patriarch- Pops.
99 cents

OR Check out this set of 4 books for a better deal 

Christmas in Love
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07KPNQHCQ/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i8

MERRY CHRISTMAS & Happy Holidays! 
Kim

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Friday, October 4, 2019

Need Escapist Entertainment this Weekend?

Life is tough, my mother always said, optimist that she was.

In these days of strangeness and worry, we need entertainment.
Badly.
For this reason, I keep on writing Christmas romances. Christmas embodies a simpler time when the world is at peace, when we focus on love rather than hate and when we get to let go of our worries and get back to remembering the good times.

I have several Christmas Romances novellas for sale at etailer book stores like Amazon, Nook, Kobo, iTunes etc and although they aren't Pulitzer Prize winning works of art, they are entertaining. And romantic, another part of life we all need to believe in.

Every year, I put together a box set anthology of Christmas stories that are heartwarming and guaranteed to leave you smiling. This year's set is Christmas at Mistletoe Lodge for sale at AMAZON, Nook, Apple, Kobo and pretty much everywhere. It's in preorder until launch on October 22nd. Then, the price goes up. Get your copy of 10 books for 99 cents by Award-Winning Authors while you still can!



As an author and screenwriter, I love to adapt my books for the screen. Christmas at Snowflake Lodge sold last spring to a production company who plans to make the film this winter. I'm not involved in the project at this point because we sold the screenplay outright for them to do with it what they wanted, including changing the name.
But now, I'm involved with the development of another Christmas screenplay I adapted from my book Christmas at Crystal Creek as we do screenplay revisions and look at who will play the leads. Crystal Creek, or CC as my producers, agent, and I now call it, is looking good for filming this winter with an up and coming star attached who can sing like the country music star she'll be playing. I'll be announcing her name soon, once the contracts are signed.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07L6QL15X/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i8

Enjoy the book if you'd like to read the story of the country star who gets stranded in a tiny town in Maine during a snowstorm.

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As we head into colder weather and Christmas approaches, remember to read those heartwarming stories and stay positive while you wait for the Hallmark Channel to air the movies that even the most snarky, skeptical cynic seems to love to watch.

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Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Christmas Looms!

I guess it isn't very nice to say that Christmas is looming. That word suggests something ominous hovering over the city.
Christmas is on it's merry way!
And no one is thinking Christmas more than me because for the last month, I've been writing Christmas Romance screenplays in hopes of selling one!
I have books, novellas, short stories, screenplays, and scripts. Take your pick. But my latest work is writing a believable Christmas movie but still keeping in the hunky new guy, the old boyfriend who's all wrong and lots of mistletoe and skating on a quaint frozen lake with twinkly lights and a cocoa stand. See? I'm up to my eyeballs in Christmas.
And for that reason, I combined 4 of my novels into one set and called it Christmas in Love.
All four stories are romances, the last one less of a full-on Christmas romance and more of a suspenseful Christmas story with a couple that's still in love after a baby.
Instead of publishing these books individually, I made a marketing decision to presale the set at a discounted $4.99, launch on the 11th of December and try for a Book Bub ad shortly after to lead me to stardom in the Christmas Romance World.
Two of my books in the set are on desks around Hollywood being considered as 2019 Christmas Romance movies. The scripts are, at least, not the books themselves. I wrote screenplays to go with the books Christmas in Whistler and Christmas in Crystal Creek. And, as I type this, I'm working on the next one, Christmas in Snowflake Lake.

According to the Hallmark movies I watched in the last two days, my screenplays should get picked up and make PDQ. They are as good, if not better scripts and locations and premises.
If you are looking to get into the Christmas spirit and don't mind falling in love in a book, check out my new set, Christmas in Love which includes

Christmas in Whistler
Christmas in Crystal Creek
Maui Kalikimaka
Dream Come True

Christmas in Love
Available for purchase now
Delivery Dec 11th
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KIM HORNSBY is an Amazon #1 Bestselling novelist who lives in the Seattle area and writes books about women in dire circumstances rescuing themselves. She tweets her dreams most mornings on Twitter under the hashtag #StrangeDreams
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Monday, November 19, 2018

Mistletoe, Stories & St. Jude's

The Holiday Season is upon us!
And that means lots of work for women who put together decorations, cookies, presents etc. What better way to relax and do something special for yourself than feeding your mind and heart with happily-ever-after Christmas stories? Get lost in a romance? Read a book that warms your heart?

Snuggle up by a fireplace with a mug of hot cocoa, burrow in to a mohair blanket and open this Christmas anthology by USA Today Bestselling and Award-Winning Authors.

My contribution to the anthology is Christmas in Crystal Creek, the story of a country singer trapped in a small town over Christmas who meets the town doctor and is convinced to give the ultimate Christmas gift to a child in need. The book was originally written as a screenplay to be considered as a Hallmark movie.

Every year I put together a box set for charity and this year, the anthology will be donating most of the proceeds to St. Jude Research Hospital where no child is denied treatment regardless of medical insurance. It's a wonderful cause and all ten of us are proud and excited to see how much money we raise for the hospital and research center. Aside from taking out the cost of advertising and the cover and other incidental expenses, everything goes to St. Jude's.

Every purchase is a donation.

99 cents for 10 Heartwarming Christmas Books

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KIM HORNSBY is an Amazon Bestselling Author best known for The Dream Jumper Series, which is optioned for film, with over 400 reviews on Amazon at 4.5 stars.
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