A big thank you to
everyone who downloaded Sunbeams from The Heart during my free promotion. I had
114 downloads by the time the promotion ended and at the peak of the promotion
Sunbeams was in the top 100 on Amazon - #22 in Single Authors Short Stories and
#27 in Romance Collections & Anthologies (Kindle Store)!
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Hearing about turkeys and hams being given out to needy families over the Holiday Season reminded me of when I was a trainee reporter for a news agency in Exeter, Devon.
One of my most enjoyable assignments around Christmastime
was to seek out families in need for my employers to give free turkeys to, write a human-interest story about the presentations and the circumstances of
the recipients, and then phone the story in to the national newspapers in London
(no internet in those days!).
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59 downloads so
far for Sunbeams from The Heart during my free promotion! My collection of
short stories is now #37 on Amazon in Romance Collections & Anthologies
(Kindle Store) and #49 in Single Authors Short Stories! You still have until
midnight Pacific Time on Tuesday, December 26th, to download your FREE copy of
these heart-warming stories!
Here’s a LITTLE CHRISTMAS PRESENT for you if you
haven’t already read the stories in SUNBEAMS FROM THE HEART: A COLLECTION OF
TWELVE ROMANTIC SHORT STORIES! It is now FREE to download from Amazon through
Tuesday, December 26th! – “HEART-WARMING STORIES that propel you on a
journey through Scotland, England, The Bahamas and rural America.”
SUNBEAMS FROM THE HEART made Amazon's top 100 paid
best sellers' list in the Literature & Fiction/Short stories category, next
to Stephen King’s “Hearts in Atlantis” in Amazon's Best Sellers in Literary
Short Stories! And it made the top 100 paid bestsellers' list in the Literature
& Fiction/Short Stories category alongside Agatha Christie's "Miss
Marple - The Complete Short Stories"!
SUNBEAMS FROM THE HEART is also available in paperback
(regular and large print).
Enjoy!
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I've just received my new writer's business cards from
Vistaprint in this cute little box! Haven't used Vistaprint before. In fact,
it's a long time since I've had business cards that weren't homemade, but
people often ask me where they can find my books.
I had the cards designed quite reasonably by a graphic
artist on Fiverr. Vistaprint price wasn't expensive either. I used the photo of
me on the beach with my laptop that son Gavin took for the cover of my writers'
guide "How to Be the Best Writer Ever!"
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I was chatting to a young Bahamian mother with a
beautiful little girl the other day. I complimented her on her daughter and
asked her if the child liked to read books. The mother lamented that she can’t
get her to read. I told her she should read to her little daughter every night
before bedtime. That would get her interested in books and would further her
knowledge, as well as improve her school work.
She agreed that she would try that. I told her that
there are some beautiful children’s books available. This is a lovely one by
local author and award-winning poet and screenwriter Ernestia Fraser:
“Pray With Me is a book focused on the need for prayer in a broken world. Prayer is characteristically shown as an effective tool that can be used to make the world a better place. The book is designed for children ages 0 to 3 years old.”
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Turning left on Dillett Street and Blue Hill Road,
Nassau, used to be a matter of concern for some drivers, with an old building on
the corner looking as though it was about to collapse! Now it has been
demolished, making it much safer to turn there. Also, the owners of the
building next door to it seem to be fixing that up and making it much more pleasant
to see.
The old building that is now gone once housed a burger
joint where Erskine and his friend Levi Wilson grabbed a bite to eat while
cutting palms for our wedding reception in the old Queen Elizabeth Sports
Centre!
Levi also came to my apartment on Village Road the day
of my wedding to Erskine, to ask if I needed any help. I was waiting there with
my father-giver Gordon Ashton (Erskine’s English boss in the insurance company
where he worked at the time) for a limousine to take us to St. Anne’s Church,
Fox Hill. The priest had told me he didn’t believe in brides being late for
their wedding and he just wouldn’t marry us if I was late!
The limousine hadn’t turned up and I gladly accepted
Levi’s help. He drove us to the wedding at great speed down the Eastern Road in
his old beat up car, paper packages in the back, and me in my full bridal gear.
That must have been quite a sight to see!
Later the limousine driver stood outside the church as
Erskine and I exited after our wedding, angrily waving his fist at us and
telling us we told him 4 p.m. instead of the pre-arranged pick up time of 3
p.m.!
My novel “Dangerous Devotion”, Book 1 in the Buchanan Mystery Romance Series, is set in The Bahamas and Scotland. And Book 2, “Deadly Deceit in Paradise”, is set in The Bahamas. They are available as e-books and in paperback on Amazon and other online book retailers.
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