Hello? 🫣
I’m really just popping on here to say that. To let you all know I’m still alive and well (mostly), even though it’s been six months since my last post. I never said I was good at this blogging-thing. 😜
Life continues to trek on at warp speed. I know I’m not the only person to feel that way. Hey, when my kids think time is going fast, time. is. going. fast. My eldest daughter just completed her second year of college, and my youngest daughter will be entering her senior year of high school. Life is fast and busy. The next time I blink, I’ll be an empty-nester.
My writing is going well, so I praise God for that. Back in this October post, I mentioned attempting to revamp and streamline an old WIP (work-in-progress) that was a monster at 150,000 words. My hope was to pare it down to 50K words; I’m currently at 56.7K, so not too far off. I’ve already changed the title and some of the content, thus, the book cover will naturally be different than the quirky one I’d designed on Canva (for giggles). I think I’m on draft #4 already, still with the intent to self-publish it this Christmas season, although I’m realizing I might have to alter that timeline; we’ll see how this summer goes. Remember that whole time-is-going-fast bit? Yeah. Unfortunately, writing must submit to the limitations of time, too. 😉
Hubby is still without a job, so life might get interesting around here, given that our savings are near-depleted and we’re looking at putting our house on the market. And go where, you ask? Great question.
I’ll let you know once I find out.
Yes, the not-knowing keeps me up some nights. Yes, tears are not far from the surface these days.
But God! Right?
But God is in control, and His Word says I can trust Him and He’s going to take care of us, and He’s never given me cause to doubt Him in the last four decades of my life, and therefore, I must walk the talk right now, trusting that my family and I will have an amazing testimony of God’s faithfulness when we’re on the other side of this ordeal.
And that’s all I have the emotional capacity for right now. So, I’ll send you off with the not-set-in-stone back-cover blurb of my story, The Daze Before Christmas, which is an inspirational Christmas romance. (“Inspirational” meaning Christian. Just full disclosure for those who like to know what you’re getting into. 😄) Wish I had a book cover for you. Maybe sometime later this summer. 😬
The Daze Before Christmas
When Santa Claus is tasked with answering an old letter three weeks before Christmas, a young woman’s safe yet static life gets turned upside-down.
Gwynn Sadler left her troubled past buried and forgotten in exchange for a new life of freedom in the Lord, allowing her to pursue her artistic talents in Boston. She doesn’t expect to end up creatively blocked, selling other people’s artwork instead of painting her own. Still, it’s better than what she rejected years earlier.
After an unusual work encounter with Santa Claus’s doppelganger, Gwynn learns that her favorite uncle is in the hospital. Against her better judgment, she flies out to visit him, though doing so puts her job in jeopardy. Once she arrives in Montana, however, the Santa-double reappears, meddling in ways that put her face-to-face with a former crush … and thwart her attempts to flee old nightmares.
Yet if she seeks true freedom—for her talent as well as her heart and future—Gwynn will have to trust the Lord’s leading to resurrect her past and unlock forbidden memories. But despite God’s proven track record, she questions the sanity in trusting Him when the outcome might reveal a murderer in the mirror.
Scattered Whimsy 
Can’t wait for your new book to be published! Love the pic with the reindeer❤️
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You now have me waiting to read this new work of your imagination. Love what I read from the back book jacket
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Thank you! ❤️😊
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