It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like…

By Carolyn Miller

Christmas. Yes, it’s now just over five weeks away. I haven’t bought many of my presents yet, so there’s a job for December. I did buy an emergency ‘turducken’ (one of those combo turkey / duck / chicken roasts) this week, just in case we need to have Christmas here again this year. (Last year, Covid meant we had Christmas at home for the first time in years – it was great!)

And while there are presents to be bought and things to prepare, one thing I started early this year was writing a Christmas book. Actually, I wrote two. One as a special bonus available to newsletter subscribers (a contemporary novella called Originally Yours), and a second, Muskoka Christmas, that I released last week as part of my Muskoka Romance series.

This second book was originally something I wrote for a publisher that passed on it, so it was fun to ‘redeem’ my book, write more, tweak and edit it, and then release it myself, especially as it involves a writer of historical romance (moi? no, it’s fiction, people). It was also fun to include a bunch of Christmassy traditions (tree lighting! baking cookies! mistletoe!) and wrap it in some small town love, along with the heart, hope and humour to be found in faith, family and friends.

In fact, I loved writing these Christmas books so much that I think I’ll aim to do another next year. Because you can never have too many fun Christmas books, can you?

Here’s a bit more about Muskoka Christmas:

Staci Everton is a multi-published author of historical romances, whose Christmas Eve deadline for a new book sees her leave her Chicago home to go write while staying with her grandmother in the beautiful small town of Muskoka Shores, Canada. Staci is determined to finish her manuscript, despite the small town’s Christmas charm – and Muskoka Shores most eligible bachelor.
Dr. James Wells is on enforced leave from working in Africa, after nearly burning out as a medical missionary. He’s here to spend time with family, not spend time with a workaholic whose focus on fiction is very different from the harsh realities he’s faced.
But Christmas is a time of second chances, family and faith. Maybe they’ll find magic under the mistletoe, and a future after all.

(Want to grab your copy? You can here: Amazon | Other retailers)

Now let’s chat:

Do you like to read Christmas books? What are some of the things you expect to see in a Christmas novel? Do you have a time frame for when you do read Christmas books? What are some unusual things you would like to see in a Christmas novel?