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Things you may not know about me

Things you may not know about me – Let’s do an update.

I haven’t done a personal update here in a while. So I thought I might do one including a few things you may not know about me. And maybe a few you do.

A few months back I started writing a couple of blog posts about grief. I’ve been through the wringer in that regard in 2023 which is why I’ve been largely silent on social media – scraping through by doing the absolute minimum – and why you haven’t seen any new releases from me. To be fair I wasn’t planning on releasing loads of books under my name anyway but I also wasn’t expecting to do nothing. Meanwhile my pen names have also ground to a halt. Needless to say I have not owned 2023 by anyone’s measure.

I’m still planning on posting the grief series. I hope it might help someone else going through it but for now let’s focus on the present.

My books in the No Brides Club series have just been re-released and are available on Amazon and free if you are in Kindle Unlimited. Lots of people have strong feelings about KU as it’s known.

I read in KU myself a lot. The reason being I read on average a book a day. Yes, you read that right. I often get in to bed after dinner and read for 3 or 4 hours most nights. I’m a fast reader and that gets me through a book. Books in Australia are even more expensive than, for example, the United States. A mass market paperback is around $20. I can’t afford to spend $140 a week on books. And obviously I start some and they’re not for me so that number would be higher in reality.

Not to mention paperbacks are heavy and the lowlight of the Kindle is less annoying for my husband who is often asleep beside me as I read past midnight.

Borrowing from the library is an option, of course, but I have accrued so many library fines over the years, it’s not for me. Having said that,  I adore libraries and often visit libraries, right now I’m just not in a library reading phrase.

Another reason I use Kindle Unlimited is because I read a lot of authors whose books are not widely available in Australian bookshops. If you ARE in Australia and you do like paperbacks signed copies are available at my  store.

Playing Doctor, A Cinnamon Bay Romace

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Meet two old friends now enemies vying for the same job in a sweet small-town single dad enemies to lovers romance.

Allie Stapleton left Cinnamon Bay for college, swearing to never return to the small town where she grew up. Now however she’s and her MBA are heading home from New York – she’s tired and she wants more in life than just a job. The local hospital is hiring a new director and she has the education and enough experience to be a contender. The only problem is her competition is the resident doctor at the hospital, the boy next door and her old high school crush Trace.

Single father, Trace Collins loves being a surgeon and raising his daughter in his home town, but the hours are impacting his daughter in the worst way. His coveted position at the hospital doesn’t matter– he needs to make a change to be home more. A position opens up that might just challenge him: hospital director. He applies immediately, expecting to be a shoo-in until he hears Allie is in town.

They'd played doctor growing up, and while competing for the same position should put them at odds, it only seems to put them in the mood to take this rivalry to the bedroom instead of the boardroom.

Delve into a new world of romance, mystery, and magic in the quirky coastal town of Cinnamon Bay, North Carolina.

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That’s not to say that’s the only place I get books, it’s not. I buy books by authors I love and people I know all the time but I also read in KU.  Oh and I absolutely have to get non-fiction books in hardback and paperback because I absorb information better that way.

I guess I just think of having Kindle Unlimited as being similar to having a Netflix subscription and also going to the movies from time to time.

This post got away from me. I wasn’t planning on talking about that but here’s two things we’ve already learned.

One – I’m going through grief

Two – I am a voracious reader

If you follow me on social media, you’ll see often post pictures of coffee. Australia has a pretty intense coffee culture and I for one am all the way on board. Here’s a fun The New York Times article that tells you a little about how our coffee culture evolved.  Good coffee is everywhere, and it is one of my great pleasures to find a sunny spot and enjoy a coffee alone or with friends.

Let’s talk about the ocean

You’ll also notice that a lot of my pictures with coffee are by the ocean, harbour, on a beach or on a boat. Fun fact – I live by the beach. Even more interesting fact, over 80% of the Australian population (25million people and counting) live within 50km/31miles of the coast. So while I feel very lucky to live where I live it is pretty normal for Aussies to be at the beach or the water before or after work. When I first got married I often caught the iconic Manly Ferry home from work (and then got a bus home) it was a slower journey but so much more relaxing than the bus ride from the city.

Now I’m very lucky to work from home so I can work in a coffee shop by the beach, walk and dictate a story or sit and plot in a notebook on the sand. In my mind it doesn’t matter where you get things done as long as you do them! And as a redhead I need to do all this slathered in sunscreen and beneath an impressively large hat wherever possible.

So now we know:

One – I’m going through grief

Two – I am a voracious reader

Three – I love my coffee

Four – I live by the beach

Five – I miss blogging

I’ll do another update next week. Time to get have a coffee!

 

 

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