Happy Christmas in July!
Welcome to the final blog in this Christmas in July Reader Giveaway, which runs July 12-23, 2021. At the bottom of each author’s blog post, you will find the secret words. Write them all down and provide the provide the entire answer on this Google form.
Note: You must grab all the secret words from every author in the Christmas in July Reader Giveaway to enter the contest to win eligible to win a $400 Amazon gift card At the end of this blog post is a link to the next blog, and so on, to the final blog post (19 in all). At each blog stop, the author will also give away copy or copies of their featured Christmas book.
What new Christmas tradition do you hope to start this year? Maybe the upcoming season has prompted you to start something new.
Christmas is my favorite holiday. I love decorating for Christmas, listening to and singing Christmas carols, and spending time with family and friends. So when I decided to write a novella, I jumped at the chance to write a sweet Christmas romance set in the fictional town of Winterberry, Colorado.
Forever Yours This Christmas is a story all about community. My heroine collects money every year at her shop, Second Time Around, to donate to cystic fibrosis. My hero betters the community by building much-needed housing. The community also comes together by having a silent auction to raise money for their Christmas events. And, of course, there are other fun touches of Christmas—a tree lighting celebration, ice skating, hot chocolate and Christmas cookies…lots and lots of Christmas cookies!
Here is a short description of Forever Yours This Christmas:
Amy Carrington, a consignment shop owner, tries to save her parking lot from being taken over by Sunshine Builders—CEO Kimberly Harding and her handsome brother, Wes—who are building townhomes right next to her shop in the small fictional town of Winterberry, Colorado. The bigger problem? Falling in love with her rival!
For a chance to win one of three copies (print, e-book or audiobook) of Forever Yours This Christmas (US/Canadian addresses only for print, international for e-book, US or UK for audiobook), tell me what Christmas tradition you enjoy by commenting on this blog.
GREAT NEWS! The e-book of Forever Yours This Christmas is on sale for $.99 cents from July 12-18th! (click on the title to be taken to the link)
Good news! The e-book of Forever Yours This Christmas is on sale July 12-18 for $0.99 cents!
Now, it’s time to for the secret word(s): Steve Maraboli
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Remember, this Christmas in July Reader Giveaway will end on July 23 at 8 PM EST!
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I love to write for 8-12 year old girls to help connect them to their faith. I'm also passionate about women's fiction that reconnects lives and brings new discoveries along the way.
I enjoy going to church.
Hi Deborah! I do too. 🙂 Thanks for joining in.
We enjoy Reading The Night Before Christmas 🎄 Opening 1 Gift and then Watching A Christmas 🎄 Story for 24 hrs
Sounds like a Great Read 📚 Thank You for Being Part of this Fun Blog Hop
Hi Linda! We used to open 1 gift on Christmas Eve when my kids were little, but now that they are young adults we wait for Christmas. Thank you for joining the fun.
My favorite Christmas tradition is gathering with my family, spending the day cooking a wonderful meal together and then enjoying that meal.
Would love to win a copy of your book. Thanks for the opportunity.
Hi Melinda! Thanks for commenting. Would love to know what your family cooks. I’ve started a tradition of making a Mexican dish for Christmas dinner. My family loves it, and I don’t spend all day in the kitchen. Win, win!
Your book sounds great! I look forward to reading it.
My favorite Christmas tradition is s when we read the Christmas story from the book of Luke before we open gifts. That reminds us of the true meaning of Christmas.
Thank you, Jill. I hope you get a chance to read Forever Yours This Christmas. If you do, I’d love to know what you think of it. It’s so important to share the true meaning of Christmas we those we love. 🙂
I enjoy having family home for the holidays, baking and fixing big meals. With family scattered around the country, we all have so few opportunities to be together.
Thank you for participating in this fun event.
Patricia, I love family meals!!! 🙂 We definitely need to treasure those times when we are all together.
Christmas Eve candle light service is my favorite.
Lelia, don’t you just love it when everyone’s candles are lit? Love that!
My family and I love to bake or buy a cake for baby Jesus. Then on Christmas Day we sing Happy Birthday and enjoy the cake in His honor.
I love that, Cherie! I have made a cake for baby Jesus before and wish I carried on that tradition even though my kids are all young adults.
My daughter and I enjoy baking lots of goodies which my sons then pass out to our neighbors. It was sad not being able to do that last year.
Denise, I’m glad this year is a new year! Hope you make your cookies this year. Your neighbors will enjoy it!
I love the Christmas Eve Service at church.
Thank you for the book giveaway!
Me too! Thanks for commenting. 🙂
Your book sounds so sweet and heartwarming!! I love Christmas stories, they usually fill me with happiness and joy, that of the kind I had as a child before I had to “adult”, lol. I think it would be really neat to write a book that was about Christmas traditions around the world…like a character visits 12 different regions and celebrates Christmas their with with their traditions, food and games, like a 12 Days of Christmas kinda thing. That would be super-fun to research Christmas traditions around the world!
My favorite Christmas tradition is watching a marathon of Christmas movies with my family. We crank up the fireplace and munch on snickerdoodle cookies that I make the night before and watch movies, starting with “A Christmas Story”. Then we watch the usual suspects: “The Grinch”, “Nightmare Before Christmas” (which acts as a Halloween movie too), “Polar Express”, “The Year Without a Santa Claus”, “The Santa Clause”, “Rise of the Guardians”, “Home Alone”, etc…
Thank you very much for the chance!!
Kristin, our Christmas movie list is similar to yours. It’s so much fun to gather the family together and watch holiday movies. Your book idea sounds like a fun one to research. Thank you for your sweet comment about my book. 🙂
Those are all classic and great Christmas movies! It warms my heart to know I’m not the only one who does movie marathons on Christmas! I might research it anyway, just for the fun of it! : )
We love Christmas decorating the day after Thanksgiving and celebrating all through Advent looking forward to Christmas worship and our family meal.
Carey, I love it that you decorate for Christmas the day after Thanksgiving. My family does too! 🙂
Our tradition is that we each make at least one ornament each year for our Christmas tree. It can be made from whatever we want to use and we use whatever we have on hand. It’s a highlight of our holiday!
Suzan, I would love to see a picture of some of your ornaments. We have some that are homemade as well. Those are my favorite.
My favorite Christmas tradition is Christmas Eve candle light service. It’s a wonderful reminder to stop, breathe & remember what the season is truly about.
Robin, I agree with you. There’s nothing like the Christmas Eve service to remind us about what the season is really about.
decorating together
bn100, what do you like to decorate together? The tree? Lights? 🙂
Love, love, love the Christmas season and all that it stands for. Love to put Christmas music on and decorate the tree with memories of all the different ornaments and also driving around listening to Christmas music to see all of the Christmas decorations in different neighborhoods. And of course baking all of the family favorite cookies!
Marie, YES!!! All of it. 🙂
I love Christmas books and I can’t wait to read Forever Yours This Christmas it sounds wonderful!
Thank you, Nancy! I hope you snagged an e-book copy since it’s on sale right now for $0.99! Let me know how you liked it.
We will be having all kinds of new traditions beginning this year. My Mom is now living in a nursing home. It will be just my husband and I celebrating at home. We will be baking, decorating as well as Christmas cards just the two of us.
Debra, transition is hard, isn’t it? I was just talking with my husband about it. We decided we need to live in the moment and enjoy each and every day God gives us. Sounds like you have a wonderful plan to celebrate Christmas this year.
I love driving around and looking at all the beautiful Christmas lights, and the Living Natives.
Thank you for the opportunity to win this amazing prize.
God Bless you and your family.
Thank you, Glenda. God bless you and yours too. 🙂
We place a white dove on our Christmas tree at midnight on Christmas morning for each immediate family member who has passed away. It’s our way of having our loved ones with us during the holidays.
Tina, that sounds like a very special way to include your loved ones. Thank you for sharing it with me.
Our favorite family tradition is attending a Christmas Eve candlelight ceremony!
Charlotte, we do that too! LOVE it!
A Christmas tradition I enjoy is the elf on the shelf! My kids love it! Ty for the opportunity!
Andrea, your comment made me smile! My daughter is a teacher and she has a lot of fun with the elf on the shelf! YES, kids love it! 🙂
Helping my mom bake goodies to give to her friends and family. Thanks for the chance.
Hi Lynn! What type of cookies do you and your mom like to bake? 🙂 Amy Carrington, my main character, bakes cookies too!
book sounds wonderful!
Thank you, Sheila. 🙂 I had a lot of fun writing this Christmas novella. What Christmas tradition do you enjoy?
I would Love to win a Print copy of your book Love the cover I Love reading Christmas stories all year long! Blessings to You!
Hi Sarah, are we twins? haha I love a good Christmas story all year long too! Blessings back!
Your book looks wonderful
Thank you!!! It was super fun to write!
The Christmas Tradition I enjoy is eating Swahili Pilau and Swahili Biryani which are foods reserved for special occasions such as Christmas 😋🙈.
Grace, I’ve never tried those dishes you mentioned. Sounds good! I’ll be visiting your house for Christmas this year! LOL! 🙂
I love the cover. It draws you in. I think it is the snowy trees and the light I can’t wait to read it.
Thank you, Tammy! I love the cover too. 🙂 I hope you get a chance to read it.
Sounds interesting!
Thanks, Karen!
Filling Christmas stockings – even though my kids are grown I still make up a stocking for everyone to have on Christmas day.
Linda, what do you put in the stockings? I fill up our Christmas stockings with mostly little things like chapstick, a toothbrush, floss, deodorant, shavers, and, of course, CANDY! My adult kids love it!
Really good ginger snap cookies received in the mail from a sister in law that would start our Christmas traditions and to begin to get into the mood for the holidays
I’m with you, Esther! Christmas cookies are a delicious part of our Christmas traditions too! 🙂