USA Today bestselling author Stephanie Queen is a
romantic at heart and a writer by nature. So of course she loves creating
stories where the good guys always win. Although she's lost count of all the
jobs she had before she settled on being a novelist, her favorite was selling
cookies as a Keebler Elf. Learn more about Stephanie and her books at her
website.
The Top 10 Favorite Things I Did in 2016
Besides everything to do
with books, I have quite a few favorite things that I do or that I did
throughout the year in 2016. Maybe it’s because I’m getting to an age where I’m
thinking of the bucket list, and the phrase “no time like the present” is
particularly relevant. That someday I
used to talk about is TODAY! Now I try to spend my time very wisely on what I
love most.
So here are the Top 10
Favorite Things I did in 2016: (in no particular order)
Attended my grand-niece Rose’s Christening—the
first baby girl in two generations!
I went with some college
friends to Indianapolis to the NCAA
Women’s Basketball Final Four to see my alma mater, UConn win their
record-setting FOURTH STRAIGHT
Championship!
I went to the Award
Presentation for the New Hampshire Social Venture Innovation Challenge
competition to see my son Tom win First
Place!
I autographed books at my first Romance Writers of America Literacy Book
Fair in San Diego
With my two sisters, I crocheted a baby blanket for my new
grand-niece, Rose (she’s a cutie!)
Went to the Jimmy Buffet concert and spent the day
with fab friends tailgating in the sun and dancing to JB music.
Wrote Let
It Snow a dark and edgy Christmas novella a little bit outside of my
usual story.
I participated in a Christmas box set with some of the
loveliest authors on the planet: Love,
Christmas was a labor of love.
Took my mother to visit my aunt and cousin in Florida. My mother hadn’t seen her sister in several years
(they’re both in their mid 80’s). Naturally, we went in January and enjoyed the
warm weather since we live in the northeast.
Spent many Sunday afternoons with my family watching
football
As a writer and book lover,
I had to include book things because how could I not? But you know I could have
made this list stretch to 20 or even 50 without too much trouble because I am a
very lucky person and I’ve had many treasured moments throughout the year.
Only a couple of these
things were bucket list type items (can you guess which two items?), but the
rest were wonderful, some unplanned, unanticipated, and then some in the category
of simple pleasures and no less wonderful for it.
Let It Snow: Beachcomber Investigations Series Novella
An old friend sends a stranger to
visit Dane to help wrestle him from his soul-crushing despair. His life of righting
horrific wrongs has cost him a very high price, and worse, it cost someone he
loved her life. But how can a stranger help when even Shana, his partner and
lover, has failed. Can the stranger use a Christmas Eve snowstorm to create the
ultimate test for Dane and Shana?
4 comments:
That's my little grand-niece rose on a quilt that my mother made. One of my favorite things was watching my 85 year old mother stitch the quilt and enjoy the progress as it turned into that beautiful finished product for that lovely little baby!
SQ
Your grand-niece is a little beauty! The quilt your mother made is a treasure for future generations. 2016 filled your calendar and emotions. May 2017 treat you well and thrust you forward into bigger and better events.
That baby is adorable, and her photo made my day. Three cheers for your mom and her talent for quilting!
Thank you Carol and Angela!
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