Christmas Countdown Blitz: Merry and the Gentleman by Donna K. Weaver

Award-winning author, wife, mother, grandmother, Harry Potter geek, Army veteran, karate black belt, and online gamer girl.

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"How do you choose between your heart and your responsibilities?

Merry Hurst, a fierce widow and single mom, is determined to give her young son the life he deserves—including a male role model who will stick around for the long haul. She can't afford to fall for a man who isn't planning to stay in Huckleberry Falls, so she might as well stop dreaming about Carlisle Wyndham. If only it were that easy!

Carlisle Wyndham is determined to develop the avalanche-proof transceiver that could have saved his wife's life. He's glad his daughter has made a new friend, but they’re only staying in Huckleberry Falls long enough to complete the project. When he meets the young boy’s mother, Carlisle’s not prepared for how alive she makes him feel.

But he has pressing responsibilities pulling him back to England while Merry’s require her to stay. Do they dare risk getting involved only to say goodbye?"

  

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Top Ten List:

Ten facts about me:

1. I'm a USA Today best-selling and award-winning author.

2. I'm a wife, mother, and grandmother. One of the toughest things for us during the pandemic is not being able to see grandkids who live far away. We ate plane tickets last March that would have had us in Hawaii visiting our daughter and her family. Thank heavens for online chats.

3. I'm a huge Harry Potter geek--during the heyday between the release of Half Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows, I volunteered as a moderator on The Leaky Cauldron's forum, The Leaky Lounge. I met some wonderful friends around the world and must have read every theory about what would happen in the final book.

4. I'm a US Navy brat and have lived in both Korea and the Philippines as well as visited Guam, Japan, and Hong Kong.

5. I'm a US Army veteran, and I served in Germany, back when there were two of them.

6. I'm a karate black belt. My younger sons were involved, and I wanted to do it with them. I was 50 when I started. They gave up, but I persevered.

7. I'm a gamer. Have been since Pong came out a bazillion years ago. Our whole family is into gaming, so it's something we can do together. I can't tell you how many friends of my boys have said they wished their parents played too for that same reason. We used to do the PC versions of StarCraft and Warcraft. We followed StarCraft on to Battlenet but didn't like World of Warcraft online. Then our boys got us into League of Legends! LOVE this game. In fact, it inspired one of my book series, The Billionaires of REKD. It's something we can play as a family in whatever cities we live.

8. I'm in the process of editing a fantasy duology which is different from my other books. It's one I began many years ago and stars my grandkids in Hawaii. In fact, part of it is set there. It's been a lot of fun but also the hardest thing I've done to date. I hope to publish those two books in 2021.

9. I'm also writing the first in a cozy mystery series. It's set in a little village in northern Washington, near the Candian border. The land is owned by the Savage family, and they inherited a castle which had been taken apart and moved from Ireland. They didn't realize a ghost had come with it. The first book will end my Safe Harbors series, but will also set up a couple of more.

10. As you can tell, I love having characters cross paths and series. You never know who might show up in a book.

  

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Christmas Countdown Blitz: THE GIFT OF A CHILD

Award-winning author, wife, mother, grandmother, Harry Potter geek, Army veteran, karate black belt, and online gamer girl.

Donna K. Weaver 

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 "Recently widowed Rae Cavanaugh just survived the worst birthday of her life. She and her two young children must now face a holiday season filled with so many reminders of what they've lost. But when a coworker who’s raising his young nephew moves next door, Rae discovers that the support of a good friend, and the gift of a child, can bring back some of the joy of the season. 

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Fun Facts About Me
* Navy brat
* Army veteran
* Started school in South Korea
* Have sailed the Pacific (lots of it) three times and the bit between the West Coast and Hawaii two more times
* Survived a Typhoon that hit us dead on in the Philippines
* Karate black belt (started the year I turned 50)
* Ran municipal elections for over 20 years
* Was a moderator on the Leaky Cauldron's forum The Leaky Lounge for 5 years
* Mother to 6 kids (birthed 5 of them)
* Grandmother to 10 1/2

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Valentine Countdown Blitz: WITH THE MAGIC by Donna K. Weaver

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As the eighth earl of Kellworth, Gareth is accustomed to getting what he wants. Then he encounters a woman he suspects is from the future--a utopian future that he feels compelled to see. He intends to get what he wants, but it will involve dealing with fae magic. And that could lead to disaster--for his heart.

Dr. Catherine Ryan is drawn to the handsome guest at Twickenham Manor, with his odd combination of childish excitement and old eyes that have seen too much pain. She loses her heart to him before she discovers the truth of when he’s from. Now she faces the biggest decision of her life!

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Q&A With the Author: 

Tell us about things you enjoy — what you do for fun or personal satisfaction besides writing?

Besides spending time with my family, I love to read. I like to do the Goodreads Reading Challenge. Last year I read 165 books. Now, most of those were audiobooks because I don't have time to sit and read. Another thing I love to do is play League of Legends, an online video game. It's so fun to play with my family members.

When did you first realize you were an author?

This may be arbitrary, but I'd classify being a writer as someone who writes. I became an author when I became published. So with that definition, I became an author in June 2013.

Have you done anything writing-related, but besides actually writing your books, that seemed to get a lot of positive response? Something that encouraged you?

I write a mean set of city council minutes. I did that for over twenty years.

What is the thing you struggle with the most while writing? And how do you defeat it?

I guess distractions are the biggest conflict. I can be writing along, and I need to open my browser for research. *squirrel* When I'm really struggling, I have software called Anti-social that helps. I turn it on and it keeps me from opening social media.

What is the “message” of your writing? (For example, is your purpose to encourage old-fashioned values, encourage romance, or do you have different purposes in different books?)

Probably the biggest theme I hear reviewers comment on the "family." Frequently, it's about people who create their own "families" from friends.

Are your characters/stories/scenes, etc. based on anything in real life?

I draw a lot on my own experiences or those of people I know or have read about. It's a lot of taking an experience and asking a bunch of "what if" questions. I don't tend to write about real people, but I've had a couple of characters that were inspired by real people. More that they were fodder for "what if" questions.

What are your future projects?

This is going to be a busy year for me.

* I have another book in my Billionaires of REKD series coming out on St. Patrick's Day. It's called The Luck of the Billionaire, and it includes a trip to Ireland. Appropriate, right? There will be another two of them that will come out by the fall. 

* The next Twickenham Time Travel romance--For the Magic--will come out in the summer. 

* I have a romance that's a follow-up to my Christmas novella that should come out later this year. 

*This fall I'll begin releasing a new western novella series set in Wyoming in 1905.

  

* I'm also working on a young adult/new adult portal fantasy I'm excited about.

Hmmm . . . looking at all that I think I may need to clone myself.

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Recently widowed Rae Cavanaugh just survived the worst birthday of her life. She and her two young children must now face a holiday season filled with so many reminders of what they've lost. 

But when a coworker who’s raising his young nephew moves next door, Rae discovers that the support of a good friend, and the gift of a child, can bring back some of the joy of the season.

**A Novelette**

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Q&A With the Author:

1.  Describe yourself in 50 words or less.

I'm a person who loves to see the good in people and firmly believes the world should be a better place because someone has lived.

2. What do you love most in the world?

Outside of religion, my family.

3. What inspired you to become an Author?

I've always had stories running through my head since I was a little girl. I didn't try putting any of them on paper--for real anyway--until my family was raised.

4. What is your favorite Winter / Holiday tradition?

Doing things together with the kids when they were young. We'd decorate the house (a lot) one week, and the tree the next week. We'd spend time baking goodies and then taking them around to friends and neighbors while caroling to them. We also used to pick a family in need (of love as well as stuff) and do the Twelve Days of Christmas as a ding-dong-ditch.

5. What is your trick for getting past writer's block? And what advice do you have for other authors who are struggling to tell their story?

Work on something else for a while. Or, if I'm pressed for time, it can be fun to write something where the characters do something ridiculous that you'd never include in the story. It can be funny and lighten things up and free the muse.

6. Now that we've gotten to know each other, tell me a story. It can be long or short. From your childhood or last week. Funny, sad, or somewhere in between. Just make sure it's yours. What's your story?

This book, The Gift of a Child, is very much a part of me. While it's only inspired by real events, I really did:

1. Lose my first husband when I was 26

2. Have 2 young children to raise

3. Experience a dismal birthday that just happened to fall on the 2-month anniversary of my husband's death have a son who did what Preston did.

There are hints of a possible romance in this story, and there will be a full-length novel to follow. I'm working on it right now, as a matter of fact. The romance is totally fiction. For me, that happened a few years later.

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Lia enlists the help of strapping Coop Montgomery, the head gardener and her former crush. As they search together for a way to rid the castle of its ghost, the romance she used to dream about with Coop kindles. But Lia’s gentle giant means to stay in Washington while she’s determined to return to California. She must find the courage to face both the ghost and her future.

With Coop. Or without him. 

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Q&A with the Author!!!

3.      What is the thing you struggle with the most while writing? And how do you defeat it?

Like most writers I know, I begin to doubt myself. I have thoughts of, "Wow, this is terrible. No one's going to like these characters or this storyline. This has to be the worse thing ever written. Why do I even bother?" Those are the days this song's my theme song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f81B6ZEuNs

4.      Which of your personality traits did you write into you characters? (Deliberately or accidentally)

I think there's probably a lot of my traits that shows up in my characters. From being a black belt to hating crowds to being in love with Irish castles. Yeah. But, unless you know me, you won't know which.

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