Tuesday, October 27, 2015

RELEASE DAY: ALL ABOUT THE BUNDT


After years of being asked for recipes, Cheryl St.John spent a summer writing down ingredients and baking times, baking and asking for beta testers in order to put together this collection of mouthwatering recipes for Bundt cakes. 

Many of the recipes are labeled NO SKILL REQUIRED, indicating exceptional ease of preparation. If you don’t consider yourself a baker or if you’re an accomplished baker and simply want a quick recipe, you will find these cakes using box mixes are convenient and delicious. You don’t have to tell anyone you started with a mix—the cakes are so good that no one will guess preparation didn’t take hours. Bake with ease and enjoy serving a beautiful cake to family and friends. 

Cheryl's philosophy: Eat cake! It's someone's birthday somewhere


Monday, October 19, 2015

ANNOUNCING: Cheryl St.John's Great Christmas Tree Tour 2015

Yes, you read it right. I've had people asking when the tour will be revived, so 2015 is the year. Whoo hoo!

WHAT IT'S ABOUT:
Between Thanksgiving and Christmas I'll share your photos of your Christmas trees, your special tree ornaments or any decorations you'd like to share, along with a little bit about you or your Christmas traditions.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:
Send me an email to sign up for a date. Select two or three dates and I'll start scheduling. As the dates fill I'll post availability or work with you to find a date. If the schedule fills up, I'll do two a day. Everyone who wants to share is welcome. SaintJohn@aol.com

WHO CAN JOIN IN?
Readers - I LOVE READERS! I've had lots and lots of readers share their trees.
Friends - You know I love you. Send pictures.
Authors - Include info and a link to your newest books and we'll promote books.
Editors - Readers and authors enjoy seeing your decor at home and at the office.
Acquaintances - We might not be friends yet, but we will be. I just love Christmas trees.

Please follow my blog now. You can follow or you can sign up for emails. I'll give tips on tree decorating, how to take the best photos, etc.. The blog will share to Facebook, so a lot of people will see your Christmas trees.

During November I'll be sharing a month of being grateful, so jump in.



Thursday, October 15, 2015

Liz Flaherty's Drawing Winner Announced!

Jana Richards is the winner of Liz Flaherty's drawing! Congrats!

Please contact me at SaintJohn@aol.com

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

A Christmas Collection and a Giveaway! from Liz Flaherty

I love Christmas. A lot. A friend of mine collects Christmas snowmen and I teased her the other day about possibly attending meetings because of the depth of her addiction. But I understand. Because I’d be there to greet her when she got to the first meeting. Not that I collect snowmen. Exactly. But I do love me some ornaments. And trees. Cheryl, when are you going to start posting pictures of people’s Christmas trees again. (Said in a pathetic whine—could you hear it in my voice?)
[from Cheryl: Okay, you've twisted my arm. This year!]


So I was excited—to the point of jumping up and down excited, when the writers of last year’s Christmas, Actually invited me to contribute to A Heartwarming Christmas, a boxed set including four anthologies. Twelve Christmas stories in all. We are all Harlequin Heartwarming authors, so the stories are, you guessed it, Heartwarming. We had the best time writing them.


What? Oh, you want to know what that has to do with ornaments? Well, the anthology I share with Rula Sinara and Patricia Bradley (how did I get so lucky—they’re great!) is called The Gingerbread Men. We had a lot of hunger-inducing conversation reaching that title, believe me, and even more when we named our own stories. Writing my story, The Gingerbread Heart, also got me out there looking for gingerbread ornaments. Just as I feared, it’s a new addiction.


Since I like sharing and because I am so excited (I know, you get it already) I’m giving away a gingerbread ornament and a copy of a backlist book to one of Cheryl’s commenters who tells us about a favorite ornament. Thanks for coming by. Below are all the particulars on A Heartwarming Christmas. I hope that’s the kind of holidays you have!

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This collection of PG-rated holiday romances are all set in Christmas Town, a location introduced in the 2014 Harlequin Heartwarming release Christmas, Actually. A Heartwarming Christmas will bring you laughter, tears, and happily-ever-afters (no cliffhangers), for more than 1200 pages. Foreword by small town lover and New York Times bestseller Kristan Higgins.


http://amzn.to/1TDjGEK
iTunes: http://apple.co/1OkXsV9
Kobo: http://bit.ly/1CEnSA7
Google Play: http://bit.ly/1J0Qg08
B&N: B&N: http://bit.ly/1LaVnNT 
Amazon:


Liz Flaherty things one of the things that keeps you young when you quite obviously aren’t anymore is the constant chances you have to reinvent yourself. Her latest professional incarnation is as a Harlequin Heartwarming author and she is enjoying every minute! She’d love to hear from you at lizkflaherty@gmail.com or please come and see her at: