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Thursday, October 9, 2014

Holiday Hop Featuring Jill Shalvis, Carolyn Brown, Grace Burrowes, Terry Spear, and Sarah Morgan + Giveaway


Ready or not, Christmas is right around the corner, which means shopping, food, family — and holiday romances! This season, award winning authors Jill Shalvis, Carolyn Brown, Grace BurrowesTerry Spear, and Sarah Morgan each have Christmas romances releasing. To get readers into the holiday spirit, the authors answer the following question: Ugly Christmas sweaters: Are your characters for or against?

Ladies, take it away!

Jill Shalvis author of One in a Million

AGAINST! Well, except for Lucille, the unofficial social media champ of Lucky Harbor. For her, the uglier the sweater, the better.

Carolyn Brown author of Cowboy Boots for Christmas

In Cowboy Boots for Christmas (Cowboy not Included), ugly sweaters doesn’t come up. However, Verdie, the sassy elderly lady who owned the ranch, Salt Draw, and has come back for a visit, does participate with her friends, Gladys and Polly, in the Senior Citizen’s Christmas program down at the church and they do wear some pretty ugly costumes.

Grace Burrowes author of What A Lady Needs for Christmas

Not sure sweaters had been invented, so… maybe ugly Christmas scarf? Joan and Dante celebrate Christmas in the Highlands, so I’m thinking, yeah. If it’s warm and soft, then it will do just fine.

Terry Spear author of A Highland Wolf Christmas

If it's soft and wrapped around the love of his life, Guthrie MacNeill doesn't care what Calla Stewart wears. She's beautiful inside and out, and all the matters is the unwrapping of the present to find all the treasures she offers him. Likewise for her. Who cares what he's wearing if he's loving, funny, protective, and hers.

Sarah Morgan author of Maybe This Christmas

My hero Tyler would look hot no matter what he was wearing, but he’s not likely to choose to wear an ugly sweater unless his grandmother knitted it, and even then he’d probably find a way to force it on one of his brothers.



Jill Shalvis’ bestselling Lucky Harbor series continues with three consecutive releases It’s In His Kiss (August), He’s So Fine (September), and One In A Million (October). If you are ready for some Alpha heroes, crazy high jinx, and nosy neighbors, learn more about Lucky Harbor here at the author’s website http://jillshalvis.com.


Carolyn Brown kicks off her newest Western romance series with this month’s Cowboy Boots for Christmas. All readers are welcome to Burnt Boot, Texas where two families face off in a decades long quarrel. Fightin’ and feudin’ has never been so fun! Visit the author at http://carolynlbrown.com.


Award winning author Grace Burrowes delights readers with her gorgeous tales of historical happy-ever-afters. What a Lady Needs for Christmas, featuring the author’s popular MacGregor brothers, is a beautiful Victorian set tale of second chances. Learn more about Grace and her bestselling books at her website: http://graceburrowes.com.


Get ready for shifters in kilts as Terry Spear releases the next book in her Heart of the Wolf paranormal romance series, A Highland Wolf Christmas. Find all of the author’s titles at http://terrylspear.wordpress.com.


Maybe This Christmas, the third book in Sarah Morgan’s O’Neill Brothers series, releases this October. Get the inside information on this holiday tale that features friends-turned-lovers at Sarah’s website: http://sarahmorgan.com.



Follow the Holiday Romance Hop tomorrow as the author's visit Book Liaison.


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40 comments :

  1. Twas the Night After Christmas by Sabrina Jeffries. Loved this story.

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  2. any Christmas story set in Lucky Harbor, Virgin River, Fool's Gold, Shelter Bay....anyone see a pattern here?

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  3. I have not read many holiday romances but I am willing to start :)

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  4. I haven't read any holiday books ... but I look forward to reading some

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  5. Under The Mistletoe With Me by Kristen Proby

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  6. I do love Christmas stories that are part of a series, as it is like a family reunion during the holidays!!!!!!!!!

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  7. I love Holiday stories, but I can't start reading them around the US Thanksgiving.. But they do start to put me in the holiday spirit.

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  8. I love Shannon Stacey's holiday novellas, especially Holiday Sparks. Very cute!

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  9. I love all of the holiday romances that come up every year and try to get them all from my go-to authors (all of whom--except Sarah Morgan who is new to me-- are on this hop!!!!). That's about 10 that I buy every year. Now that all of our six kids are grown and living on their own I have time to READ during the holidays...yea! Thanks for this fun hop and hello to all! jdh2690@gmail.com

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  10. I enjoy holiday romances. Mary Balogh has written some good ones and the Christmas anthology, A Gift of Love, was also quite good.

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  11. I love a Mackenzie Family Christmas: The Perfect Gift by Jennifer Ashley. The whole clan comes together for the Holidays and as usual Ian Mackenzie surprises you with his unique quirkiness. You gotta love the man.

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  12. Since I'm not on FB, at least I can enter this way. Many thanks for that!
    I can't think of a single title. I have read 250+ books every year since 1973, so they all blend in together (to give me sweet dreams).
    I DO remember reading an anthology where a bunch of people were snowed in at a resort/cabins. People act differently when they don't have Internet or work on their minds.

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  13. I really enjoyed The Trouble with Christmas by Debbie Mason. I haven't read a lot of holiday themed books though.

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  14. I use to have this ugly sweater that had a huge raindeer on th front and the antlers stuck up and off the sweater. Lord the things we wear and thought they were cute. Thanks everyone for joining the hop! Hey Carolyn!

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  15. What Happens at Christmas by Victoria Alexander is another good Christmas story.

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  16. A Season in the Highlands anthology is my favorite holiday collection so far.

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  17. I like a bunch of Christmas romance. I don't have a favorite.

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  18. I don't have a single favorite. I just love to read stories about celebrating Christmas!

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  19. I love the heartwarming really sticky sugary ones right before the holidays.

    Funny ugly sweater interview! I've worn a few of those to make the gifters happy.

    Thanks for the giveaway opportunity.

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  20. Christmas on 4th Street by Susan Mallery was a great holiday read! Thanks for the giveaway! :-)

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  21. I don't have a favorite. I just love Christmas romances.

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  22. can't say i have a fave, there are a number that i've read and enjoyed

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  23. Christmas at Seashell Cottage is a book by Donna Alward I recently enjoyed reading. Aslo enjoy those by Carolyn Brown and Debbie Macomber. However, my new favorite is not a romance but a children's book, Samson's Gift by Ellen Jean Diederich.

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  24. It does not matter what time of the year I can read a Christmas Story anytime. I have read so many I really do not have a favorite.

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  25. im excited to read this christmas story :D

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  26. I can't pick a favorite. I devour Christmas novels October through January.

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  27. Not sure if my post went through. Janet Chapman's A Highlander Christmas is my favorite!

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  28. So far this year I haven't read any new Christmas stories, but I do love them and read many each year.

    Marcy Shuler

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  29. I always read The Best Christmas Pageant Ever to my kids now I'm reading it to my Grandbabies :) I love any holiday romance. It's such a great time of year. Thanks for the generous giveaway!

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  30. One of my favorite holiday romances is done by Lisa Kleypas..."A Wallflower Christmas"...I have to admit, I have a very hard time getting into the Christmas spirit when so much over the top commercialism is constantly in your face...I mean, I saw Christmas stuff out at BJ's in September! I usually wait until December to get into it, and all these wonderful stories really do help me as I "unplug" from all the Christmas ads.

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  31. Lady Louisa's Christmas Knight by Grace Burrowes

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  32. I don't know that I necessarily have a favorite. All that I have read, I have enjoyed. :)
    One of them is K.E. Saxon's A Heart is a Home. Another is A Santini Christmas by Melissa Schroeder.
    I will have check these out! :D

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  33. thanks for the giveaway! love to these Christmas stories! carole fiore

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  34. Let it snow <3

    Thanks so much for the giveaway <3

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  35. I like holiday stories about my favorite series - love getting to see everyone all together & catching up with them

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  36. Not sure I could pick a favorite! I love reading seasonal books, sometimes new ones and other times oldies but goodies!

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  37. I can't pick a favorite. Usually i read what i have that time :)

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  38. My favorite holiday read is A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

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  39. I love Lisa Kleypas' A Wallflower Christmas

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