The Ghost and the Christmas Spirit is off with the editor—and I expect it back in a couple days. It goes live November 21, 2019—one day before my birthday.
While I typically encourage readers to start the series with The Ghost of Marlow House (Book 1 in the series, available FREE in eBook format) and then move through the series in number order—with this last book I encourage all readers looking for a feel-good Christmas story to read The Ghost and the Christmas Spirit.
I suspect readers of the series will enjoy it more than those who haven’t yet read any Haunting Danielle books. But that is only because readers already have a relationship (so to speak) with the characters.
I did add a little more backstory than I normally do, just to help out those new readers—but I tried not to overdo it, so as not to annoy those already familiar with the series.
Bobbi and Bruno. Sister Lynn and Bobbi’s 1975 road trip to Oregon.
In college I used to daydream about traveling cross country in a converted bus. The closest I got was a spur of the moment road trip my sister and I took up to Oregon the summer between my Jr and Sr years of college. It wasn’t in an RV, but in my Mustang GT, and we motel’d it. Our destination was to see her hubby who was in a hot shot crew in Oregon. But when we got there, he was on a fire in Arizona.
It seems my road trips—and recent RV trips—are always pulling me toward Oregon, the home of Walt and Danielle—and of my son and daughter-in-law, Scott and SeAnne.
It’s difficult for us to get away for more than a week at a time—but I really wanted to see Scott and SeAnne. Flying was out of the question—we have the pups now, and I am not quite ready to leave them at a kennel. I also wanted to take our motorhome on a REAL road trip.
I asked my sister, who lives in Morro Bay, if Mom could stay with her for three weeks if we brought her and picked her up. Sis has lots going on in her life right now, so I was ecstatic when she said yes. Plus, it would give Mom the opportunity to spend time with her other daughter. (There is just me and my sis.)
As I mentioned in my other post, we traded our rarely used 5th wheel in for a motorhome. I remember in our early camping days sitting in the back of our pickup truck under the camper shell, looking out jealously at the nearby motorhome and its occupants having a jolly time inside as rain pelted our vehicles.
Happy to report we had excellent weather on our 20 day trip—lots of sunshine—but we did have several days of rain, and we were grateful to be in the motorhome, and not cramped in the back of a pickup truck with our two pups.
Danny and Lily were awesome on the trip, and by the end Danny had curbed much of his barking, making him a polite camper. He still has some leash issues, but he is getting better. And Lily has also made improvements—giving up whatever rock or stick she has gobbled up to consume, trading it instead of snapping. I intended to write more about our trip in this post, but that will have to wait until my next blog post. I really need to get working on The Ghost and the Christmas Secret.
Another two months plus a few days have gone by since my last post. I’ve been pretty busy, which is why my blog posts are so infrequent.
Last July our beloved Lady girl was released to travel over the rainbow bridge, after being severely ill. We swore it would be a long time before we brought another dog into our home—but it was just too many tears. In the fall we brought Danny and then Lily into our home, miniature Australians Shepherds. Danny is now 9 1/2 months old and Lily is 7 months. They’ve brought a lot of joy into our lives, and while we still miss our Lady, they’ve helped heal our hearts.
I finished writing The Ghost and the Baby—book 21 in my Haunting Danielle series—and just got it back from the editor. The release date is April 30, 2019 and is currently available for pre-order at Amazon. Another book scheduled to be released that day is the audiobook of The Ghost Who Dream Hopped, Book 18 of the Haunting Danielle Series.
My husband, who was an associate broker (real estate), recently retired and then had hip replacement surgery. He is recovering nicely. To be with him and the pups during the day I moved back to my old office in the house, from the cottage. Almost five years ago, after my husband started working from home, I moved out of my home office and into the cottage (aka the guest house my mother-in-law lived in before she passed away) so he could take over my office. Now that I am back in my old office, and hubby is retired, I’ll keep working from here.
I’ve already started working on notes for Book 22 of the Haunting Danielle series—The Ghost and the Halloween Haunt, which will be out either late summer or early fall. Not sure on that date yet. But for now, I need to get the eBook and paperback versions of Book 21 released!
