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One Hectic Month of Madness!

11/27/2018

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As the month of November draws to a close, so does the hectic madness of NANOWRIMO! For those of you who haven't heard about the challenge to writers to craft a novel in a month, that is what NANOWRIMO is. Only, I got a late start since I was wrapping up the final book to my Vampire Blood series and didn't write the first word of my novel until November 4th. But I'm really proud of myself because I am going to get it done and you are all going to have a new release from me on December 15th. I've spent a lot of waking hours between my regular job and Thanksgiving dinners and outings with friends coming up with a heartwarming holiday romance I hope you will all enjoy.  Watch my Facebook page at www.facebook.com/TeresaAKeefer for news and giveaways between now and release day as well as an opportunity for you to get an advance copy to read if you promise to post a review on the release date.
Let me give you a glimpse inside the story of Taylor McKenzie, a solitary witch who talks to animals and writes mystery novels from her little cabin tucked away in eastern Kentucky. Taylor lives alone to keep her secret of being a mystery writer and witch from as many prying eyes and people who don't understand her gifts when along comes a handsome romance writer who has lost his belief in love. With a meddlesome group of animals including a three-legged dog named Brutus, a pair of goats called Jack and Jill, a wise owl in her barn who goes by the name of Aristotle and the masked bandit Happy, she doesn't stand a chance. When she and her neighbor Ben are heading home from a Christmas Eve snowstorm, he learns her secret. Will it push them together or will he run for the hills? Find out by reading One Magick Yule! It's already up for pre-sale on Kindle, Barnes and Noble, iTunes, and Kobo right now!
After this grueling month, I think I'm going to take a break for a little bit and start deciding which stories I'm going to bring to you next year. My goal is to release 6 new novels for your reading enjoyment, but I'm not sure how many will be romances and how many will be political thrillers under the pen name Ann Nevada. But you will find out first either by subscribing to my newsletter by dropping me an email at teresa.keefer.author@hotmail.com or following my blog or Facebook page. So keep your eyes peeled!
So, you may ask what I'm going to do for the rest of the month. Well, my plan is to bake up some Christmas cookies, try to finish up my shopping which I haven't even started yet, start planning out my garden for spring, and sign up for ground school. Yes, this author has a dream to get her pilot's license and 2019 is the year I'm going to start. I'm also going to figure out a place I haven't ever traveled to before and make my plans for that trip as well as my annual jaunt to the Black Hills and Deadwood for Wild Deadwood Reads. I'm hoping a couple of my author friends are going to be able to join me for one wild road trip in June. I'm also sort of missing my crafting and have a handful of projects I've been gradually working on that I need to get finished so that I can display them proudly in my home or give them as gifts.
I'm also looking forward to a new year of classes at the Historic Camp Chesterfield. For those of you who don't know this, I am studying Spiritualism with the lofty goal of perhaps someday becoming an ordained minister of Spiritualism. I've already learned so much in the last two years but have so much farther to go. However, I have met some really wonderful new friends at Camp and am looking forward to seeing them all in the upcoming season of classes which start in February. It's been quite a journey of self-discovery which has led to a level of peace and confidence I never knew existed. 
Well, my dear friends, it's getting late and I still have about three chapters to write before Friday gets here so me and Oscar are going to curl up in bed and try to get some sleep before we start our new day tomorrow. (In case you don't remember, Oscar is my dog...not a sexy man...)  Love, blessings and best wishes for a wonderful December!

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It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like...

11/17/2018

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It seems like only a couple weeks ago we were preparing for Halloween and today I made a trip to Hobby Lobby for a gift for my beautiful 14 year old granddaughter and it's full on Christmas!
As I walked through the aisles of endless Christmas cheer, I realized it had been a long time since I've done any major decorating at my house. The last two years, my effort was to throw a couple Christmas pillows on the sofa and move my 4-foot primitive tree out of its hiding place in the den to an obvious place in the living room. Am I a Scrooge? Of course not!  My bad habit of minimizing decorations probably started two years ago when we had a trip to Las Vegas planned the day after Christmas and it just seemed a little easier to not string Christmas decorations from top to bottom when we were going to be in the midst of packing for our trip on Christmas day.  Besides, my oldest daughter took the lead on Christmas that year and we celebrated at her house on Christmas Eve.  Last year we all everyone went to my beautiful friend and neighbor's house so we could bring Christmas to her instead of having her go out in the weather when she could stay home. And it was good we did because the weather outside was frightful last Christmas Eve.
As I sit here tonight watching Hallmark movies and keeping warm with the new pellet stove my even warmer (and very sexy) landlord installed, I am thinking about heading over to the storage unit tomorrow and climbing through the boxes and over the furniture to retrieve my BIG tree and dozen boxes of decorations to deck the hall...and living room...and kitchen...and dining room...and bedroom with boughs of holly, Christmas trees, snowmen, Santa Claus's, poinsettias and angels. I mean, I do have my primitive tree in its obvious place and it is bearing new decorations, my ceramic Santa is sitting on the stand by the door, I have a snowman sign on my front porch, and I splurged on a new Christmas pillow for the sofa but is it really enough?  I will have to ponder that for the next few days and decide whether I'm going to go all out when Black Friday arrives. Stay tuned...
Let's move along and talk gifts.  I love giving gifts.  I love shopping.  I just don't love shopping on Thanksgiving. There is something inherently wrong about intruding upon Thanksgiving with families to go out and stand in line in front of some damned store to try to get a half-price sweater or a hundred dollar big screen television.  Not to mention taking the employees of the stores away from their families. There are three ways I like to do my gift selection...online with ship to your door service...going to handmade craft shows...or sitting on my sofa making something for the people on my Christmas list.  One year (before I was a published author with deadlines) I made everyone crocheted afghans and loved every minute of it!  I think this year I may take the time to make each person on my list something handmade even if it is just a hand-poured candle.
One thing I got in the mood for last weekend was baking.  Baking is a given for me at the holidays and all winter for that matter.  Last week was snickerdoodles and caramel pecan cookies...a total of 6 dozen...which between 2 people have pretty much been devoured. I think there are 4 of the caramel pecan ones left. Tomorrow, I'm going to make more snickerdoodles and white chocolate macadamia. Which will likely be gone long before Thanksgiving even gets here. I'm going to try these fabulous looking red velvet cheesecake balls for Thanksgiving. Cross your fingers they turn out!
The Hallmark movie playing tonight is A Christmas at Graceland which is filled with Christmas songs.  There is something special and beautiful about Christmas carols and hymns. My favorites include Silent Night, I'll Be Home for Christmas and The First Noel...not to say I don't have others...and I have this lovely Celtic Christmas CD that I particularly enjoy listening to.
Okay, I've spent enough time putting off working on my upcoming new release...which I'm going to tell you a little bit about...it's called One Magick Yule...with a witch who talks to animals and a romance writer who has quit believing in love...watch for a sneak peak on my blog the first week of December and the release date of December 15th. I'm giving you a glimpse of the cover along with  a few of my favorite Christmas memories...and with that, I'm going to wish you all a grace-filled Thanksgiving with your loved ones.


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