And remember to visit Long and Short Reviews Winter Blogfest on December 28. You can get my recipe for Chocolate Angel Pie. Leave a comment for a chance to win a Kindle copy of LORD OF DRUEMARWIN: http://www.longandshortreviews.com/guest-blogs/winter-blogfest-helen-c-johannes-4/
Happy Holidays!
Great News:
FREDERICK FLY-CATCHER is a finalist for N.N. Light's Book Heaven's 2020 Book Awards in the Children's Book category. Winners will be announced on Dec. 21.
If you love both chocolate and pie, you'll love my family's Chocolate Angel Pie recipe appearing on the Long and Short Reviews Winter Blogfest Dec. 28. I'm giving away a Kindle copy of LORD OF DRUEMARWIN, so leave a comment by Jan. 2 for a chance to win! http://www.longandshortreviews.com/guest-blogs/winter-blogfest-helen-c-johannes-4/
Check out all the blog posts for more chances to win all sorts of prizes starting Dec. 21 and running through Jan. 1.
Have a great holiday!
Celebrate with me a 5-Star Review for Frederick Fly-Catcher from NN Light's Book Heaven. For the full review, click here: frederick-fly-catcher-bookreview Here's an excerpt:
Wishing you all a Happy Thanksgiving!
Good news! FREDERICK FLY-CATCHER is now available in print, just in time for holiday shopping for all the middle-grade chapter book readers on your gift list. Go to Frederick Fly-Catcher-Amazon or Frederick-Fly-Catcher-B&N to order your copy and enchant your favorite youngsters.
More great news! FREDERICK FLY-CATCHER e-book will be on sale for only 99 cents for all of November! To get your copy, go to https://books2read.com/u/4Ekjo0 and choose your preferred e-book retailer.
For a special treat, no tricks, accept this very special invitation to join the festivities at N. N. Light’s Book Heaven’s 2nd annual Trick or Treat Book Bonanza. 46 authors share what they’d dress up as for Halloween as well as 53 books featured plus a chance to win one of the following:
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https://www.nnlightsbookheaven.com/trick-or-treat-book-bonanza
Open internationally
Runs October 1 – 31
Drawing will be held on November 1.
Because this big CAT and others like it have been my constant companions since mid-May when street reconstruction started on my doorstep, literally.
Calling all
readers! Have you read all your beach reads over the summer and looking for new
books to dive into this month? I’m thrilled to be a part of N. N. Light’s Book
Heaven’s third annual Fall Into These Great Reads Bookathon. 
A Brush with Death is book #2 in The Crime and Passion Stalk City Hall Series, and is a steamy mystery, but I'll let her explain all that.
Tag
Line: To prove his undying love and loyalty, he'll risk sacrificing
her trust.
Blurb:
Ben Deprez has been secretly in love with Cori for years and knowing of her wounded heart has him waiting impatiently for the right time to make his move. Now is the time, and Cori seems receptive, but Ben's past still haunts him. He's never been that guy who can say or do the right thing when it comes to women. His divorce is proof.
Cori Pierre-Simon has had about all she can take
working two jobs to support her family since her ex left without a trace ten
years earlier. The last thing she needs is to get involved with another man who
would surely disappoint her.
Just when Cori decides to open her heart to Ben,
women he holds key information about turn up dead. Then, when she uncovers an
unusual connection between Ben and another woman, she realizes she should have
never trusted him and his womanizing ways.
When Cori's son finds himself in an illegal
predicament, he turns to Ben for help. Ben answers the call for aid full-well
knowing that in helping the teenager he will risk losing Cori's trust, the very
thing he's worked hard to earn. Ben is left hoping she loves him enough to
forgive him for the decisions he's made to right the wrongs of her son and
himself.
Advance Praise:
Tracy B - This is an entertaining, steamy,
well-written, fast paced romantic suspense novel with likable, engaging, mature
characters. It has intrigue, small town and family drama, a captivating
mystery, a heart-warming romance, and a happily ever after ending.
About the Author: 
Valerie Clarizio is a USA
Today Bestselling author who lives in romantic Door County
Wisconsin with her husband of nearly thirty years. She loves to read, write,
and spend time at her cabin in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
She’s lived her life surrounded by men, three brothers, a husband, and a male Siamese cat who required his own instruction manual. Keeping up with all the men in her life has turned her into an outdoors enthusiast, of which her favorite activity is hiking in national parks. While out on the trails, she has plenty of time to conjure up irresistible characters and unique storylines for her next romantic suspense, time travel romance, or sweet contemporary romance novel.
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