Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

It’s a little early to talk about the C word, but I am very aware that next week, the day after Thanksgiving to be exact, I will be decorating my Christmas tree!!! I can hardly stop myself from doing it earlier than that but I refrain because I love Thanksgiving too much to skip over it. Also, I’ve been really busy writing a book. My first Christmas novel set in Blue Lake.

Sister Issues was my first published novel, also my first effort to write a holiday into a book. I wrote that book during NaNoWriMo and I’m writing my second novel to feature Christmas in an even bigger way during NaNo too. A Blue Lake Christmas kind of announces its intentions, right? I’m up to 32K words today. More than half way through that first draft and I’ve done it by writing 2K every day for 15 days straight.

My…