Hope for Christmas: How a Book Cover Inspired My Novella

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When I saw this cover for sale on my cover designer's page, I fell in love with the colors, the style, and the feeling.

I didn't have a Christmas story in the works, but I kept going back to look at it. Then I started to worry. What if someone else bought it? Aack!

That settled it. I bought the cover. So the cover was mine, and now I needed a story.

I wanted to write something like the sweet, cheesy Christmas movies so many of us love, and I think I did pretty well on that part. But I also wanted to work in some thought-provoking ideas, and that's the twist in this story!

My true confession: I wrote a story for a cover I had already bought. I'm sure that qualifies me for nerd status somewhere. Ha!

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Hope for Christmas is available in paperback, eBook, large print, and audiobook.

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