Happy New Romance Book Year!

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Hello ,

Hope your new year has gotten off to a fantastic start!

Mine is chugging along at full speed.

Although I'm still revising my upcoming new release, The Cheerleader, I'm also planning which books to write in 2025.

There's so much that goes into scheduling book releases that it's smart to plan ahead.

Also, there's so much that can go wrong when scheduling that I need to be flexible.

Since I'm planning a big trip to celebrate my birthday this year--I'll let you in on the details when I have them--I'll be writing fewer books than I have in past years.

Don't worry, though, I'm thinking about some exciting stuff.

But maybe you have an opinion about what you want me to write--how about it?

Take my SQ's 2025 Book Plan Survey!

I'll let you tell me which of the books I'm thinking about writing sound the most intriguing or fun to you!

Finally, I'm super excited to complete the writing and revising of my new favorite novel of mine, The Cheerleader - a college romance about friendship, a forbidden love triangle and difficult choices, set in the 70's.

The Cheerleader will be released soon--within a few weeks--and I wanted to apologize that it's taken me much longer than I thought it would to finish. Guess that's what can happen when you care a lot about a story. 💞

It would mean a great deal to me if you pre-order The Cheerleader at your favorite store.

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Check out the details about my 2025 book planning survey below! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Also check out my EXCLUSIVE featured author, the fabulous Kate Meaders, and featured book deals below! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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At SQ's House

Our book club--which is really a social club where we talk a little about a book we've read--met for a brunch hosted by one ambitious member ➜➜➜➜

I love that we're a close bunch of ladies who can talk about anything with each other, including politics and religions, and share problems, express different opinions, connect over fabulous recipes and maintain our easy, accepting, respectful, congenial, fun group.

As time goes on, I'm finding I enjoy and rely on this group more and more for support and fun.

What do we have in common? Hmmm...

We're not all from the same town, our kids don't all know each other, we don't all like the same books--some of us didn't even like to read when we started--we don't all practice the same religion or politics, we're not all married or all single, we don't all have children, we didn't all go to college...

Heck, I'm not sure there is any one common thread--except that we're all women of a certain age.

Guess that's been good enough to create the bond that's now lasted 12 years and counting.

Meanwhile, my younger son is still around though his girlfriend returned to D.C., H took down the Christmas tree, the lake froze over and looks good for skating, UConn basketball is going strong and my whole family is healthy.

Which all means I'm a pretty darn happy and lucky lady.

Are you a member of a book club or a social club? 💜

I'd love to hear your story!

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The next best thing to an in-person book club!

If you enjoy my books, I invite you to

➜➜Join the SQ Team on Facebook Here!

We talk about books and covers and whatever else grabs our attention.

I'd love the chance to get to know you better!

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WORK-IN-PROGRESS: THE CHEERLEADER

Total Word Count Goal: 90,000 110,000*

COMPLETED To-Date: 110,083

PERCENT COMPLETED: 100%*

You can pre-order The Cheerleader at the following places now:

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SQ's 2025 Book Planning Survey!

Join the team to take the survey!

I have ideas for 7 different books BUT I can only write 3 of them in 2025!

In my survey I'll give you the blurbs and you can vote for your top 3 favorites!

Here are the titles, tropes and series:

Help me choose what to write!

TAKE THE SURVEY HERE!

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SQ's Favorite Review from the Past - With an Excerpt!

EXCERPT from Book 1

THE BEACHCOMBERS

The last mission had been too nasty. He’d come home to the Vineyard like he always did between missions, to rest his soul, not to mention a few body parts that could use some healing.

Heading for Vineyard Haven’s grocery store, he supposed he wasn’t in between missions anymore. He pulled into the lot and parked front and center. As he got out of the Jeep, he spotted Frenchie turning into the driveway and heading toward a parking spot a few rows over. Dane walked unhurried to the glass doors of the store and pushed inside. 

If he didn’t owe the governor more than he could ever repay, no way would he be playing hide and seek with some French con in his own neighborhood grocery store. He trotted through the aisles, skirting people and displays and pushed through the double doors near the deli counter into the storage room. 

And there was especially no way in hell he’d be working with an unknown partner if his so-called friend hadn’t insisted. Some young up-and-coming detective chick from the Met. Dane didn’t know enough about this mission yet, but it had damn well better be worth all the trouble. And the pain.

In the storage room, if anyone had a problem with him being there they didn’t say. No one stopped him. He’d mastered that quality of seeming to be in complete charge no matter what the circumstance. People didn’t question him because he knew what he was doing. Even when he was racing through a grocery store, the assumption was that he was supposed to be running through the grocery store.

On the back end of the storage room he found the unmarked door and slipped outside. Jumping down the steps, he landed in the alley behind the supermarket between two parked trucks.

Ignoring his knee, he headed to the street and ran. It was under two miles to State Police Headquarters in Vineyard Haven. He could get there in under ten minutes. Never mind his left knee.

Looking over his shoulder once before he turned the corner, he checked the door where he’d exited the back of the grocery store. Still closed. No one in sight. He stepped up his pace to full speed then and kept going.

Passing by a white picket fence lined with rose bushes he reached out and plucked one. A rose would not make up for him behaving like an asshole to his unwanted partner Shana George.

Because he was certain that he would act like an asshole.

But he couldn’t forget his mother’s words when he saw the roses. She’d told him something about the power of a rose once when he was not too young to understand.

There’s something about a rose that makes a woman smile inside like a young girl.

Thinking about his mother made him smile. So there was that. A good enough justification to do almost anything...

"Incredible! This is one of the best series l have read. They went through so much to be together. I just couldn't put it down."

--Diana Shaw, Amazon

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Stephanie Queen's EXCLUSIVE Featured Author

GOOD GUY - KATE MEADERS

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He's a Special Forces veteran making his pro hockey debut. She's a dogged sports reporter determined to get a scoop. She's also his best friend's widow . . .

Fans can't get enough of Levi Hunt, the Special Forces veteran who put his NHL career on hold to serve his country and fight the bad guys. So when his new Chicago Rebels bosses tell him to cooperate with the press on a profile, he's ready to do his duty. Until he finds out who he has to work with: flame-haired, freckle-splashed, impossibly perky Jordan Cooke.

The woman he should not have kissed the night she buried her husband, Levi's best friend in the service.

Hockey-stick-up-his-butt-serious Levi Hunt might despise Jordan for reasons she can't fathom--okay, it's to do with kissing--but her future in the cutthroat world of sports reporting hangs on delivering the goods on the league's hottest, grumpiest rookie. So what if he's not interested in having his life plated up for public consumption. Too bad. Jordan will have to play dirty to get her scoop and even dirtier to get her man.

Only in winning the story, she might just lose her heart ...

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Thank you for reading this newsletter. Hope to share more books and stories with you in 2025! 😘 💜

Warmest Regards and Happy New Year!