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On New Year’s Day, people often think about changes or resolutions. For me, it’s a time to count my blessings. One of my writer’s groups suggests setting goals for the upcoming year. These goals always include the books we plan to write. Then, in the following December, we review what we accomplished

at one of our meetings. The second meeting of the month is usually PARTY TIME!

For 2025, my blessings include family, especially the four-legged contingent. Granted, Lucky Charm and his cousin, Nevada seem to think they’re equine bulldozers especially if they’ve been locked in the barn on snow days. Luckily, we haven’t had any of those in western Washington State yet, but there’s been

plenty of rain instead. I’ll be repairing and rebuilding the fences they trashed.

Yes, I should be angry or frustrated with them, but I’ve had Charm since he was four months old. He’ll be 20 this year and hopefully, we’ll have many more years together. I had his foster mom until she was 40 something. Nevada was born here – the only horse I’ve ever known that actually was born on New Years’ Day. Yes, horses have actual birthdays – not always the ones that breed registries use.

Another blessing is Paladin, my rescue Australian Cattle Dog. He turned six at Christmas. Due to the trauma and abuse he suffered as a puppy before I got him, he’s still hyper-vigilant especially where men are concerned. He dashes into his humongous kennel when the ranch-hands come to work, has a gourmet chew stick and spends the day barking at them if they come near the house. As soon as they leave at night, he’s loose to guard the ranch from wildlife – four-legged and two!

As for goals, this year I have books galore to write, at least one in the Shamrock Stable series and another in the Stewart Falls series plus the ones for my three different romance series. Thankfully, Amber, my Virtual Assistant has promised to be available for all the social media stuff so I can meet those book deadlines. It’s going to be a good reading time for you and a good writing time for me in

2025!

Book Recommendation

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Roaring Rory Gallatin’s girl...

Daughter of the town trouble-maker...

Trailer trash wannabe...

Seventeen-year-old Darcy Gallatin has heard it all, especially when the local minister uses her father as a bad example.

Everyone knows she’s different from the rest of the Gallatin family. She earned a scholarship to prestigious Stewart Falls Academy, is on the honor roll and is a varsity cheerleader.

She has a dream nobody can steal. She’ll study hard, attend a prominent university, and become a large-animal veterinarian, specializing in horses. Then, she’ll return to the small town of Pine Ridge and show everyone what a Gallatin can do. This is her last year at home. Next December she’ll be away at college, so she decides to make the holiday season special for her ten-year-old brother. She won’t let her father ruin Christmas for the whole family, not again.

Disaster strikes when her dad injures Darcy’s horse, Whisky. Can Darcy ever forgive her father, or has he finally crossed the line and made her hate him? Even Darcy doesn’t know for sure, but one thing is certain—she needs to change things. And fast. But how?

If you get an opportunity to read it, please drop me a review!!

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Book Information:

In this award-winning story, the only thing that Robin Gibson wants for her sixteenth birthday is a 1968 Presidential Blue Mustang. Following their family tradition, what her parents promise her is a horse of her own, one with four legs, not four wheels. Mom competes in endurance riding, Dad does calf roping, her older brother games and her older sister loves three day eventing, but Robin proudly says she doesn't do horses. She'll teach her controlling family a lesson by bringing home the worst horse she can find, a starved, abused two-year-old named Twaziem.

Robin figures she'll nurse him back to health, sell him, and have the money for her car. Rescuing and rehabilitating the Morab gelding might be a bigger challenge than what she planned. He comes between her and her family. He upsets her friends when she looks after his needs first. Is he just an investment or is he part of her future? And if she lets him into her heart will win or will she lose?

Start your adventures at Shamrock Stables with book one of the Shamrock Stables Series No Horse Wanted (e-book) for $4.99! Get your copy today! Find it on Amazon ~ No Horse Wanted (Shamrock Stables Book 1).

Check out all of the Stewart Falls Cheerleaders series available on Amazon ~ Stewart Falls Cheerleaders.

With the help of her best friend, Samantha Tiernan-Bradley, 14-year-old, Jeannine Vandermiller escaped from the Truth Keepers, a polygamous community in Montana where she’s lived her entire life.

The last thing she intended was losing her beloved family when she ran away because she didn’t want to marry the bishop of their fundamentalist church and become his latest celestial or spiritual wife. She always thought she’d marry the boy next door when he finished law school. They were supposed to have their Promise Ceremony this summer, but that was before the bishop chose her as his next sister-wife.

Jeannine feels all alone in Stewart Falls, Washington. Everything is so different, not just a brand-new school with harder classes for girls. There are strange clothes and forbidden activities like movies, cell phones, computers, jewelry, cheerleaders, and boys too! And Samantha has changed too. Jeannine wonders if she still trusts her best friend.

What can she do?

Will she ever be able to return home?

And does she want to?

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Take time to count your blessings and consider your goals for 2025. Let’s make it special for all of us!

Shannon

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