In this month’s newsletter, which I launched today, January 21, I suggest a few good books to do the job.

There’s just something about sitting in a warm house, a cup of your favorite hot beverage steaming on the table nearby, reading something from your towering TBR pile, or even something that cut to the front of the line and demanded to be read first.

I just finished reading a preview copy of Mindy Steele’s April Heart of the Amish release, “A Heart on Consignment“, and I can tell you with certainty that you’re going to love it. Once again, she has brought to life her wonderful characters in a way that makes you genuinely care what happens to them. To me, that’s the mark of a good author. So put that on your TBR pile!

Speaking of the Heart of the Amish series, have you read my latest? “Plain Jane’s Secret Admirer” just came out a few weeks ago, and it continues my Willow Creek Amish stories, following the adventures, lives and loves of the eight young Amish women you met in my very first book, “Ruth’s Ginger Snap Surprise“.

This time it is Jane Bontrager’s turn to find love. Do you remember who she’s been crushing on for years and years? Samuel Mast, the buggy maker! But whoops; seems Sam did something he didn’t mean to do as a school boy, and now it’s keeping him from confiding his feelings to Jane.

So he decides to become her secret admirer. What could possibly go wrong?

By the way, I have to put in a plug for my friend Patricia Johns’ new book, “Still Waters“, which is the second book in the Amish of Shepherd’s Hill series. I LOVED it. And I bet you will, too. Don’t miss the first book in the series, “Green Pastures“, which was also wonderful. You’ll want to read them in order.

I hear we may get lots of snow this weekend, so choose your snuggle-down book and prepare to indulge! Make sure you’ve got plenty of hot chocolate, tea or coffee, and maybe some cookies to keep up your energy so you can read lots of books!

Have a wonderful, blessed day!