Radish...and I'm not talking about the veg.

Now, I think we've established I like vegetables. (We just got our garden put in...it's been a wet, cool spring here in Erie. I'll be doing more Views of my Garden soon!)  But when I mention Radish here, I'm not talking about the small red vegetable that grows in that garden. I'm talking about a newish app (well, new to me for sure).

I just loaded my first story on Radish Fiction.  I'm anxious to see how it works. 

Basically, you read a book in "episodes." Each episode is a couple thousand words. According to the app, they take under ten minutes to read. My second episode goes up today.

I'm finding the concept intriguing. Between family, writing and going back to school, my reading time is becoming more and more limited. But ten minutes? I can find ten minutes sitting in the car waiting to pick someone up. I can find that much time while stirring dinner on the stove.  I can find that much time...well, you get the picture, I can find that much time.  

I started with The Moments, a novella that's tied to Briar Hill Road.  And I'll be loading two full-length books, How to Hunt a Husband and The Makeover soon.  As an author, I'll see how it goes from there. As a reader, I think it's a cool concept and I'm enjoying it so far.

I've had books serialized in Japan before, and I know that my kids read on their phones.  So it's not a new concept, but I think it's a timely one. I know I'm not the only one out there too busy to breathe some days.

You can check Radish out wherever you buy your apps.  Search Radish Fiction.  And I've added that pink R to my list of places to buy my books at the end of each blog post. You can get there from that logo.

I hope you'll check out the app, and check out my stories there.  Please hit subscribe...that way you'll know when new stories come out.

Holly

PS.
My books are available as ebooks, paperbacks, hardbacks, audiobooks and available through Kindle Unlimited.  They're also available in a lot of other languages. I hope there's something for all of you!

Find my books at:

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In Erie, you can find my books on the shelf at Werner Books! Stop in, check them out and tell them I said hi!

Book Stories: Briar Hill Road & The Moments

The Moments

Briar Hill Road

Every book has some element of autobiography in it.  My love of family...my love of glee are in each book.  By now you all know my love of Mondays...I set Just One Thing almost completely on Mondays as a bit of a shout out to the most unloved day of the week.  Readers who follow me on social media love looking for those bits in stories.

But of all my books, Briar Hill Road is probably the most autobiographical.  Oh, the story is fiction, but the heart of it is based in my reality.  We lost my mother-in-law to breast cancer and that loss still ripples through our family.  I based the mother figure in Briar Hill on her.  Kathleen has her open, loving heart.  

This book was written for the wonderful, but short-lived Harlequin line, Everlasting Love.  Writing for that line really helped push my writing in a new, more emotional direction.  It won a Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award.  And Cindy Carlson even wrote a song based on it.  Everlasting Love was meant to explore more than just a hero and heroine meeting, falling in love, overcoming obstacles and getting a happily-ever-after.

So it made sense to explore that lifetime of love even further by asking what happened to Brian and Hayden's daughter, Livie.  I wrote a novella for her and...well, for you.  She's following in her mom and grandmother's footsteps...but she's still forging her own path. 

If you're subscribed to my newsletter, I'm releasing the story a chapter at a time in my newsletter every...Monday of course.  Free.  Yep.  That's right...free. It's my way of saying thank you to all my subscribers.

If you're not a subscriber, it's not to late.  Sign Up For Holly's Newsletter Here.  (I know I'll be sending out a newsletter once a week for the next eight weeks, but normally I only send out newsletters when I have...well, news.)

But if for some reason you don't want to sign up, don't worry.  The Moments will go up for sale in July.

I hope you read Briar Hill Road and you're looking forward to Live's story!!  And if you haven't read Briar Hill Road yet...it's time to pick it up!

Holly  

New chapter, new game

My fourth chapter of The Moments is available this week at: The Moments.

And the ladies at eHarlequin.com have started a brand new game. Can you guess who their mystery author is?? (It's not me...I'm playing, too!)

Holly

Some weeks I love Mondays...this is one of them!

Today I have a free online short story, The Moments, starting at eHarlequin.com. It's tied to my first Everlasting Love release, THE HOUSE ON BRIAR HILL ROAD, on October 1st, which is a book about the Conway family. About their ups and downs...about their pulling together and sadly, about them falling apart.

I was thrilled when I was afforded a chance to do the The Moments. It features the main characters' of the book daughter, Livie. At the end of THOBHR, Livie said, "My mother always said life was made up of the small moments and it was punctuated by the big ones." I knew that sentence had to be the theme of her story. But how to present a broad scope to her romance in a short story? It was a challenge, and really pushed me as a writer. But I think the story shows those moments. You can find it at https://www.eharlequin.com/article.html?articleId=1299

I hope you'll check it out!

Holly