A list of Holly Jacobs' series in order!

Here's the thing...I write a lot of books that are tied.  I'm not sure why...I take that back, I do know why.  I love my characters and always want to know what's happened after I write the end.  If I write another book in the series, I can find out along with readers!  I've got a lot of series and lately I've had a lot of readers asking about them...so here's the series and the books in order!

Oh, the fairies!  These were some of my earliest books!  They're being released now.  The first three are out now, and Fairly Human will be out at the end of July!

Mad About Max
Magic for Joy
Miracles for Nick

Words of the Heart...
These are heartwarming, bigger stories.  I was using the tagline Romance+ to describe them!

Carry Her Heart's on sale in July!
These Three Words
Coming soon...
Hold Onto Her Heart





I had so much fun with this series!  I loved writing a middle aged heroine!

Maid in LA Mysteries
Steamed
Dusted
Spruce Up
Swept Up

I've had a lot of requests for a new Quincy book...and I've been mulling! I'll keep you posted!

Nana Vancy accidentally cursed her family to bad weddings...and spends the first three books trying to break the curse!
Everything But a Groom
Everything But a Bride
Everything But a Wedding.





After she's broken the curse she's bored...so she ttries her hand at matchmaking!

Everything But a Christmas Eve
Everything But a Mother
Everything But a Dog!

My dogs would be so annoyed if I didn't mention they were the cover models for Everything But a Dog...they're still waiting for the PUParazzi to hound them!  (Yeah, I know that was bad!)





They talk about Christmas in July. So maybe it wouldn't be so odd to start my Cupid Falls series this month!

Christmas in Cupid Falls
A Simple Heart: A Cupid Falls Novella

(There are a few more Cupid Falls books in the pipeline!)

Oh, I should have mentioned this series after Everything But...
When I heard that Montlake was rereleasing that series and WLVH Radio Series, I wrote a trilogy of short stories to bring them all together!

Nothing But Love
Nothing But Heart
Nothing But Luck




And speaking of WLVH Radio series...
Pickup Lines
Lovehandles
Night Calls
Laugh Lines

And yes, I've heard that readers hate these covers. I liked Pickup Lines and Night Calls (which had a dog based on our dog at the time...a 200 lb Old English Mastiff) but I see your point on the other two.  Hopefully the stories are good enough to distract from the covers!  LOL

This series was one of my first! I set it on Erie, PA's very real Perry Square.  But then I went ahead and fictionalized the square and added new businesses!

Do You Hear What I Hear?
A Day Late and a Bride Short
Dad Today, Groom Tomorrow
Be My Baby
Once Upon a Princess
Once Upon Prince
Once Upon a King
Here With Me

I so loved Valley Ridge!  The first three books were a wedding trilogy.  The fourth was just because I loved it in VR and wasn't ready to say goodbye!
You Are Invited
April Showers
A Walk Down the Aisle
A Valley Ridge Christmas

And last but not least, Whedon PA.  This was a very special family...

Unexpected Gifts
A One-of-a-Kind Family
Homecoming Day
A Father's Name

Hope that helps you read the series in order!

Holly

World Building

I grew up on science fiction and fantasy.  Podkayne of Mars, The Hobbit.  One took the world I knew and fast forwarded it.  One built a whole new world.  When I started writing, I thought I might write sci fi/fantasy, but I felt pulled to the romance genre.  I loved taking two people and watching how they overcame hurdles and differences in order to build a life together.

Most of my books have been set in or around my hometown, Erie, PA.  Now, you wouldn't think I'd need to world-build in a real city and I certainly didn't put that name to it when I started, but looking back, I realized that's exactly what I did.  I wrote a series of books for Silhouette Romance that were set in Erie's very real Perry Square.  BUT I sort of usurped the Square and added my own businesses (Snips and Snaps Beauty Salon, Titles Bookstore & Monarchs Coffee house—owned by Erie's own royalty no less)  to it.  I populated the Square with all my fictional people.  Basically, I took reality and bent it to my fiction.


Since then I've actually world built a number of small towns that surround Erie proper.  Towns like Whedon, PA (for the locals, think Edinboro), Valley Ridge, NY (set between the very real North East and equally real Ripley, NY) and this week, I'm starting a new town...Cupid Falls, PA.  It's right outside of Erie (locals, think Waterford-ish).

As I write the opening of the book, I'm adding in a cast of
secondary characters, like Jenny whose scumbag ex walked out on her and three kids.  I'm adding in businesses, like The Cupboard Restaurant.  It moved into Terri McQueen's Cupboard General Store.  The built on a kitchen addition, but kept as many of the historic feature in the dining room as they could.  You can look at the shelves, and buy local crafts, from quilts to baskets (yeah, I worked in the baskets).

It might not be science fiction, but I'm hoping that by the time I'm done 'building' Cupid Falls, readers will feel as if they've been there.

So, that's my week...I'm world building.  You can find out what books belong to which of my 'worlds' at my Book Series page, where they're in order.

Do you have any favorite fictional towns that you've enjoyed visiting in the past?

Holly