Good afternoon Friends and a warm welcome to you. Thank you for stopping by last week for my review for Barbara Winkes‘ ‘Bells Will Be Ringing.’ Today Barbara Winkes is here to share with you.
A Merry Surprise…
First of all, thanks to Lynn for having me today!
I’m going to tell you a bit about how my Christmas romance Bells Will Be Ringing came about. I’ve written romance before, but if you picked up one of my books, there’s a bigger chance you started with one of my thrillers. Between the standalones and the Carpenter/Harding series, I often end up on the darker side—though I do like a romantic subplot.
Most of the time, I’m drawn to the kind of story that ends with the protagonist confronting the bad guy, and she comes out the winner. It’s what I like to read and watch, too.
Around this time of year though, my wife and I tend to record a lot of holiday movies. We’ve done this for a few years now, stock up on them for when we slow down a bit and are in the mood for something lighter. The days are shorter, we always get a lot of snow…Sweet romantic tales fit the bill. And like many viewers, I know of, we got a bit frustrated at the lack of women-loving-women characters anywhere in those movies. We sat down to talk about what we would like to see in what would be a Christmas movie we’d love—complete with imagery you typically associate, ice-skating, a wood-burning fire-place, romance…between two women.
Like my thrillers, Bells Will Be Ringing was written from a place of, “I don’t see enough of this in the media, and I do want more.”
So this is my contribution. If you, too, enjoy a bit of a slower pace at the end of the year, I hope you’ll like it! If you are looking for a faster pace and darker themes, Killer Instinct is less merry, though it does take place around Christmas.
Whatever your choices are, I wish you safe and peaceful times!
-Barbara
Website:
https://barbarawinkes.wordpress.com/
I want to thank you, Barbara, for your guest blog. Her books are available on Amazon. Be sure to stop by next week when I have an important announcement.
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While in college, she wrote an editorial that was published in The Detroit Free Press. It focused on the positives of children’s education in the sciences. This she found to be very inspiring and felt that people needed awareness to encourage young people to study these subjects.
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