Merry Christmas to all!Need a good Christmas book to read? This is what I have published especially for Christmas so far. The links are on the left sidebar.
For starters, please enjoy an ebook copy of my book,
my Christmas gift to you, which I've made free through December 26th. Please CLICK HERE to find the book description and purchase link.
The following snippet is taken from
A Shopkeeper for Christmas
Spinster Mail-Order Brides series, Book 33
“Mrs. Potter has a picture book of the Christmas story. It has camels and everything.” Willie wrinkled his nose. “Camels are funny-looking. I don’t see how those wise men could be very smart if they chose camels instead of horses.”
Eva choked down a laugh. “Horses are fine animals, Willie. However, they need water more often than camels do. People and animals sometimes have to go long distances in the desert to find water. I’ll bet the Lord put camels there because they are better suited for long desert trips than horses.”
His eyes narrowed, and his lips pressed together, Willie folded his arms and bounced them against his chest. “I don’t care. I like horses better than camels. In my Christmas story, I want the wise men riding horse—buckskin horses.” He turned to Eva, a question in his gaze. “Do you like buckskin horses?”
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The book is also now available in paperback. To find the details,
please CLICK HERE.
Here are two Book Funnel offers:
December Clean Historical Romance
Free historical romance books - several genres
Includes my 2020 Christmas Sampler of three of my Christmas books
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If you enjoy short Christmas stories this time of year, please CLICK HERE to check out the following offer for
Clean Romance Christmas Shorts.
It includes my book, Gift of Restitution: A Story for Christmas.
My name is Robyn Echols. Zina Abbott is the pen name I use for my American historical romance novels. I’m a member of Women Writing the West and Western Writers of America, and American Night Writers Association. I currently live with my husband in California’s central valley near the “Gateway to Yosemite.” 
Ten Fun Christmas Facts about Zina Abbott
1. My favorite Christmas carol is O Holy Night.
2. My favorite Christmas decoration is a nativity scene including angel, shepherd, and three wise men.
3. In second grade I made a lamb tree ornament out of a paper background, crayon eyes, nose, mouth, and hooves, and small cotton balls glued all over the body. This was before commercial cotton balls were sold. We used bulk cotton and rolled the small balls by hand. The paper and cotton are now yellowed with age, but I still have that ornament.
4. I prefer green over red.
5. As a child, each Christmas Eve my brother, sister, and I prepared a Christmas program we performed for our parents. We read the Luke 2 story of the birth of Christ, recited “’Twas the Night before Christmas,” maybe shared some other short poems and stories, and we sang Christmas songs. We used our raised hearth as our stage. After, we had refreshments my mother had prepared, we opened one Christmas gift each which she picked out for us—usually pajamas or slippers.
6. When I started getting too much “give me, give me—I want” from my teenage children, I switched to blue, gold, and silver and put more focus on the birth of Christ instead of the red and green Santa ho-ho part of the holiday. (Please don’t send me articles about how red, green and other things we associate with Santa Claus, et al, have religious symbolism. I’ve read them.) The one non-nativity decoration my children asked me to bring back was a Christmas tree, which I did.
7. I learned once my children became teenagers, the best gift in the world for them was gift cards. I took them shopping at the after-Christmas sales. The stuff they bought was always the right style, size, and color because they picked it out.
8. When I was about two or three, my father, a very talented wood craftsman, built a wooden clothes rack in the shape of a giraffe for me that Christmas. He painted it white with yellow spots, although I recall the body, which was a flat bench/shelf, was brown. The horns were clothes hooks. We called it Jo-Jo Giraffe. It probably was only about four to five feet high, but to me at the time, it was HUGE!
9. For many years, my favorite Christmas music album was The Messiah by Handel.
10. Before that, I was rather fond of a Christmas album performed by Elvis Presley.
The following snippet is taken from my current book,
Gift of Restitution: A Story for Christmas
Gold Mountain, Book 4
Once Hazel sat, Luther said the prayer over their food. He bent over his bowl of soup and inhaled deeply. “Hazel, this smells wonderful. I can hardly wait to eat it.” He air-kissed her and watched the smile blossom on his wife’s face. He picked up his spoon and scooped up a bite which he held before his open mouth. He paused and his gaze darted toward the telephone. He set the spoon in his bowl and rose to his feet. “Sweetheart, I hate to be rude like this, but I need to make a call. I’ll never be able to enjoy this meal until I know why someone is sending us a telegram.”
“Reckon that’s best. Hope it ain’t no bad news.”
“Me, too, sweetheart.” Luther walked over and cranked the dial to raise the telephone operator. “Bryant and Reese Mercantile, please.” He waited for someone to answer on the other end. “Hello, Luther Caldwell, here. I understand you have a telegram for the ranch.”
“Sure do. Do you or Val want to come in to pick it up or pay for someone to bring it to you?”
Luther opened his mouth, and then he hesitated. He almost asked to have the telegram read to him. At the last minute, he remembered that the telephone operator, who tended to be a rather nosey person, probably listened in on their conversation. If what was sent was important enough for a telegram instead of a letter, it was probably nothing he or Val wanted gossiped about. “I’ll come in this afternoon and pick it up.”
You may find the book description and preorder link for Gift of Restitution: a Story for Christmas by CLICKING HERE.
I have a second Christmas book I will be offering this year. It is titled
Here is the cover. For the book description and preorder link, please CLICK HERE.
Enjoy this eBook sales offer from many genres which includes my Sweethearts of Jubilee Springs book,
Dead Set Delphinia
Be sure to check out the new cover. I gave Delphinia a facelift and got rid of the "helmet hair."
Almost the last chance for these two book offers. After November 30th, they go away:
November Clean Historical Romance
