Five Steps to Reading Adventures This Holiday Season

  1. Brew a cup of your favourite tea. While it steeps, look out of the window onto a Winter Wonderland, and allow your imagination to soar.
  2. Reach for your favourite box of chocolates (yes, this is the holidays, after all).
  3. Locate your favourite chair. Position it just so. Perhaps you would like to see the aforementioned Winter Wonderland out of the corner of your eye as you turn the pages – or does flickering firelight have greater appeal?
  4. Add an assortment of comfort items. Fluffy reading socks. A luxurious throw. Perhaps a cat (but only if you own one).
  5. Reach for a book. This is the most important part (otherwise you are just a person in a chair, gazing out on the real world, instead of sinking into a world of your choosing). And when it comes to choosing a book, may we suggest…

Her Secret Soldier Book Cover

Happy holidays to readers (and fellow writers) everywhere. May you travel through time, and continents, and worlds this special season (and I know you will).