Happy New Year!

Happy New Year from New Zealand! 

I just finished doing yoga and the yoga teacher asked us to consider our own intention for this year. I love that word - intention. It seems so warm and inclusive. 

How about you? Do you like to set an intention (intentions!) whether in the new year or each day/week/month? 

Catch-Up Time

 

Alt Text: Collage of dahlia photos - two photos of individual pink flowers, one with petals of deep pink bleeding into white, other flower of white centre deepening into blush pink at the outer petals, plus a photo of a bouquet of dahlias in mixed colours.

What are you up to as we ease our way out of 2025 and into 2026? 

I did a full tidy up of my study, ready to start new projects and continue current ones. Today, I’m wrangling the dahlia garden thanks to a windstorm yesterday.

Your turn! 

Friday Book Club

 

It's the last Friday Book Club for 2025! What reads are you loving this week? And what have been some of your top reads this year?

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Merry Bookmas

Alt text: Book tree made of copies of Atonement Sky, the new edition of Slave to Sensation, and Archangel's Ascension. An ornament of two angels on a bench sits at the top. Fine tinsel with small Christmas baubles is wrapped around the book tree.

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Merry Bookmas from us to you.

It’s been a tough year for our family with the sudden loss of our Dad earlier this year, so this is a strange season for us. Thank you for all your warmth and support. 

We hope that however your year has been that this season is kind, and gentle for you. 

~ Nalini & Ashwini

Holiday Newsletters

 

Alt Text: Holiday Newsletters. Dec 23: Music in the Dance. Dec 24: Short Story #2. Dec 25: Short Story #3.

I sat down to write a newsletter short story and wrote three instead. 

So there will he not one but THREE newsletters going out starting roughly 14 hours or so from now (shift dates by one day if you’re on my side of the dateline).

Each newsletter will have a different short story, beginning with Music in the Dance. 

Please be careful not to accidentally delete! These are not duplicates!

Happy reading!! 

Friday Book Club

 

Time to talk books! What are you reading and loving this week?

Nalini Singh Thrillers Sweepstakes

Alt Text - Nalini Singh Thrillers Sweepstakes: A Madness of Sunshine, Quiet in Her Bones, There Should Have Been Eight, Such A Perfect Family. No purchase necessary. US Residents, 18+. Ends 12/26/25. See official rules at official website.

US residents: Nalini's US publisher is running a sweepstakes featuring Nalini's thrillers, including the upcoming Such A Perfect Family! Click here to enter. Good luck!! 

~Ashwini