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A FOREVER CHRISTMAS! | A Very Merry Match by Melinda Curtis

December 1, 2020

Don’t forget to come back each day this week for more holiday cheer from our pals at FOREVER Publishing and their Christmas romance authors. Today, we’re joined by Melinda Curtis! 

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What’s the name of your latest release?

A VERY MERRY MATCH

What do you love about writing holiday/Christmas romance? 

I enjoy bringing in fun traditions, either drawn from my family or made up (read in magazines or enviously stolen from observing others, lol).

Are your hero and heroine full of Christmas cheer or the holidays bring out the worst in them? 

This year, Mary Margaret is struggling to find her holiday cheer. Doubly important since she’s a kindergarten teacher.

What’s one of your favorite holiday traditions?

My great aunt imposed a One Gift At a Time rule. She moved in with us and insisted she couldn’t enjoy gift opening unless she got to see every gift opened. We’d sit in a circle and starting with the youngest, one person would have the stage to open a gift. Some years, it takes two hours to open gifts at our house! But it does allow the gift giver a moment to shine as well.

Which Christmas movie do you watch on repeat throughout this festive time of year? 

The Christmas Story. I cook with it when the marathon begins.

The best Christmas song is… 

I’ll Be Home For Christmas.

Do you prefer to be home for the holidays, or do you like to travel?

I prefer to be home for Christmas. However, my husband and I have found great joy in traveling on the Thanksgiving weekend – Aloha!

What can readers expect from you next?

Dream a Little Dream is coming your way in March 2021.

COMMENT TO WINWhat’s one of your favorite holiday traditions? Tell us about it in a comment below and you’ll be entered to win a copy of A VERY MERRY MATCH by Melinda Curtis. US one; good luck! 

A VERY MERRY MATCH by Melinda Curtis

Sunshine Valley #2

A Very Merry Match

The holidays are served up with some spice in this small-town romance featuring a woman who must maintain a secret identity and the man who begins falling for her.
This Christmas, all Mayor Kevin Hadley wants is to give his five-year-old son whatever his heart desires. Only Tad has fallen head over holly for his pretty, sweet-as-sugarplum teacher. When attraction sparks between Kevin and Mary Margaret, the single dad thinks she may be the answer to his and his son’s dreams. But after Mary Margaret reluctantly turns him down, Kevin decides it’s time to embark on a new campaign — one for Mary Margaret’s heart.

Mary Margaret Sneed usually spends her holiday baking and caroling with her students. Yet this year, she’s swapped shortbread and sleigh bells for a second job to pay off her late husband’s debts. Mary Margaret would love to go tree trimming with Kevin and his son, but she won’t risk his political future with her controversial side gig. Only the town’s meddling matchmakers have determined there’s nothing a little mistletoe can’t fix . . . and if the Widows Club has their way, Mary Margaret and Kevin may just get the best Christmas gift of all this year.

Includes a bonus novella by Hope Ramsay!

Romance Holiday | Romance Contemporary [Forever, On Sale: September 29, 2020, Mass Market Paperback / e-Book, ISBN: 9781538733455 / eISBN: 9781538733448]

About Melinda Curtis

Melinda Curtis

Although Melinda has lived in Georgia and Texas, she’s a California girl at heart. Her earliest memories are of life on an isolated 50-acre sheep ranch in rural Sonoma County, California. Picture rolling hills covered in brown grass, a eucalyptus forest, a long gravel driveway lined with plump sheep and no sidewalks. It was a big deal to drive into town on a one-lane road in a ramshackle, bubble-fendered pickup for an ice cream.

Flash forward to this century. Melinda lives in California’s hot central valley with her husband – her basketball playing college sweetheart. With three kids the couple has done the soccer thing, the karate thing, the dance thing, the Little League thing and, of course, the basketball thing.

Melinda writes sweet to medium heat contemporary romances as Melinda Curtis and red hot reads as Mel Curtis. She loves writing romances about women who don’t realize how strong they are until a hero comes along to show them, while capturing the wry humorous power struggle of falling in love – because, really, who lets the man have the last word?

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