HOLIDAY STRESS RELIEF E-BOOK GIVEAWAY!

Not sure if you noticed, but we have a week between the turkey-and-stuffing coma and the holiday-sh!t-show this year. 

A whole seven days before December 1st mows us down and screams 'you ONLY have 24 days to get your act together'! (Okay, that's probably just me. I am a procrastinator.)

24 days to buy gifts for everyone from the mailman to my mother-in-law.

Crap.

That week's half over now, because I've been busy cleaning up after 45 people popped in for dinner on Thanksgiving. 

It was magical as always, despite the fact that my mom came down with the stomach flu at the last minute. (Did I mention she usually does a lot of the cooking?) 

One of the tweens that visited left us with a lovely concoction in their plastic cup of milk that involved ketchup and some form of food that floats, which left the rest of us ready to be sick, too.

But really, it was a good time. There were 20 people drinking and telling stories in my mudroom, a room off the kitchen that my husband built when we bought this house. (The room is decorated with shiplap and everyone raves about it. Thanks, Fixer Upper.)

Anyway, the house is almost back to normal, on December 1st, my third book baby "Fall" will have it's one month release birthday, and now the chaos of the Christmas season descends upon us.

What's going to be thrown at you? 

Forty of your closest relatives? 

Kid going to be the lead in the school 'holiday' play and needs a costume made out of rare bird feathers? 

Dreaded office party listening to Elsie from accounting drone on about her thirty-pound cat Fluffy chasing Christmas ornaments?

Whatever it is, it's okay. 

I'm here to save you.

For very little effort, you can have three full length novels to distract you from holiday stress.

If you win, I will GIFT you ALL THREE books in THE AMPED SERIES!

(Your choice of: Kindle, Nook, Google Play, iBooks or KOBO) 

Nightcap at our local Small Business Saturday Event "Night Market"

Using your favorite e-book provider, you can download The Amped Series to your device and get lost in the world of my characters anytime you need a break from reality this holiday season. (If you can make them last that long - my readers have a hard time stopping once they start!)*

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TWO WINNERS will be drawn at random on Sunday, 12/03/2017!

*NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR RESULTING BOOK HANGOVERS

Not sure about these books?

Here's the latest review for Book 1 in the series, "Balance":

Alexis Greene has lost her husband. She is a widow and still in her twenties. She is bitter and lost, out of balance. Aidan Pierce's life has been an elevator ride, starting out as low as one can be with a meteoric rise to both fame and fortune. He is bored, unsatisfied and troubled with night terrors born of his abused childhood."Life is a big bag of suck," for both of them and when opposite ends of a business deal bring them together it's a slow, sexy sizzle to the finish line. Alexis is no weak and submissive female, and Aidan is well...perfect. MJ Woods writes grown up romance with a real story. Told in alternating chapters in the first person, she captures two distinct voices and manages to develop characters that are not cliché. Balance is what both characters need and it will be interesting to see where the next book takes them in their journey together. - Carole Roman, Award-Winning Author

Indie Author Goes Rogue on Release Day

Hey everyone.

I'm releasing a new book today, but I'm not going to blah-blah-blah to you about that.

Yep, I'm doing it all wrong as a newbie author. Instead, I'm gonna get real.

Things around here have been a bit chaotic and stressful.

You know that feeling like, "how am I ever gonna get all this sh!t done and not drop the ball on SOMETHING?!"

That's me right about now.

I've been panicking about my book release, that I've forgotten something major. (Too late now. It's live.)

NaNoWriMo starts today. I signed up...I think. Signed up or not, I'm attempting a first draft of my next book by month end.

I barely made it through Halloween with my two littles under age 10, who were hopped up on sugar and fighting about who gets what from their neighborhood begging spree. (We fared okay. Only one skinned knee and two lost costume pieces during trick-or-treat.)

Thanksgiving is coming, when we'll host 50 of our closest family members at our home (we truly LOVE doing it), but it's MADNESS...before, during and after.

Don't even get me started on the chaos of the Christmas season...which Hallmark Channel insists began last week. (My Golden Girls are on hiatus until January. Sigh.)

And as my latest novel is born today, it's also my husband's birthday. He's turning...(nevermind).

I've been stressing about what to do for him, because it is a big one. It ends in a zero, and he's not a spring chicken anymore. I didn't plan a surprise party for him (heart attack risk?), or buy him a big ticket item (I wanted to...but what?)

Truthfully, I think he'd rather let this one slip under the radar, and I get that. I wasn't too happy about my last milestone birthday, either - and he's got a few (okay, 9!) years on me.

But we started celebrating Saturday night, because who wants to do it up if their actual birthday is on a Wednesday?

I planned a surprise day trip to a Classic Car Museum (he loved it), and then a stop at a local brewery we'd never been to (big hit!). The party ended in the wee hours of Sunday morning after too many beers (maybe a couple shots, too). We kicked ass at a karaoke bar with one of our best friends, and she drove us home.

We are just recovering from this outing...and it's Wednesday.

The actual birthday-day.

I'm making a big dinner for the family coming to celebrate, and I hope he knows that even though I didn't get him a fancy gift or throw him a party with a thousand of his close friends, I could not do this life without him.

He designs my covers, and navigates me through technology, and is honest with me when my hair looks bad or I have zits on my face that happen to be symmetrical. (Thank you, stress!) He's also an amazing dad and sings Sinatra like nobody's business.

Happy Birthday, hubs! Thank your lucky stars no one believes you look the age you are, including me. And if all else fails, remember the sign my great-grandfather kept at camp:

Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill.

MJW