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My happy holiday season bucket list
It’s December and although part of me doesn’t know where 2024 has gone (shouldn’t it still be early September?!), we’re now in the midst of what for many is the holiday season. After a busy year in life and writing, I’m set for a slower-paced December complete with a...
Sharing the power of a smile
I’ve been looking at old family photos and it’s fun to see how certain characteristics continue through generations. From noses (unfortunately for me!) to height, ear shape and even gestures, I see many similarities between late relatives and myself and English Rose....
A time for remembering service & sacrifice
Over the next few days, those of us in Canada, the UK, the United States and other countries mark Remembrance Sunday, Remembrance Day, Armistice Day and Veterans Day. These commemorations emerged following the First World War, when the Armistice agreement was signed...
Celebrating publication week for “A Rancher’s Return”
As some of you know from my October newsletter and social media, my latest book as Jen Gilroy, A Rancher’s Return from Harlequin Heartwarming, was published earlier this week. It’s a sweet second chance contemporary western romance and although the fourth (and final)...
Writing buddies, books & bracelets: Harlequin celebrates 75
I spent the last few days of September in Toronto, Canada celebrating Harlequin’s 75th anniversary. It was a wonderful time of learning and socializing, and I returned home inspired and energized. Learning Attending authors took part in a day and a half of workshops...
A shoe dilemma & important book news
As some of you know, I’ll be in Toronto, Canada this week to help celebrate Harlequin Books 75th anniversary. Harlequin Heartwarming publishes my Montana Carters miniseries and the next book, A Rancher's Return, is out in October. As a current Harlequin author, I’ve...
Want to read an early copy of my next book?
Home is…Where their hearts never left As I return to blogging after my summer break, I want to let you know that A Rancher's Return, my next Jen Gilroy sweet, second-chance contemporary romance for Harlequin Heartwarming, will be on a review tour with JustRead...
Visiting my British ‘home’ & a summer blogging break
After five long years when pandemic restrictions and then my own bout with Covid precluded travel, I’m finally able to visit England again this summer. It's still and always will be, important to who I am as a person and writer and one of the places I call 'home.' And...
It’s garage sale season in my world
May and June. In my part of Canada the spring blooms are in full flower, and signs for weekend garage sales pop up as often as dandelions. It's once again the season when people sell things they no longer via their garage or outside their house. When I lived in...
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