Happy New Year – 2026

Happy New Year from Steelestories! And here’s a cover reveal for Isas’s Daughters, book two in the Reclusive series – available January 2, 2026!

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In order to get you ready for book two, I gave away five copies of book one – Reclusive. The winners were Linda R, Sindu, Sue H, Gpayseur, and Andrea W!  Congrats!!

2025 was a jam-packed year – the grands are growing like weeds. Had another super week at the beach and Camp Granddar. This was the little one’s first Camp Granddar and I think it was a hit. Took the older one to Universal for his 10th birthday and spent some quality time at Hogwarts.

 

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Enjoyed more performances at Tanger again this year – Book of Mormon, Beauty and Beast, The Wiz, and The Outsiders. I entered the Goodreads challenge again this year to read 100 books, to date I’ve read 131 and when I write this, the year’s not over.

This year’s counted cross stitch ornaments are here – didn’t do as much this year due to some physical problems with my hands and several other health scares for me and mine, but I did keep typing. One of the roommates created a whole tree just for my ornaments! If you’d like to see past ornaments, head over to my pinterest page – here

    

PK Corey and I went to the Valdese Christmas in November sale and the 3-day Hickory Christmas Show this year – exhausting but wonderful. Hope to see you all there next year.

Had four new books published this year – Reconnections, The Favor (my first historical if you don’t count time travel), Reclusive and Christmas at Monroe House as well as another audio book – Small Changes.   

Also added another e-only book to my paperbacks – Homecoming!

 

Hope your 2025 was wonderful and 2026 is even better! Stop by and see me sometime and let me know what you’re reading.

 

 

 

 

 

Looking a Lot Like Christmas at Steelestories!

Thanks for the fantastic response to my 2025 Christmas novella –
Christmas at Monroe House!

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The 2-day Christmas in November Craft and Gift Show in Valdese was a big hit and I got to see tons of people. Looking forward to the Hickory Christmas Show in Hickory, NC on December 5-7. PK and I hope to see you there!

 

Use our discount code of STEELE to save $2.00 on tickets. Link to ticket sales here.

Wanted to pay tribute and thanks to Robert Steele this month. He created my covers for years in addition to being one of my talented first cousins. He passed away in November but his family, his intellect, and his talent remain – here are some of the lovely covers he created for me…

Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving – ours was super!

 

Have a wonderful, safe holiday celebrating whatever you like – enjoy!  See you next year!

     

 

Cover Reveal for Christmas at Monroe House

Check out my 2025 Christmas novella – Christmas At Monroe House!
On pre-order now and live on November 4!

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Marian has one week to get the historic house ready for Christmas. She’s short-staffed and frantic, so of course she’s expected to host some old historian around so he can write the book she wanted to write.

Evan had plans for the holidays—a ski trip to rekindle his relationship. Now he’s forced into giving up the trip to investigate a historic mansion for a book he needs for tenure. Well happy damn holidays…

 

Cover Reveal!

Check out this year’s Christmas Novella – Christmas at Monroe House

Marian has one week to get the historic house ready for Christmas. She’s short-staffed and frantic, so of course she’s expected to host some old historian around so he can write the book she wanted to write.

Evan had plans for the holidays—a ski trip to rekindle his relationship. Now he’s forced into giving up the trip to investigate a historic mansion for a book he needs for tenure. Well happy damn holidays…

 

 

 

And check out my previous Christmas novellas!!