Welcome USA TODAY Bestselling Author Tara Taylor Quinn

CHRISTMAS BABIES AND A GIVEAWAY!

I’m so happy to be here with you all today!! It’s my first visit and I’ve really enjoyed my initial look around, finding a lot of jewels. I’m heading back for more in-depth exploration! I’ve been at this writing gig a long time and I love that I can still find new perspective, aha moments, and books in which I can lose myself and find myself in the process.

I’m currently seeing my 86^th and 87^th Harlequin books published. (89^th and 90^th overall.) And I’m a newbie, too, having just joined the sisterhood over at Harlequin Special Edition. In August I celebrated my first SE release with Her Lost and Found Baby. Book one of The Daycare Chronicles. This month it’s number two with An Unexpected Christmas Baby, and then next month, Fortune’s Christmas Baby. That’s a lot of baby!!

An Unexpected Christmas Baby

Baby with the ttq spin on it. I write intense, emotional fiction. An Unexpected Christmas Baby, Book Two of the Daycare Chronicles, is on WalMart shelves right now. And I’m worried sick about it. (I’ve got that part of the writer’s life down pat.) It’s such a cute cover. The title is great. Both reflect my story, but probably aren’t what new readers will expect when they pick up the book. The story is about a heroine who grew up with privilege and couldn’t have the one thing she wanted most. And a hero who grew up in a trailer with holes in the floor and a druggie mother – when he wasn’t being shoveled around the foster care system. They’ve both made the most of the lives they were given. They both have very clear plans set in motion for their futures. Plans they’ve made consciously and work toward with determination. She’s determined to find the thief stealing from the family business and the hero is her prime suspect. He’s been told his mother has just died in prison – giving birth to a girl that she’s bequeathed to him – and needs his job more now than ever.

Fortune’s Christmas Baby

And then, coming to the shelves immediately after An Unexpected Christmas Baby is Fortune’s Christmas Baby.  Part of the famous Fortune’s of Texas, this book also took on the ttq flair. A secret baby romance became an intensely emotional roller coaster as two people from vastly different cultures try to figure out a way to be parents while living in two different cities in two different states. During their brief fling he’d lied to her about who he was. And who he wasn’t. She lost her parents to his world and just can’t go there. His whole family is there and he can’t leave.

I love Christmas. To the point that I keep at least one little Christmas memento up in every room in my house all year long. Usually subtle, other’s might not even know they’re there. But I do. They’re my reminders of what I believe in most – the hope and love that are the only road to true joy and happy moments. The hope and love that are the only power that can truly sustain us. To me, that hope and love come out in others most strongly at Christmas time. The magic that transcends regular daily life and routine – brought alive in a child when she hopes that Santa will bring her something that her parents might not otherwise get for her – is real. It’s the embodiment of the ability to hope inside every one of us. And in the love that grants us things beyond what we can earn and provide for alone. Writing Christmas stories is a natural for me. It follows that I’ve done a LOT of them!

To celebrate the releases of my first two Special Edition Christmas stories, I’m giving away two of my more recent Harlequin Superromance Christmas stories here today. A Family For Christmas (another intensely emotional Christmas read involving a mother who’s on the run, believing that she killed her six-year-old daughter) and The Holiday Visitor, a pen pal romance that isn’t meant to ever be more than that. This giveaway will be eBook only to make it open internationally. In order to be entered to win, simply share this post to any of your social media outlets. More shares, more entries! To make certain your shares are accounted for, leave a comment here, letting me know about them!

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Tara Taylor Quinn is a USA TODAY bestselling, award-winning author of intense emotional fiction with 89 published novels and more than seven million copies sold. She has appeared on TV across the country, including CBS Sunday Morning. Tara has been under contract with Harlequin Books, the world’s leading publisher of romance fiction, since 1992 and recently accepted another multi-book contract with the publisher. She also has two independently published works, and a biographical work published with a non-fiction publisher. And she is a secret dog whisperer. Tara supports the National Domestic Violence Hotline. If you or someone you know might be a victim of domestic violence in the United States, please contact 1-800-799-7233.