It’s certainly true that my Christmas
books have become amongst my most successful. 
This year
Christmas Wishes makes its debut in the UK at the same time as
Let it Snow and The Christmas Promise go into
paperback in the US and Home for the Holidays is released in
Canada.
There are new releases in Italy and Germany too. All have beautiful,
festive covers and tempt readers with foil titles and shimmering highlights.
Holiday romances are satisfying to write.
All kinds of conflicts seem worse if
you add ‘… at Christmas’.
Who’d want to lose their job at Christmas?
He was told
his friend had died at Christmas.
The joyful parts seem better!
They fell in
love at Christmas.
He learned he was to be a father at Christmas.
With any book
I have a schedule and there are a host of deadlines for the first draft, the
structural edits, line and copy edits, then the proof read … then, bam, we’re
into the marketing. This means a period of pretty intense activity when my
publishers put out their advertising and we all hit social media, people ask me
to sign the book as a gift, it appears in listicles of gift ideas or what to
read this Christmas in magazines and blogs and it features on glossy flyers for
book stores. It’s great but it’s hectic, especially when I’m usually thinking of
next year’s winter book and doing edits on next year’s summer book.
 |
| Sue in Sweden |
Luckily, I have an active imagination and
somehow I can still think myself into one climate while living in another, just
as I can think my way into one country while living in another. Photographs help
a lot so my folder of pictures from last December’s trip to Sweden was open all
the time. A Christmas book every year is a way of life now but I still look back
to a November several years ago when I was at a book signing and other authors’
Christmas books were being snatched up by avid Christmas-gift shoppers. And I
thought, ‘Hmm. Maybe I ought to write one of those …’
Learn more about Sue on her website: http://suemoorcroft.com
