The Movie Star's Red Hot Holiday Fling: A novella (Entangled Indulgence) (Sweetbriar Springs) (8 page)
Authors: Christine Glover
Tags: #romance, #Springs, #Entangled, #Sweetbriar, #Indulgence
Acknowledgments
Thanks to everyone at Entangled Publishing for helping me craft my very first novella. I appreciate the dedication of the entire staff—the QA and copy editors, business managers, cover artists, and my publisher Liz Pelletier. Many thanks go out to Kate Fall for steering me through the slice and dice waters of revising the story. And I also send my gratitude to Alethea Spiridon Hopson for loving this story enough to send it out to the world.
Once again a big hug of gratitude to my critique partner Pam Mantovani. I could not write these stories without her as my wingman. And as always, I have to thank my family and friends for their ongoing support of my dream to put words on a page and create stories.
Thank you to all my readers, especially the Renegade Romance Readers and my “Serious Book Club” for their enthusiastic response to my debut novel and their encouragement to write this one, too. Y’all rock. And mucho hugs to the Passion Players Street Team for their ongoing “inspiration.” Keep those pictures coming!
A big debt of gratitude goes to Jessie Patterson for brainstorming the first seeds of this story at the library during your lunch break. Thanks for being one of my biggest supporters even when I was an unpublished writer. I hope you love the hero I selected for your namesake as much as I do.
As always hugs to my husband and daughter for putting up with all my crazy writer ways and the countless hours I spend sitting in my chair instead of doing things like cooking, cleaning, and grocery shopping. I love you forever.
I spent countless hours researching how IEDs work and the dangers ordnance explosive experts face. Many thanks go to Colonel David R. Norton, US Army retired, for answering all my questions about the training and types of people who enter military service. I also received a great deal of help from navy combat vet Kelly Jackson. She provided a keen insight into the aftermath of a serious combat injury as well as the recuperation wounded warriors face.
You can discover more about how to help wounded warriors by going to the Wounded Warrior Project website here:
http://www.woundedwarriorproject.org/
About the Author
Born in the Netherlands, Christine moved to Canada where she spent her formative years. Then she married her Texan Alpha Physicist, moved to the United States, and has lived both south and north of the Mason Dixon line. Now Christine resides in Alabama with her husband, two insane cats, and her wonderful daughter. She enjoys finding the silly in the serious, making wine out of sour grapes, and giving people giggle fits along with heartfelt hugs. When she’s not writing, you can find her traveling the world, cooking gourmet food, and desperately seeking a corkscrew.
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