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(Release date 12/2 Grace by KC Sprayberry)
Bio: KC Sprayberry started writing young, first as a diarist, and later
through an interest in English and creative writing. Her first experience with
publication came when she placed third in The
Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge contest while in the Air Force, but her
dedication to writing came after she had her youngest child, now in his
senior year of high school.
Her family lives in Northwest
Georgia where she spends her days creating stories about life in the south, and
far beyond. More than a dozen of her short stories have appeared in several
magazines. Five anthologies feature other short stories. She has three books
that are Amazon best sellers: Softly Say
Goodbye, Who Am I?, and Mama's Advice.
Her other novels available are: Take
Chances, Where U @, The Wrong One, The Ghost Catcher, Family Curse … Times Two,
and Secret From The Flames.
Links:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kcsowriter
Website: www.kcsprayberry.com
Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/kcsprayberry/boards/
Authorgraph: http://www.authorgraph.com/authors/kcsowriter
Blurb:
Grace Winston yearns for one last family Christmas
before she leaves for England, but
first she has to convince her brothers and sisters it's worth their while to
come home. While her parents are happy that she's
been accepted at Oxford University, they are pining for their family to gather
together for the holidays. Grace talks her older brothers and sister into
coming home, but then they must convince their other siblings: a brother who attacked their father to get money to feed his drug habit, and a sister
who recently gave up alcohol and is raising her four young children alone.
While Grace manages to bring them all together, she is soon wondering if this was really worth
all the trouble she's gone through, especially when no one acknowledges her efforts to
make this a Christmas to remember--until she
receives an early gift that leaves her certain that
everything will turn out all right.
Excerpt:
Grace Winston had celebrated her eighteenth birthday a mere three weeks ago,
the same day as Thanksgiving. There were no thanks in her house, no special
foods prepared to celebrate her becoming an adult, nothing to mark the day as
unique.
Her parents hadn't said "Happy Birthday" until it
was time to go to bed. Even then, the acknowledgement had sounded more like
"goodnight."
It's not Mama and
Papa's fault. They can't help how sad they are. My brothers and sisters should
have come like they said they would. They're not even making false promises
anymore. All of them claim that they have other plans for Christmas, and we need
to get over our selfish desire to have the family together.
For as far back as she could remember, that day has been
one where her whole family showed up, until her oldest brother, Adam, decided
that he had too much work to spend a week at his childhood home. Mark begged
off the next year, claiming his wife's job required him to appear at the White
House. The others never bothered to make an excuse the year after that.
