A warm welcome to author Lynda Aicher joining us today here at Love Bytes to talk about her newest release “Champagne Kisses”.
Welcome Lynda 🙂

Holiday Traditions

It’s that time of year where a lot of people follow “traditions.” Those activities or events that have been passed down for generations or maybe newly created a few years ago and repeated annually. They bring back memories, warm feelings and often remind us of the simple things we forget during the rush of life.

I think they’re all wonderful, whether it’s using my grandmother’s cookie cutters or going to the same farm every year to cut down our tree. But I truly love the unique and quirky ones that evolve unwittingly.

In our house, we always go out for lunch on Christmas Eve and then see a movie. The lunch thing started before we had kids and the movie was added one year to fill time. The next year my daughter declared the movie part of our tradition and hence it became one. I also buy my husband the craziest ornament I can find. That one started twenty years ago on our first Christmas together when I bought him a glass pig ornament for no real reason. We now have a blue skiing hippo, a green dinosaur, a pirate parrot and more because as my son says, “You never know when you’re going to need a sparkly blue duck.”

In Champagne Kisses, Evan has a tradition of making pasta for his Christmas dinner. I actually stole this from my husband. Yes, that was his tradition before we started dating. He didn’t go to his parents or friends, so he’d stay home by himself and make a pasta feast for dinner.

Coming from a family that always got together for big dinners and celebrations, I was a bit appalled by his quiet, little evening. However, it worked for him and now that we live on the other side of the country from our families, we also have a quiet, little Christmas. One where we stay in our PJ’s all day and have a roast for dinner. That’s our tradition and I love it.

What are some of your favorite holiday traditions?

About Champagne Kisses

The Christmas Eve wedding Evan Cleary pulled together in four weeks is crashing down around him and taking his fledgling event planning business with it. With an empty altar and over a hundred guests arriving soon, he turns to the resistant, gorgeous brother of the runaway groom for help.

When Richard Patterson’s flamboyant brother storms out hours before he’s scheduled to marry his equally dramatic partner, Richard is left dealing with the fallout. The last thing he wants is more drama, yet he can’t deny his attraction to the effeminate event planner trying to salvage the wedding.

Evan thinks his crush on Richard is a lost cause, but one steaming kiss later, he learns different. What starts as a night of hot sex turns into a connection neither expected. But Evan knows their relationship is hopeless unless the ultra-conservative Richard can embrace every part of him—both in private and in public.

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About Lynda Aicher

I love to read. It’s a simple fact about me that has been true since I discovered the worlds of Judy Blume at the age of ten. This love of reading transferred to young romance (the early version of Young Adult when the stories weren’t plagued by vampires, werewolves, and death) which hooked me on the romance genre and the fulfillment that comes with a happy-ever-after ending.

Twenty-five years later, I’m still an avid reader of all types of romance. The diversity of writing in the market ensures that there is always something new to read. I’m still a sucker for the happy-ever-after because there are more than enough not-so-happy endings in the real world that I don’t need to read about them. I read a book for enjoyment and I want to feel good when the story ends.

I have the luxury of being a full-time writer, that is, a full-time writer around my duties as mom, wife, cleaner, cook, chauffeur, master scheduler, banker, cheerleader, volunteer, and tutor. Writing has to be a priority, or it would never happen.

I live in the Pacific Northwest which provides many months of rain-filled incentive to stay indoors and write. However, I’m a Midwesterner at heart. A perfect day has the snow falling outside, a fire warming the room, a football game on the television, a roast cooking in the oven, my family hanging out around me and a good book to read.

I’m thrilled to be nominated for a 2015 Romance Writers of America RITA® award (that’s the Oscars of the romance world) for my Male/Male book Bonds of Denial. This is the first time any M/M books have been nominated and I’m humbled to be a part of such a great event.

Connect with Lynda:

• Website: lyndaaicher.com
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/lyndaaicherauthor
• Twitter: @lyndaaicher

To celebrate the release of Champagne Kisses, Lynda Aicher is giving away a $50 gift card to Amazon! Your first comment at each stop on this tour enters you in the drawing. Entries close at midnight, Eastern time, on December 19, 2015. Contest is NOT restricted to U.S. Entries. Follow the tour for more opportunities to enter the giveaway, and don’t forget to leave your email or method of contact so Riptide can reach you if you win!