{"id":26426,"date":"2020-12-23T11:17:38","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T17:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=26426"},"modified":"2020-12-23T11:17:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T17:17:40","slug":"wotr21-christmas-shortstory-newsletter-freebie-coldcocked-by-saint-nick-by-melonie-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=26426","title":{"rendered":"#WOTR21 #Christmas #ShortStory #Newsletter #Freebie – Coldcocked by Saint Nick by Melonie Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Coldcocked<\/p>\n

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She never saw it coming\u2026
\nClassic holiday story of boy meets girl,
\nboy knocks girl out with his giant candy-cane,
\nboy falls for girl and they live happily ever after.
\nWell, not exactly. But it\u2019s a start.<\/p>\n

As the pop culture liaison for Chicago\u2019s biggest morning talk show, Tiffany Hunt spends her December covering celebrations, performances, and charity functions. Which is how she winds up onstage as a volunteer host of the annual Jingle Ball, a fundraiser supporting the Testicular Cancer Awareness Foundation. Her packed schedule of holiday events might seem glamorous, but the stressful days often leave Tiffany with a headache\u2014sometimes literally\u2014like when one of the performers accidentally beans her in the back of the skull with a giant plastic candy cane.
\nThe wielder of this oversized peppermint prop turned weapon of destruction is Nick Santos, an occupational therapist who moonlights as a caroling crooner in an a cappella group. When Nick insists on keeping Tiffany company for the evening to make sure she\u2019s feeling all right after bonking her on the head, she\u2019s unable to resist. How can she refuse a doctor\u2019s orders? Besides, she is feeling a little woozy, especially when said hot doctor lays his hands on her\u2026
\nOh, she\u2019s going to be on the naughty list for sure this year.<\/p>\n

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Goodreads<\/a><\/p>\n

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Newsletter sign up for this freebie HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

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Review by Twinsie Angie<\/p>\n

I received this book from the author off her newsletter sign up.<\/p>\n

This was a super cute and super sweet short story.\u00a0 It\u2019s a perfect hour read when you are sitting by the fire and getting excited for the holidays!<\/p>\n

This story is about a Christmas bu-hum bug named Tiffany. She is kinda down on the holiday. She doesn\u2019t really enjoy the season and the magic around it.\u00a0 While not paying attention to the band she is getting ready to talk about after they finish singing,\u00a0 she gets knocked in the head by Nick\u2026well Dr. Nick.<\/p>\n

The story is about how a quick insta-chemistry with the Doctor, who also loves to sing acappella, turns the holiday into the romantic time it surely should be.<\/p>\n

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USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Melonie Johnson\u2014aka #thewritinglush\u2014loves dark coffee, cheap wine, and expensive beer. And margaritas. And mimosas. And mules. Basically any cocktail that starts with the letter m. She met her future husband in that most romantic of places\u2014the mall\u2014when they were teenagers working in stores across the hall from each other. Today, they live happily ever after in the magical land midway between Chicago and Milwaukee with their two redhead daughters, a dog that\u2019s more like a small horse, and a pair of hermit crabs. After earning her Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude from Loyola University Chicago, Melonie taught high school English and Theatre in the northern Chicago suburbs for several years. Now she writes smart and funny contemporary romance and moonlights as an audiobook narrator under the pseudonym, Evelyn Eibhlin. Declared a \u201cwriter to watch\u201d by Kirkus and a \u201cfizzy, engrossing new voice\u201d by Entertainment Weekly, her debut series from St. Martin\u2019s Press, SOMETIMES IN LOVE, has appeared on the Amazon Best Books of the month, and been featured in Cosmopolitan and Woman\u2019s World. Watch for her next rom-com, TOO GOOD TO BE REAL, arriving July 2021.<\/p>\n

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Visit her at meloniejohnson.com and find her on Twitter and Instagram at @MelonieJohnson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

She never saw it coming\u2026 Classic holiday story of boy meets girl, boy knocks girl out with his giant candy-cane, boy falls for girl and they live happily ever after. Well, not exactly. But it\u2019s a start. As the pop culture liaison for Chicago\u2019s biggest morning talk show, Tiffany Hunt spends her December covering celebrations, … Continue reading #WOTR21 #Christmas #ShortStory #Newsletter #Freebie – Coldcocked by Saint Nick by Melonie Johnson<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[578],"tags":[1053],"class_list":["post-26426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wotr-event","tag-melonie-johnson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/wotr21banner2.jpg?fit=2048%2C1069","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSW8H-6Se","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26427,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26426\/revisions\/26427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}