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Jessica Lemmon
Bestselling 🍋 Author
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Holiday Reads

*including my latest release, A Christmas Proposition!

 
“Purely delicious fun.”
— Publisher's Weekly
“Genuine sizzle.”
— Library Journal
 
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Jessica Lemmon

is the bestselling author of over two dozen romance novels, an animal lover, and joy advocate. She’s currently living #lakelife in the Midwest with her rescue dog Daisy and husband John.

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🍋 Behind the Scenes! 🍋⠀ ⠀ Here at the Lemmon household @mrlemmony and I are revving up for a verrah bizzah weekend like 😱. It's a good kind of excitement, though... I just wish I had time to do all my work stuff + personal stuff! (P.S., I need a house manager) But since I know you don't want to hear about my house to-do's and recipe planning, how about I instead share some of the exciting upcoming projects in the works?⠀ ⠀ 🍋 Podcast! It's not live yet, and I'm still futzing with the website, but the hubs will soon go LIVE with his podcast, so stay tuned for updates at @melemmony. (He occasionally has guests and so far I've been that guest 3 times... I LOVE IT.)⠀ ⠀ 🍋 A California series is in the works for 2020! I pitched a tight-knit family of billionaires to my Harlequin editor jam-packed with fun tropes like the wrong brother, exes getting back together, and road trip... stay tuned!⠀ ⠀ 🍋 I have a women's fiction idea out to editors right. now. AND, I have another in mind to follow that one. Do you like female-lead heavy dramas and comedies? I don't know if this will be a new direction or more something I just want to try but I'm excited to try it out!⠀ ⠀ 🍋 Artwork is coming! I've been ridiculously pokey about launching @lemmony, but it's coming, guys, I swear! It's on my list to revamp the website... as soon as I figure out what it is I want to offer! I've gone from writing health posts to selling graphic design packages, and now I'm starting to consider cartooning and selling prints. SO MANY DREAMS, SO LITTLE TIME!⠀ ⠀ 🍋 My word of the year... I haven't settled on an end of the year program yet for goal-setting, and at this point might just create my own! Any of you using any that you love? I've done Holiday Council (Stratejoy) and Powersheets both.⠀ ⠀ 🍋 Color Street continues poppin' despite my thinking I'd take a huge step back with the holidays arriving. That said, there's no way to close my store doors when you all are eager to shop! I'm told there will be an exciting offer coming up... I await that offer with bated breath! (Link in profile!) ⠀ ✨Help me out... QUESTION FOR YOU! Which one would make you the most excited if I launched it NOW??? 🍋 Lets talk dresses! 🍋⠀ ⠀ This pretty was sent to me by Stitch Fix after I told my stylist I was spending my 20th wedding anniversary in California. It’s navy blue with little cut-outs in the back and sides and it’s just about the shortest skirt I’ve ever worn! At 5’7” I’m more comfortable in a longer length but I loved the style so much that I kept and wore it. The shoes 👠 are a pair of 4” heels and I have to concentrate on every step I take in them so that I don’t topple over. 😂⠀ ⠀ One of the reasons that I love to write heroines in heels and pretty dresses 👗 is because I spend a lot of time in stylish, but comfy, leggings and athleisure wear and not enough time in dressy clothes. Our trip to Cali made me want to dress up more often! ⠀ ⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #dressydress #thisauthorlife #jessicalemmon #lovelemmon #authorsofinstagram #authorlife #throwback #writersofinsta #weddinganniversary #ifeelpretty #celebrations #popthechampagne #heels👠 #dressforher #stitchfix #stylist #stylistsofinstagram #winecountry #sonomavalley #californian #🍋 🎄 Any Grinch fans out there? 🎄 ⠀ ⠀ Daisy received her BarkBox recently and honestly it was a gift for all of us... at her expense. 😆 I laughed so hard at her wearing "Max's antler" (from The Grinch Who Stole Christmas). And if she looks like she's about to explode from excitement in the photo of her facing camera, it's because I hastily grabbed a treat from the box to bribe her into posing. After, I examined the treat bag to find out what that weirdly weightless, airy treat was... ⠀ ⠀ Freeze-dried beef lung, as it turned out. *HURK* 🤢 ⠀ ⠀ It's her new favorite thing. The antler headband, not so much...⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #dogsofinstagram #barkboxday #barkbox #thegrinch #grinchmax #daisydoodle #dogsofig #authorsofinstagram #writingpartner #lovelemmon #jessicalemmon #🍋 First off: WELCOME, WELCOME new followers! I’m so thrilled you decided to connect with me here! In keeping with my promise, I’m sharing some Insta-exclusive behind the scenes today! 😘⠀ ⠀ We’re less than a week away from what my family affectionately calls “Turkey Day!” If you’re not in the U.S., that’s Thanksgiving and it’s a time we gather around a dinner table with our families to eat … and eat and eat and eat. 🤢⠀ ⠀ This year, I’ve been asked to host and my mom is bringing her specialties: stuffing, homemade yeast rolls, and sweet potatoes with little marshmallows on top. She’s also bringing a turkey breast instead of the whole bird for my stepdad and brother, because honestly, almost none of us care about eating turkey on Thanksgiving! I’d love to go without it and adopt a turkey instead from a sanctuary, but tradition being what it is, I’ll just have to settle for not eating it. 🦃💕⠀ ⠀ I LOVE to include holidays in my books—I’ve written several Christmas novels—but did you know I also wrote Thanksgiving into a few books as well? While it’s not an inherently “romantic” holiday, it’s a great opportunity to get together with family, especially in a budding romance where the heroine and hero are just getting to know each other…⠀ ⠀ Check out my blog to read the never-before-shared excerpts for these books by clicking the link in my Insta profile, then come back here and tell me this: DID THANKSGIVING SUDDENLY SOUND ROMANTIC AFTER ALL?⠀ ⠀ xo,⠀ 🍋⠀ ⠀ ✦ ⠀ ✦ ⠀ ✦ ⠀ ⠀ #thanksgivingromance #romancereads #romancebooks #booknerd #thanksgiving #attitudeofgratitude #authorsofinstagram #authorsofig #bookgasm #readersofinstagram #romanceauthor #bookcover #ebook #book #romancenovel #amreading #authorlife #lovelemmon #bookish #jessicalemmon #holidayromance #christmasromance #snowedinromance #badboyromance #readingromance #🍋 ✨What I’m Reading 👻⠀ ⠀ How many of you watched The Haunting of Hill House on Netflix? How many of you had to space it out because it was so friggin scary?! 🤚🏻 I did! I LOVE scary movies and ghost stories. Kudos to the director/s on this show because CONFESSION: I screamed during episode 8! A literal SHRIEK! 😱 John said I scared HIM. Ha! I’m still seeing the bowler hat guy and bent-neck lady when I close my eyes at night and I finished watching over a week ago. ⠀ ⠀ I started poking around online and found out that the show was based on a book of the same name written in 1959. I read the first few paragraphs and was hooked! But I had to have the modern cover, so here we are. Now if only I’m brave enough to start it... 😬⠀ ⠀ I also finished up Lauren Graham‘s Talking as Fast as I Can, read Serena Bell’s short Rescue Me (Which only made me hungry for more Serena Bell), AND I read Rachel Van Dyken’s Cheater. (Pure fun!) Whew! Busy week! ⠀ ⠀ 📚 What’s are you reading this week?⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #thehauntingofhillhouse #amreading #scarymovies #scarybooks #booklover #authorslife #authorsofig #authorsofinstagram #lovelemmon #jessicalemmon #laurengraham #talkingasfastasican #serenabell #readingromance #rachelvandyken #rvd #romancereader #🍋 🧘 Behind the Scenes 🧘⠀ ⠀ On social media and when you meet me, you will see me smiling, filled with energy and zest and ready to take on the world! And honestly, I'm that way a lot at home, too! But not always! Certain days I'm achey and grouchy and just need to sit in a corner until I learn how to be grateful for what I have. Can any of you relate? 🤨⠀ ⠀ I've done yoga for at least 20 years. It's restorative and perfect for me since high endurance exercises typically make me crash and burn. Whenever I stray too far from my yoga practice, I notice I'm cranky and irritable and worst of all: STIFF. I have a lot of inflammation, half in thanks to stress and that coffee and wine I love so much, but also in part to heredity. My family has a history of arthritis and lupus and sarcoidosis, and I've been personally diagnosed with Epstein Barr and CFS. (Yikes!)⠀ ⠀ 🍋 Lemmon Wisdom: I focus on living my life AROUND my diagnosis. The body is completely capable of healing itself but we have to help it out! We have to eat our veggies and limit sugar and know when to stop stressing and start forgiving.⠀ ⠀ ✨Anyway! ✨ I'd gotten away from yoga for a few weeks and on Monday I was anxious (read: hormonal... help me out ladies, who's been there?! 🙋🏼‍) and decided to do some PM Yoga and see if it helped. Well. It didn't only help, it was LIFE CHANGING. 🧘 20 minutes of stretching later and I slept like a rock. The hubs remarked on Tuesday morning that he slept amazing, too, thanks to doing Yoga before bed. I woke a little sore but not STIFF and crackling like a box of Rice Krispies. So, y'know, I should probably do that more often?! 🙃 Why is it that we always stray from the things that WORK?⠀ ⠀ 💛 ACCOUNTABILITY. Help me out here... I'm vowing to you to do another 20 minute yoga class today, so make sure you ask me if I did it! There's no reason we all can't feel our best even when we don't feel *the* best. Yoga is that secret formula for getting me out of my funk.⠀ ⠀ 📲: I use @yogastudioapp .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #yoga #yogaeverydamnday #yogalove #yogalife #yogainspiration #yogagirl #yogachallenge #authorsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #romanceauthor #authorlife #lovelemmon #🍋 🍋 DID YOU KNOW...⠀ ⠀ Last year I released a Christmas short story that acts as an Epilogue to the Cranes! That's right. If you've read and loved the Billionaire Bad Boys series (the Billionaire Bachelor, the Billionaire Next Door & the Bastard Billionaire), you can read alllll about how they're celebrating the Christmas in this short story!⠀ ⠀ ✨BONUS #1: Each character has a POV, so you can revisit and hang out in their heads.⠀ ✨ BONUS #2: Alex "Big" Crane (Dad) also has a POV! I love seeing his grown kids through his eyes.⠀ ✨ NOW AVAILABLE on Apple Books! Previously, due to a very strange discrepancy this book wasn't on Apple, but now it is! I'm so thrilled to offer another way to catch up with the Cranes.⠀ ⠀ 👉🏻 Go to my #linkinprofile for purchase details⠀ 👉🏻 Swipe to see the cover of this baby (it's heavenly)⠀ 👉🏻 Drop a comment below if you read this last Christmas. What did you love about it?⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #christmasstory #christmasromance #shortstory #jessicalemmon #lovelemmon #readforfun #acranefamilychristmas #billionaires #badboys #billionairebadboys #authorsofig #authorsofinstagram #readersofinstagram #musthavebooks #novella #epilogue #🍋 🍋 Merry... Thanksgiving? ⠀ ⠀ I know it's only November but it's been 30-something degrees lately here in the Midwest and it's supposed to snow today. Which means... I can decorate for Christmas NOW??? Or maybe that's not a great idea since...⠀ ⠀ ✨I am✨ hosting Thanksgiving dinner! I must be an adult because this year Thanksgiving dinner is at my house. Whaaaat? (I begged. I pleaded. I won.) My mom makes the best stuffing in the world, so she's on stuffing duty, and she is also bringing turkey 🦃 since I'm only interested in the sides not the meat, which means I get to play in the kitchen making all sorts of yummy sides! We have butternut squash from the garden, so I'm excited to roast that in the oven with a little sage or maybe 🎃 pumpkin pie spice, or... I'm not sure yet. I'm also making mashed potatoes, though I may buck tradition and *also* make some pan-fried crispy "smashed" fingerlings. 🥔 I'm making green beans, too, though I'm not sure yet if I'm doing the traditional casserole. AND I'm baking an 🍎 applesauce cake which is spicy and moist and baked in a bundt pan which automatically means it's fancy. ✨⠀ ⠀ Okay. Maybe I am excited about Thanksgiving! (But I can still put my tree up, right?!) 🎄⠀ ⠀ 💛 MY U.S. FRIENDS: What's your favorite dish to eat or make for Turkey Day?⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #christmastime #turkeytime #turkeyday #happyturkeyday #vegetarianthanksgiving #veggiethanksgiving #thanksgivingdinner #christmastree #christmascomesearly #christmasvibes #prettyinpink #pinkchristmas #lovelemmon #jessicalemmon #designyourlife #designlife #writerlife #authorsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #christmasromance #🍋 🍋 CHALLENGE! 🍋⠀ ⠀ Who’s participating in NaNoWriMo this year? National Novel Writing Month challenges writers new and seasoned to pen a first draft in November. Or, well, 50,000 words of it anyway. I participated in NaNoWriMo once and that’s it! I was writing everyday or editing anyway so the timing didn’t really work out after I was published. Whether you’re midway through your NaNo project or not, I have a challenge for you...⠀ ⠀ 🤪 Distraction is one of the biggest enemies of writing new words. You *think* you’re writing since you spent an hour at your desk, but how many times did you peek at your phone, scroll through Instagram, or text a friend? While all of those activities aren’t in and of themselves “bad,” if they’re stalling your progress, they can be!⠀ ⠀ ✨15 MIN DEEP WORK CHALLENGE✨⠀ If you haven’t experienced real deep work on your project recently, I challenge you to shut down the internet, put your phone on airplane mode, and open your project. Set a timer for 15 minutes and start typing. Can’t type? Write on a notebook. Can’t do that? Sit and look at the page you’re on and decide what comes next. ⠀ ⠀ Progress is easy when we remove all other distractions from our sacred writing time. After that 15, do another. After that 15, do 15 more. Once you start honoring the time to do deep work it becomes something you crave!⠀ ⠀ Happy writing!⠀ xo, 🍋⠀ ⠀ ⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #lovelemmon #jessicalemmon #romancecommunity #writetip #writingtip #nanowrimo #romancebooks #booksbooksbooks #writersofig #writingofinstagram #authorsofinsta #authorsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #writersofIG #🍋 ✨ Thank you for being YOU. ✨⠀ ⠀ I’ve been thinking a lot about community lately, in particular the one that I'm an active part of: romance readers & writers. I'm a reader first (a decade of devouring Harlequin romances that made me first consider writing one of my own!), and a writer second, but oh, is that ever my favorite part! ⠀ ⠀ You probably noticed that I love offering #writetips and #motivationalmonday quotes in support of writers - new and seasoned. I'm hyperaware that at any given moment my dear writer friends can suffer a felling blow. A "bad" review, a sticky plot sitch, or even just the drudgery of creating on demand. Writing is the best business in the world, but it's also a challenging one at times. We work alone: iMessage is our water cooler, the vending machine is our fridge, and casual Friday is every day if we want it to be. Because it's solitary, we have to actively seek community, and whether it's the occasional "checking in" email, social media comment, or the (almost) daily chatter with my inner circle, these friends regularly sustain my well-being.⠀ ⠀ Within the romance community, there are also treasured readers, and though there are thousands upon thousands of authors (and new ones every day!), somehow you continue to find me and read my work. I love you for it! ⠀ ⠀ Perfect World Community for me consists of people who:⠀ ⠀ 🍋 Want for each other, not from each other⠀ 🍋 Celebrate each other's success big & small⠀ 🍋 Don't have time to troll because they're too busy making the world better⠀ 🍋 Offer advice when asked and encouragement when not asked⠀ ⠀ If you're reading this, you can probably tick off each of those lemons with a big, green YES checkmark, which means you are freaking AWESOME and WE NEED YOU. *I* NEED YOU! Without readers there’d be no reason to write. Without writer friends, I'd be hopelessly lonely. Thank you for being you and being here and spreading joy. 💛＆🍋⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #lovelemmon #jessicalemmon #romancecommunity #romanceblogger #romancereader #romanceforever #romancebooks #booksbooksbooks #readersdoitbetter #communityiseverything #authorsofig #authorsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #writersofIG #🍋
 
 

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