Writing a Holiday Story
Fall has the best holidays. Don’t you think so? Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. In my family we also have all our birthdays, two in September, one in November, one in December, and I’m in January (Winter, but close enough). So, celebrations happen every other week between birthdays and holidays. But in addition to all the holidays and family celebrations, the weather is cooler so we get to go up to the mountains to play in the snow, pick apples and drink hot chocolate. And the food is amazing. These are my favorite months. Without intending to, I seem to set most, if not all, of my stories in the fall. But should writers include holidays like Christmas in their stories? Will this still make books unrelatable, let’s say, in the summer as a beach read? I think a good book can be read any time of the year. But there are obviously, advantages and disadvantages to branding a book a “holiday” book. I remember when Silhouette Romance used to put out a Christmas gift box