2024 in review: Joy Rich

Date: 1st April 2024, Posted by mollie

Discover the key to a joy-rich life 💖 🌈💕 Reflecting on a year of growth and success…

As I shared in my 2023 review, a fun ritual I’ve recently started is beginning the day with a one-word intention. Words hold vibrations. Some words lift us higher, and some lower us. Words guide us, and words deliver the things we want in our lives (or not…depending on whether you’re using word wands or wielding swords). The way you flourish your words affects how or if you manifest your desires.

This year, I’ve themed 2024 around the words Joy Rich. Joy is one of the highest vibrational states we can achieve. It embodies so many energies—love, peace, happiness…and, of course, joy! For me, it embodies the passion and purpose I have for storytelling—to send love letters to the world and to write about the themes important to me. I also love providing the ultimate distraction for myself and my readers—gorgeous escapist reads.

I began the year by publishing the second book in the Sheikh’s Untamed Brides series:

Stolen By The Sheikh

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★★★★★ “I loved Stolen By The Sheikh! The depth of emotions touched my heart!”
Award-winning author Mollie Mathews returns with another heartfelt exploration of the power of love and second chances. Perfect for fans of love stories by Danielle Steel, Sarah Morgan, and Jojo Moyes

Fiercely independent contemporary artist Lucy Ford was absolutely content with her life—until the day maverick Sheikh Anwar na Hassir strolled into her gallery and back into her life. Anwar could not, would not, must not ever know the truth. Not if she was to keep her child.

Luring Lucy to his desert Kingdom, somewhere between the magic of the desert and the stroll along the ocean, she lets him steal her heart. Only to discover that love, once given, can never be returned.

If you love second-chance romance after heartbreak books, you’ll love this exotic second-chance romance.

This is a standalone, clean, and wholesome romance novel. It contains a guaranteed HEA and a tale of romance that will capture your heart.

INCLUDES 3 BONUS CHAPTERS
Claimed By The Sheikh

If you love clean romance with all your favourite tropes, including:

• Enemies to lovers

• Secret babies

• Opposites attract

• Wrong sides of the track

You’ll love Stolen By The Sheikh

GET YOUR COPY TODAY…

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Five Nights With The Duke (Prequel): A later-in-life, fake engagement romance

“In a few pages, this author had me deep into her story: Harriette is a mature woman, an only child who cannot inherit her father’s title or estate and is left at the mercy of a cousin. Rather than be sold off to a bad marriage, she has gotten herself a governess position so she can remain independent and pursue her own hobbies. I could not penalize this as a cliffhanger although it sure left me ready for the book to follow.”

Well, this is fun. For many moons I have wanted to write a historical romance—and began to do so. Finally, a few days out from Lovers Day (Valentine’s Day), I have published the prequel to my first Regency romance, 5 Nights With The Duke…with a new pen name, Eloisa George.

Love Is A Dangerous Art

A later-in-life, fake engagement romance
Henry Lawrence, the notorious Duke of Bedford, must wed quickly and nobly—and his choices, alas, are few. Newly arrived governess Harriet Hartwell is exquisitely beautiful and fiercely intelligent.
Bedford determines to betroth himself to Harri without further ado. As to her lost title and fortune, the fake engagement need only endure 5 nights under his father’s scrutiny. But 5 nights with the Duke is the last thing fiercely independent aspiring artist Harri wants.

The week before Easter I held a storytelling retreat in my art studio. It was magic—and so joy-rich! I loved reading the following social media post to her friends from one of the participants, a women in her 50s who had given up her dream of writing

“Many of you know that I wanted to be a writer when I was little, and as a teen. I’d type for hours on my electric typewriter.

But my dreams got stymied as an 18 year old and I stopped writing creatively and a little bit of me broke that day. I struggled to write creatively again.

I’ve also had a novel in my head the past 22 years but have never written anything more than the main characters names, even though they’re alive in my head. I’ve not had the confidence to ever start.

A couple of months ago my good friend Nicola sent me a post about a writers retreat with @the_joyful_artiste. Well before i could rescind, I booked and paid and committed.

Last weekend rolled around with fatigue and trepidation but I had committed so I went north for the weekend. Despite my body rallying against me.

And it was transformative.

And I wrote. And wrote. And wrote some more. Little short stories.

Then at the end of Day 1. I started Chapter 1 of “THE BIG NOVEL”. After 22 years it was there.

Then day 2 I had 6 pages written and the characters started coming to life.

I had the privelige of spending two glorious days with Cass and Heather – two phenomenal women. We were transported into a portal of creativity, love, silliness, sassiness and strength.

And I couldn’t be more thankful that the writing spirits dragged my ass up north.”

During Easter, I typed ‘The End’ on BOUGHT BY THE SHEIKH, the third book in the Sheikhs Untamed Brides series, and sent it out to my fab team of Beta readers. BOUGHT BY THE SHEIKH.

On the Aries new moon, April 8th I published it. You’ll find all the links and a fun video on my website>>

THE JOY OF VARIETY

I do love variety…working on different books, short and long, modern and historical and a host of other things keeps me interested. I’m a discovery writer and I love to write about the themes, people, places and subjects that interest me—like lipstick and chocolate!

I’m in the early stages of writing Beautiful and For The Love of Chocolate and a variety of other novels. Join my newsletter subscribers to stay in the know. Sign up here: http://eepurl.com/cigEsH

LOVE IN MONTANA (PREQUEL)

I’m thrilled with early reviews from my small town romance, Love in Montana. In April I released the teaser, a prequel with the first four chapters.

Here’s the blurb:

Pretending to fall in love has never been so easy…

Ethical corporate raider and billionaire rancher Jack Archer would give every dollar to bring his mother and father back from the fatal car crash that killed them when he was only four. Instead of starting fresh, he’s tied to the ranch his parents created from scratch, and he loves every wild acre of it.

When his grandfather demands that he find a bride or lose his inheritance, the legacy his dad and mom helped build for him, Jack is furious. He loves his freedom, and he doesn’t want a wife. But he’ll do what it takes. He needs a bride, and he needs her fast.

New York lawyer Elizabeth Buckley has lost everything. First, the man she thought she’d marry, then her reputation, and then her job, following the brutal, back-stabbing, slanderous betrayal by her best friend.

Former best friend, make that.

She escapes into fantasy and decides to channel her inner Beth Dutton and escape for three weeks to Montana. In a fateful moment, she meets a handsome heart throbbing cowboy, and unexpected flames spark to life inside her broken heart. But she is suspicious when Jack makes a crazy offer of marriage in exchange for the money she needs to rebuild her life.

The full story releases in June to all book stores, meanwhile, I hope you enjoy the prequel.

Enjoy this book through the links below…FREE FOR KINDLE UNLIMITED READERS

To enjoy your copy from Amazon:

US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D1JDG2PG

CA: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0D1JDG2PG

UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0D1JDG2PG

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Universal Link: https://mybook.to/LoveInMontanaPrequel

Love in Montana, Book three in the True Love Series, releases June 30! What joy!

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I HOPE YOU LOVE THIS FREE EXCERPT! READ LIZZY and JACK’S ROCKY JOURNEY TO TRUE LOVE>>

Free Chapters Love In Montana

TRUE LOVE. PURE HEART.

Preorder this book through the links below…

AMAZON US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CRR3VDYP

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AMAZON AU: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0CRR3VDYP

UNIVERSAL LINK: https://mybook.to/LoveInMontana

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Toward the end of April I released a collection of short love stories.

Loss, Hope, and Healing…It’s never too late for love

Everyone deals with loss, whether it’s the death of parents, bereavement, retrenchment, a fracture in a relationship, a wayward child, a financial loss, betrayal, or something more tragic. There are no exceptions: everyone will live in those shadows. Award-winning author and artist Mollie Mathews provides a collection of love stories, capturing her way of embracing the shadow and living in light.

Click the link to take a look at the stories in the What is Soft is Strong: Bittersweet Short Love Stories collection

Thanks for reading! Have a great week, full of fun moments and happy days,

love, Mollie

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