{"id":6288,"date":"2015-10-03T07:02:29","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T06:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/?p=6288"},"modified":"2015-10-03T07:02:29","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T06:02:29","slug":"spend-christmas-at-coorah-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/reading\/spend-christmas-at-coorah-creek\/","title":{"rendered":"Spend Christmas at Coorah Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6289\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6289\" style=\"width: 244px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/CaCC-final.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6289\" src=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/CaCC-final.jpg\" alt=\"Your ticket Down Under for the festive season.\" width=\"244\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6289\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Your ticket Down Under for the festive season.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I know it\u2019s far, far too early to be talking about Christmas, but I\u2019m getting excited already because this year I\u2019m inviting all my readers to spend <em>Christmas at Coorah Creek<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A funny thing happened last year.<\/p>\n<p>I had just finished writing The Wild One \u2013 and was thinking &#8230; what next?<\/p>\n<p>Then I heard someone mention Christmas.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I got to thinking about the difference between the chilly (and sometimes snowy) Christmas where I live in England \u2013 and the Christmas experiences of my childhood, in the blazing heat of mid-summer in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>So this book was born\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>What if you don\u2019t want to be home for Christmas?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Spending Christmas away from home is one thing but English nurse Katie Brooks is spending hers in Coorah Creek; a small town in the Australian outback.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Katie was certain leaving London was the right decision, but her new job in the outback is more challenging than she could have ever imagined.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Scott Collins rescued Katie on her first day in Coorah Creek and has been a source of comfort ever since. But Scott no longer calls the town home \u2013 it\u2019s too full of bad memories and he doesn\u2019t plan on sticking around for long.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Scott needs to leave. Katie needs to stay. They have until Christmas to decide their future \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Of course, the cover designer at my publisher Choc Lit is used to putting snowflakes and robins and people wearing woolly hats and scarves on her Christmas covers \u2013 so this was a challenge for her. I think she did a great job.<\/p>\n<p>This is the third book I have set in Coorah Creek \u2013 and the covers look really fabulous together.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6290\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6290\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/the-covers3-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6290\" src=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/the-covers3-small.jpg\" alt=\"Three books about Coorah Creek... so far.\" width=\"600\" height=\"306\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6290\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three books about Coorah Creek&#8230; so far.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The good news is \u2013 it\u2019s not the last Coorah Creek book. You\u2019ll get to take another trip to The Creek early next year\u2026 but you have to wait a while for more news about that.\u00a0In the meantime, if you fancy spending Christmas at Coorah Creek &#8211; you can get your ticket <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B015Y47V6C\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I know it\u2019s far, far too early to be talking about Christmas, but I\u2019m getting excited already because this year I\u2019m inviting all my readers to spend Christmas at Coorah Creek.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}