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We Corsettes spend a lot of time in Corsair’s Cove because we love it–the historic buildings, rugged coastline, community market, fantastic chocolates…but mostly we love the people and the stories they share with us.

So when we had the chance to meet more folks and hear their tales, well, we couldn’t resist!

On June 18, the first Corsair’s Cove Companion, my short story Good Spirits, will go out into the world to do what Cove stories do: enchant readers. Shelley, Sharon, Lee and I hope you’ll be one of them!

You can buy your copy here:

• Amazon Kindle
• Apple Books
• Kobo
• Barnes & Noble Nook

I hope you love Hulda as much as I do!

Rachel

Is there any place more exciting than a library? For me, they have always been like Smaug’s cave: full of treasure. But not so dangerous.

And now I can add to the reasons I love my local library system: its Emerging Local Authors program!

This year there are again more than 100 local authors whose works are available for anyone and everyone in Greater Victoria to read…and isn’t that amazing?

My friend Margaret Gracie’s novel in linked short stories is there. Check out Plastic for a thought-provoking, wonderful read.

I ran into Bonnie Hardy at the launch, too. She and her husband Norm Hardy put together a non-fiction book to help people caring for aging friends or family.

Marjorie Lindsay’s The Last Singer is there, and so is Glenn Lindsay’s The Shoebox Mystery.

And of course I was thrilled to see Corsair’s Cove Chocolate Shop The Complete Series there, and Kiss in the Wind is available as an e-book. Thrilled.

Can you tell?

Wishing you a happy and story-filled weekend,

Rachel

Have you heard about The Jar of Awesome? Entrepreneur and author Tim Ferriss credits his ex-girlfriend for showing him the way to celebrate even small wins.

Instead of a jar full of slips of paper listing tasks waiting to be done (why would you even go there?), this jar is a vessel for holding reminders of awesome things.

Any time you want to, you can open up that jar and read about things you did, lovely things other people have done that you decided deserved a place in The Awesome Jar.

“It’s like a self-made fortune cookie of goodness,” Ferriss says.

I wanted one!

My jar is a little metal lunch kit that a friend gave me, and the slips of paper (so far) are postcards I picked up at the turn of the century at a writers’ conference on Prince Edward Island. The postcards themselves are beautiful, they remind me of a fantastic trip, and then I write that day’s or that week’s wonderful thing on one for a triple whammy of awesome.

I want to say, though, that it’s the reminders that are important, not the container or the kind of paper. When my wonderful PEI postcards run out, I’ll tear strips off my ubiquitous blue-lined looseleaf paper. The important thing is that awesome things happen All The Time, and I want to remind myself of them.

So far in 2018, I’ve added at least one Awesome Thing each week. This weekend I’m going to a couple of events with great people so I expect I’ll be adding more than one.

Isn’t that awesome?!

Wishing you a fabulous Friday and an awesome weekend too,

Rachel

Before you head for the mall to start your holiday shopping, the Corsettes have a present for you!

All four books in the Corsair’s Cove Chocolate Shop series are now available in one print volume! Plus the Christmas short story Kiss at the Altar is in there too!

It makes a great gift for any reader friends who love chocolate, or romance, or ghosts, or the Pacific Northwest, or pirates, or even parrots!

And it makes a great gift for you, which you can read in the time you save by not having to go to the mall.

You deserve it.

Happy shopping,

Rachel