Christmas Romance is small bites. I don't know about you but today I wrapped a pile of presents. My back hurts and I have papercuts. This doesn't happen in Romanceland.  

Lets go way to these wonderful Christmas Romance Contemporary Anthologies. Just a small bit because we need to get dinner on soon! And then go out and look at Christmas lights or get a Shepard ready or something. 

My lists are never any particular order.

1. Midnight Kiss: Midnight ConfessionsMidnight SurrenderMidnight Assignment

    Robyn Carr,Jean Brashear, and Victoria Dahl

2. Naughty and Nice: Holiday SparksUnwrappedAll She Wants For ChristmasBelieve
   Shannon Stacey, Jaci Burton, Angela James and Lauren Dane.

3. Coming Home for Christmas: Christmas AngelUnexpected GiftNavy Joy
    Lindsay McKenna, Delores Fossen, and Geri Krotow 

4. The Naughty List Bundle with The Night Before Christmas & Yule Be Mine
    Donna Kauffman, Susan Fox, Kylie Adams, Katherine Garbera, Jill Shalvis, Lori            Foster,  Erin McCarthy, Cynthia Eden, and Kathy Love.

5. For My Own: A Contemporary Christmas Anthology: A Christmas for CarrieChristmas CurveballKissing Her Scrooge Alison Packard, Shari Mikels, and Kinley Cade 

6. Christmas Getaway Anne Stuart, Marion Lennox, and Tina Leonard 

7. Cowboys for Christmas Liz Talley, Kim Law, and Terri Osburn 

8. Wicked Wonderland LuAnn McLane, Susanna Carr, and Janice Maynard 

9. Blue Christmas Sandra Hill, Sharon Pisacreta, and Amy Elizabeth Saunders

10. Naughty & Nice: A Holiday Collection J. S. Scott, Ruth Cardello, Kathleen Brooks, M Malone, Skye Jordan, Sawyer Bennett, Lynda Chance, Melanie Shawn, Cali MacKay, Jean Oram, and Evelyn Adams 

Do you have a favorite Christmas Romance Contemporary Anthology? Let me know!

To vote for the best of the best, go to my Goodreads list: Christmas Romance Contemporary Anthologies.

In honor of the World Cup a reblog! 

Here are some English Football/Soccer Romances to getting you started!

1.  MacRieve (Immortals After Dark) by Kresley Cole Badass Female Soccer Player

2. Scored by Lily Harlem Very funny!

3. Bigger Than Beckham by V.K. Sykes  Former British soccer hero 

4. A Grand Passion by Samantha Winston  Italian soccer sensation

5. Dead Ball by Judith Arnold A Mystery Series!

6. The Striker's Chance by Rebecca Crowley  Kepler "Killer" de Klerk,

7. Play With Me by Anna Katmore Co-ed soccer team. 

8. For Kicks by Jenna Bayley-Burke Ex Pro Soccer Player

9. Kick It Up by Carol Ericson English Soccer Star

10. Offside!: Not Everyone Plays By The Rules by Jamie Tucker Dougan Diary form

11. Game On by Kyra Lennon  Man Ho

12. Shut Out by Liz Crowe BDSM

13. Baby, Baby by Kylie Adams Ex World famous soccer player

14. Player's Ultimatum by Koko Brown Paolo Saito.

Got any others?

To vote for the best of the best, go to the Goodreads list: Love on the Pitch: English Football/Soccer in Romance Novels.

To see how truely devine soccer players really are, check on the Pinterest Board: Love on the Pitch: English Football/Soccer.

AS the debate over if the World Cup should really be hosted in Qutar in 2022 because labor rights and the heat comes to the public's attention, I thought it might be a good time to look at football (not American) in Romance.

We need more! Soccer players are hot! 

Also, my son's Spring season just ended and I will no longer be spending my Sunday afternoons sitting under a tree in the park closing my eyes and enjoying his coach's bad ass Liverpool accent as he tells the boys he is "rubish" at things, get on your "pennies", and "Let's play some footie, lads!."

That is just sad for me. 

I didn't need to close my eyes. He is very easy on the eyes as well but really its the accent I like best. 

He is really wonderful and creative coach. My favorite thing he does is let all 15 boys chase him around the pitch while he shows off master dribbling skills. The boys (under 8) rarely get the ball from him.  Cheers to all the wonderful coaches in the world! 

Here are some English Football/Soccer Romances to getting you started!

1.  MacRieve (Immortals After Dark) by Kresley Cole Badass Female Soccer Player

2. Scored by Lily Harlem Very funny!

3. Bigger Than Beckham by V.K. Sykes  Former British soccer hero 

4. A Grand Passion by Samantha Winston  Italian soccer sensation

5. Dead Ball by Judith Arnold A Mystery Series!

6. The Striker's Chance by Rebecca Crowley  Kepler "Killer" de Klerk,

7. Play With Me by Anna Katmore Co-ed soccer team. 

8. For Kicks by Jenna Bayley-Burke Ex Pro Soccer Player

9. Kick It Up by Carol Ericson English Soccer Star

10. Offside!: Not Everyone Plays By The Rules by Jamie Tucker Dougan Diary form

11. Game On by Kyra Lennon  Man Ho

12. Shut Out by Liz Crowe BDSM

13. Baby, Baby by Kylie Adams Ex World famous soccer player

14. Player's Ultimatum by Koko Brown Paolo Saito.

Got any others?

To vote for the best of the best, go to the Goodreads list: Love on the Pitch: English Football/Soccer in Romance Novels.

To see how truely devine soccer players really are, check on the Pinterest Board: Love on the Pitch: English Football/Soccer.

The last time I read of a heroine who was this much of a self-absorbed ditz, I was reading a book by Linda Howard.

Ok, so our heroine was out clothes shopping (while unemployed and broke) with her friends. She runs into some singer she has a crush on, a charm falls off her bracelet, some tabloid photographer snaps a picture of her retrieving said charm under the guy's chair. Naturally it gets published with the worse possible spin. She bolts later and ends up in a hotel constructed for the sole purpose of illicit affaires. Hmmm… And there's no photographer hanging outside said place recording who goes in and out? Can't imagine it being that discreet if everyone knows about it.

Over the next few days, we're treated to her drama, her attraction to the owner - the H, more of her drama, and, for grins and giggles(?) her emails to some wedding planner or something back in Texas - essentially trying to plan her brother's wedding for him - some other time/place.

At least Blaire (the Howard ditz) had a little intelligence or…something.

There were moments of humor, but also many moments of…how many more pages in this book?