One Last Snowy Christmas By: A. F. Crowell

One Last Snowy Christmas

By: A. F. Crowell

An O'Loughlin Brothers Novella

Just in time for Christmas, a story that will surely awaken every muscle in your heart. A story about a family going through a milestone, right before Christmas, and something that will touch you, in more ways than one.

I have always been a proud supporter of Ms. Crowell, she writes the most amazing books, and when she put out a story just in time for Christmas, I couldn’t wait to read it. But this was something that I never seen coming. However, once I started reading, there was no putting it down, this story was written beautifully. With love and the most amazing touch ever, very impressive.

So, you wanna know more? Let me tell you than!

The characters in this amazing book are: Maria and Scott O’Loughlin. Together this couple has three boys: Cooper, Storm and Ashton. 

Cooper was in the Special Forces, and he has come home from deployment. He has been looking forward to coming home for Christmas all year.

Storm had left his home with only one purpose, to return home for the Holidays.

Ashton would be graduating from High School this Summer. 

These boys had plans, and these are their plans: Ashton will finally meet up with the girl he had ever fantasized about, Ashton hopes to finally hook up with the beautiful neighbor girl, and Cooper – well he has some kind of feeling that something has changed while he was deployed.

A lot is about to happen, as the beautiful snow falls from the cold winter sky. The crispy cold air of winter brings the family closer together, and Christmas is celebrated, as Maria and Scott try to hold onto hope, or should they let everything go as it was before? Together, this family celebrates family and Christmas with the hopes of solutions that will arise and fix everything. 

As you read this book, you will find yourself reminiscing your own family values and memories. Christmas and family are the two things that belong together.

Today, as I write this: December twenty third, two thousand seventeen, I hope that this review brings you insight, that the Holidays are meant to bring everyone together, and celebrated. Just as I am certain that the Author, Ms. Crowell meant to give you, with this book.

This book is a definite five-star story, and I think it was and is a great touch for Christmas. However, this book is meant for adults over eighteen only. Not intended for Children. So go get your copy now, you will be very impressed with this story, I promise you that.

Here are my question for Ms. Crowell:

1. What made you write this book and how long did it take you?

My good friend and mentor Chelsea Camaron told me I needed to write a Christmas book. Who am I to argue with CC? The novella took about three weeks to write.  

2. Who designed the cover?

I designed the cover. It's something I love to do. I have an obsession with red, black and white photographs, so naturally when I saw the photo of the barn, I had to have it. I knew it would be perfect for the cover.

3. Do you have any photos or descriptions of the characters that you can share with us?

O'Loughlin Brothers -  When I think of Storm, Cooper and Logan, I think of the Hemsworth brothers, only with darker hair and hazel eyes.

Maria  & Scott -  Faith Hill & Tim McGraw 

Kinsley - 

       Maggie –   

    Chelsea -

4. What are you working on now?

I’m currently working on Adoring Ashton, the second book in the O’Loughlin Brothers series

5. What motivates you to write?

The stories, the characters. I love telling their story.

6. What is your favorite Christmas Movie?

Hmm, that’s a tough one. I really like Elf and Four Christmases, but I also like Christmas with the Cranks and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.

7. What is your favorite thing about Christmas?

Spending time with my family and watching my kids’ faces Christmas morning.

8. What is your most memorable Holiday memory?

My sister and I were standing in the kitchen at my mom and step-dad’s house, getting ready to have our picture taken with my step-dad, Poppi. Someone said something funny as Poppi took a sip of the mimosa he was holding. He ended up spraying it all over my younger sister, who has a serious hatred of bodily fluids. She freaked out and screamed “he got snot on me” repeatedly. It was hilarious.

9. What suggestions can you offer for the aspiring writers out there?

Baby steps. You don’t have to do it all the first time. Save your money and buy a premade cover or find an amazing cover designer to use stock instead of spending $700-900 on a cover. Spend that money on a really good content editor. And remember, hard work works.

10.  How long have you been writing?

Three years now. Some days it feels like I just started yesterday, others…

11. What are your hobbies?

I love making graphics and teasers for my author friends. For fun, I love to lounge around the house and read or watch movies with the family.

12. Do you put yourself into your characters?

Always. I can’t feel them if I don’t.

13. Where is your favorite place to write?

I love to write in my bed at night. I do my best stuff at night.

14. Please share with us your social media and book links:

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/authorafcrowell

Reader Group: http://bit.ly/AFReaderGrp

BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/profile/a-f-crowell

Twitter: http://bit.ly/1NhraYq

Amazon: http://amzn.to/1NePev9

GR: http://bit.ly/1QOhuvg

15. Anything to add:

Just a quick thank you to all of the readers, bloggers and fellow authors who have helped me over the last few years. I appreciate each and every one of you. THANK YOU!

One Last Snowy Christmas by A.F. Crowell
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Just in time for Christmas, a story that will surely awaken every muscle in your heart. A story about a family going through a milestone, right before Christmas, and something that will touch you, in more ways than one.

I have always been a proud supporter of Ms. Crowell, she writes the most amazing books, and when she put out a story just in time for Christmas, I couldn’t wait to read it. But this was something that I never seen coming. However, once I started reading, there was no putting it down, this story was written beautifully. With love and the most amazing touch ever, very impressive.

So, you wanna know more? Let me tell you than!

The characters in this amazing book are: Maria and Scott O’Loughlin. Together this couple has three boys: Cooper, Storm and Ashton.

Cooper was in the Special Forces, and he has come home from deployment. He has been looking forward to coming home for Christmas all year.

Storm had left his home with only one purpose, to return home for the Holidays.

Ashton would be graduating from High School this Summer.

These boys had plans, and these are their plans: Ashton will finally meet up with the girl he had ever fantasized about, Ashton hopes to finally hook up with the beautiful neighbor girl, and Cooper – well he has some kind of feeling that something has changed while he was deployed.

A lot is about to happen, as the beautiful snow falls from the cold winter sky. The crispy cold air of winter brings the family closer together, and Christmas is celebrated, as Maria and Scott try to hold onto hope, or should they let everything go as it was before? Together, this family celebrates family and Christmas with the hopes of solutions that will arise and fix everything.

As you read this book, you will find yourself reminiscing your own family values and memories. Christmas and family are the two things that belong together.

Today, as I write this: December twenty third, two thousand seventeen, I hope that this review brings you insight, that the Holidays are meant to bring everyone together, and celebrated. Just as I am certain that the Author, Ms. Crowell meant to give you, with this book.

This book is a definite five-star story, and I think it was and is a great touch for Christmas. However, this book is meant for adults over eighteen only. Not intended for Children. So go get your copy now, you will be very impressed with this story, I promise you that.

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Pulled by A.F. Crowell

Pulled

By: A.F. Crowell

“Pulled” is the next book after “Pushed” in a series of books written by A.F. Crowell. (I have previously reviewed “Pushed” and gave it five stars and was ‘pulled’ in and just had to read the next book, so here I am!

Leila Matthews managed to turn her whole life upside down with one simple sentence: "Brody, I’m pregnant.”

Thankfully Leila had Jaxon, her best friend by her side, when she feels her nightmare blast of happiness to reality when Brody doesn’t seem to be as accepting to her news as she had hoped. Leaning on Jaxon, with her feelings of confusion, and heartache, Leila feels the need to share a bit more of herself with him.

Eventually Jaxon becomes the man of her dreams, but in the back of her mind Leila still doesn’t want her child to grow up not knowing its father. 

Brody, decides that he made a mistake, and that Leila and his very own child, do in fact matter. Now he must correct that mistake, and get Leila to see that he can in fact change.

In the end, “Pulled” ends up being a love triangle, and Leila must determine what is the best and right choice for her and her child. 

Both of these handsome, sexy and powerful men will seek her forgiveness for their terrible mistakes, and faults, and as you can see, this is where the title comes into play, because this causes Leila to have her feelings and love “Pulled” in two different directions.

Her choice must be for the better of her child, and not just for love. To her, this will be one of the toughest decisions she will ever have to make. 

I truly loved “Pushed” and then how “Pulled” came directly after. The two books link perfectly together, and are definitely five stars. I adore how Ms. Crowell writes, she is quite talented, and makes the reader feel like you are right there involved with the characters, worrying, wanting and even sometimes helping. Sometimes as a reader you just go with the flow. Not when you read the books by Ms. Crowell, it seems like you the reader, are needed to get somewhere. 

Strange as it sounds, I felt like if I put the book down, that Leila would just screw up without me. She needed me to read her, I had to be right there, to support her. I was like her side kick or something. Does that make sense to you? I have never had a book that I felt like this, but with Leila, truly I did. There’s something about her, and she needs readers to help her succeed.

This is a perfect love triangle, where a choice is needed to be made. A true five star read, and it is a truly special story that you will never forget when you do read it! Definitely worth your time and effort to sit down and enjoy this wonderful book!

My Questions for Ms. Crowell:

1. What made you write this book and how long did it take?
 It is a continuation of Pushed. It took approximately two months to write.


2. Do you have photos or descriptions of the characters?
Not at this time, just use your imagination! That’s what books are all about!


3. How long of a time frame sequence give or take does the book pulled take?
 Basically a year


4. What are you working on next?
I'm working on a standalone that is a spin-off of the Torn Series with some of the same characters.


 5. What can you suggest to people wanting to write their first book and struggling with it?
 Don't force it. Get it down on paper and keep going. Come back to it and then tweak.


 6. Where is your favorite place to write?
 My bed when everyone else is asleep and my husband is at work.



7. Do you ever get writers block?
 Sadly, yes. It's been a frustrating few months.



 8. Do you have another job aside from being an amazing writer?
 I do! I work in a surgery center. I call all of the patient prior to surgery.


 9. What is your favorite thing about being a writer?
 Knowing that the readers connected to the story in some way. Whether they fell in love with the characters or they hated them. I love to know that I made them FEEL something. Characters are forgotten, words fade but feelings embed in your memory. I want to make the reader react.


 10. Have you ever been a writer mentor? And if not would you be interested in being one?
 I have not. I think I would love to be one once I had more experience under my belt.

11. Please provide your social links and book info:

https://www.facebook.com/authorafcrowell>
Reader Group: http://on.fb.me/1Q70L4H
Twitter: http://bit.ly/1NhraYq
Amazon: http://amzn.to/1NePev9
 GR: http://bit.ly/1QOhuvg

 PUSHED, Book One in the Torn Series
 Amazon: http://amzn.to/1DhwQU6
 B&N: http://bit.ly/1LQG1LS
 SW http://bit.ly/1OfOoBl

 PULLED, Book Two in the Torn Series
 Amazon: http://amzn.to/1gyXwEU
 B&N: http://bit.ly/1O3L5iu
 SW: http://bit.ly/1MVIxhe

 TORN, Book Three in the Torn Series
 Amazon: http://amzn.to/1Ofpz8B
 B&N: http://bit.ly/1TflRNG
 SW: http://bit.ly/1lvuokO

 12. Anything to add:
Just Thank You! Thank you to my street team, readers, fellow authors, bloggers and publisher. I am beyond grateful for all of your support. <3

Pulled by A.F. Crowell
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

“Pulled” is the next book after “Pushed” in a series of books written by A.F. Crowell. (I have previously reviewed “Pushed” and gave it five stars and was ‘pulled’ in and just had to read the next book, so here I am!

Leila Matthews managed to turn her whole life upside down with one simple sentence: "Brody, I’m pregnant.”

Thankfully Leila had Jaxon, her best friend by her side, when she feels her nightmare blast of happiness to reality when Brody doesn’t seem to be as accepting to her news as she had hoped. Leaning on Jaxon, with her feelings of confusion, and heartache, Leila feels the need to share a bit more of herself with him.

Eventually Jaxon becomes the man of her dreams, but in the back of her mind Leila still doesn’t want her child to grow up not knowing its father.

Brody, decides that he made a mistake, and that Leila and his very own child, do in fact matter. Now he must correct that mistake, and get Leila to see that he can in fact change.

In the end, “Pulled” ends up being a love triangle, and Leila must determine what is the best and right choice for her and her child.

Both of these handsome, sexy and powerful men will seek her forgiveness for their terrible mistakes, and faults, and as you can see, this is where the title comes into play, because this causes Leila to have her feelings and love “Pulled” in two different directions.

Her choice must be for the better of her child, and not just for love. To her, this will be one of the toughest decisions she will ever have to make.

I truly loved “Pushed” and then how “Pulled” came directly after. The two books link perfectly together, and are definitely five stars. I adore how Ms. Crowell writes, she is quite talented, and makes the reader feel like you are right there involved with the characters, worrying, wanting and even sometimes helping. Sometimes as a reader you just go with the flow. Not when you read the books by Ms. Crowell, it seems like you the reader, are needed to get somewhere.

Strange as it sounds, I felt like if I put the book down, that Leila would just screw up without me. She needed me to read her, I had to be right there, to support her. I was like her side kick or something. Does that make sense to you? I have never had a book that I felt like this, but with Leila, truly I did. There’s something about her, and she needs readers to help her succeed.

This is a perfect love triangle, where a choice is needed to be made. A true five star read, and it is a truly special story that you will never forget when you do read it! Definitely worth your time and effort to sit down and enjoy this wonderful book!





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