Holiday Story Sale at DSP: ONE Day only!

On December 21, 2016, take advantage of this 35% off sale to buy holiday stories:

 

The Orpheum Miracle

Blame It on the Fruitcake 

The Orpheum Miracle and Audio Book Reviews

Two terrific reviews made my day today:

The Orpheum Miracle, my short story in Dreamspinner Press's holiday anthology Bah Humbug, got a wonderful review from Dan Mitton at Love Bytes book reviews. Check it out!















Also, What's in a Name?, the first of the Foothills Pride series, got a stellar review from Morgan at Open Sky Book Reviews. Read the review read here.

The Orpheum Holiday Miracle

Last year's holiday story featured fruitcake. No fruitcake in this year's story.

Instead, this year, in The Orpheum Miracle:

Twenty-nine-year-old Mick, the son of crack addicts, isn’t exactly a dyed-in-the-wool Scrooge. Mick’s been on his own from childhood. As a teen, he lived in a shelter, where for a short time he had a boyfriend. After the boyfriend left, Mick moved to the Orpheum Theater. While squatting there and taking care of the grand old building, Mick watched others celebrate the holidays from a distance, never able to share in their merriment.

Only his Technicolor dreams liven his dull, mechanical life until one day the world around him begins to change. Mick is surprised when a man named Jim buys the vintage Orpheum and plans to restore it. Something about Jim makes Mick think they’ve met before. In fact, Jim rekindles Mick’s longing for a better life and a little holiday magic for himself.

Order your copy at

Dreamspinner Press

Amazon

All Romance eBooks

Kobo

Lend Me Your Ears for Holiday Cheer

Trouble to the left of us and turkey-fu to the right. The holiday season seems to be getting off to a glorious start in "Trouble Sits down to Dinner."

Vance Bastian does a terrific job narrating the story on the fourth day of Christmas on WROTE.

Are you ready to make your holidays a little brighter with a free story?

Give it a listen!  And happy holidays from me to you!

 

Make Your Holidays AWWWWsome!

Fruitcake is the laughingstock of the holiday season. But can it be an aphrodisiac instead? Motorcycle mechanic Sam McGuire is surprised to find a gaily wrapped box on his doorstep with a piece of fruitcake accompanying an invitation to a holiday party.

Wondering if he’ll fit in, Sam attends the party—mostly to get more of the fruitcake he falls in love with—and meets Jay Merriweather, his new neighbor. The lure of Jay’s big family and its holiday tradition of enjoying Grandma’s fruitcake hook Sam, as does the sexy man himself.

But Sam can't imagine why handsome, college-educated Jay would want someone like him, who was raised in a children’s home and barely graduated high school. Maybe the magic of the holiday season can help two men who seem so different come together like the ingredients in a well-made fruitcake.

 

Blame It on the Fruitcake is a story that will make you go AWWWWW...

 

Get yourself, family, and friends in the mood for the holidays by buying the story at:

Dreamspinner

Amazon

Amazon UK

 

Going Home

After a wonderful weekend visit with our daughter and son-in-law, we're wending our way back home from lovely Eugene, Oregon.  Fortunately, we brought our Northern California sunny, warm weather with us, so we had two beautiful days to enjoy.

I even had time to resolve a place in the holiday short story, Blame It on the Fruitcake, that was bothering both the editors and me.  And I got a little bit written on Short Order, the fifth Foothills Pride book.

All in all a great weekend with great people.