Everybody loves free stuff. Some readers love it so much, they’re bankrupting writers by supporting pirate sites. The crazy thing is, it is perfectly possible to get all kinds of great free fiction without bending the rules or pissing off your favorite author. Sites like Prolific Works have shiny, well-produced, absolutely-bug-free E-books from every genreContinue reading “Free E-Books, No Stealing!”
Category Archives: Lucy Blue Short Story
Lucy’s Halloween Bedtime Story: Dead-Sperado
Guess what, kittens? I’m on the YouTubes! My Evil Genius hubby and my publisher rallied around and helped me do a recording of myself reading “Dead-Sperado,” the first story from my comic weird western romance collection, Bury Me Not. In it, saloon dove Daisy means to seduce and detain the dreaded outlaw Elbert Cade until theContinue reading “Lucy’s Halloween Bedtime Story: Dead-Sperado”
The Dark Lady – a freebie for Pride Month
In honor of Pride Month 2019, here’s a short story I wrote for a 2016 anthology Falstaff Books put together to raise money for LGBTQ support and awareness. Get your copy of the full anthology HERE. In my story, a transgender woman who found herself as a boy actor at Shakespeare’s Globe makes peace withContinue reading “The Dark Lady – a freebie for Pride Month”
Scandalous Sherlock Holmes
My baby sister, Alexandra Christian, and I are both big Sherlock Holmes fans in almost every incarnation, and bless our hearts, we do write romance. So last year as a lark we challenged one another to each write a Victorian romance with a hero that was both romantic and a reasonably authentic version of SirContinue reading “Scandalous Sherlock Holmes”
Valentine Zombies, Old West Edition
In honor of Valentine’s Day (and as a break from our regularly-scheduled political outrage and apocalyptic panic), we chicks over at Little Red Hen Romance have put our entire catalog on Amazon for free. Here’s a link to one of my favorites: Dead-Sperado And here’s an excerpt: I woke up to the sound of Cade loadingContinue reading “Valentine Zombies, Old West Edition”
Cowboys & Krampus – A Christmas Romance
So in honor of the season, I’ve written a sequel to my insane zombie western, Dead-sperado, called Cowboys & Krampus. It’s available here right now from Amazon, and it starts off something like this: Two days before Christmas, we had been on the run from a bank job for a week and a half. IContinue reading “Cowboys & Krampus – A Christmas Romance”
We Are Not This: Carolina Writers for Equality – Press Release
I’m lucky enough to have a story in this–“The Dark Lady” about a transgender actress in the days of Shakespeare. But even if I didn’t, I’d promote the living juice out of it. Much, much great stuff to read, all profits benefiting a magnificent cause. It’s available as an ebook right now from Amazon here,Continue reading “We Are Not This: Carolina Writers for Equality – Press Release”
Until Death: An Anthology of Twisted Love Stories – new from LRH!
Me and my baby sis are at it again – new scary sexy just in time for Halloween! Get it here from Amazon True love never dies… That’s the story that all the fairy tale books are peddling. According to TV producer Dale, that was all it was—a fairy tale. A hustle perpetrated upon our cultureContinue reading “Until Death: An Anthology of Twisted Love Stories – new from LRH!”
The Shocking Truth About What Writing Fiction Pays (a personal comparison)
Earlier this week, I got my royalty statement for Little Red Hen Romance for September 2015 from Amazon and went into a full-blown fidget. In spite of the fact that we had outsold our previous best-selling month, June 2015, by more than two to one, moving more than twice as many books to paying customersContinue reading “The Shocking Truth About What Writing Fiction Pays (a personal comparison)”
An Improbable Truth: The Paranormal Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Coming October 27!
Hey kittens, guess what? I have a story in this anthology coming out October 27, 2015 from Mocha Memoirs Press. Doesn’t it look awesome? “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” Sherlock Holmes is one of the most recognizable characters in Western literature. Conan Doyle’s inimitable detective hasContinue reading “An Improbable Truth: The Paranormal Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Coming October 27!”