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”

Dr. John Watson and “The Adventure of the Burning Man”

Mocha Memoirs Press and editor A.C. Thompson have done another anthology of Sherlock Holmes stories with a paranormal twist, Curious Incidents: More Improbable Adventures, and I have a story in it! The theme this time was any time or place EXCEPT Victorian London, and most of the stories have a definite science fiction double featureContinue reading “Dr. John Watson and “The Adventure of the Burning Man””

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”

Repairing the Perfect Beast

Three more days of freebies over at Little Red Hen Romance, including Miss Annabel Lee and the Clockwork Wolf, the first chapter in our steampunk series. Wanna taste? As soon as she knew they were gone, Annabel went down to the cellar. She dragged the old milk cans out of the corner, swept back theContinue reading “Repairing the Perfect Beast”

Furious Angels (Need Love, Too)

He is her special angel . . . bless her heart. Wet Work, available free this week from Little Red Hen Romance: Rosie woke up on a bed with a sombrero-shaped headboard. “Ay carimba.” “You.” Matthias, the angel she remembered from her first night as a witch, was pacing over her. “It just had toContinue reading “Furious Angels (Need Love, Too)”

Homicidal Lovers in Outer Space

Also available this week for absolutely no financial outlay whatsoever, my baby sister, Alexandra Christian’s amazing sci-fi romance, Gemini. Here’s an excerpt: Xander sat straight up, gasping for air and startling Kaia.  She reached for him, but he thrashed violently and shoved her aside.  He was trying to move, but his limbs seemed to short-circuit.Continue reading “Homicidal Lovers in Outer Space”

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!”