‘Twas the night before…no, wait, wrong story… Affinity and their authors, love the holidays, any and all holidays. And what better way to celebrate the holidays than with a book filled with several short stories centered around different holidays. Erin O’Reilly (Auld) and Alane Hotchkin (Fire and Ice) start us off with their New Year’s stories. Spend Australian Day with Erica Lawson in Slow Burn Join Ali Spooner (Catch) and Lacey Schmidt (Love’s Luck) as they celebrate St. Patrick’s day. Fly away with Jen Silver as she brings the Beltane party to us. An anthology wouldn’t be complete without a little trick or treating, so grab your costumes and enjoy Halloween with Annette Mori (Vampire) and Charlene Neil (Trick) And last, but certainly not least, we have Christmas to bring this anthology to an end. TJ Vertigo gives us a Reece and Faith styled Christmas in Merry Christmas Reece and Annette Mori brings Nicky and the gang back for Nicky’s Christmas Miracle. All proceeds from this anthology will go to the Montrose Center in Houston, Texas. For more information about the Montrose Center please read the dedication. Proof Editor: Alexis Smith Cover Design: Irish Dragon Designs
Author
A dramaturg and something of a lapsed playwright, Vanderhooft works as a freelance journalist, poet and fiction writer. Her work has appeared or will soon appear in print and online in such venues as Aofie’s Kiss, Byzarium, Cabinet des Fées, Jabberwocky, Not One of Us, MYTHIC, Mythic Delirium, Reflections Edge, Star*Line and several others. To date, she has published seven poetry books: 10,000 Several Doors (Cat’s Eye Publishing, 2005), The Minotaur’s Last Letter to His Mother (2007, Ash Phoenix Press, to be re-released by Sam’s Dot Publishing in the future), Ossuary (2007, Sam’s Dot Publishing), The Handless Maiden and Other Tales Twice Told (2008 Sam’s Dot Publishing), The Memory Palace (2009, Norilana Books) and Fathers, Daughters, Ghosts & Monsters (2009, VanZeno Press). Her first novel The Tale of the Miller’s Daughter was released from Papaveria Press in June, 2006 and her second and third, Owl Skin, and Ebenezer, a retelling of A Christmas Carol, are forthcoming from Papaveria and Drollerie Press, respectively . She edited the Torquere Press anthology of lesbian fairytales Sleeping Beauty, Indeed (reissued in 2009 by Lethe Press) as well as Steam-Powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories (2011, Torquere Press) and (with Catherine Lundoff) Hellebore & Rue, an anthology of stories about lesbian magic users (Drollerie Press, 2010). Bitten By Moonlight, an anthology of lesbian werewolf stories, will be released from Zumaya Books in 2011.
