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![Fiction River: Christmas Ghosts (Fiction River: An Original Anthology Magazine Book 4) by [Louise Marley, Dean Wesley Smith, Lisa Silverthorne, M.L. Buchman, Mary Jo Putney, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Carole Nelson Douglas, Anthea Lawson, Fiction River, Kristine Grayson]](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51x-tcg5fCL._SY346_.jpg)
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“A sugary Christmas treat for those who love romance.”
—Publisher’s Weekly
"The beloved Victorian Christmas ghost storytelling tradition continues to thrive in modern day, and this multi-genre anthology of short stories is proof. Cuddle up next to a crackling fire with some holiday music playing softly in the background, and lose yourself in eight amazing Christmas stories by a gang of super-talented, cross-genre authors. Not only are they heartwarming, but they incorporate mystery, science fiction, romance and ghosts! A few tend to be more animated than others, but each one is special, and guaranteed to jingle someone’s bells."
—RT Book Reviews
"This title offers eight original love stories that will give romance readers several satisfying happy endings.”
—Library Journal
“We thoroughly enjoyed every tale in Christmas Ghosts. The collection offers a unique cross-genre take all within one solid tome of tales. Enjoy it with a glass of your favorite eggnog by a roaring, crackling fire this holiday season… and hey, it goes great with Halloween … as well!”
—Astroguyz
“Each tale will take you on an eerie love adventure and all end up with a warm and loving conclusion gearing you up into the Christmas spirit. Kristine Grayson has chosen some of the best to be included in this anthology, guaranteed to give the reader thrills as well as an abundance of romance and love. Settle yourself down with a hot drink and entertain yourself with this wonderful book that will fulfill your desire for love sought during the amazing magical time of Christmas. This is a must read for anyone enjoying a little mystical adventure at this great time of the year.”
—Fresh Fiction
Fiction River is an original fiction anthology series. Modeled on successful anthology series of the past, from Orbit to Universe to Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine, the goal of Fiction River is to provide a forum for “original ground-breaking fiction of all genres.”
Each Fiction River volume will have electronic and trade paperback issues published by WMG Publishing, and will feature some of the best new and established fiction writers in publishing.
Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch are award-winning editors, as well as award-winning writers, and will act as series editors for the anthologies.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateDecember 19, 2013
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- ASIN : B00FNIDCZY
- Publisher : WMG Publishing, Inc. (December 19, 2013)
- Publication date : December 19, 2013
- Language : English
- File size : 663 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
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- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 282 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,194,262 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #3,713 in Paranormal Ghost Romance
- #6,257 in Fiction Anthologies
- #10,560 in Literary Anthologies & Collections
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About the authors
New York Times bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch writes in almost every genre. Generally, she uses her real name (Rusch) for most of her writing. Under that name, she publishes bestselling science fiction and fantasy, award-winning mysteries, acclaimed mainstream fiction, controversial nonfiction, and the occasional romance. Her novels have made bestseller lists around the world and her short fiction has appeared in eighteen best of the year collections. She has won more than twenty-five awards for her fiction, including the Hugo, Le Prix Imaginales, the Asimov’s Readers Choice award, and the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Readers Choice Award.
Publications from The Chicago Tribune to Booklist have included her Kris Nelscott mystery novels in their top-ten-best mystery novels of the year. The Nelscott books have received nominations for almost every award in the mystery field, including the best novel Edgar Award, and the Shamus Award.
She writes goofy romance novels as award-winner Kristine Grayson.
She also edits. Beginning with work at the innovative publishing company, Pulphouse, followed by her award-winning tenure at The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, she took fifteen years off before returning to editing with the original anthology series Fiction River, published by WMG Publishing. She acts as series editor with her husband, writer Dean Wesley Smith.
To keep up with everything she does, go to kriswrites.com and sign up for her newsletter. To track her many pen names and series, see their individual websites (krisnelscott.com, kristinegrayson.com, retrievalartist.com, divingintothewreck.com, fictionriver.com, pulphousemagazine.com).
A New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USAToday bestselling author, Mary Jo Putney was born in Upstate New York with a reading addiction, a condition for which there is no known cure. Her entire romance writing career is an accidental byproduct of buying a computer for other purposes.
Her novels are known for psychological depth and intensity and include historical and contemporary romance, fantasy, and young adult fantasy. Winner of numerous writing awards, including two RITAs and two Romantic Times Career Achievement awards, she has five times had books listed among the Library Journal's top five romances of the year, and three times had books among the top ten romances of Booklist, the magazine of the American Library Association.
Her favorite reading is great stories, but in a pinch she'll settle for the backs of cereal boxes. She's delighted that e-publishing can now make available books that have been out of print.
Considered one of the most prolific writers working in modern fiction, USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith published far more than a hundred novels in forty years, and hundreds of short stories across many genres.
At the moment he produces novels in several major series, including the time travel Thunder Mountain novels set in the Old West, the galaxy-spanning Seeders Universe series, the urban fantasy Ghost of a Chance series, a superhero series starring Poker Boy, and a mystery series featuring the retired detectives of the Cold Poker Gang.
His monthly magazine, Smith’s Monthly, which consists of only his own fiction, premiered in October 2013 and offers readers more than 70,000 words per issue, including a new and original novel every month.
During his career, Dean also wrote a couple dozen Star Trek novels, the only two original Men in Black novels, Spider-Man and X-Men novels, plus novels set in gaming and television worlds. Writing with his wife Kristine Kathryn Rusch under the name Kathryn Wesley, he wrote the novel for the NBC miniseries The Tenth Kingdom and other books for Hallmark Hall of Fame movies.
He wrote novels under dozens of pen names in the worlds of comic books and movies, including novelizations of almost a dozen films, from The Final Fantasy to Steel to Rundown.
Dean also worked as a fiction editor off and on, starting at Pulphouse Publishing, then at VB Tech Journal, then Pocket Books, and now at WMG Publishing, where he and Kristine Kathryn Rusch serve as series editors for the acclaimed Fiction River anthology series.
For more information about Dean’s books and ongoing projects, please visit his website at www.deanwesleysmith.com and sign up for his newsletter.
From USA Today bestseller Carole Nelson Douglas in fall, 2018, the first of a NEW Midnight Louie series. Readers requested and we complied. Carole's 63 novels include two Las Vegas-set series: the alphabetically titled 28 Midnight Louie feline PI mysteries partially narrated by a "Sam Spade with hairballs", and the Delilah Street Paranormal Investigator noir urban fantasies (werewolf mobsters and Silver Screen zombies) in a paranormal Sin City. Carole's also written historical and contemporary mystery and romance, science fiction thrillers, epic and urban fantasy, all to come out in e-Book for the first time ASAP. She's the first woman author of a Sherlockian series and the first to use a female protagonist (Holmes' out-witter Irene Adler), in the New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Good Night, Mr. Holmes. A four-time Romance Writers Rita Award finalist with RT Book Reviews Career Achievement awards in Suspense, Mystery, Versatility and as a Pioneer of Publishing and holder of many Catwriters' Association Muse Medallions, Carole rescues cats and works at home among mannequins in vintage dress. She does a wicked mean Marilyn Monroe impersonation, but her literary muse is definitely feline: mysterious, playful, and packing sharp shivs in velvet gloves.
Called “The Reigning Queen of Paranormal Romance” by Best Reviews, bestselling author Kristine Grayson (also known by her real name, Kristine Kathryn Rusch) has made a name for herself publishing light, slightly off-skew romance novels about Greek Gods, fairy tale characters, and the modern world.
Her novel Utterly Charming, won the Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Award. Her novel Wickedly Charming, which appeared in May of 2011, is based on “The Charming Way.”
WMG Publishing released a series of four omnibuses from her popular Fates Universe novels starting in March 2019, with a new novel, Hidden Charm, released in June 2019.
As Kristine Grayson, she also edits the romance volumes of Fiction River: An Original Anthology Magazine.
For more information about her work, go to the Kristine Grayson website and sign up for her newsletter.
USA Today and Amazon #1 Bestseller M. L. “Matt” Buchman started writing on a flight south from Japan to ride his bicycle across the Australian Outback. Just part of a solo around-the-world trip that ultimately launched his writing career.
From the very beginning, his powerful female heroines insisted on putting character first, then a great adventure. He’s since written over 70 action-adventure thrillers and military romantic suspense novels. And just for the fun of it: 125+ short stories, and a fast-growing pile of read-by-author audiobooks.
Booklist says: 3x “Top 10 of the Year.” PW says: “Tom Clancy fans open to a strong female lead will clamor for more.” His fans say: “I want more now…of everything.” That his characters are even more insistent than his fans is a hoot. As a 30-year project manager with a geophysics degree who has designed and built houses, flown and jumped out of planes, and solo-sailed a 50’ ketch, he is awed by what is possible. More at: www.mlbuchman.com (sign-up for the newsletter for news, sales, and free content).
~USA Today bestselling author and two-time RITA nominee~
Anthea's books have received starred reviews in Library Journal, and Booklist named her "one of new stars of historical romance."
Anthea lives with her husband and daughter in the Pacific Northwest, where the rainy days and excellent coffee fuel her writing. In addition to writing historical romance, she plays the Irish fiddle and pens award-winning YA Urban Fantasy as Anthea Sharp.
Contact her at anthea at anthealawson dot com, and join her mailing list, tinyletter.com/AntheaLawson, for all the news about upcoming releases and reader perks!
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But even readers who don't typically consider romance may really enjoy this collection. If you like tales of the fantastic, well-written stories with gripping characters, you should consider this volume because while the heart of the story is romance, there are ghosts and time travel and all other kinds of good paranormal stuff. And some great writing.
Also, in my opinion, it doesn't need to be Christmas to read a great story set during that time of year. This anthology grabbed me with the very first story and held me to the end.
Highly recommended.
Kristine Grayson (editor)
WMG, Oct 8 2013, $15.99
ISBN 9780615783550
"The Farewell Gift" by Louise Marley. The Spanish Flu pandemic killed lonely Madeline's family; however for Christmas her brother Holland the ghost gifts her with Peter stranded during a Montana blizzard.
"A Ghost of Time" by Dean Wesley Smith. Sherri bought the rundown mansion in 2015, but she is in 1898 when Carson built the place.
"Christmas, Interrupted" by Lisa Silverthorne. In December 2013, Mallory tries to go back to one year to prevent Rowan's murder.
"The Ghost of Willow's Past" by M.L. Buchman. In Portland, soldiers Dusty and Amy meet at a public garden where her grandmother's tree of love planted in 1917 was recently cut down.
"Toasted" by Mary Jo Putney. In New York, Rebecca the Hunter wakes up Simon the Guardian because she insists the children need help. Attracted to each other, her being a ghost complicates matters.
"Chains" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. In New York, Roth feels lonely as he prepares to go on stage with his father the ghost nagging him about turning in the unauthorized young girl when his only love Erika comes looking for her.
"Miss Merriweather's Christmas Follies" by Carole Nelson Douglas. Pitt informs Dark Angel singer Adrian that he is a problem dead and alive while Marianne argues he does not belong in hell as his ancestor killed her.
"A Countess for Christmas" by Anthea Lawson. In 1814 Liam writes Cecilia that her brother is healing at his estate following an accident; they continue to exchange correspondence.
The latest Fiction River anthology (see Time Streams) contains two time travel and six ghost stories, but all eight entries sage a strong Christmas romantic theme.
Harriet Klausner