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Christmas is not just a day, it’s a season, and to enjoy it properly, you have to relax and have some holiday fun AFTER the rush of the big present day. Celebrate for twelve days at least, with decorations, food, music and great Christmas stories.

The Cotillion line has released a great traditional Regency Christmas anthology, Christmas Kisses, in print. The book includes my Christmas story “Dinners with Mr. Danville,” which is also available on its own in ebook format.  Click on the covers to learn more!

Mysteries Now Available in Ebook

The Karen Maxwell mysteries are out in ebook as part of the Spyglass Lane Mysteries series, which just launched. George Washington Stepped Here is now available for only 99¢! In honor of the release, I have a new interview up talking about the books at The Suspense Zone and I’m blogging about the use of history in a modern story on the Spyglass Lane website. You can find George on Smashwords and Kindle and the second book, Worth its Weight in Old has just been released on Smashwords, also for 99¢.  My latest post on the Spyglass site discusses the pros and cons of using a private investigator as the heroine in a cozy mystery.

I could post the cover of the second mystery, but in ebook it looks exactly the same as the first. (Except for the words, that is) To see more interesting covers and read descriptions of the books, look here.

– Love and Lunacy —

Just in time for the release of the latest book in the series, the first book, A Certain Want of Reason, has been given a special discount price of only 99¢!

You can meet the original “men behaving badly” before you read the latest adventures in my new book, Deceptive Behavior.

Deceptive Behavior is the third book involving an eccentric family who would all probably be reality TV stars if  television existed in Regency London.  Kate Girard of RT Reviews explains “While the hero and heroine are both interesting and sympathetic characters, it is the secondary cast that truly steals this show. The eccentric siblings Helen and Geoffrey and the parents of all of the families attending this small house party create moments of comic genius that make this story stand out from the crowd.” (Thank you, Kate!)

Deceptive Behavior was recently released in ebook from Cotillion, with a print version to follow sometime in the future.  Fans of the Love and Lunacy series will appreciate further experimental exploits of of Geoffrey and Helen, but the story was written to stand on its own, so readers need not be familiar with the first two books in the series in order to enjoy Deceptive Behavior.

The book  is loosely based on Oliver Goldsmith’s hilarious 18th Century play, She Stoops to Conquer, and I had a lot of fun writing it.  I already had the problem brother from A Certain Want of Reason and the thwarted lovers from The Appearance of Impropriety.  In my modern version of the story, however, the heroine pretends to be a maid not in order to catch the hero, but to get to know him well enough to decide whether she wants  him.

To learn more about either story, click on the cover.

And this Christmas, Helen will finally have the chance to play the starring role in a story of her own, “Dinners with Mr. Danville.”

TOTO’s TALE
by K.D. HAYS AND MEG WEIDMAN

Find out what really happened in Oz.

Everyone knows how Dorothy and Toto save Oz from the Wicked Witch of West…or do they?  How will Dorothy survive in a land filled with haunted bags of straw, hollow metal men and giant smelly cats?

How will she fight off killer bees, mad wolves and really annoying monkeys?  And how will Dorothy ever find the way home?

The simple truth is that she won’t, at least not alone. Of course, she’s not alone – she has Toto, her best friend.  But in Oz, Dorothy spends more time talking to a cat than to her…

 

The Appearance of Impropriety

What happened to the women left behind in A Certain Want of Reason?

 

While Sophie’s sister and Helen’s brother are working their way out of a rest home for the mentally disturbed, the two find themselves with some unwanted adventures of their own.

Helen defends one of her experiments, Sophie defends Helen, and in the process, they ruin a young man’s chance for employment. So they decide it is their duty to find him another position, even though he doesn’t want them to.

“…a very good Regency romance told from a slightly different perspective with a great deal of humor.”
- Maura, Coffeetime Romance

Winner of the 2010 Written Art Award for humorous fiction.

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