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Evocative verse from Sarah Lane-Twelve Blogs of Christmas

Sarah Lane is the Canadian author of The God of My Art, a quarter finalist for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award and available on Amazon and Chapters. The God of My Art is the coming-of-age story of a young artist set in Vancouver and an imaginary town in northern BC. Lane’s other fiction and poetry […]

“Bubby’s Christmas Angels”-Roberta Kagan guest blogger

Roberta Kagan is an American writer of Jewish and Romany decent. She writes Historical Fiction and Historical Romance, most of which is set during the holocaust. Although she never discounts the horrors of the time period, the main focus of her work is on ordinary people who prove to be strong heroic characters in unfathomable […]

“Year round Christmas spirit.” Grandma’s Simple Christmas-M.L. Gardner

When I was young I remember spending more than one holiday season at my grandmother’s house. I remember long evenings with homemade cookies, lots of chocolate pudding and watching claymation Christmas specials under blankets that she crocheted. What I don’t remember is the hustle and bustle holiday madness that I experienced later in life. After […]

“Memo to Santa from Joey the Elf”-Twelve Blogs of Christmas-Laurie Boris

Hi, everyone! I’m Laurie Boris, and I’m so excited to be part of the 12 Blogs of Christmas with some terrific authors and organized by my friend, bestselling author Martin Crosbie. I’m a freelance writer and editor living in New York’s lovely Hudson Valley. Also the award-winning author of five novels, including the Trager Family […]

“Christmas Mistakes”-Twelve Blogs of Christmas-Helga Zeiner

Helga Zeiner is a German born Canadian author.  She left her home town Augsburg at age 18 to explore the world. In the following 14 years she has lived and worked in Australia and Asia. Her amazing experiences in those foreign countries are woven into all her thrilling novels. Since 2004 she has lived with […]

Twelve Blogs of Christmas-Jennifer Ellis

Jennifer Ellis Bio Jennifer lives in mountains of British Columbia where she can be found writing, spending too much time on skis, and working as an environmental researcher. She has two boys, an eighteen-year-old cat and a husband who doesn’t want a dog. She has been known to read tarot cards and spring surprise walks […]

A YIN-YANG CHRISTMAS-From Joy to Dread and Back Again

‘Tis the season. For melancholy. Haunted by Christmas Past, I get nostalgic for the little girl who believed in Santa. A child’s lament; “Why can’t it be Christmas every day?”, I’d wail at my mother. Because, my parents would rally, no matter how broke we’d been, to fill the house with presents, candy, nuts and […]

Twelve Blogs of Christmas-Jamie Lee Scott

  Jamie Lee Scott is the USA Today Bestselling author of the Gotcha Detective Agency mysteries, and Uncertain police procedural mysteries. Originally from the Central Coast of California, Jamie was swept off her feet by a dashing Iowa farm boy and moved to the Midwest. After several years of running a restaurant with her husband, she felt […]

12 Blogs of Christmas-RJ Crayton

I’ve been invited by author Martin Crosbie to participate in the Twelve Blogs of Christmas. We will visit each other’s blogs/sites with contributions and plenty of good cheer. First up, RJ Crayton. RJ Crayton is the author of the Life First series, a dystopian thriller set in the future, where the government can take your […]

ROCK AGAINST DEATH

I’ve been moping since the news of another fallen punk rock comrade. Brian Goble, AKA Wimpy Roy, or Sunny Boy, of the Subhumans,  DOA and Rude Norton, died Sunday. Heart attack. Taken too soon at the age of 57. It’s so hard to reconcile the exuberance of our youth with the cold hard facts of life, […]