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New Book Coming! The Dratsie Dilemma
My dearest Gentle Reader, I have a new book in the works at last!
The Dratsie Dilemma, the fourth book in the San Andreas Shifter Series is coming December 1, 2024!
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Preorder The Dratsie Dilemma today!
Preorder is rolling out slowly, please be patient. It will be on your platform of choice and in the edition you prefer soon. Promise.
You can preorder directly from Gail and read the first chapter.
Otherwise here’s where the digital edition is currently up and running:
Amazon
Kobo
B&N
Apple
Other
About this book:
Once upon a time, Trick went up against the sea and lost. Badly. Or so he thought.
What the sea decides to keep, it keeps forever.
Trick is a dratsie shifter, a river otter. He is charming, loads of fun, and just a little bit slippery. He’s running from a past he can’t forget, and he’s landed unexpectedly in the chaotic comforting embrace of a small town cafe and the world’s queerest pack of werewolves.
Unfortunately, it turns out the past has also refused to forget Trick. It washes up on his doorstep and gets instantly tangled up in marine biology conferences, twelve mermaids thrift shopping, and specialty cappuccinos. That past is grumpy, sexy, and wearing a very sparkly tail. (Don’t you dare call him a fish.)
Trick was just starting to feel like it was all going to be okay. But sometimes the sea decides to spit up a merman who has been looking for Trick for over a decade. And Trick will have to decide whether he starts running all over again or faces up to heartbreak and the childhood best friend who betrayed him.
The San Andreas Shifter books stand alone and do not need to be read in any order, but if you’re a stickler, this book comes after The Enforcer Enigma (and newsletter exclusive short story Vixen Ecology).
Delicate Sensibilities?
This paranormal romance contains M/M sexy times, horrible puns regarding oceanography, and clumsy mermaids in high heels. If you get offended easily, then you probably will. The San Andreas Shifter stories include blue language, dirty deeds, and outright admiration for the San Francisco Bay Area. Not for the faint of heart (or mouth or tongue).
Articles, thoughts, and tidbits for The Dratsie Dilemma
Where is Print & Audio?
Where is the preorder for the print edition?
The Dratsie Dilemma audiobook is in the works. Please be patient. Audio take a lot of time and money to get right. Why must that be?
Gail always makes her audiobooks available for purchase ahead of time to members of her newsletter, the Chirrup. She also gives away audiobook codes regularly.
If you want up to date information on this release – you simply must get the Chirrup.
About this cover
This cover is by the talented Joy Kenney who stepped in and handled everything in a pinch. I am very grateful to her.
I was asked where I get my models. In some cases they are friends (I have inroads to the local burlesque and cosplay community which means photographers etc…). In some cases they come from networking within the local queer or steampunk community. And in some cases I use stock art.
We went with that color green because it reminded me of my beloved Pacific Ocean, particularly off the coast where I grew up (north of the Golden Gate Bridge).
Also I wanted this cover to look good with all the others, whether that be just the books or the full scope of the series (including the two shorts).
For those who don’t know reading/digital order is as follows:
But there are only 4 full length print editions in this series:
The two shorts are reserved special beasties.
You can read/listen/print out Marine Biology for free as a member of the Chirrup.
Vixen Ecology is offered as a digital exclusive ($1.99) to Chirrup members only. It is also provided as a pdf so you can print it out and have it in physical form that way.
The Chirrup is my newsletter, it’s tons of fun, sign up here.
The two shorts are not offered in print as books themselves because they are too short to bind properly into a book form. That would be silly. And I am only silly with purpose, never on a whim.
All of which is to say, the cover and colors of Dratsie Dilemma were also chosen because I wanted this book to look good both in digital and print form along side all of its brethren.
Yours (swimming through the mire of book launch),
Miss Gail
The Dratsie Dilemma, the fourth book in the San Andreas Shifter Series is coming December 1, 2024!
image:
Preorder The Dratsie Dilemma today!
Preorder is rolling out slowly, please be patient. It will be on your platform of choice and in the edition you prefer soon. Promise.
You can preorder directly from Gail and read the first chapter.
Otherwise here’s where the digital edition is currently up and running:
Amazon
Kobo
B&N
Apple
Other
About this book:
Once upon a time, Trick went up against the sea and lost. Badly. Or so he thought.
What the sea decides to keep, it keeps forever.
Trick is a dratsie shifter, a river otter. He is charming, loads of fun, and just a little bit slippery. He’s running from a past he can’t forget, and he’s landed unexpectedly in the chaotic comforting embrace of a small town cafe and the world’s queerest pack of werewolves.
Unfortunately, it turns out the past has also refused to forget Trick. It washes up on his doorstep and gets instantly tangled up in marine biology conferences, twelve mermaids thrift shopping, and specialty cappuccinos. That past is grumpy, sexy, and wearing a very sparkly tail. (Don’t you dare call him a fish.)
Trick was just starting to feel like it was all going to be okay. But sometimes the sea decides to spit up a merman who has been looking for Trick for over a decade. And Trick will have to decide whether he starts running all over again or faces up to heartbreak and the childhood best friend who betrayed him.
The San Andreas Shifter books stand alone and do not need to be read in any order, but if you’re a stickler, this book comes after The Enforcer Enigma (and newsletter exclusive short story Vixen Ecology).
Delicate Sensibilities?
This paranormal romance contains M/M sexy times, horrible puns regarding oceanography, and clumsy mermaids in high heels. If you get offended easily, then you probably will. The San Andreas Shifter stories include blue language, dirty deeds, and outright admiration for the San Francisco Bay Area. Not for the faint of heart (or mouth or tongue).
Articles, thoughts, and tidbits for The Dratsie Dilemma
Where is Print & Audio?
Where is the preorder for the print edition?
The Dratsie Dilemma audiobook is in the works. Please be patient. Audio take a lot of time and money to get right. Why must that be?
Gail always makes her audiobooks available for purchase ahead of time to members of her newsletter, the Chirrup. She also gives away audiobook codes regularly.
If you want up to date information on this release – you simply must get the Chirrup.
About this cover
This cover is by the talented Joy Kenney who stepped in and handled everything in a pinch. I am very grateful to her.
I was asked where I get my models. In some cases they are friends (I have inroads to the local burlesque and cosplay community which means photographers etc…). In some cases they come from networking within the local queer or steampunk community. And in some cases I use stock art.
We went with that color green because it reminded me of my beloved Pacific Ocean, particularly off the coast where I grew up (north of the Golden Gate Bridge).
Also I wanted this cover to look good with all the others, whether that be just the books or the full scope of the series (including the two shorts).
For those who don’t know reading/digital order is as follows:
But there are only 4 full length print editions in this series:
The two shorts are reserved special beasties.
You can read/listen/print out Marine Biology for free as a member of the Chirrup.
Vixen Ecology is offered as a digital exclusive ($1.99) to Chirrup members only. It is also provided as a pdf so you can print it out and have it in physical form that way.
The Chirrup is my newsletter, it’s tons of fun, sign up here.
The two shorts are not offered in print as books themselves because they are too short to bind properly into a book form. That would be silly. And I am only silly with purpose, never on a whim.
All of which is to say, the cover and colors of Dratsie Dilemma were also chosen because I wanted this book to look good both in digital and print form along side all of its brethren.
Yours (swimming through the mire of book launch),
Miss Gail
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