Surprised? Join the club! I hadn’t planned on writing a Christmas book this year. But in September I decided that this idea—of someone who had bad luck every Christmas—MUST be written NOW. It ended up being twice as long but exactly as wacky as I’d expected.
It also ended up being a sanity saver during this year’s election season. Christmas provides an immovable deadline, so I needed to focus on the book. No chasing every twist and turn of these cataclysmic months! In the process, I developed lots of healthy habits—and dropped lots of unhealthy ones—that will (🤞!) stick with me for a while.
But enough about the author! The Christmas Curse is a humorous, heartwarming tale about luck, kindness, and the way a single day can change an entire life. It’s this year’s cure for the holiday blues!
What it’s about
Martin Gibson is cursed. Ever since a childhood clash with a Christmas elf, the holiday has brought him bad luck. In a desperate attempt to avoid the Curse—or at least protect his loved ones from its calamities—he leaves Scotland and travels to America for a Christmas utterly alone.
Anthony Bello is adrift. Fired from his job as a TV weatherman, he’s returned to West Virginia to be caretaker for his family’s vacation rental properties. When a hot Scot with an unlucky—and unlikely—story checks into one of the tiny homes he oversees, Anthony is more than smitten. Now he has a thrilling new project: help Martin break the Curse for good.
Will a wild winter storm let Martin and Anthony’s attraction build into something real, or will it trigger the most cursed Christmas yet? And when Martin’s transatlantic escape is over, can they bear to walk away with nothing but memories?
Load up on holiday warm fuzzies with this standalone tale featuring a Christmas-tree heist, a bed-hogging dog, and the coziest hot tub ever!
How to get it
You can now buy The Christmas Curse, or you can borrow it through Kindle Unlimited for 90 days. (I’m planning to offer my books at more stores in addition to Amazon in 2025, so they will each exit KU at different points.)
A svelte wee paperback is coming soon. For this unusually sized long novella/short novel, I wanted to see a proof first before I offer it for sale. That proof is on its way to me as I type, so hopefully next week I will publish the paperback!
BUT WAIT…
You may be wondering, “There’s a Scottish guy in this, so is it related to the Glasgow Lads series?” The answer is mostly no. Martin Gibson had a walk-on role in Playing in the Dark as the manager of the Glasgow Greens. So technically he exists in the Greater Glasgow Lads Cinematic Universe. But this story is 100% standalone, just like A Christmas Harbor and Cicadas: A Totally Ordinary Epic Love Story, my two other most recent works.
And of course, The Christmas Curse has a very happy ending. 🥰