If my novels are seen as children – and most of the time, that’s how it feels – I have more than 30 of them. All with two main characters, a bunch of friends, family, and the occasional villain. In this volume of bonus short stories, the earliest novel is from 1993 and the latest from 2023.
That’s 30 years of life. For 60 main characters. And the friends, family, and occasional villain for 60 characters.
To add to the “fun,” some of the novels already birthed extra short stories, so there were new friends, family, and occasional villains, plus the actual happenings in the short story. Wild Things, for example, has a short story in both previous Frosting volumes, and one in this one.
That explains why, when medication gifted me brain fog, I couldn’t think my way around any of the stories because of all the voices. That’s a lot of voices running around in my head in one long stream of consciousness event.
Because the thing is, when the brain fog cleared, it didn’t get a lot better. What a bunch of opinionated, delightful, vivid personalities all in one place! Living and loving loud and proud.
I mean, Who did this?
Me, that’s who.
All of which is to say, Frosting on the Cake 3: Still Crazy After All These Years is now available exclusively from Bella Books, and everywhere else very soon, including the audiobook read by the fabulous Angela Dawe.
Women you already know and care about with new events in their life. Some are on Medicare. Yeah, I said it. Others are holding on tight and making commitments even though the world around them has gone cray-cray. All of them proud and undaunted, and finding different ways to make it work.
Bella Books is your lesbian-owned sapphic-community bookseller – a great place to put your dollars back into the sapphic literary community. They carry many publishers and independent authors, and real people answer the phone if you have any issues.
Hop Over to Bella Books
Be sure to read the “And Now for the Sprinkles on Top” at the end of the collection, because I make a promise. Something about some, um, deliberate on purpose, uh, errors in continuity and a prize for who finds them first.
Happy reading, and thank you for this long, rewarding journey. I’m not done yet – and I’m glad you’re not either. Proud and undaunted, in spite of – and because of! – our belief in ourselves and each other.
