Happy December, everyone!
Today, I’ve got a little treat for subscribers—a Christmas story set in the world and time of the Signal Bend Heritage series! It’s called “A Very Mindy Christmas,” and subscribers can access it in Subscriber-Exclusives right now!
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The inspiration for this story happened while I was writing Freak, the third book in the Signal Bend Heritage series. Just before the big action happens in that story, there’s a little (tiny) moment between Mindy Jasper, a town troublemaker since the original SB series, and Thumper, one of the lesser-known Night Horde patches (though he’s been making himself known more and more). I was surprised when I wrote that little moment, and I wondered what was going on between them.
Inspiration struck while I was puzzling that out, and as I saw a glimmer of story there, I took another bit of inspiration from a scene between Violet and George in the Christmas classic It’s a Wonderful Life. The glimmer became a ray of light, and “A Very Mindy Christmas” is the result. It’s my holiday gift to you!
I hope you enjoy!
xoxo
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PS: for those who like to know such things, my visual inspiration for Thumper is Jason Kelce, and Mindy has always looked like Gigi Hadid in my head.