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Advent Christmas stories Advent Calendar Katharina Gerlach

 

If you open door number one, you’ll find a very special Christmas story from me. I’m happy to be part of this Christmas Advent Calendar, created by Katharina Gerlach, a German author who has written over sixty books!

Each year, for the 25 days leading up to Christmas, I get the stories in my inbox from all over the world. These are a great way to get in the Christmas spirit. Feel free to Share this calendar and spread the joy of Christmas across the world.

Pssst: You can subscribe above the calendar on the top right corner.

Have fun reading. I hope you like my story.

The Best of Twisty Christmas Tales Book Launch

The Best of Twisty Christmas Tales is about to hit the shelves and is already a rip-roaring success. Many happy readers have pre-ordered books, cards and e-books using the Pledge Me Twisty Christmas page. If you want to have a peek, there is only an hour to go before Pledge Me closes.

Thanks to all our wonderful supporters for helping us to reach our goals.

Invitation Twisty ChristmasIf you’d like to come along to our Best of Twisty Christmas Tales book launch, feel free to download an invitation here: Twisty-Christmas-Invitation  We’d love to see you at The Children’s Bookshop on Thursday 13 November at 6pm, to join in the fun. (Address is on the invitation.)

To join our Facebook event – for both the print and e-book launches, sign in here.

The e-book is available on Amazon on pre-order. For those who love e-books, this is great for us, as pre-orders boost our Amazon rankings immensely! Thanks again for your support!

See you at the launch – with Twisty Christmas music, nibbles, drinks, art and books galore! A great start to the festive season!

Sneak Preview – Twisty Christmas Cards

Our The Best of Twisty Christmas Tales artist, Geoff Popham, has worked his magic again, creating cool Christmas cards from four of the illustrations in The Best of Twisty Christmas Tales. Kids will love receiving a card along with their copy of the book when you tuck their stockings full of goodies this Christmas!

The four illustrations featured on the cards come from these stories:

  • A Modern Kiwi Christmas by Kerrie Ann Spicer
  • Rumbled by Eileen Mueller
  • New Neighbours by Anne Wilkins
  • Jimmy’s Night In by Lyn McConchie

We can’t tell you which card matches which story, because we don’t want to give away any spoilers! Have some fun this Christmas! Surprise kids with matching cards and great NZ Christmas stories in The Best of Twisty Christmas Tales!

You can order these cards The Best of Twisty Christmas Tales on Pledge Me – a cool  fundraising system that helps kiwis get behind projects they love.Pop over here and order your copy now! E-books, cards, and many more exiting rewards await you.

As part of the team at Phantom Feather Press, I’d like to say a special thank you to all of our wonderful supporters so far, for providing some fairy dust to help our Christmas wishes come true this year. Please share our Pledge Me campaign with your friends, encourage more children to enjoy great kiwi literature this Christmas, and support the Muscular Dystrophy Association of New Zealand.

Twisty Christmas Tales – Festive Short Stories for Children of All Ages

Twisty Christmas Tales is live!!!

Twisty Christmas Tales - Festive Stories for Children of All Ages
Twisty Christmas Tales – Festive Stories for Children of All Ages

Buy this e-book at Amazon or Smashwords for $US 2.99

What will Santa put under your tree this Christmas? A present that growls? A battered old bike? Or wings to fly?

Twisty Christmas Tales —ten crazy Christmas adventures for the whole family! Christmas in outer space or at the beach, carolling gone wrong, a strange elf creating havoc in Santa’s workshop, monsters running amok, and a junior mad scientist who turns Christmas into chaos.

Come along for the sleigh ride of your life, as these Twisty Tales weave their festive magic .

This Christmas anthology contains ten fantasy and science fiction short stories for children of all ages, written by three New Zealand award-winning authors, Eileen Mueller, Alicia Ponder and Peter Friend. Twisty Christmas Tales is available as an e-book at Amazon and Smashwords.

Amazon link for mobi files for kindle e-readers. This link will take you to Kindle for PC.

Smashwords link for all other formats – epub, pdf, rtf, lrf, Palmdoc (pdb), plain text or html files. (pdf, rtf and plain text will run on word processors, html can be viewed on screen) Some of these formats do not include covers.

Peter, Alicia and I hope you enjoy our Twisty Christmas Tales, some with a  New Zealand flavour! Please feel free to post a review on Amazon, Goodreads and Smashwords when you’re done! 🙂

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