DECORATING SPIRIT by Zenobia Renquist
She's making sure Christmas comes more than once this year.
The Spirit of Christmas should be a joyous person who can spread happiness around the world. Spir is anything but. His mood is as dark as the black clothes he wears.
Danette is hired to change his clothing in hopes that his attitude will follow. Spir doesn’t want to cooperate. When she finally gets him out of his clothes, Danette discovers something harder than her job and much more enjoyable.
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Whether writing as D. Renee Bagby or Zenobia Renquist, she is a world-builder. She loves inventing new cultures and shaping their histories and laws because it beats researching the existing ones.
Her stories span the fantasy gamut but she dabbles in sci-fi and contemporary from time to time. While her main characters tend to be of different races, she doesn't let skin color rule or limit her stories. For her, it's all about how much she can torture her characters so they earn their happily-ever-after ending.
The rules are all new and pre-conceived notions will only slow you down, so when reading Renee's stories, she asks only one thing -- Leave Your Reality Behind.
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Super congrats on the new Christmas release Zenobia!
ReplyDeleteTell us just how you can be in the Christmas spirit there in Hawaii... lol you lucky duck!
No really, tell us about your new release. I love how you've made the Spirit of Christmas into a character, not sure I've ever seen that before. You're a good one for firsts!
I saw that your last year's Christmas story, STRIPPING CHRISTMAS is on sale for only 99 cents! That's awesome!
Hope you enjoy your cyber launch today and lifting my egg nog and wishing you a great holiday season and many, many sales!
Hi DeNita,
DeleteActually being in Hawaii is making it kind of hard to be in the Christmas spirit (last year too). It's summer weather outside. Even with all the decorations, it's hard to think of this sunny, 80 degree as Christmas weather.
I came up with the idea for this story from last year's story -- Stripping Christmas. Since Kris was inheriting the mantle of Santa Claus and this was a duty passed down through the generations, why not the Spirit of Christmas as well? And thus the story was born.
And yes, Stripping Christmas is on sale at Changeling Press only for 99 cents along with rest of the White Hot Christmas series. As well the Sugarplum series and the Holiday Howlz series are also on sale at Changeling only for 99 cents.
~ Zenobia
I really enjoyed the excerpt! How are your two Christmas stories connected? Do you plan to revisit this world again next year?
ReplyDeleteHi Katie, thanks for coming out.
DeleteSpir, the hero of "Decorating Spirit" and the Spirit of Christmas, is the identical twin brother (different hair colors) of Kris Kringle, the hero of "Stripping Christmas." The stories are a year apart both in release and story time.
I plan to revisit the world again to visit one of the other holiday clans. The theme of next year's Changeling Christmas stories will determine if I do another story related to Kris and Spir.
~ Zenobia
Congrats! Are you ready for the holidays?
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I am not. I haven't even shipped off my presents though they are sitting on my floor.
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You are a brand new author for me...what is the title of the very first book you wrote?
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Hi Susan and thanks for stopping by. My first book ever was ADRIENNE under my other name, D. Renee Bagby. My first Changeling title was RITE MEN FOR MAYA. :D
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You're a new author for me as well. When you're not writing Christmas stories, what is your favorite stuff to write? I see you write under two different names, why is that?
ReplyDeleteHi Karen and thanks for coming out.
DeleteChristmas stories are just for the season. I normally write Fantasy Romance. I have two different names to separate my interconnected books (D. Renee Bagby) from my random flights of imagination (Zenobia Renquist).
~ Zenobia
Very cool, Zenobia/Renee! Looking forward to some of your holiday heat this month! Did you take some time out to treat yourself for your birthday? Any cool pressies this year? I've got a December birthday too, so it's a fun month to celebrate ;)
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HI Fedora, thanks for stopping by. My birthday isn't until the 28th so no celebrating yet. I have to get through Christmas first. However for Christmas, my brother-in-law sent me the figurine for Lady Vashj from World of Warcraft... I know this early because my hubby opened it thinking it was for him. So that was a great gift to get.
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Thanks all for coming out to my Cyber Launch. The winner of the PDF copies of Stripping Christmas and Decorating Spirit is Susan Platt.
ReplyDeleteCongrats!
~ Zenobia