Holiday Spectacular

Jumpstart Your Holiday Spirit!! Binge the entire collection! 40 holiday stories that center around holidays from American Thanksgiving to New Year's Day. Award-winning and bestselling writers explore the holidays in 40 stories told through the snowy lense of three different genres-mystery, romance, and this year's Secrets theme. This volume contains 40 stories, including four previously unpublished Kristine Kathryn Rusch stories, presented as they first appeared in the 2023 WMG Holiday Spectacular Calendar of Stories! (Click here to learn more about the 2024 Calendar of Stories) This story-stuffed stocking of an anthology includes two award-winning and best-of-the-year stories. Annie Reed's "Dead Names" appeared in The Mysterious Books Presents The Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2023, edited by Amor Towles. Kristine Kathryn Rusch's story, "Catherine The Great," won the Short Mystery Society's Derringer Award for Best Novelette. The Holiday Spectacular 5th Annual Holiday Story Omnibus will knock your stockings off and fulfill all your holiday story needs. Editor Bio Award-winning editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch loves the holidays and she loves short fiction, which makes the annual WMG Holiday Spectacular the perfect project for her to edit! Rusch won numerous awards for her editing and broke a number of barriers in the science fiction and fantasy field, including being the first female editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and being the only person in history to have won a Hugo Award for writing and editing. She has owned two different publishing companies. Her novels have made bestseller lists around the world, she has won more than thirty awards for her fiction and her short fiction has appeared in twenty-seven best of the year collections. Find out more at kriswrites.com

In this criminally mysterious WMG Holiday Spectacular anthology, award-winning editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch offers a carefully curated collection of holiday stories to add a bit of crime to the season. Join eleven of the best writers in the business as they present this slightly darker collection of holiday stories to captivate your inner detective any season of the year. Shadowy Holiday Criminal Stories­­-The Lineup: "Days of Mourning" by T. Thorn Coyle "The Dead Ringer" by C. H. Hung "Underdog Party" by Johanna Rothman "Cold-Hearted Christmas" by Lisa Silverthorne "Merry Bloody Christmas" by Jessi Hammond "Dead Names" by Annie Reed "The Final Instruction" by Kate Rohan "The Last Multivariable Differential Christmas" by Michael Warren Lucas "Luck At Christmas" by Mary Jo Rabe "Season For Treason" by Kelly Washington "The Snow Maiden and The Major of Military Police" by Henry Martin Editor Bio Award-winning editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch loves the holidays and she loves short fiction, which makes the annual WMG Holiday Spectacular the perfect project for her to edit! Rusch won numerous awards for her editing and broke a number of barriers in the science fiction and fantasy field, including being the first female editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and being the only person in history to have won a Hugo Award for writing and editing. She has owned two different publishing companies. Her novels have made bestseller lists around the world, she has won more than thirty awards for her fiction and her short fiction has appeared in twenty-seven best of the year collections. Find out more at kriswrites.com

In this secretive WMG Holiday Spectacular anthology, award-winning editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch offers a carefully curated collection of secret themed holiday stories to add a bit of intrigue to the season. Stories about secrets include humor, spy fiction, romance, historical fiction, and-of course-a mystery or two. Join eleven of the best writers in the business as they present this lovely collection of holiday stories to capture your interest in any season of the year. The Secretive Holiday Stories Line-up: "Secrets Left Untold" by Daemon Crowe "The Haunt of Wren Mountain" by Jessi Hammond "Only in My Dreams" by Lisa Silverthorne "Promises Under the Trees" by Ron Collins "Katia and the King Rat" by Michèle Laframboise "Light of Love" by Rei Rosenquist "The Last Angry Outburst of the Holiday Dalek" by Dayle A. Dermatis "The Great Tamale Sauce Bakeoff" by Kat Simons "Boxing Day Kintsugi" by Brenda Carre "Santa By Any Other Name" by Bonnie Elizabeth "Judgement Ink" by DeAnna Knippling Editor Bio Award-winning editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch loves the holidays and she loves short fiction, which makes the annual WMG Holiday Spectacular the perfect project for her to edit! Rusch won numerous awards for her editing and broke a number of barriers in the science fiction and fantasy field, including being the first female editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and being the only person in history to have won a Hugo Award for writing and editing. She has owned two different publishing companies. Her novels have made bestseller lists around the world, she has won more than thirty awards for her fiction and her short fiction has appeared in twenty-seven best of the year collections. Find out more at kriswrites.com

In this delightfully creative WMG Holiday Spectacular anthology, award-winning editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch offers a carefully curated collection of sweetly romantic holiday stories to add a delightful whimsy to the season. In this volume, you will find romantic suspense, Regency romance, sweet romance, and more. In other words, something to please even the most jaded romance reader. Join eleven of the best writers in the business as they present this lovely collection of holiday romance stories to brighten any season of the year. The Sparklingly Romantic Holiday Story Line-up: "The Perfect Solstice Wedding" by Dayle A. Dermatis "Light Before Dawn" by Leslie Claire Walker "Tremelo" by Irette Y. Patterson "The Most Impressive Courage of a Little Tortie Cat" by Kari Kilgore "Lost and Found" by Daphne Crowe "The Christmas Ball" by Anthea Lawson "A Dreidel Ball Miracle" by Johanna Rothman "Only Here For The Food" by Patricia Duffy Novak "Light in Dark Times" by T. Thorn Coyle "A Winter Challenge" by R.W. Wallace "The Forest of Christmas Trees" by Steven Mohan, Jr. Editor Bio Award-winning editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch loves the holidays and she loves short fiction, which makes the annual WMG Holiday Spectacular the perfect project for her to edit! Rusch won numerous awards for her editing and broke a number of barriers in the science fiction and fantasy field, including being the first female editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and being the only person in history to have won a Hugo Award for writing and editing. She has owned two different publishing companies. Her novels have made bestseller lists around the world, she has won more than thirty awards for her fiction and her short fiction has appeared in twenty-seven best of the year collections. Find out more at kriswrites.com