State of the TAM - December 2nd
Happy December and Whatever Holiday you Celebrate!
What’s Up
So, I’m going to just belly up to the elephant in the room… I’ve been slacking with the newsletter this year. I’ll try and improve for 2026, but honestly this has been a hard to navigate year. I’ve been OK, in rude good health most of the year, but a lot people in my life have been unwell or in various forms of flux in their lives.
Even the pups have been back and forth to the vet.
So I’ve just been trying to keep an even keel and forge forward with everything…to mixed success. My very important contributions of being vaguely useless, cracking in poor taste jokes, and making cups of tea would have been missed, I’m sure.
Still, it’s December already! So I have to try and buck up. Next year will be better!
So…what’s coming up?
LOTS AND LOTS!
Dylan Hollie saved Christmas, not that he can tell anyone about it.
Now all he has to worry about is finding out who killed the previous Santa and set everything in motion.
It should be easy enough. He's got plenty of suspects. Between Santa's ambitious relatives, who all think they could do a better job of filling out the red suit, and the impenetrable mire of Winter Court politics there were more people who wanted the jolly man dead than alive.
Right now the prime suspects are the Yule Lads. Santa's magically contracted bodyguards; the Lads have been at this too many centuries to fail so comprehensively all at once.
Dropped into the middle of this, in a world he'd never believed in, Dylan has to try and work out who to trust, and that maybe the answer is no-one.
He'd also like to know if Santas ever retire. The benefits are good, and the health insurance is insane, but he definitely doesn't want to be Santa this year!
Liar, Liar is currently FREE until DEC 5! (Which is great for many reasons, but the ‘5’ on my keyboard is on the way out…so it’s hard to write!) So if you haven’t read it, now’s the time to check it out!
Just another day at the office.
For some people that means spreadsheets, and for others it’s stitching endless hems. For Jacob Archer a day at the office is stealing proprietary information from a bioengineering firm f or a paranoid software billionaire. He’s a liar and a thief, parlaying a glib tongue and a facile conscience into a lucrative career. He just has one rule—never get involved with a mark.
Well, had one rule. To be fair, though, Simon Ramsey is dark, dangerous, and has shoulders like a Greek statue. Besides, it’s not as though Jacob’s even really stealing from Simon… just his boss and his brother-in-law. Simon didn’t buy that excuse either after he caught Jacob breaking into the company’s computer network.
That would have been that—one messy breakup, one ticket to Bali booked—but it turns out that the stolen information is worth more than Jacob thought. With his life—and his ribs—threatened, Jacob needs Simon to help him out. Or maybe he just needs Simon.
OUT NOW!
I have re-released Ghostwriter of Christmas Past in time for Christmas! It’s in KDP and available for sale at only $1.99!
Ever since ghostwriter Jason Burke ended up in loco parentis for his orphaned niece, Mallory, he’s been trying. He goes to parent/teacher events, and he makes packed lunches, so he definitely didn’t mean to forget about Christmas. He just hasn’t celebrated it since he left home under a cloud years ago.
Put on the spot, Jason makes the snap decision to take Mallory to see where he and her father spent their Christmases as kids. The last thing he expects is to run into Tommy, his ex—ex-best friend, ex-boyfriend—who is still living in town in town… and working as a sheriff’s deputy.
It’s hard to avoid someone in a small town—and maybe Jason doesn’t want to. He got Mallory a Christmas, and maybe now it’s time to get himself a Christmas boyfriend.
But first, he owes Tommy some explanations.
Pupdate!
This is so cool!
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Oh and if you are looking for me, I’m sporadically (chaotically) active on Bluesky! It’s a nice interface and I am enjoying dipping my toe into the community there!
