Craving Hallmark vibes without the relentless heteronormativity?

Is the axial tilt your reason for the season?

Yearning for a cozy yet steamy winter romance?

Love books with queer, trans, and neurodivergent rep by queer, trans, and neurodivergent authors?

Check out Glimmer in the Dark, a Winter Solstice romance novella for cynical queers. This achillean slow burn with a touch of heat will give you all the cozy winter goodness, without the religious overtones.

If you want a ✨signed ✨ paperback, get yours from Scribbles Bookshop! Support a queer-owned indie bookseller AND get a personalized, signed copy of a cozy, queer winter romance novella all at once! Each purchase comes with some solstice goodies!

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You're invited to Sleighbell Springs Vermont, America's most festive Christmas town, in a new series that asks... What happens the other eleven months of the year in all those movie Holiday towns? How do the locals spend the rest of the year once the tourists leave and they're left to their own devices again?

Join 18 of your favorite authors (including me) as they bring you adorable, swoony, steamy and delightfully queer stories of how the locals in the most festive town in the US spend the rest of the year.

New releases coming each month of 2026 & 2027!

Mine comes out March 2026: For Luck's Sake is a childhood friends to lovers romance between the sunshine ballet teacher and the grumpy drag king who join forces to raise money for the local community theater in a sizzling hot burlesque performance!

We're looking for ARC readers! Join the Sleighbell Stage ARC team here!