(For lovers of paper, a special, trade paperback edition is also available for purchase from Amazon for a reasonable price.)
The Betimes collection consists of a range of short stories and short pieces from the Betimes Books stable of writers. Befitting the array of authors represented, the stories also run the gamut in mood and approach, but all are centered on the holiday. Each piece also contains a short, original introductory essay by its author.
My own contribution is lifted from PRINT THE LEGEND (soon to be newly available from Betimes in early 2015; here's a glimpse of the new cover).

The moment detailed actually prefigures the opening of FOREVER'S JUST PRETEND, whose opening pages see our literary duo on the evening of the same Christmas Day detailed in the PTL excerpt. (Yes, I really plotted the whole nine-novel series that tightly.)

But back to the Betimes Christmas collection: In addition to asking you to check out my own story, I'd also recommend the darkly comic "Slay Belles," by Hadley Colt, which takes some pretty dark shots at the publishing industry and some of its more recent turmoils. Here's an illustration that's being used to push that story and its gun-toting, strapping Santa...
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