I have now published my twelfth anthology of short stories on Amazon having published my first just a year ago. This is a series of books that my publisher has called “Mainly Happy Endings” because people who read me will know that I like my TG tales to be real and uplifting. Each book has its own themes and each book contains stories that have not been published online – other than as work-in-progress on my Patreon. 12 books and 192 stories in total.

My first book “Friendship and Agony and other Romances” was generally about friendships that become more, but closes on a new story “Agony” about a (male) agony aunt forced into the public eye.

“Romance and other Risky Endeavors” is about transitioners involved in dangerous activities of taking risks, opens with a consolidated and expanded version of the popular story that appeared here as “Lumberjackie”.

“Misfortune and Other Romance of the Old West” contains mostly stories written for the book with just “Indian Red” and “Frontier Bride” being stories which have appeared her that fitted. “Misfortune” remains my top seller perhaps because of its curious merging of Western novella with transgender fiction.

My fourth book is “Romance and Other Accidents” which is, as you might guess, about change forced by accident – physical or in circumstance. Watch out for the young man confronting his mother’s lover in “A Misunderstanding” and the chimeric twin in “Oddity”

“Romance in Disguise” is all about hiding or deceiving in female guise, and as those who know me might guess, with permanent consequences. Three of the four new stories in this collection are in excess of my usual length.

The sixth volume is a collection of stories having a criminal element entitled “Romance and Other Crimes”. The new stories here involve a serial killer, a con artist and a rapist, but also includes (alongside its inspiration “Cobra’s Moll) a story about a prison bitch after release.

“Objects of Art and Other Romances” might be considered as an odd collection, but here I have grouped together things of value and a series of stories set in the world of the performing arts – watch for burlesque in “Main Street Drag”, a mermaid show “Breathless” and the Hollywood starlets in “Casting”.

My eight book was all war stories as it seemed to me, I had a few, but “Romance and Other Battlefields” was another book that saw me sit down and write half of the book from scratch, trying to spread the tales beyond WW2. This anthology opens with something perhaps in “Rose of Kandahar” and then the stories follow in roughly historical order closing with the futuristic soldier in “Robot Surgeon”.

“Romance and Other Faraway Places” is a collection of stories set in isolated places, starting with a story that I call “Isolated” – 2 scientists at a research station find a container washed up on the beach full of feminine things. Apart from this there are another 4 stories not published elsewhere, all of them longer than my standard.

Then my publisher persuaded me to branch into the genre of Science Fiction resulting in 13 stories in “Space and Time for Romance”. My readers will know that I tend towards stories rooted in reality to allow my readers the more tantalizing fantasy of possibility. But I found 6 stories that I had posted here, and some prompting by my sometime muse Erin Halfelven prompted me to write another 7. I am particularly of the novellas “The Doll Factory” and “Reframed” which open and close this anthology.

Book 11 is entitled “The Sport of Romance and Other Games” and includes some favorites on this theme including the popular “The Quarterback” and “Penalties” but 8 out of the 18 stories were written for this anthology and are to be found here.

And so, to the last in the collection so far, I am ready to publish [“Historical Romances”], which contains 22 stories – more than the others. Readers here may be familiar with my stories “Sporus” and “La Chevaliere”. These were real people but I fictionalized their stories to make them more inspirational. In addition to 13 tales that do appear here, I wrote another 9 new stories following that same approach from Alexander the Great through Bonnie Prince Charlie down to “Mrs. Tolson” – if you can guess who that might be.

If you have not already looked at some of these books, which are available as Kindle reads, I will attach a link to the series.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B093BH5CHM?

Maryanne