Now Available in Audio: Tiffany and Tiger's Eye by Foxglove Lee

I'm delighted to announce that my novel Tiffany and Tiger's Eye is now available as an audiobook!

This audio version was created using Google's digital auto-narration technology rather than a human narrator, and I love how it turned out. It's seven hours long and I enjoyed every minute of it.

If you love consuming content in audio format, be sure to grab a copy of Tiffany and Tiger's Eye from Google Play!

How many secrets can one family keep?

If there’s one thing Rebecca knows, it’s how to keep her problems under wraps. It’s easy to keep your mouth shut when you’ve got no friends, but with a rock-and-roll dad who drinks too much and a mom who works day and night, Rebecca needs a sympathetic ear. That’s why she tells her troubles to Yvette, an antique doll that once belonged to her grandmother.

In the summer of 1986, after her father’s strange disappearance, Rebecca and her little brother are sent to stay at the cottage, where she meets Tiffany: a water-skiing blonde who dresses like Madonna, makes her own jewellery, and claims to see auras.

But strange things happen when Rebecca spends time with Tiffany. Her aunt and uncle are convinced she’s acting out—and she’d have good reason to, considering they won’t tell her where her father is—but she can’t seem to convince them she isn’t the one trashing her bedroom and setting fires. Unlikely as it seems, Yvette must be the culprit. There’s nothing more dangerous than a jealous doll who knows all your secrets…

A digitally narrated paranormal 80s nostalgia lesbian audiobook

Get Tiffany and Tiger's Eye in audio format from Google Play today!

Go Back in Time with Ghost Stories from the Victorian and Edwardian Days

If you enjoy classic ghost stories as much as I do, I know you're going to love these audiobooks narrated by Madeleine Mayfair. You might know her as the narrator of my audiobooks!  Well, she's a huge fan of ghost stories--just like you and me.

Check out these spooky stories from the early 1900s. You'd think they'd feel antiquated, seeing as they were written over 100 years ago, but they're incredibly entertaining. MadMay's done a great job with them.

Haunted Houses of England and Wales
A Collection of Ghost Stories

Prepare for a scare! This collection of bone-chilling ghost stories from England and Wales is certain to send shivers down your spine. Settle in for more than four hours of haunted tales from the early twentieth century—that’s more than four hours of audio!

Listen at iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/audiobook/haunted-houses-england-wales-collection-ghost-stories/id1450618101?mt=11&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/audiobooks/details/Elliott_O_Donnell_Haunted_Houses_of_England_and_Wa?id=AQAAAEDMgGrAtM&hl=en
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/audiobook/haunted-houses-of-england-and-wales
Scribd: https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/398022786/Haunted-Houses-of-England-and-Wales-A-Collection-of-Ghost-Stories
Playster: https://play.playster.com/audiobooks/1001800000001001697/haunted-houses-of-england-and-wales-elliott-odonnell

Scottish Ghost Stories
Victorian and Edwardian Tales of the Supernatural

From castles to country houses to the battlegrounds of a bygone era, Scotland boasts an impressive host of haunted locales. This impressive collection of bone-chilling ghost stories is certain to send shivers down your spine. Travel from Edinburgh to Aberdeen to Glasgow and all points in between with nearly twenty tingling tales of ghostly encounters from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Settle in for more than five hours of audio and get ready for a scare!

Listen at iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/audiobook/scottish-ghost-stories-victorian-edwardian-tales-supernatural/id1449910637?mt=11&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/audiobooks/details/Elliott_O_Donnell_Scottish_Ghost_Stories?id=AQAAAEBMyz6LYM&hl=en
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/audiobook/scottish-ghost-stories-17
Scribd: https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/396891679/Scottish-Ghost-Stories-Victorian-and-Edwardian-Tales-of-the-Supernatural
Playster: https://play.playster.com/audiobooks/1001800000001001536/scottish-ghost-stories-elliott-odonnell

The Invisible Hand and Other Ghost Stories

Ten haunting tales from the book of True Ghost Stories compiled by Hereward Carrington in 1915. Included in this audio collection are the following Victorian and Edwardian stories: The Cut Across the Cheek, “Julia, Darling,” Face to Face, Willington Mill, The Invisible Hand, Face Slapped by a Ghost, Alone with a Ghost in a Church, A Haunted House in France, I Am Shot, and Shaken by a Ghost.

Listen at Nook: https://www.nookaudiobooks.com/audiobook/256756/invisible-hand-and-other-ghost-stories-the
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/audiobook/invisible-hand-and-other-ghost-stories-the
Audiobooks.com: https://www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/invisible-hand-and-other-ghost-stories/360166
Playster: https://play.playster.com/audiobooks/1001800000000256756/the-invisible-hand-and-other-ghost-stories-hereward-carrington

A Teacup for Trilby: A Heartwarming Holiday Story

We all have different needs, when it comes to the kinds of stories we want to hear around the holiday season. 

Some readers love escaping into a land of sugar and spice that in no way resembles real life. Other readers feel isolated by sappy-happy stories because they don't see themselves and their lives reflected. 

There's a place for the sappy stuff. There's a please for stark realism. Both are valid forms of entertainment.

Growing up as a queer kid in a situation of domestic violence, I hated the feel-good Christmas movies my mother loved. All the happy smiling people just reminded me how rotten my little life was. I wanted representation. I looked for fiction that was darker, fiction that reflected the fear I was experiencing in my own life.

As an adult, I appreciate the need for escapism more and more. As I write this post, I'm watching some kind of musical family Christmas special on TV. Little me would be rolling her eyes, big-time. But the world is just so awful sometimes. It helps to absorb other families' joy, even if it's fictional.

Having said all that, I would like to introduce the story I've written for you this Christmas.

A Teacup for Trilby sits somewhere between those two extremes of happy-sappy and stark realism. It's about a little girl spending Christmas at a shelter for women and children escaping domestic violence. 

You might think a story about being homeless for the holidays would be a total bummer, but I'm hoping that's not the case here. My main character, Amelia, befriends Trilby, a lovely older trans woman, and they pretty much adopt each other as grandmother and granddaughter. When Trilby is wronged, Amelia is the first one who wants to stick up for her. But what good can she do? She's only a child.

These characters experience great challenges, but, in the end, they are rewarded with love and acceptance. And I think that's something we're all looking for, especially this time of year.

Start a new tradition today by reading A Teacup for Trilby, a heartwarming holiday story from me, Foxglove Lee, for you, with love and affection.

A Teacup for Trilby
A Heartwarming Holiday Story
By Foxglove Lee

Amelia and her family are homeless this Christmas. How can their days be merry after they’ve lost everything?

When Trilby arrives at the shelter just in time for the holidays, Amelia’s family takes the older trans woman eagerly into their hearts. Trilby reminds the young girl of her late grandmother, who was always so loving and supportive. Everyone is over the moon when a wealthy benefactor arranges a festive shopping trip for the shelter’s residents, but the evening goes sour when a cold-hearted shop assistant denies Trilby the only gift she really wants. Can anyone set things right? And can they do it in time for Christmas?

You can purchase the ebook at many retailers, including:
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07L7L62G5?tag=foxglovelee-20
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/911689?ref=RainbowCrush
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=wxN-DwAAQBAJ
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/a-teacup-for-trilby-a-heartwarming-holiday-story
Universal Link: https://www.books2read.com/b/3yDA1n

You can also find it at the following and other subscription sites:
Scribd: https://www.scribd.com/book/395417647/A-Teacup-for-Trilby-A-Heartwarming-Holiday-Story
Playster: https://play.playster.com/books/10009781370260881/a-teacup-for-trilby-a-heartwarming-holiday-story-foxglove-lee

And at Radish: https://radish.app.link/yrljelwZzS

Nostalgia, Nirvana, the Nineties: Top Ten Ways to Die

When I hear myself saying my latest release is close to my heart, I have to laugh a little. Because I say that about ALL my books, don't I? But when I described my new novelette Top Ten Ways to Die to my sister, she said, "Wow, you really put a lot of yourself into this one."

It's lesbian fiction. It deals with the death of a parent. It incorporates plenty of arguments with Mom--about Nirvana, about clothing, about whether that goth girl Tara is a bad influence. It reverberates with the shock a whole class feels (teacher included) when one student tries to commit suicide.

There's a lot packed into this piece. And did I mention it's set in 1994? What else is new, right? In case you haven't memorized my back list, it just so happens my book Sylvie and the Christmas Ghost is also set in 1994, as is Gayboy (also known as And Plaid All Over).

Why 1994?

Well, here's the thing: I tried really hard to set this story in any other year. Any year but 1994! But when I got into research mode, I soon discovered one of the essential elements of Top Ten Ways to Die (Kurt Cobain's suicide) occurred in... you guessed it... 1994. Turns out I can't get away from this year.

As much as Top Ten Ways to Die is fiction about teenagers, I can't help but wonder if I didn't write it more as nostalgic fiction for my own generation--for people who want to stroll down memory lane, relive the 90s from a teenage perspective. I find that whenever I write young adult books set in the 80s or 90s, the readers who really eat them up are the adults who came of age during those decades.

When Jess’s dad dies unexpectedly, her world is turned upside-down. The only good things left in life are her girlfriend Tara and Kurt Cobain’s tortured grunge sound. But when a classmate attempts suicide, Jess goes into a downward spiral. Her mom is afraid she’s obsessed with death, and doesn’t want her hanging out with Tara or listening to Nirvana. What’s left for Jess in Hicksville if everything she loves is taken away?

I invite you to grab a copy of Top Ten Ways to Die right now from one of the following retailers:

Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/top-ten-ways-to-die-1
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=vKp3DgAAQBAJ
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id1219652964

Barnes and Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/top-ten-ways-to-die-foxglove-lee/1126005406
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/713853

Instafreebie: https://www.instafreebie.com/free/SO4le

Tell your friends!

You can also purchase Top Ten Ways to Die in print from Amazon. I highly recommend it, but, then, I would, wouldn't I?

While I'm sharing links, here's where you can buy the ebook from Amazon:

Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XRZTWFQ?tag=foxglovelee-20
Amazon Canada: http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B06XRZTWFQ
Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B06XRZTWFQ