The READ THIS! BotM Announced, New Book, & Last Days of Preorder

Happy December! Hope that those who celebrated had wonderful Thanksgivings. Because we're now into THE Holiday Month, there's something to celebrate every day in December, but the biggies start mid-month, so we'll talk about them next newsletter. The next READ THIS! Book of the Month is also here, and since it's one of my bookie wookies I'm totes excited about it, plus there's another new release, and we're at the last days of preorder disco, AND more, so let's get to it, shall we? We shall!

It's Alive!

Fem-Bots & Androids & Superbeings Oh My. It's Kitty vs. the End of the World. The Mastermind may be outed, but Kitty & Company don't get any downtime. In addition to having to recover from Operation Epidemic quickly, the sudden reappearance of a minor adversary long-forgotten turns out to only be the tip of a deadly iceberg that could end up causing World War Three...

Read Out Loud! Do you have your copy of the Touched by an Alien audiobook yet? If not, don't wait! Grab yours today and start your year right!

Speaking of Reading Out Loud... Graphic Audio has renewed the contract for The Legend of Belladonna, Part 1: Natural Born Outlaws, by moi writing as A.E. Stanton. If you haven't grabbed this fantastic audiobook, don't delay, grab it today!

READ THIS! A Book Club by Moi for All Y'all Welcome to READ THIS! A Book Club by Gini Koch. This is my chance to introduce you to some great authors that I love and know you will, too. Every month I'll spotlight a book and, even better...every month I'll host a live discussion with the author, that all y'all can join! I know, it's too happy to be true, but true it is!

December 2025 READ THIS! Selection

The READ THIS! Selection for December 2025 is:  Something Wicked Santa Paloma Mysteries #1 by Gini Koch & Bebe Bayliss Gini's Take: Samantha Greene loves her grandmothers and their friends, and not only because solving mysteries that elude the police is their favorite hobby. But some crimes are more dangerous than others, and investigating a string of brutal murders puts them all on the killers’ radars, Samantha especially.  About the Authors: One of them is me! But just in case you've missed the "official" bio...Gini Koch writes the fast, fresh, and funny Alien/Katherine “Kitty” Katt series, the Necropolis Enforcement Files, and the Martian Alliance Chronicles. As G.J. Koch she writes the Alexander Outland series and she’s made the most of multiple personality disorder by writing novels, novellas, novelettes, and short stories in all the genres out there and under a variety of other pen names as well, including Anita Ensal (A Cup of Joe, The Belters), Jemma Chase (The Disciple and Other Stories of the Paranormal), A.E. Stanton (The Legend of Belladonna series and The New West series), and J.C. Koch. With co-author Bebe Bayliss she writes the Fall’s Girl Mysteries and the Santa Paloma Mysteries.  Bebe Bayliss is a California-born Canadian author writing mystery & suspense, science fiction, fantasy, paranormal, weird west, and horror, with stories featured in anthologies from Zombies Need Brains, Flame Tree Publishing, Brigids Gate Press, and Air and Nothingness Press (as Sonya Carlin.) She and co-writer Gini Koch bonded over a shared love of snark and sci-fi conventions and they now write short stories, novellas, and novels together, including FALL’S GIRL, first in their Fall’s Girl Mystery series from Ginger Blue Publishing. Bebe lives in British Columbia with a very tall husband and a very small dog. http://www.bebebayliss.com

December 2025 READ THIS! Author Q&A

So, you've read the READ THIS! selection and you want to share what you thought with the author, hang out with them and Gini, and generally talk books for an hour. Well, guess what? You can! The third Thursday of every month will be READ THIS! Author Q&A time. The event will be held utilizing Discord, and the invitation to Gini's READ THIS! room will come out in the week prior to the chat. And that's not all! Near the end of each Q&A session, we'll be doing a raffle and one lucky winner will get a copy of the next month's READ THIS! selection! (You must be present in the Q&A to win. Physical book prizes will be U.S. only. Ebook prizes will be worldwide.)

December's READ THIS! author Q&A  featuring Guest Host Hal Bodner with Authors Gini Koch and Bebe Bayliss will be on Thursday, December 18, 2024 from 9pm-10pm Eastern. Access to Discord is available worldwide, and everyone is invited to attend!

January's READ THIS! Selection   And Remember: One Lucky Q&A Participant can win it early!

The READ THIS! Selection for January 2026 is:  The Powers That Be By Temple Hart

There's a new review about Alien in the Family and the Alien Series in general - Surrealism as Revolutionary Struggle - from Torch of Liberty. Check it out!

In case you missed it, the first 13 books in the Alien Series are now available from Ginger Blue Publishing in ebook, trade paperback, hardback, and trophy hardback! And The Alien Collection will be here tomorrow AND Books 14-16 are coming soon!

Ginger Blue is trucking along and getting the Alien Series re-released just as fast as they can. The situation with how the hardbacks go out is still the same - you can get the new versions in ebook, trade paperback, hardback, and trophy hardback complete with a snazzy dust cover! The trophy hardback is from B&N.com only, as a reminder, and the regular hardback is from Amazon only. The searching via Amazon and B&N.com remains spotty, in no small part because those two distributors still have some mass market copies they're determined to sell. So, as suggested for Touched and Tango, and as recommended for every book coming through 16/Aliens Abroad, go to the Ginger Blue Releases page, click on the cover of your choosing, and choose which option or options you want. The links on GBP's website will take you to the right spots at B&N and Amazon to get the version you want. Confusing? Yes. Ultimately manageable? Sure. It's only adding a step to what you'd normally do. Now for the old reviews status. On B&N all the review seem to have stuck. Not so on  Amazon -- they were there for all and, suddenly, they were not. SO, several of the books do not have all their reviews connected to the new versions. We have no idea why. Yes, they may connect at a later date, we have no idea if that will or won't happen, and if they do connect, if they'll actually remain. SO, please review early and often on either site, but particularly on Amazon, since, as we well know, reviews matter, especially at Amazon, B&N, and Goodreads. So, officially, now the first thirteen books are live everywhere! And fourteen through sixteen are coming soon! Huzzah!

So many bookie wookies, so much time to catch up on all of them while waiting for The Alien Collection, Aliens Like Us, Aliens Like Them, and the next READ THIS! selection. Check out my Bookstore for all the things!

That's it for today but, never fear, another Update, including the Discord Q&A chat invitation, will be arriving in a couple of weeks! In the meantime, stay safe and healthy, remember we're all in this together, be kind to one another, give love and support to all those who are on the front lines in any capacity, and let's be readers out there. Peace out, my li'l gangstas, and I'll catch you on the flip side! Love, Gini