New Release! 📚 Crooks, Castles, and Kisses: A Three-Book Bundle of Splendid Stories

Hey! So, I basically love bundles.

Or omnibuses. Box sets. Starter packs. Whatever you want to call them.

(I’m a reader too, remember?)

A bundle means you get a bunch of books at once, all for one low price. What’s not to love?

And this week, I’m bringing you a brand new bundle of three recent short story collections, with a super fun cover and great mix of tales.

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Crooks, Castles, and Kisses

A Three-Book Bundle of Splendid Stories

From the festive mind of acclaimed storyteller BILL ALIVE, author of DON'T DANCE ON THE LOBSTERS, comes this generous bundle of not one, not two, but three full collections of his splendid short fiction.

Do you love quirky, fun short stories, with zany characters and ridiculous situations that you've never read anywhere else?

How about bittersweet love stories?

Or pensive literary tales, that still (usually) trend toward a happy ending?

Huh. They all sound pretty good, right? Just depends on your mood.

But where can you get all three kinds of stories, in one big bundle? And get a good deal while you're at it?

Oh wait. That would be this book right here.

This bundled volume, Crooks, Castles, and Kisses, includes three separate story collections:

The Brave Little Mailman (And Other Stories)

The Sofa King (And Other Stories)

Crags in the Sunset (And Other Love Stories I Wrote In High School)

If you relish variety and adventure in your reading, and plucking up each new story to savor like a bonbon in a sampler, then don't miss this delicious bundle.

🛒 BUY IT NOW: Crooks, Castles, and Kisses: A Three-Book Bundle of Splendid Stories

Click that link to purchase this e-book on any major online bookstore.

No paperback edition is available yet.

Thank you for checking out this new release! I’ll have more bundles and collections for you in these last few weeks of 2025, but it won’t be long before some (long overdue) new novels will be coming your way.

NEW NOVELS? ARE THEY IN ONE OF YOUR MYSTERY SERIES?

No, alas, I don’t have any new novels written yet in either my Mark Falcon or Wonder Springs Mystery series. Trust me, when I do, you’ll be the first to know.

But what I do have, by the way… are paperbacks.

PAPERBACKS? YAY!

Yes! I’m not sure whether I ever mentioned it, but paperbacks are now available for most of my recent releases from the past year or so.

(Not for this new bundle. That would be around 400 pages. A paperback should be available eventually, but not yet.)

But for all the other books I’ve been announcing recently—the novellas, the short story collections, even the standalone short stories—you can order a paperback, right now. You can order the paperback on Amazon, and they should be able to ship your book anywhere in the world.

And of course, all my previous novels, such as those mysteries, are available in paperback as well.

WOW!

I know! I’ve been pretty excited myself. Nothing like the feel of a real paper book in your hand.

And the row of my books is slowly taking over the mantle… when my kids aren’t snagging them, that is. (That last bit being definitely the coolest part of all.)

Thanks again! Happy reading!

Bill Alive