A family searches for the true meaning of Christmas, then must save it in an epic fantasy adventure told through poems.

Table of Contents:

1. Where to get it
2. eBook & Paperback Specifications
3. Audiobook Specifications
4. Why is this book written in verse/poems? 
5. Why release this now? 
6. Who Am I?

eBook & Paperback Specifications:

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Audiobook Specifications:

• Number of audiobooks: 1
• Rating: G
• Warnings: none
• Genre: Poetry, epic fantasy, Christmas
• Length: 3-4 hours (but could be longer when mixed and mastered)
• Music: Yes
• Narrator:  Melinda Kucsera, the author 
• Commentary: Yes
• Only available here.

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• Get the ebook.
• Get the audiobook

Why is this book written in verse/poems? 

I wrote this book back in November 2015 as a way to cope with the sudden death of my sister and the hole her passing left in my family. Sarn and his son’s search for the meaning of Christmas and for a home became my search for those things too. 

After my sister passed away suddenly, life paused for me, but it moved on for the rest of the world. Cheery holiday music blasted from speakers in stores. Lights and decorations appeared on shops and homes. Cookies appeared at every register at the grocery store, and every reminder of the holiday was a needle pricking my hurting heart. 

I missed singing carols, trimming the tree and baking cookies with my sister. But I couldn’t do those things anymore with her. I needed to build a new tradition.   

Since I moved away not long after my sister’s death, I had no one around except my favorite fantasy characters who are always begging me to write about them. 

Unfortunately, they are fictional, so they can’t decorate cookies or trees or could they? 

The more I thought about that, the more I wondered. How would they celebrate Christmas? 

How would they know what Christmas is? 

At the time, Sarn and his son lived in a cave under a mountain. Since their world is an epic fantasy one, there’s no tv or internet, so they couldn’t google this Christmas thing they heard other people in the underground city talking about. 

So why write an epic Christmas fantasy story in poems? 

With my family shattered and my move away from them making me feel unmoored, I craved the structure and stability I lost. Poetry can be highly structured, and that appealed to me in 2015. So I wrote this story in verse. 

I published each poem in sequence on my blog from Nov. 28, 2015 and through Jan. 5, 2016.

And writing healed a part of my heart. I had one of the best holidays that year, even though that joy was bittersweet.

When the last poem published, readers who followed along requested a copy of the adventure in an easier to read format than clicking links to move between posts. So I gathered the parts of this epic Christmas adventure into an ebook and paperback publish them for a limited time.

Why release this now? 

When I unpublished this book in 2016, I planned to revise it and write it as a regular fantasy adventure in prose. And I still do. I just need the characters to cooperate with that plan. 

They keep running off on new adventures that are fun and interesting, and I let them. So I’m partly to blame. 

This book originally published in ebook and paperback, but I am bring it back with a brand new cover, and for the first time, it will be available as an audiobook. 

The 2023 edition of Stars & Angels Sing also includes stories and poems featuring Sarn and his family in their humorous quest to survive the events of Thanksgiving Day, and the book is 30% longer than the original version, including holiday stories that were written later but are part of the overall holiday storyline. 

Who Am I?

I am Melinda Kucsera, an indie fantasy author. I write epic fantasy adventures about families and magical creatures who’re just trying to survive in a world that hates and fears magic but is steeped in it.

I am also a podcaster and YouTuber. 

My books are full of magic and mayhem, but somehow, even the darkest adventure always ends well.

What series do I write?

The Curse Breaker series chronicles the adventures of a reluctant mage (Sarn), his son, and the magical creatures they befriend as they fight to save their underground city from monsters, ancient evils, and a variety of magical threats.

The His Angelic Keeper series follows a ghost girl who just wants to save her still-living family, not stop a demon invasion or the literal apocalypse, but she’ll do that too if she must. (This is a humorous series that stars Sarn’s twin sister from the Curse Breaker series).

The Robin of Larkspur series follows Robin, a woman who just wants to save her daughter from the mythical creatures that kidnapped her baby. Sarn tries to help her.

The Divergent Heroes series is supposed to star two knights who are partially disabled but a younger version of Sarn keeps stealing the scenes.

The Curse Breaker’s Companion series which includes side quests, wacky what ifs, and stories from my newsletter of Sarn and his family in our world because they won’t stay inside the epic fantasy books they star in. 

Rogue Gods – Can an ex-war god, a fallen angel-turned-librarian, and a witch save the world? Or will their quest to fix the future destroy it all?