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I’m still deep in next year’s Christmas book. So, just as everyone is packing up the holiday until next year, I am celebrating Christmas 2.0 and will be doing so until February. I did not actually get around to making the Christmas pudding until Dec 23rd. Figgy pudding, for those who have never experienced it, […]

Merry Christmas, everybody. We are sitting in the refuse of the holiday, and I think I can declare the season a marginal success. Most of our plans were made and unmade, based on the weather, which has been continual. In Wisconsin, this is traditionally the season where we complain that Christmas’s aren’t as good as […]

My third book is out in the UK right now, and I have to tell you all a dirty little secret about book covers. I’ve been following a recent discussion, over on the Dear Author blog about judging books by their covers, whether clinches sell better (they do) and whether it makes us look like […]

I just finished the revisions on the Halloween novella, and with no other holidays to distract me, have to admit that Christmas is upon us. Barreling down on us like a freight train, actually. As usual, I am behind, although likely to have achieved some sort of Yuletide stasis by next Tuesday, with some cookies, […]

It’s been ages since I’ve been back here. Sorry. I blame everything on the snow. Granted, we live in a part of the country where snow in winter is supposed to be a given. We are not one of those wimpy southern states, where everything closes at the drop of a flake. We are supposed […]