Year's End 2007

December is all a bit of a blur. It started off with a lot of business and a lot of fun; the annual Holiday Party at Kate’s Mystery Books was in full swing (l. Raven winner Kate herself, below, me, Toni Kelner and her daughter Maggie). It was also an opportunity to load up on more books, which…isn’t really a problem for me (or for you, I suspect).

I also made a quick trip to New York, and then spent the rest of the month editing my werewolf story ("The Night Things Changed") for Wolfsbane and Mistletoe (edited by Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner, coming October 2008!) and revising Exit Interview. Then Christmas came along and it was as though we were making up for me being a hermit the past two years. Christmas Eve, we hosted about twenty people. Christmas Day, we went to two parties. December 26: breakfast with friends. December 27, 28, 29: dinner with friends each night. December December 30, drinks with friends. December 31, curled up in a ball and consumed large amounts of fondue.

Okay, consider me caught up.

During the rest of that week....

There was lots of cooking and cleaning.


There was some writing.


There was time for fun with puzzles.


There were a few trips to the gym, but there was more consumption of cheese and champagne.



And now back to work.

Here’s wishing you all the best in 2008!

(Thanks to Toni for the cool BSG action figures and to Charlaine for the puzzle!)