Merry Christmas to all, if you're into that sort of thing.

Likely candidate for gift of the year; from my sister and brother-in-law, and possibly the fruit of their union my niece. My niece at eight months of age is displaying the family passion for the written word by chewing a number of books really meant to be chewed by much older children.

The gift? A bound copy of my first novel, written for the Three-Day Novel Contest last September. Why does it read differently as a bound book rather than a collection of pages? I don't care. I just want to read it and find out how it ends.

May the best of the season and the new year attend you.

Ted