Merry Christmas traveler! What are you listening to this Christmas? I love a Celtic mix – it’ll include Celtic Women and The Irish Rovers, and it’s ever so more interesting than, “Rocking Around the Christmas Tree.”
This month our collective band of rag-tag writers has put together some freebies. We’ll all be giving away the first book in our series, and it’s easy to get in on the fun. To register enter your email below!
Robin Lythgoe
Author of As the Crow Flies
“I know what I have given you… I do not know what you have received.”
― Antonio Porchia
It has been a strange year, sometimes awful, often amazing. [And] in this time of affliction and adversity, it’s Christmas all the time…
Patricia Reding
Author of Oathtaker
This is the season of giving. As I look at the many, many packages I’ve wrapped and put beneath the tree just for those in our little family (there will be six of us for Christmas Eve), I can see that it will take hours for us to go person-by-person, gift-by-gift, as is our tradition, to open them. This way everyone gets to see what everyone else got. And here’s the crazy part…
Parker Broaddus
Author of A Hero’s Curse & Nightrage Rising
Christmas is coming. It’s just around the weekend corner. And I’m finished with wrapping.
I also just finished reading Jonathan Stroud’s Screaming Staircase, and as usual, Stroud has this incredible knack for creating unique and clever voices in his characters. His descriptions are vivid and often hysterical. (His Bartimaeus trilogy was a good example). So that’s what I’m doing. Reading good books, drinking a bit of ‘nog, and enjoying the Christmasy lights, music, and raucous excitement from the boys.
Of course, all of that is in between the work outside – cleaning up after the last snowstorm, building a new shed in the back yard, working at the office, and negotiating the purchase of one of the historical buildings downtown. Built in the late 19th century, the old building is a stately brick two story, with a lot of work to be done. It’s an exciting thing to get to take a historical treasure of that type and get to be the primary force involved in restoring and conserving it.
If you’ve got the tenacity, gumption, and foolhardiness for it, that is.
So there’s my lead into Christmas. I’m looking forward to the coming days. To the quiet contemplation of Advent. To the hymns sung on Saturday evening and Sunday morning, and again Christmas morning at St. Stephen’s Lutheran Church. And of Christmas itself. It is here. Go, tell it everywhere. Christ, our Savior, is born.
Thank you, Parker, and Merry Christmas to you and yours. God bless you all and keep you healthy and happy!