It's time for the fifth winter giveaway, and for me to get a little bit odd (yes, even by local standards). See, the book I'm giving away this time is one I didn't write: In A Gilded Light, by Jennifer Brozek. Why am I giving it away? Because I wrote the introduction, which makes this key to having a complete collection, as well as being a just plain awesome book.

Again, this is a random drawing—leave a comment, potentially win a book. Yes, if you're winning it for someone else, I will happily mail it to them. I'm afraid I can't promise to have it signed for you unless you want to wait until after New Year's for me to mail the book, since Jennifer isn't technically local, but the book remains bad-ass, even sans signature.

Just comment here to be entered in the drawing. A winner will be chosen Monday afternoon. Game on!

Item the first: kirylyn, you have won a copy of An Artificial Night in the fourth of my random holiday drawings. Please email me within the next twenty-four hours, using the contact form on my website, to be mailing your book. If I don't hear from you inside this time, I will have to draw a new winner. So I surely do hope I hear from you!

Item the second: I spent most of the day in San Francisco, as The Editor was flying in through SFO, and needed to be picked up and toted to her final destination (for the moment). With a stop at Borderlands Books, naturally, to meet the hairless cats. Sadly, the hairless cats were not in when we swung by, but we got to hang out with Jude, and I convinced a nice lady to buy Carousel Tides for her wife. So life, pretty good, really.

Item the third: Alice is continuing to get better, and has now improved enough to be pushy and imperious when she doesn't get what she wants. Given that at her worst, she was barely interactive, this is wonderful, and I relish being bullied by my big fuzzy baby. She knows it, too, and is taking shameless advantage of me. Oddly, I'm okay with that.

Item the fourth: My bedroom may actually be a black hole. I'm trying to clean up and rearrange in here, and it's dauntingly horrific. I keep finding things I didn't know existed, like a long box half-full of Stars Fall Home. In other news, I now have ten more copies of Stars Fall Home.

Item the fifth: As part of my cleaning efforts, I'm sorting, indexing, and purging my collection of My Little Ponies. When I'm done, I'll actually be able to make a coherent wish list. This is...maybe not such a good thing, really, since I have access to eBay. But hey. Everything has its downside.

How's by you?