Just for fun, an agent or editor's Twelve Days of Christmas.  And if you're not naughty, but nice, you'll even get away without me singing it to you!

Publishing Professional's Twelve Days of Christmas

On the first day of Christmas, my authors gave to me

Manuscripts as clean as can be

On the second day of Christmas, my authors gave to me

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I’ll Be Home For Christmas

Ahead, there are spaceports, and strange, different worlds.  Ahead, in the far off future, if we squint, the worlds spread out like decorations and humans are in them.  And humans celebrate Christmas.  Or Winter Solestice.  Or a holiday without name that symbolizes a hope of rebirth and future warmth ahead.

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At a loss about what to get the vampire on your list?  Chloe Neill chimes in with a fabulous list of gifts that don't bite, even if their recipients do!

A VAMPIRE'S HOLIDAY WISH LIST

A couple of weeks ago, the fabulous readers over at my Yahoo boards were offering up holiday gift suggestions for the characters in my Chicagoland Vampires ( Read more... )

Here’s how my holiday season works.  My two brothers live back East, so my mom alternates years between the daughters and the sons, meaning, one year my sister and I get Thanksgiving with her, and the next year we, the girls, get Christmas.  This year our turn was Thanksgiving, so we’re packaging her up and shipping her off today.  But on Saturday ( Read more... )

The fabulous Doranna Durgin, author of many, many fantasy and romance novels, particularly the Sentinels series for Silhouette Nocturne and the forthcoming Reckoners series from Tor Romance, takes time out of her particular brand of holiday insanity to guest blog for us!

Scrooge or Muse?It always happens this time of year--everyone one does it. ( Read more... )

Comment here to be entered to win CHRISTMAS MIRACLES by Cecil Murphey and Marley Gibson on The Knight Agency blog.

Or here for the Ace/Roc holiday giveaway on Dear Author!

Ms. Bookish has a whole list of other giveaways on her site here.

Happy Holidays!

Every year, The Knight Agency holds an awesome on-line holiday party with presents (okay, prizes) and all! From our blog:


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'Tis the season to go shopping

(fa la la la la, la la la la)

I need some new stuff for my stockings

(fa la la la la, la la la la)

Gold and gemstones, platinum and silver….

Okay, really that's as far as I got.  This songwriting stuff is harder than I thought.  One more thing to cross off my un-life list.

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