The usual delightful mixed bag and sales, sales!

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The holiday week was a fun mix of stuff - going to the Jungle with friends to see a funny short play, going to the MIA for the Native American photography show (really good!) with another friend, going to the Minnesota Arboretum for Winter Lights at the Arb with someone else, hanging out at friend's houses eating food and chatting. And the less fun stuff. Another room opened up at the memory care place and I'm going for it. So far, I'm almost a full day into the paperwork and it's still not done. I have sent a check and the preliminary batch so hopefully that will be enough to start. In the meantime, she seems more checked out and things are definitely getting worse. So fingers crossed that I can make this happen before Feb and Capricon.

I did have a cool thing happen today - I met with the curator of the Upper Midwest Literary Archives at the University of Minnesota over hot beverages and she was enthusiastic about adding Queen of Swords Press titles and papers to the collection. I gave her copies of all of our print books to get things started and we had a great discussion about things we could do together to support the archives. Very excited about this!

Apart from that, we have end of year sales, as one does!

• Smashwords End of Year Sale - all books except Dionysus Club and Little Nothing are on sale. Get some great deals on books by Alex Acks, A.J. Fitzwater, Jennie Goloboy, Michael Merriam, Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold, Emily Byrne and me! Ends this weekend.
• Google Play Series Promo - login and save 15% on Death by Silver and A Death at the Dionysus Club when you buy them together. Ends this Friday.
• IHeartSapphFic's End of Year Blowout - get Murder on the Titania and Wireless by Alex Acks and Desire by Emily L. Byrne for $.99 on Amazon through 12/29.

Hope the holidays treated everyone well and that New Year's is a good one. End of year rounds ups coming soon.