It’s almost December, and I’m busting my ass trying to get Not an Elf out there sometime during the first week. I mean, who wouldn’t want to spend Christmas with the Petreskis? Mom bakes and Dad has found a way to make fruitcake edible (hint: it involves hard liquor).

We are getting there! But for the life of me I can’t figure out why I ever think I’ll get anything done during October. Because October means RHINEBECK!

Specifically, my annual cross-country road trip to Rhinebeck, New York, birthplace of Nick Burkhardt and home of the New York Sheep and Wool Festival.

So, yeah. Nothing much happened for a couple of weeks. Lots of knitting and crocheting, wine sipping, yarn buying, and so on. But that’s not going to get Not an Elf finished.

But whatever else happens, this month I have to finish, because I can’t be publishing a Christmas-themed story in January! Well, I can, but I don’t want to, because in January I want to be working on Not a Witch!