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Welcome to winter, everyone! I love this time of year–long nights, short days, snow, cold–the perfect book-by-the-fire season. Unfortunately, I don’t have a fire, but I still have plenty of books. Shelves and shelves of them. And schnapps in hot chocolate is a good fire substitute. (My DH took to an e-book reader years ago. Since he reads a book every few days, that’s probably a good thing. I’m out of shelf space.)

But I want to talk about the holidays. The one thing I love about this time of year, besides the winter stuff, is the goodwill so many people enjoy showing. I’m sorry we don’t see more of it all year long, but any is better than none. I feel good about buying books for school kids at my local bookstore, and adding to the “feed the hungry” baskets at the grocery. I even have an offer on my other author’s website right now to give away free signed books. Granted, it’s partly good will and partly publicity, but it’s still free. (The website is www.SarahStorme.com, in case you’re interested.)

I don’t do New Year’s resolutions. However, I’ve made a pledge to myself to do more for others this year. As an author, I plan to sign up for reading days at the local library, and as an engineer, I’ll be working with a high school to help kids get interested in math and science careers.

My question is, what do you recommend to spread goodwill? I’m looking for ideas.

I hope everyone enjoys the holidays. The best part for me is having time off from my day job to write! Woohoo! I’m off to do just that…