I had to point out that my friend Lauren added a fourteenth thing that ShapeShifter fans want for Christmas. Ready?

#14 – The author who wrote all about ShapeShifter to get a book deal and be published!

Amen, sister. From your fingertips to God’s eyes.

Thanks for the support — thanks to Lauren and all the rest of you who stop in once in awhile, or regularly. You guys keep me motivated and keep the creativity flowing. I need that — and appreciate the hell out of you for it!

(Green Hair week starts in THREE DAYS. Can you stand it?)

 
Thirteen Things ShapeShifter fans want for Christmas:

1. A new album!

2. A tour to come to town, hopefully soon, and hopefully at a time when they’ve got the cash and time off from work to get floor seats.

3. To get to go for a ride with Trevor on his Vincent.

4. Backstage passes to finally meet the band, and permission to bring a camera inside for pictures to prove that it really happened.

5. To have their art picked for a ShapeShifter t-shirt.

6. To catch one of Daniel’s drumsticks when he tosses them into the crowd before Eric’s solo.

7. Guitar lessons from Eric. Years of guitar lessons, even though that’ll only scratch the surface. And a gift of one of Eric’s guitars, too.

8. Mitchell and Daniel to break up with Kerri and Val and hook up with them instead.

9. The collected videos to be released. Or a video of a show. Or any sort of video of the guys, especially if it includes candid stuff.

10. To run into the band during a visit to Riverview. Or, maybe even better, to run into a member or two when they are tooling around their own hometown, looking particularly cool. So cool that the band member flags them down and wants to be their friend.

11. A personal phone call from their favorite band member, asking what Santa brought.

12. A job as a ShapeShifter roadie.

13. To be the guys’ new best friend.

(thanks go to Rashembo for today’s inspiration)

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The world of contemporary fiction is mourning the loss of Bebe Moore Campbell, a fantastic writer and, like me, an alum of the University of Pittsburgh (although I don’t think she was a writing major).

If you’ve never read any of Campbell’s works, this would be a good time to pick some of them up. She even wrote a children’s book, about mental illness. She was an important writer, with an eye for detail and an ear for dialogue, and her talent will be missed.

Condolences to her family and us fans around the world.

 

Green Hair Week will commence on Sunday, December 3, I believe. Expect a bunch of posts that tell the story of my poor, beloved Mitchell Voss and how he turned his hair green during a … Oh, never mind. You’ll get to read all about it.

Warning, though: there’s rough language, as always with the ShapeShifter boys, and some references to sex. I’d rate this PG-13, myself, but then again, I’m pretty liberal. You’ve got to be when you’ve got THOSE people living in your head…

More ahead, including a new arrival on the scene — well, she’s been there awhile, but will be new to you guys. Stay tuned and rock on!

 

A few years back, my book club read India Edghill’s first novel, Queenmaker. We loved it, but we had questions about it. I contacted India via e-mail and we struck up a nice correspondance. So, when her second novel, Wisdom’s Daughter came out, we had to read that one, too.

In fact, we had India call in to our book club meeting during our discussion of Wisdom’s Daughter, although we mostly wound up talking about other books, especially the Biblical Historical genre, which both Queenmaker and Wisdom’s Daughter fall into.

As we were talking, though, I mentioned that I had three novels here that her sister, Rosemary, had written. Gathered into one Omnibus, they are commonly referred to as The Bast Novels, after the main character.

Finally, over a year later, I’m reading them. And let me tell you, these books may be about ten years old, but they have stood up to the passage of time. The world that Rosemary creates is real, it’s colorful, it’s vibrant — and it’s alive. Separately, the three are Speak Daggers to Her, Book of Moons, and The Bowl of Night. Together, they are Bell, Book, and Murder.

(Mystery Lovers’ Bookshop doesn’t have a link to The Bowl of Night, but I bet if you call them, they can find it for you.)

Go get ‘em. Heck, go get all five of them. You won’t be disappointed.

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Don’t forget! Mitchell’s Green Hair week is coming! Stay tuned!

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