It’s beginning to look a lot like, well, winter up here in northwest Montana! We’re all giving thanks for our readers, the friends we’ve made along the way on this writing journey, and the chance to share our stories with you. Thanks for joining us!

(And of course, books make excellent holiday gifts!)

On the weekend after Thanksgiving, writers from around the country are celebrating independent bookstores with Indies First, a project of the American Booksellers Association and author Sherman Alexie. Writers will spend a few hours in a favorite indie, lending a hand, talking with customers, making recommendations — whatever needs to be done! LESLIE is joining the fun on Sunday, December 1. She’ll be at Fact & Fiction Books in Missoula from 2-4, talking about some of her favorite mysteries and cookbooks. (And yes, she’ll sign copies of Death al Dente!)

Breaking TWIG, by Deborah Epperson, will be on sale Dec. 1-3, 2013 for Kindle on Amazon. Click here.  

Ann Minnett took the NaNoWriMo challenge in November and wrote 50,000+ words of her third novel. Here’s hoping that some of them are worth keeping

Marie F Martin  had a redo of her cover for Harbored Secrets and updated both her Amazon sale pages for Maternal Harbor and Harbored Secrets.  She is glad that is done, now back to the Pinkum Crickers.