Hey kids, it's holiday season - you will note we did NOT start hassling you pre-Thanksgiving like some stores we could mention.  But now that carols are playing, there's snow in Hawaii and Black Friday is a done deal, we figured you might want some alternative gift ideas for that hard to shop for person/people in your life.  You can of course shop for our books at the usual suspects, Amazon, B&N, Powells, and etc., but there are some limited edition hard-covers still available JUST from us:

• Stays Crunchy in Milk, by Adam P Knave -- one of 34 limited edition hardcovers, signed by the author and numbered.  Holiday price $45 bucks including shipping US only, elsewhere add 5 bucks)!
• Chimeric Machines, by Lucy A Snyder -- one of 50 limited edition hardcovers, signed by the author and numbered. Holiday price $30 bucks, including shipping (US only, elsewhere add 5 bucks)!
• Brine, by Adrienne Jones -- one of 100 limited edition hardcovers, signed by the author and numbered.  Holiday price $35 bucks, including shipping (again, only in the US - everywhere else, you get stiffed for 5 extra bucks).

Quantities are, as we say, limited -- really, in this case.  By definition.

BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE

We're having a contest for our newest child prodigy, Stays Crunchy in Milk -- the short form is, buy the book, take your picture with it, and you might win the ENTIRE Farscape Collection on DVD.  Farscape? Stays Crunchy? Does this even make sense?  Is there a connection (Legally, we must say there's no association, but you can decide if one of these things is not like the other)?  Anyway, full details as well as where you have to post your picture is on the author's site, where you can read all about it.  Follow the link to the contest - you know you want to.

BUT WAIT ONE MORE THING

Though it's not in hardcover it is our signature Christmas Classic around here - have you wondered why you haven't made a soft candlelit family reading of Ace Hawkins and the Wrath of Santa Claus part of your holiday tradition?  We certainly have! (We'll let you work out whether 'we have' means 'have wondered' or have incorporated the book into our holiday traditions -- maaaaybe it's both!