On the blog this week, I compare blank space on your calendar to societal batteries. In other words, your free time i...

On the blog this week, I compare blank space on your calendar to societal batteries. In other words, your free time is good for you and for the people around you, says me, and anybody who expects us to chronically over-schedule ourselves is Up To No Good. Holiday HEA on the Horizon!!! You will see pre-ordering links finally beginning to populate for A Gentleman in Winter. This holiday novella grew out of A Gentleman of Very Few Words, wherein a romance began to set down roots, but did not have time to blossom. I’m not sure if interrupting our regularly scheduled mysteries for a little HEA was a good idea, but I went and did it anyway. Pub date for both titles is Nov. 20 (in the web store, Nov. 13, for both titles). Going, going… This month’s discounted title in the web store is the audio edition A Gentleman Under the Mistletoe (it’s like I want to skip to Christmas or something?). For the remaining days of September, the price is $1.99. Stocking stuffers, we haz ’em!