Here we are, Thanks­giv­ing week. Do you all have your menu ready for Thurs­day? Have your run­ning shoes all bro­ken in for Fri­day? I’ll be think­ing of you ear­ly morn­ing shop­pers as I sleep off my turkey hangover.

Work in Progress News ~ Con­tin­u­ing on my Christ­mas sto­ry. I still haven’t named my hero, he might just end up stay­ing “John”. This book is going to have a huge cast of sec­ondary char­ac­ters, and it’s a bit intim­i­dat­ing. I hope I can pull it off with­out hav­ing them all feel like card­board stand-ups. I also got inspired by a craft project that would work won­der­ful­ly as pro­mo­tion­al give­aways for this book, so it’s giv­ing me incen­tive to fin­ish it!

Favorite Song of the Week ~ A 16th cen­tu­ry Latin Christ­mas car­ol. This ver­sion is re-imag­ined by Era­sure, one of my favorite groups back in the day. (Um, actu­al­ly I think they used the same tech­nol­o­gy from back in the day to make this video, but it’s cool in a retro way.) Era­sure released a Christ­mas album this year, and it’s all won­der­ful. I love this song so much.

Tweet of the Week ~

Even Matthew McConaugh­ey him­self has no god damn clue how to spell his last name

— Logan (@PlagueLovers) Novem­ber 15, 2013

Indus­try News ~Long time blog vis­i­tors (or Twit­ter fol­low­ers) know what a huge base­ball fan I am. Okay, real­ly what a huge Yan­kee fan I am. Okay, real­ly what a huge Derek Jeter fan I am. You guys, the man’s got dim­ples! I did­n’t think there would be any way for him to get more attrac­tive, unless he joined me in the pub­lish­ing indus­try. Like maybe starts up an entire line with his name on it. Some­thing like Jeter Pub­lish­ing at Simon and Schus­ter, my favorite pub­lish­er since they pub­lish my favorite author San­dra Brown’s books. What’s that? He DID?

It’s only a mat­ter of time now before he asks me to run away with him. Stay tuned. 

What I’m read­ing ~ Sweet Chem­istry by Sep­tem­ber Roberts. [Some of the very long] Blurb: After weeks of watch­ing from a dis­tance, Kate Rhodes meets James, ignit­ing a desire nei­ther of them has pre­vi­ous­ly expe­ri­enced. Kate, a senior at Bow­man State Uni­ver­si­ty, is hor­ri­fied the fol­low­ing Mon­day when she dis­cov­ers James is her bio­chem­istry professor…

Today’s Tear­jerk­er ~

Book Snip­pet ~ From Posi­tion Secured:

He groaned. “I’m sor­ry I’m late. It couldn’t be helped.”

She slipped her fin­gers beneath his shirt and ran both hands up his back. Shit, he must be fevered, because they felt so cool against him.

“I didn’t think you’d be back.”

“I got anoth­er call.”

“Every­thing okay?”

“Take off those clothes and I’ll tell you.”

Okay folks, have a great week, and for my fel­low Amer­i­cans, have a hap­py Thanksgiving!