December 2025: Markets, Mornings, and Moving Forward

Hey everyone!

Winter is here, and with it comes the cold season—and for us, book markets!

This month brought us back to the tables, reconnecting with readers and friends while navigating the ongoing challenge of getting back to our writing.

The Busy Season

It’s been a market month for us.

We nearly missed out on the Cathedral Holiday Craft Market. We managed to snag a very last-minute table. We then had the Bookwyrm book sale a week after that.

Both sales went well, and we especially love seeing the Bookwyrm continue to grow. It’s a sale where readers come specifically to buy books, and we hope it continues to grow.

Despite participating in markets for over a decade, we continue to learn and grow.

It’s been a year since the books moved to Angie’s place, and she took over the logistics—counting books, packing items, and loading the car. She likes the challenge, gets a sweat on, and calls it a workout.

But David understands the challenge, so he’s always looking for ways to simplify—which he found in Angie’s newest market display. She brought small wooden crates that she uses for display, and David loved how they work as carrying cases too. They look nice, they’re functional, and they decorate beautifully.

Angie loves what markets bring: selling books, meeting readers, and visiting with friends. There’s always someone new to add to the market social circle. This time, she met a friend of David’s from his film school days and came away with a ceramic vase in a good trade.

The Bookwyrm Book Fair was particularly excellent. It’s great to have a book market just for books, publishers and bookish folks—no contending with other handmade curios (as cool as they are). The focus is just on books.

Along Comes a Wolfe did excellent once again as the first in the series, and Angie’s My List, My Rules did well too. She’s polished her pitch: it’s about the year she did 101 things and the funny and challenging lessons learned from it—but it’s full of hope and the f-word. That seems to get folks giggling.

We won’t have any more sales until the new year. If you missed us at the markets, don’t worry—you can still find our books on our website, at local bookstores, or online. In the meantime, we’re focusing on finishing Wolfe’s Blood.

The Return to Writing Continues

Despite David having “Finish Wolfe’s Blood please… 🙏” as a goal this year, we don’t think it’s going to happen.

December is a balance of work and life, as always—and this time of year is always extra busy. We’re still in the midst of teaching and managing all our other commitments, and with the holiday season and all it brings, time for writing becomes tangled up in everything else.

Still, we have been making progress. Part of the work has been getting organized and reacquainted with the story after such a long time away.

We actually left off at a point where some story issues had to be worked out—like a knot in yarn that needed smoothing before we could continue. We’ve sorted many of them out and are getting back on track.

The funny thing is, we really don’t think it will take much time to finish the draft once we have a bit more time on our hands.

Until then, we continue chipping away at it—meeting in the mornings, taking baby steps, and doing what we can to finish the book.

We hope you have a wonderful holiday season—the darkness of the long nights and twinkling lights, time with family, friends, or quiet time alone—whatever suits you.

Until next time,

Angie and David