This week’s winners are: Shari G, Sherry Wallace, and Kristie Wilson.  Send your snail mail address to llmfb@msn.com.  If your name is mentioned here, that is.    Some of you have been sending your addresses when you didn’t win.

I’ve been writing and getting ready to head for Seattle early tomorrow morning to hang out with Debbie Macomber and attend a party thrown by some of our writer friends.  Yeehaw!  It’s always a good time.  Debbie and I live so far apart and we’re both so busy that we rarely get an opportunity to spend time together.  When we do,

I had a long, lovely and very restful Thanksgiving weekend, and I sincerely hope you did, as well.  I did a lot of thinking, praying, reading, painting and resting–and, of course, some eating of turkey and trimmings, graciously served by Wendy and Jeremy at their place. 

It seems to me, upon much reflection, that good romance novels (and other kinds, too) are mainly about personal transformation.  I may have bitten off more than I can chew here, at least at one sitting, because transformation is a BIG subject, and I’m sure the previous statement seems painfully obvious (as in, ‘well,