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Forty-five minutes to 2010. Let's hope this is a more peaceful year for everyone. A year of possibilities, open doors, new ideas, overcoming obstacles, figuring out ways of adapting to the world as it's become that work for all. Ah! Utopia. Not. But let's just say I'm hoping everyone out there has something they're looking forward to. Catching the BIG fish. Taking a trip. Taking the plunge, trying out something (good) they've never done before. For everyone in book publishing and print journalism, let's keep an optimistic spirit. People will always need stories and info, right? In the coming months I'm looking forward to seeing my novel Glass Voices coming out in Germany, under the title Glasstimmen. I've just finished another round of revisions on a new novel entitled I Send You a Kiss, and have pressed SEND to my wonderful agent. Here's hoping there's a publisher out there who will be as enthused about a fictional treatment of the life of sculptor Camille Claudel as I have been the past four years. And meanwhile, as we enter the deep freeze of a Maritime winter, also known as the best time of year for writing, I have to figure out how to say "I do" to a new project, my next novel. This craft of ours amounts to obsessive compulsive disorder, but there are worse things we could do. Anyway, here's to a year of doing what we really want to do, of getting down to it, or up to it, and not taking No for an answer!