Happy Holidays! Despite the economical climate, it's still a fun time of year. I spent Thanksgiving in Utah, but there wasn't any snow. We had a great time anyway. I can't believe how fast the year went by. Christmas is just around the corner!

I was one of the guest authors at the Tri County Comic Con / JaniCon last month in Orlando Florida. I had never actually been to a comic book or to an anime convention, so it was a new experience for me. The Marriott hotel was enormous, but the food was terribly expensive. I had a lot of fun.

I was able to socialize with actors like Jeffrey Breslauer (The Muppets, voice of The Joker at the Six Flags Amusement Parks). I had dinner with Lori Alan (Sponge Bob, Fantastic 4, Family Guy, etc.) and Gregg Berger (Garfield, GI Joe, Transformers, etc.), and I was able to pick their brains about doing character voices and narration. I actually met Lori at the shuttle to the hotel, just by striking up a conversation with her. I didn't know who she was at the time, so I was surprised to find out that she was one of the fellow celebs at the convention. What a coincidence. Talking with people sure does wonders for one's career. I struck up another conversation with a stranger at the airport, and he invited me to be on his TV/radio show in Arizona, where I live. Cool!

Several TV websites interviewed me, so I'll post them if I can find them. Oh, and NarniaFans.com interviewed me last week. You can read the interview HERE.

I forgot to mention last month that Paraworld Zero is now on the Amazon Kindle. So now the E-Book is on the Sony Reader and the Amazon Kindle. I don't own either of those devices, but I've seen them, and they're really cool. One thing you might not know is that you don't actually have to have a Sony Reader to read the Sony E-Books. You can read them on your computer.

My 2-year old just started to say 2-word sentences. They're mostly combinations of "blank Dada" like "Hi Dada" and "More Dada" and "Bye Dada." It's very cute to see him do sign language and say the words at the same time. As you can see in the picture, he always has one of his 4 brothers close by--usually too close by.

Christmas this year is going to be low key for my family. We're kind of in the scrimping phase right now, since our income is in limbo (Other than a small token payment, my publisher never paid me like they said they would -- arrrg!). We'll have fun, nonetheless. One of my boys (the older one in the picture) wants SNARL (a Transformer) for Christmas. We found an $18 version and an $80 version. Guess which one he's going to get?