If you think Christmas begins early for you, just imagine how much earlier it kicks in for an author of Christmas books! Last year, my first Christmas book, Courage, Love and the Meaning of Christmas, reached as high as #412 in books on Amazon.com, which is the top one-fifth of one percent of all books. Not bad! Its sequel also reached the top 1% of books. Well this year in 2012, I'm hoping not just for a repeat, but to do even better, partly because I'm writing furiously to finish the third and final book in the series. I've been working on it off and on for three years now, and for the past many weeks, that means often writing from dawn till well after dark. I'm hoping to finish this week. It's coming along well, but there's still plenty of work left, so we'll see. I'll announce it on ChristmasNovels.com and Facebook.com/ChristmasNovels when it comes out, and I'll eventually let you know here how it goes!