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Thursday, December 11, 2025

Buying books is good, but…

We are predisposed as authors to ask you to buy our books for others for Xmas, but gifting others books is deciding what you think they should be doing for hours of their time and that is high risk. Gift cards to bookstores are safer. The way to be sure you get the book you want for Channikuh/Xmas is to physically ask for it specifically, or just to buy it yourself.

And as the library is also a place to get lots and lots of books at almost no cost, why not just give them your book buying money and write the librarians to purchase the books you want, and donations to libraries are awesome.

Instead of giving my books to someone else this season, donate a little to your library, and write in a request for one of my books with it.


Thanks!

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