Mario here:

Now that Thanksgiving is in the rearview, we are officially in Holiday mode.  I've even put lights around the window.  A preview of the glad tidings:

This year, the Colorado Humanities and Center for the Book has partnered with Barnes & Noble to host a Holiday BOOKFAIR, at the B&N Pavillions, 500 16th Street, Downtown Denver.  

Jeanne and I, as well as Warren Hammond and a sleigh-load of your favorite local authors will be there.  It'll be a great opportunity for Christmas shopping.

10 am   Storytime with award-winning children’s author Linda Ashman.

11 am    Laura Reeves, Beth Groundwater, Cindi Myers sign popular fiction 

12 noon   World-renowned photographer John Fielder signs his latest book 

   Ranches of Colorado.

1 pm   Award-winning, bestselling author Francine Mathews, a.k.a Stephanie  

  Barron, reads & signs her latest book, The White Garden.

2 pm   Award-winning, bestselling author Carol Berg reads & signs  Deb Stover & Mike Befeler sign their popular fiction.

4 pm  Colorado Book Award-winning photographer and author Jim Steinberg 

signs Colorado Scenic Byways.

6 pm   Mario Acevedo & Jeanne Stein sign their vampire urban fantasy mysteries.

6:30 pm  Flamenco guitarist Miguel Espinoza plays songs from Guitarra en Mano.

7 pm   Warren Hammond & David Boop sign their futuristic noir thrillers. 

8 pm   Poetry with Colorado Book Award winner Jake Adam York , Chris  

  Ransick, Joe Harrison, Brian Barker, Mark Irwin and Sandy Tseng.

For a voucher click here.  For a flyer, click here. See you there.

Am not sure how to react to this.  Another sign of the impending Apocalypse or...meh.

The Oxford English Dictionary just announced its 2009 Word of the Year.

Unfriend   verb – To remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site such as Facebook.

OED had other nominees: intexicated, netbook, sexting, freemium, birther.  

Any suggestions that should've been on the list?  If you're on Twitter, then you probably dig on the recommended addition, sh*tter, meaning someone who posts anything and everything.

I recently got an email from the bloggers over at Project Fanboy.  They're self-proclaimed geeks, in fact, they brag they're the Baddest Geeks of all.  They found me and wanted to say they posted a review of Jailbait Zombie, which you can read HERE.

If you have a favorite author and are Jonsing for something similar, try the pairings suggested by Dirty Sexy Books.  Three Biting-Edge faves are noted.  Kat Richardson, and expat Marta Acosta is paired with Mark Henry!