I don't celebrate xmas, but I approve your message there. One of my most wonderful convention experience was when I attended Santacon in York once; must've passed more than a dozen secondhand bookshops between the rail station and the hotel :-) Probably all gone now of course, and I regret not being able to go back more often just to buy books.

Btw; recently I found a long-thought lost version of my first-ever fanfic ~ Blake's Seven of course; from the POV of a very elderly Dayna and set over a century after the TV series; at least the POV part was, since it's in the form of memoirs and reminiscences. The first couple of episodes following are still lost though I have a lot of draft material to wiork with if I decide to try and re-write the series.

kerk