Hey, all. My friend and sister Pacific North-Westerner is joining us today with the deets on her new Christmas book and some exciting news on last Christmas' book, which I getta dish! On Strike For Christmas, which many of you probably read after she blogged about it last year, has been made into a lifetime movie! It will be on the (duh) Lifetime channel December 5th! Isn't that just the coolest?

But equally cool is her now book, The Snowglobe. So please join me in giving Sheila a big Quills welcome so she can tell us all about it. Take it away, Sheila!

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LET IT SNOW GLOBE!

Don't you love snow globes? I sure do. I think what I love the most about them is the perfect scene under the globe. It always stays [image error]perfect, no matter how much you shake things up, no matter how wild a blizzard you create. When the snow settles, everything is perfect once more. Just like real life, right? Hahahahahaha.

Ever had moments when you wished you could crawl inside a snow globe and stay in that nice, perfect world? I sure have, especially around the holidays when things are starting to get crazy.

Ever have a perfect moment you wished you could capture? You know, those awesome times when the children are sleeping and looking so angelic, when the snow is softly falling outside and you're warm inside with a nice fire going and a good book (or a good man!), the one time everyone liked what you made for dinner. I can think of several times in my life that I would love to have captured in a snow globe: listening to my big brother read the Christmas story at my family's annual Christmas Eve gathering, the celebration the day we brought our daughter home, my baby son racing around his crib and smiling in anticipation as I entered the room to get him up from his nap, the day my husband and I made our wedding vows, the time I lost enough weight to fit into my dream dress (boy, ther[image error]e was a fleeting moment!).

In The Snow Globe my characters find a snow globe in an antique shop that shows whoever possesses it just what she needs to see to give her hope and help her fix her life. Oh, wouldn't we all love a snow globe like that? I sometimes wonder if I had a snow globe that showed me the future what I would want to see. Me, skinnier, with no wrinkles. On Dancing with the Stars. Hmmm. If I saw that would I be in a wheelchair? Probably, since I'm sure if I went down for the splits I'd never come up again. I must admit I'm happy with my life right now and grateful for all the good things in it and the friends and family that make me feel so blessed. Still what the heck, put me in there with Jonathan or Derek, wearing lots of sequins and make me twenty years younger and thirty pounds lighter. And forget the snow. Give me glitter!

What about you? What would you see? Whatever you're longing for, whatever the future holds, as we charge into the holiday season, I wish for all of you this year a season of hope and joy.