Greetings, all you denizens of 2011!

We sure have been quiet, huh? The author has been hushing us, keeping us in kind of a surreal suspension in Stalemate’s final scene. Not a bad deal, but from what I’ve managed to ascertain in my sleepy, attached-to-Claudia state…

The author is in the midst of Laura’s fourth mystery, plugging away like a real trooper and pulling out her hair like a true author.

We gave her about a third of LAC 12, Laura’s League, and we gave her the first chapter of LAC 13. Some of you (those tricky enough to do a head count) have complained about the LAC 12 cover in the calendar. That’s usually my cue to steal a chapter or two from the author’s desk and post it here, but I seriously think she’d have my head if I did that this time. I guess we will have to trust her on the wisdom of that and hope that perhaps she changes her mind. You never know.

In the meantime, enjoy your time in the year in which we have yet to arrive. Here’s hoping it’s a blessed one.