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The last batch of chocolate-covered peanut butter cookies are cooling on racks before they hop into paper-lined tins. Gifts are either wrapped and waiting under the tree or hurling through space as fast as the mail carriers can hurl them. But before I launch into my last two editing projects of 2006, and way before I even begin to think about the humongous Christmas meal I'll be preparing for nine, I want to take a moment to thank you for reading The VERB. 

The care we pour into this free ezine each month comes back to us tenfold. I can't tell you how touched we are that you continue to take time in your busy day, time that could be spent writing or reading some other newsletter, to peruse our humble little VERB. You also contribute to its content by sharing luscious excerpts from your work. You send sweet comments and special requests. And sometimes you even write to let us know an item has given you another reason to take pride in your profession. That's a gift you keep giving to us all year long, and we are grateful.

So whatever you celebrate this time of year, we hope it is blessed with unforgettable moments. We also wish you inspiration. May the new year see your publishing credits increase to a point that you actually grow sick of seeing your name in print. 

Elizabeth Guy
Editor
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This issue 
was published 
under the musical influence of

 DIANA KRALL
Christmas Songs
featuring the
Clayton/Hamilton 
Jazz Orchestra