Welcome to all my new subscribers! People are signing up for my email newsletter at a blazing pace, and I'm scrambling to keep up with the gift basket awards. I awarded two more in November and will award two in December. I'd love to keep this up and award two a month, because that means 200 new subscribers a month. The November winners are Shannon Scott from Decatur, Georgia and J. Tucker, from Elgin, Illinois, my first male winner. They both chose the mystery lover basket. I LOVE mystery lovers!

Wouldn't it be great to have a winner in every state? Only 47 to go... And I'd love to send a basket to one of my foreign subscribers, too. There are quite a few Canadians, and even some folks from South Africa, Germany and Brazil. A Real Basket Case will be available on the Amazon and Barnes and Noble websites, and they ship overseas, so encourage your international friends to sign up for the newsletter contest, too. I get a little thrill each time a new country pops up on the list.

If you haven't won yet, DON'T DESPAIR! You still have many more chances to win a gift basket. Each time my email newsletter list adds another 100 addresses, I draw a random number from ALL the addresses, so those of you who signed up early have more chances to win. Encourage all of your mystery-reading friends to join to increase your odds. The sooner they sign up, the better their odds are, too!