I wasn't sure if I was going to do it, but it's official now. I'm going to the editorial/writing/artist retreat in Vermont in January called Kindling Words. Not exactly the best direction to travel when wanting to escape Seattle in the winter, but I'll be roommates with a really cool editor who I've been wanting to meet, and I hear good things about the program, so it will be very fun and some nice relaxing professional development. This is pretty much the only retreat out there for editors, so I'm excited to get to go. I'll be going to ALA Midwinter the week before, so that will be a very, very busy month. (I'm on the YALSA Publisher's Liaison Committee, so I'll be going as a non-booth person for the first time in 3 years.) So now is the time to get ahead of everything!