First, how about that Tony Sampas photograph of Central Street decked out for the holidays?

Now—Dave Daniel, Dave Robinson, Steve Edington, Jay Atkinson, Steve O’Connor, Ernest Hemingway Jr., (no, not him), and your correspondent here will be talking books, selling books, signing books, and whistling jingle bells in the Gregorian Chant version this very Saturday, 12.30 pm to 2 pm, at the UMass Lowell Barnes & Noble Downtown Bookstore right in the middle of Merrimack Street. Come all ye reading faithful to the book counter and help make a scene, or the scene. BnNoble Manager Manya Callahan welcomes all to this holiday round-up. This will be the final single-gender appearance of the traveling roadshow of local yokel authors.