It’s Christmas Eve, and to those who celebrate it, Merry Christmas.

To those who don’t, have a happy holiday. May there be more good times than bad for you in this season.

Whether you count it as good (yay, another book!) or bad (aw, the last one?), today marks the release of the final chapter of the Urban Dragon series.

I’ve poured a lot of myself into this series over the past several years. Creating this series in serial format means there was never any one given release day to anticipate or celebrate, so much as a single several-month event. And as much fun as it’s been, it’s also been exhausting. But then, that’s one thing I think a lot of us can share. The holiday season, for all its joy, also comes with its own array of stresses.

This time has been busy for Arkay, too. She’s got a Hoarde to protect, hostages to save, and a war to fight. But she’s also got allies in this fight, and she’s got a plan.

So before we begin– before we start a new series, before we take off to visit family, before we  don our aprons and greet the customers, before we enact the gambit that changes the world– let’s take a moment, just a moment, and breathe.

You’ve got this.