Dear Reader, I had ample reason for ambivalence as I said “farewell” to 2008 this year. Personally, it was a year of enjoyment, new friends, travel, and the publication of my first novel. It was also a year of crushing disappointment at Random House’s decision to “indefinitely postpone” publication of “The Jewel of Medina”; treachery, …

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