Winter is coming early, with snow predicted this week, up to six inches, so it’s time to share a final photo from Fall 2025. The year ends with dismal stats on books. Print book sales are down 0.6% through October 2025 with 3.3 million fewer books sold than in the same period in 2024 according to Circana Bookscan. Adult fiction is declining for the first time in five years. 80% of published books do not sell 100 copies and only 6% sell 1000 copies. So, selling books becomes a Sisyphean endeavor, which I plan to undertake again in 2026 for my memoir SEEING JOY. Apparently, teens spend their free time on social media, and their attention span seems to have atrophied. What a shame! It is such a pleasure to sit down with a good book. I tend to read several at once. My favorite right now is The Salt Stones by Helen Whybrow. I love the prose style so much that I don’t want it to end!
