With Thanksgiving tomorrow, the holiday season is upon us, and you know what that means. Our annual Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale is coming up!

All bath and body products in stock will be marked down 50% off the usual price, and all books will be marked down 20% off the usual price from 6 a.m. Friday, November 24 until 6 p.m. Monday, November 27.

Our usual shipping rate applies, but since we ship via priority flat rate, padded envelopes, you can purchase up to two pounds of products for the same shipping costs! That makes now the perfect time to stock up on stocking stuffers for the whole family, all from the comfort of your home.

Anyone who has stopped by one of our booths at the various conventions and events we go to in the past few years knows I write fiction in addition to soaping, blogging, and vlogging. I have a novel and a collection of short works out now, and I'm well into the process of producing another novel. But, what you might not know is I've also been working on a series of flash fictions for a year now.

Each week since early February 2016, I've written a flash fiction story of 500 words of less based on first line prompts I either pulled from online sources or gotten from reader suggestions. At the end of March, I began making audio versions of the flash fictions and posting them each Friday over on Eng Family Vlogs. Then over time, the flash fictions began to intertwine and connect until I began to realize I'd created several new fictional "universes" in addition to adding to the three "universes" I've been writing in for years.

Have you checked out our books section? If you're a fan of character driven science fiction and fantasy, you'll love the books written by staff writer, A. B. England.

England not only designs and makes soaps and perfumes and works the Contented Comfort booths at all the events we attend, but she writes many of the titles available in our store. Since returning to publishing in June 2014, she's been hard at work trying to create and prepare new titles for our customers every twelve to eighteen months. She's also been running a flash fiction series on her blog, where she offers quick read stories between 100 and 500 words in length every Friday.

If you'd like to learn more about England and her work, go visit her website.