By Ben Parris

In this most-difficult month in the most-difficult year in modern history to mail something out, I’m told that the round trip for my three autographed first edition copies of Amynta of Anatolia will make it to the winners of the November 2020 Goodreads Giveaway Contest by end of the one month deadline.

Amidst what we’ve all come to call “covid problems,” including the happy problem of working around the vaccine shipments (leave Fedex and UPS to do their thing), it took an unusually long time to print the copies and mail them to me for signature, then machine breakdowns at the local USPS where we were also told “USPS is experiencing unprecedented volume increases and limited employee availability due to the impacts of COVID-19, we appreciate your patience and remain committed to delivering the holidays to you,” our book company spared no expense to make sure everything went priority mail, tracked and insured.

Therefore, winners please sound off when you get your copies and let us know if you don’t get your copies by December 29. Thank you!