Will you thank your favorite newspaper columnist on Newspaper Columnist's Day? What will you juggle on International Juggler's Day? Are you going to wear your pajamas to work on National Wear Your Pajamas to Work Day?

Inheritance of Shadows by Janis Susan May is a mystery/suspense novel. A.J. Mathis returns home to Merrywood for a visit. Her father, Charles Mathis, had been a famous fantasy/science fiction novelist. He is supposed to have killed himself in this house and A.J. is supposed to have witnessed it.

This science fiction story, full of futuristic machinery and weapons, was written by Peter J. West. Something is rotten in Cinnamon City. Nick and Rachel are determined to find out who is at the root of all the corruption and stop it.

If your muse is anything like mine, she never picks a good time to give you ideas, never when pen and paper or computer are handy. By the time you are ready to write, all your great ideas have disappeared. Or have they? Sometimes you need to force them back out.

Pick out one of the following phobias – ichthyophobia, myrmecophobia, or pediculophobia – and see if you can create a character that is afflicted with one or more of them.

Icebound by Dean Koontz is a book that will send chills up your spine in more ways than one. Its setting, the Arctic, is extremely cold and reading about the intense coldness tends to make one shiver, even if it is hot outside.

Have you ever heard of Ice Cream for Breakfast Day? What about Thank a Mailman Day? You will learn about these and other unusual holidays that occur in February when you continue reading.

How much writing will you do on I Love to Write Day? Will you write a tongue twister in celebration of National Tongue Twister Day? For how long will you study the Fibonacci sequence on Fibonacci Day? Are you going to eat a cookie on Cookie Monster's Birthday?

What was his inspiration for this book? How does he choose the names of his characters? How much research did he have to do? When will the next Abel Adventures Mystery book be published?

When did he first have the desire to write? Does he ever become bored with what he writes? What opportunities have come his way because of his writing? What advice does he have for writers who are striving to be published?