I made an announcement over at Belfire yesterday, that absolutely made my Yule. First, I’ll explain what a squee is.

According to the top rated selection at Urban Dictionary, a Squee is:
A noise primarily made by an over-excited fangirl, however it has spread rapidly and is now widely spread among the web community

Of course, it’s also one of Jhonen Vasquez’s amazing characters… but I digress. For the purposes of my squeeage, it’s the fngrrl sound one makes when absolutely, totally, and completely unable to voice any other due to extreme elation.

One of my heartbreaks in forming and founding Belfire was that Bob Freeman and his novel Descendant were spoken for. See, I was lucky enough to have been a beta-reader for it, and was involved briefly elsewhere as well. I felt as though I’d just missed an opportunity by not getting things in a row more quickly.

Imagine my glee (yes, glee – and not the television show) when I heard from Bob. About Descendant. About Autumn Moon and the Book of Secrets. About (squee!) doing cover art for Belfire.

Mabon was made with Greg Hall accepting our offer for At the end of Church Street, and trust me, there were squees aplenty – there were even lilting squees.

Samhain came and although I couldn’t post the announcement until things were finalized, I knew ahead of time (and did some serious fngrrl squeeing) that Kim Paffenroth and David Dunwoody would be interested in (and then signed with) Belfire to produce a dual novella.

Now Yule, and Bob has accepted our offer for Descendant (and quite likely the following two novels) and Autumn Moon.

A very squeeish Yule. Squee’d Yule?

I hope everyone had as SQUEEE! a Yule as I have!