Gift giving is hard. I know. I just bought a whiskey of the month club for a ten year old. (Yes, I know this is an awesome gift for anyone except a ten year old or a recovering alcoholic so no hate email). So to help you, dear partner/friend/relative who is likely regularly ignored by the writer in favor of word counts and half-dressed heroes/heroines, here is a list of gifts for the writer in your life:
Aqua Notes – BUY
I love this gift. It’s notes you write in the shower, which avoids those nasty nail scraped into the soap scum plot points.
Novel Teas – BUY
Novel teas. Get it? So these are tea bags with literary quotes on them. A perfect gift for those too weak to hit the hard stuff (coffee, not whiskey).
Edgar Allan Poe Air Freshener – BUY
This one has to be my favorite. Perfect to hang on the writer during the month of November (or when on deadline) when you can’t stand the smell anymore.
World’s Largest Coffee Cup – BUY
Do I really need to say more? This monster holds 20 regular cups of coffee.
USB Heated Winter Warm Hand Gloves – BUY
I have to admit to owning a pair already so I might be biased. My hands are constantly frozen, and these babies work like no other to warm those cold parts. They are fingerless so typing isn’t a problem.
Now if you’re shopping for something a little…different, I found a replica of a human skull made of chocolate on Etsy. Not very writerly, but it sure would freak the writer, who ignored you all last month, out when they see a human skull in a plain brown box on their doorstep.
Revenge (and chocolate skulls) are sweet.
Do you have any holiday gifts you’d give a writer? Or perhaps an odd gift for anyone in general? What is the weirdest gift you’ve ever received?
Oh, one last thing, as my gift to y
ou, dear reader who I’ve annoyed all year, feel free to download my free kindle novella, A Very F***ed-Up Christmas Tale. It’s free until tomorrow, Dec 23rd, so get yours today. Let me know in the comments if you need a PDF version. I’m happy to send you one.
I do like the idea of warm hand gloves with no fingers because my office is frigid. Even when I use my little space heater, my hands never get warm enough.
One of the best writerly gifts I ever received was a coffee mug with a picture of my first book cover on it. My son-in-law ordered it through zazzle.com — I’d highly recommend that gift, especially for the first time published author. I ordered extras and used them in gift baskets for conference giveaways, and I have one sitting up here on the top of my bookcase just so I can look at it from time to time.
great idea about the mug, Pat!
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