[Edit added below!] My Secret Santa, Glowingdark, got in touch because I was a tough cookie in the fantasy book world - especially in the "traditional" fantasy category ('cuz I have lots of it!). We swapped some mail, but when he mentioned "urban fantasy," I said, "yes, please!"

Glowingdark's package came - with very special gift wrap. The wrap was illustrated by his daughters, SweetieTiger and Iceburn, who have some very fine talents.

Oh, and there were books: Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey (which I'm reading first, since the flap copy by William Gibson calls it "The best B movie I've read in at least 20 years."), and The Devil You Know by comic book great Mike Carey.

And there was a leather bookmark with the Reddit alien on it! (My iPad's camera isn't good enough to capture the image, and the last time I asked my husband if he could get a better picture of something, photographic lights, a backdrop, and at least 2 cameras and 3 lenses were involved.)

Color me completely contented with these books and the great art by his creative daughters and whoever drew the great Snoo with the sword on the package, too!

And especially to SweetieTiger and Iceburn: I want to thank you both very much for taking the time to make enormously cool gift wrap for these books. Those are now two extra gifts for me. You rock! (And your dad did pretty doggone well, too.)

Edit 6 April: And another package arrived from the redoubtable Glowingdark in the form of nearly 700 pages of Volume 1 of Theft of Swords by Michael Sullivan, which looks like a richly traditional fantasy. Barnes and Noble put it on their "best reads" list of 2011.

It looks as tasty as (and quite different from) the other two books.

Thank you again, Glowingdark!