Chautona Havig lives in the shadow of the Sierra Mountains, and that sounds a lot prettier than "the barren, blistered end of creation," which is really what California's Mojave Desert looks like. Life in the desert is interesting. She even enjoys four seasons there-hot, cold, hotter, and windy. In the desert, those do count as seasons. When not dreaming up more antics for Andy and the elves at the North Pole, Chautona writes in a wide variety of genres-predominately for the Christian fiction market. She lives in a very tiny house with her husband, seven of her nine children, and a dog. Sergea...