Wondering what to get your fellow writing friends for Christmas (or Hanukkah or Kwanzaa or Winter Solstice)? Still getting bugged by your loved ones about what you're wishing for? I've been collecting links to items that make good gifts for writers this year. If you have any ideas on good presents that you're planning to give or hoping to get, email me and I'll put those up later.

"Record phone calls and voicemail messages directly to your PC from any phone or phone system. You can even record room conversations, via the USB Blast's built-in microphone."

Sick of remembering passwords on your computer? The Q seems convenient and also pretty cool.

This is a book for any literature-lover and especially handy for writers who want to brush up on their interviewing skills: Writers on the Air : Conversations about Books, by Donna Seaman. From Publisher's Weekly, "In this collection of interviews drawn from her Chicago radio show, Open Books, Seaman shows herself to be a consummate book lover, engaging everyone from first-time novelists, such as Julia Glass and Edward P. Jones, to old hands like Peter Carey, T.C. Boyle and Margaret Atwood."

For the physically-minded writer, About Freelance Writing has a brief list of ergonomic picks for the writer's office.

Got a friend who loves their Mac (maybe inappropriately so?) Lifehacker links to the Mac Gift Guide from Macworld.

I read this from a poster on Freelance Success: "Have you-all seen the new illustrated Elements of Style? It's got these fun quirky illustrations and captions inside, and it's hardcover so it would make a fun and nice holiday gift for a writer you know."

Finally, these are a little generic but always handy to have around in case you need to have emergency gifts on hand: Five Gifts for the Freelance Writer, also from About Freelance Writing.