Mary Strand says: We’re wrapping up a fun-filled year of the Story Garden on Fresh Fiction, and many of us right now are also wrapping gifts to put under the Christmas tree. Or, to be a bit more realistic, we’re THINKING about buying gifts that we’ll somehow wrap and get under the tree by, oh, say, 2 a.m. on Christmas Day. But in the midst of all that thinking and buying and wrapping for others, we decided to put a little thought into what WE would like — as writers and readers — under the Christmas tree this year. I got my own Christmas gift a couple months early, when I sold my first book, COOPER’S FOLLY, to Bell Bridge Books in October. Oh, happy day! If I’m allowed to be greedy and ask for more, I’d ask for books (and I still like them in real paper, not on a screen) filled with adventure and wicked humor and brainy characters and romance. And I’d ask for a trip this summer to Italy. And, for those who know me, it goes without saying that I’d ask for Hugh Jackman. What the heck: he doesn’t even need to be wrapped. Ho…