By Julie, Liz, Edith and Jessie

There are many ways to share this news, so we’re going to do it a few different ways. First, with this video. The transcription for this video is available at the end of this post, or you can turn on the closed captioning. The summary is below.

The long and the short of it is this. Barbara Ross and Sherry Harris have decided to say goodbye to the Wicked Authors as regular contributors. This wasn’t an easy decision for them, and it is bittersweet for all of us. As our faithful readers know, we are more than just blogmates. We are close friends. On Friday we’ll have a post with all six of us reflecting on these eleven years of being Wicked Authors together.

The four remaining Wickeds will be moving forward, and shaking it up with new ways of delivering content, and some different posts/essays. For the last two weeks of this year we’ll be updating the site, so there won’t be new content. But fear not, we’ll be back on January 1.

This week Sherry and Barb will post their final entries. And, as mentioned, we’ll have a tearful farewell on Friday.

Readers, you are the reason for the success of this blog, and we thank you for that. We’re lucky to have eleven years to look back on, and to be able to look forward with excitement tinged with a bit of sorrow.