I'm very flattered by the question! But no, I'm not a professional writer unless you count the odd academic article. (Since I'm not a full-time academic either, I don't.)

Britten is definitely one of my favorite composers and he seems to have crept into most of my Yuletide stories this year in one way or another. It's good to hear that the allusion didn't seem forced to you because I was a bit worried that it was my obsessiveness talking rather than the aptness of the parallels!