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Dear Reader,
Today's my first day of a two-week vacation and the timing is perfect. Hadley Elizabeth Beecher, my new granddaughter, arrived four days ago. So instead of visiting the Smokey Mountains this year, my husband and I will be spending our vacation getting to know Hadley. I've been ready for our new arrival for a few months now--just in case. I've sewn six baby quilts (fabric for girls is so cute it's easy to get carried away), two shelves in my linen closet were stocked with diapers and newborn clothes, and three months ago I assembled a new baby swing, complete with sweet music, low lighting, a mobile and multiple speed settings to gently rock Hadley to sleep. Even though my husband and I aren't traveling anywhere for the next two weeks, no doubt about it, this will be one of our most memorable vacations.
We are blessed and I'm one happy grandmother. If you'd like to see a photo of Hadley, snug as a bug, in one of Grandma's quilts, go to: http://www.emailbookclub.com/photo/hadley-birth.html
While I'm on vacation, my column will feature the winners of the Write a Dear Reader Contest, and I've invited some guest authors to stop by, too. I'll miss reading with you, and especially reading the wonderful emails I get from readers every day. Thanks so much for taking the time to write. Please welcome our guest authors while I'm gone.
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good (and such an honor) to read with friends like you.
Suzanne Beecher
Suzanne@DearReader.com
www.muffinsandmayhem.com
* This month's Penguin Classics book is THE TUNNEL by Ernesto Sabato. Start reading now and enter to win a Penguin totebag. Go to: http://tinyurl.com/Sept12Classics
AUTHORBUZZ: THE INCENSE GAME (Fiction) by Laura Joh Rowland
One of history's worst natural disasters--the massive earthquake that devastated Japan in 1703, leaves the shogun's court in chaos. Chamberlain Sano Ichiro is struggling to help the survivors when he finds three women dead amid the ruins. They were murdered with poisoned incense. One is an incense teacher with dangerous secrets. Two are the daughters of a powerful lord, who threatens to topple the regime unless Sano tracks down the killer.
Go to: http://authorbuzz.com/dearreader click on THE INCENSE GAME to read more and to email author Laura Joh Rowland, you'll get a reply.
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