Dear Reader,
Your emails are beautiful holiday notes. Thank you so much for writing to me throughout the year. It's the time of year to exchange gifts and in that spirit, I'm giving away three signed copies of my 2010 book, Muffins and Mayhem: Recipes for a Happy (if Disorderly) Life, to three book club readers.
To enter the drawing, click here.
Reader Emails:
"Hello Suzanne, I want to extend a heartfelt and grateful thank you for your dedication and hard work in sharing thoughts, ideas, feelings, and, of course books, with your readers each weekday. You have a wonderful talent in written expression which is open, realistic, and joyful." -- With thanks for all you do, Gail W.
"Dear Suzanne, what a great column [about hand-writing your holiday cards]. I'm Jewish and I always try to find non-denominational holiday cards, or blank ones, as you did, so that I can write a note. It takes much longer, but I figure it means much more than just signing my husband's and my names to a card.
About 20 years ago, I started doing a holiday letter. My cousin always sent the doom-and-gloom letter--who was sick, who had died and who was about to. When she finally sent one detailing her husband's shingles and her grandson's 'accident' in the community pool during potty-training, I decided to start writing a tongue-in-cheek one. I work on it all year, and it has become so popular that, if I don't send it, people call or email asking why.
Like you, I debated doing cards and my letter this year, but then I decided maybe a little levity was called for. This year's letter is definitely the least funny of all the ones I've done, but a couple of people who have already received it have said it brightened their day. Below is an sample of this year's holiday letter, in hopes that it might bring you a smile or two, too."
(Suzanne replies:) Nancy, your holiday letter made me laugh, so I couldn't resist sharing a bit of it with readers.
An excerpt from reader Nancy B.'s holiday letter:
Dear Friends, Wishing you hopefully Happy Holidays from the Land of Let's-Pretend-This-Year-Never-Happened. So far, it's been like looking both ways before crossing the street, and then getting hit by an airplane. It came as no surprise that Dictionary.com chose 'pandemic' and "Collins English Dictionary" chose 'lockdown' as their respective 2020 Words of the Year. And for a made-up word, consider Coronacoaster (noun): the ups and downs of a pandemic. One day, you're loving your bubble, working out and baking banana bread, and the next you're crying, drinking gin for breakfast and missing people you don't even like...
"Suzanne, your newsletters have been a year-round Christmas present for me, and one for which I am especially grateful this year. I get up at 6:00 to feed the cats and then go online, and you're almost always in my inbox waiting for me. I'm as anxious to read your column as I am to see what book you're promoting each week. Happy holidays, and may the new year bring you all good things--starting with a vaccine." -- Regards, Nancy B.
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Suzanne Beecher
Suzanne@DearReader.com
Congratulations to Carol B., Ann B., and Darlene H., the winners of this month's Chocolate Chip Cookie Giveaway.
And congratulations to the winners of The Anne of Green Gables Devotional by guest author Rachel Dodge: Karen C., Kathryn D., Gretchen B.
AUTHORBUZZ: Click here to discover new books, "meet" the authors and enter to win.
THE DEAD HEAT OF SUMMER (Fiction) by Heather Graham
Casey Nicholson opens a shop in the French Quarter using her understanding of people to read tea leaves and tarot cards. She's not a medium, but while visiting an old cemetery, she is stunned when a ghost appears to her, begging for help. The departed woman is desperate to ensure the safety of her daughter and her sister--both of whom appear to be on a murderer's hit list. But trying to do the right thing brings Casey to odds with the striking Special Agent Ryder McKinley of the Krewe of Hunters--and secures her place on a murder list.
Go to: AUTHORBUZZ click on THE DEAD HEAT OF SUMMER to read more and to email author Heather Graham, you'll get a reply.
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