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Day One: Monthly Letter
Dear Readers, The first Christmas display in our neighborhood popped up before sundown on Thanksgiving evening. The guy down the block -- the one who decorates his lawn with a dozen dancing goblins at Halloween -- put up his wreaths and began the long process of outlining his house with strings of twinkling white lights.
That was all it took! I blinked my eyes and there were the trees in the parking lot of Cost Cutters, the balsam wreaths stacked in front of Shoprite, the fifty pounds of holiday catalogs that land with a thud in my mailbox every day between Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. In fact, it was because of those catalogs that I almost missed the most entertaining item to pop up in my mailbox in years.
Thanks to those of you who wrote to me about At Last -- it seems to be doing very well out there. It placed on the USA Today Top 150 Bestseller list, the Waldenbooks Romance bestseller list, and Amazon's Weekly Romance bestseller list. More importantly, Noah and Gracie's story moved many of you to write me and share some very moving personal stories. I thank you for that from the bottom of my heart. As always, there's a new contest for December which I hope you'll take time to enter. And if you'd like a calendar for 2001, drop me an email at freestuff@barbarabretton.com with your name and snail mail address and I'll send one out. No matter which holiday you celebrate -- Christmas, Chanukah, or Kwaanza -- I wish you happiness and joy and peace of mind and heart. With affection,
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December, 2000
Let me back up and explain. My very first book, Love Changes, was a
launch book for Harlequin American way back in 1983. (I know. Some of
you weren't even born in 1983, were you?) Every now and again it pops up
with a new cover and a new title somewhere in the world and I'll admit
I've grown a little blasé about seeing my words in exotic translations.
However nothing, and I mean nothing prepared me for the absolute shock
of seeing my Stacey and Franco, the hero and heroine of Love Changes, on
the front cover of what they call a "graphic novel" published by
Harlequin's branch in Italy. It's approximately the size and format of
our Reader's Digest but instead of your usual run-of-the-mill text,
there was my first book in all of its comic book beauty. What a kick it
was to see Stacey and Franco and their friends and relatives looking up
at me from the page -- although I'll admit to almost falling out of my
chair when I flipped a page and found my hero and heroine buck naked in
bed! It's a brave new world out there.
