Friday flashback to last year when Ivy gave me the side eye for dressing her up in an ugly Christmas sweater. #sweaterweather #settersofinstagram #uglychristmassweater
More reviews are in! Thanks to our friends @freshfiction for the #FreshReview! “THE SANTA SUIT is the perfect book to remind us of the power of kindness and hope. This novella packs a punch of feel-good to get us all in Holiday spirit, which we could all use a good dose of any time of the year.” ❤️🌲🎅
Only 22 days left before Christmas, go get your copy of #TheSantaSuit TODAY! Link in bio 📕
You could win this gorgeous hand-painted one-of-a-kind ornament featuring #thesantasuit!
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Book Bauble GIVEAWAY with @merhanson 📚📚📚
I teamed up with one of the most talented artists I know @merhanson to give some lucky follower this one-of-a-kind, hand-painted Book Bauble ornament in honor of Nantucket’s Stroll Weekend. The ornament features my top picks for best-selling Christmas books @nantucketbooks from authors @natphilbrick @elinhilderbrand @nancythayerbooks @marykayandrews @pattichenry @kristywharvey and @leslielinsley. Swipe to see the tiny artistic details and some of her inspiration…
TO ENTER:
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📚 Make sure you are following @timtalksbooks and @merhanson
📚 Tag 3 bookworms who love to read by the Christmas tree light (Each comment is an entry. Unlimited entries).
📚 Extra entries if you share this post in a story tagging @timtalksbooks and @merhanson
📚 Winner will be announced with an update on this post on Monday, December 6th!
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@merhanson is a dream! She also hand-painted my Nantucket Daffodil Festival suit a couple years back and I love collaborating with her!
It’s #givingtuesday, and I’m sure most of you are receiving fundraising requests from charities and non-profits from around the country. But today I have an intensely personal request. The ultimate ask. Here’s the backstory.
Two months ago, our healthy, vaccinated, tennis-playing 39-year-old daughter Katie had a breakthrough case of Covid. She was really sick for a month, and her doctor finally ordered lab work to be done. The next morning, she was sent to the emergency room, where doctors eventually diagnosed her with liver failure. Long story short, Katie is going to need a liver transplant.
Up to now, I’ve tried to keep Katie’s diagnosis private, because it’s not my story to tell. But in light of the journey she and so many other patients and their families are facing, I’ve decided to go public, in the hope that some good can come from her illness. So here’s the ask:
1. Consider signing up to become an #organdonor. Here’s a link to Organdonor.gov where you can register to become an organ donor in every state in the nation. Did you know you could provide life saving organs to as many as eight different people? Your decision to register could literally save a life. https://www.organdonor.gov/sign-up
2. Sign up here to give blood and/or platelets. The @americanredcross has reported an ongoing emergency blood shortage during the pandemic. https://www.redcrossblood.org/
3. Consider donating to an organ transplant nonprofit such as the @georgiatransplant foundation, which provides vital financial, educational and social resources to families facing organ transplants. https://gatransplant.org/
Our family is blessed to have the resources to help Katie on this long road, and we’re incredibly fortunate that Georgia’s only two liver transplant centers, Emory University Hosptial and Piedmont Hospital, are here in Atlanta where we live, but we know so many others aren’t as fortunate. Here's how you can help them.
Also, selfishly? We wouldn’t mind if you sent up a prayer for our girl.
Thanks in advance. And feel free to share.
🎉GIVEAWAY ALERT!🎉 #entertowin TWELVE of the hottest books of this holiday season by me, @pattichenry, @kristywharvey, @viola_shipman, @juliecantrell, @courtneywalsh, @debbiemacomber, @susanmallery, @the_book_lover_book_club_ , @raeannethayne, #FernMichaels and @readlisajackson. Entry deadline: Fri 12/3 at 12 noon Eastern. One winner of all 12 books will be chosen at random and announced by this weekend. 🍀Good luck!🍀 Details & entry form at the link in my bio or copy & paste this link to enter: https://bit.ly/12BooksXmas21
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I ran away from home. All the way to the Squirrel’s Nest, to try to finish TFB this weekend. In between decorating for Christmas, ect. You can see by the cover of my notebook how long this book has been brewing. #thehomewreckersnovel #amwriting #authorsofinstagram
The turkey carcass is in the freezer which means the Christmas bins are up from the attic—thanks to family who came for dinner & stayed to haul stuff up from the basement! #letthedecoratingbegin
The finished bird! #turkeytrot #spatchcock
Mr. MKA spatchcocked the Turkey after watching @chefandthef on last week’s episode of @friendsandfiction! #turkeyboss #butterballturkey #thanksgiving2021
It’s gravy baby! Watch me make a boatload of Turkey gravy, a lil lumpy but still yummy. #butterballturkey #thanksgiving2021 #turkeygravy #nomorejargravy #homemadegravy
The great Thanksgiving prep of 2021 has begun. Pumpkin pies and sweet potatoes for sweet potato soufflé are are in the oven. Cranberry-orange-pomegranate compote simmering on stovetop. All the recipes are in my Beach House Cookbook. #mkacooks #thanksgivingprep #beachhousecookbook #thanksgiving21
It’s a two-fer Tuesday with my latest faux beaux. Please meet “Gen. mark Miller U, S. Chief of Staff Commander.” While I do love a man in uniform, my head was definitely turned by this half-nekkid hunk. First name Sparta. Last name Cus. Please, Mom, can I keep ‘em both? #fauxbeaux #pretendboyfriend #instaimposters
It's such an honor that @friendsandfiction has been named as the closing headliner act at the 2022 @savbookfestival. Book your trip NOW and come to Savannah in February—the perfect time to visit this gorgeous city. Spend the weekend surrounded by books and authors. And end it all up in a theater on Sun Feb 20th with me and my dear friends and fellow F&F founders, hosts and sisters @kristywharvey, @pattichenry & @kristinharmel. It's going to be epic!
#SBF2022 will be held in-person Presidents’ Day Weekend, February 17 – 20, 2022. Festival Saturday authors are being announced every Book-It Tuesday. For more information on authors and headliners, check out the festival’s website and follow them on Facebook, Instagram & Twitter.
#friendsandfiction #savannahbookfestival #MaryKayAndrews #KristinHarmel #KristyWoodsonHarvey #PattiCallahanHenry
Meet NaDean, my mama’s least favorite cousin. She was an only child, born late in life and mama said Aunt Nancy and Uncle Dean spoiled her rotten. She had her own pink Princess phone in her room, and a canopy bed and a poodle named Pierre. She ate so much candy her back teeth rotted out, and she got dentures only they never fit quite right which mama said was why she never smiled. Everyone said NaDean was meaner than cat dirt. She’d pinch the head off a frog like it was nothing. She went off to school in Birmingham and married a widower named Orrin who was in his fifties and she’d come home at Christmas wearing a full-length mink coat. After Orrin died she ran the store until a kid came in there and stole a can of Skoal, so she shot him in the foot. Now she works at the DMV. #meannadean #noeffstogive #pretendancestors
Did a little winter gardening today. And by “gardening” I mean I plonked some gravel in my favorite blue and white containers, planted paperwhite and amaryllis bulbs, then covered the surface with random seashells. Now back to work because TFB ain’t gonna write it’s own ending. #wintergarden #paperwhites #amaryllis #christmasinbloom #amwriting #blueandwhiteforever
Have you left your review for THE SANTA SUIT on @amazon or @goodreads yet? If you loved the book, I hope you will! THANK YOU to all of you have bought, read, loved and reviewed the book so far. If you still need to stock up on copies for your gift list, find buy links in my bio.
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#buymybookdammit #reviewmybookdammit #ChristmasbeginswithMKA #thesantasuit #christmascomesearlythisyear
It’s not trashy if you eat it out of an antique English nut dish, right? #askingforafriend #thisisbreakfast #deadlinedining #stresssnacks #amwriting #blueandwhiteforever
Thoughts for a hump day..,(thanks @pagepalette) #wonderfulwednesday #humpdayhumor
Just in time for Thanksgiving! Meet award-winning cookbook author @chefandthef tonight, 7 Eastern, on @friendsandfiction. Watch on our Facebook page or YouTube channel. #cookbookstagram
Happy Book Birthday to @annebyrn (aka the Cake Mix Doctor) whose brand new cookbook A New Take On Cake is out today. Fun fact: Anne was my office neighbor back in the day in the Features department at @ajcnews when she was the paper’s food editor. Molly grabbed my copy of the new cookbook and is already plotting our first bakeapalooza. (Pretty sure it’s gonna be Anne’s gorgeous version of a Funfetti cake.) #anewtakeoncake #cakemixdoctor #letthemeatcake