When is a Snowflake the Happiest?

It's that time of year when any day, we could wake up to a blanket of white. Snow is probably the most fun when you're a child, or when you can sit inside a cozy cabin with a steaming cup of coffee as you watch the flakes tumble and swirl to the ground. For many of us, snow is a fact of life as winter and the Christmas holidays sneak up on us. It is also the theme for many a story.

Years ago, I began writing Christmas stories for my family and friends. There were stories about Christmases in the past, Christmas ghosts, holiday memories and even lumberjacks who helped Santa. They were later published as "Christmas Quilt Anthology".One of these stories, "Once Upon A Christmas Wish" was about a small coal mining town in Pennsylvania called Snow. Even in the midst of the coal mine shutting down, the children of the town decided to celebrate the holiday with a snow sculpture festival.

This story so captured me that a few years ago, I decided to write a mainstream novel based in Snow. Again, the snow festival was such a huge part of the story that I even invented a fictitious website all about the town and it's many businesses. 

"Always Believe" happened in Snow. It is a story about family and friendships and maybe even a miracle or two. In this story, Emma doesn't believe in the enchantment of Christmas, but then she and her dad move to the town of Snow, where even the stores have holiday names. What is she supposed to think when her new friend pulls her into the magic of the holiday by insisting he knows the location of Santa's workshop?

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Letters to Santa are another facet of the holiday, right along with snow. But what happens when a typographical error causes hundreds of letters to Santa to end up at a Chicago Cosmetic Company? Chantilly Morrison is set to launch Chantilly Frost, a new cosmetics line, but because of an error in the ad copy, she's inundated with letters from children, whose scribbled wishes tug at her heart. She hires an investigator to find the letter writers so she can throw a huge Christmas party and make the children's fantasies come true. AJ Anderson can find the unfindable, whether it's lost artifacts or people and he's very good at his job. But when Chanti dumps hundreds of letters in his lap with the directive to find the children -- before Christmas Eve -- he knows the request is impossible, but the woman is irresistible. Should he use his skills to make her Christmas wish come true, or can he use the count down to Christmas to find the key that unlocks the lady's heart?

I love this time of year, and hope you will enjoy it with me by reading "IF Wishes Were Magic", "Always Believe", or the sweet stories in "Christmas Quilt Anthology."
Q--When is a snowflake the happiest?
A--When it kisses the upturned face of a child.
May your holidays be kissed with happiness.
Barb