Tips from Ellen on How to Decorate Your Tree Like a Pro!

Our family home in Vermont is featured in the 2016 Holiday issue of Yankee Magazine. Available on racks now! Check it out online here: Vermont Family Christmas.

We just got BIG news- An Old Fashioned Christmas will be on Indie Bound’s November Indie Next List. A huge thank you to all the booksellers who nominated!!

This is huge. We’re talking Dream Territory here. My mother-in-law gave me a subscription to Yankee Magazine when I was 21 years old. It was the first whisper in my ear that I should live in Vermont. I am thrilled to have An Old Fashioned Christmas in their November/December issue. Doing cartwheels. Walking on air.

Mud Season is coming in on the BESTSELLER LIST at number 7!!

Check out the full Indie/NEIBA list here

Enter to win an all expenses paid Weekend Getaway for Two in Vermont!

Three nights and four days at the historic, luxury Equinox Resort in glorious Manchester, Vermont. The countryside is pure Vermont—rolling meadows, covered bridges and soft round mountains. Indulge in a maple sugar massage at the spa or just sit by one of the many giant fireplaces and enjoy the view. Hiking, horseback riding leaf peeping or skiing —you will have a blast.  You’ll enjoy dinner at the Downtown Grocery in Ludlow with Chef Rogan and his wife Abby —passionate chefs cooking local, seasonal— really good food. And breakfast one morning at Up For Breakfast where you will climb the steps and settle in for a cozy homemade breakfast with Bonnie and all the locals who know where to eat. This is Vermont just as you have always imagined it.

Good Grief! by Ellen Stimson

What sets Good Grief! apart from other memoirs and books about the loss of a family member, is that this author has an uncanny ability to take any situation and tell a story brimming with all the joy, struggle, laughter, messiness, and triumph of the human condition. You will laugh and you will cry. On the same page. Maybe even the same paragraph.

 

How Can I Win This Fabulous Weekend Getaway?

Read Good Grief! and then write a paragraph or two about how humor helped you or someone you know grieve the loss of a loved one. Ellen will choose her favorite entry from all the entries. And the lucky winner will spend a fabulous weekend in Vermont!

 

Weekend Getaway for Two in Vermont Contest Instructions:

Write a paragraph or two about how humor helped you or someone you know grieve the loss of a loved one. Don’t worry about producing a polished piece of writing that is publication ready. Simply write from the heart.

SUBMIT YOUR ENTRY ON OR BEFORE DECEMBER 31, 2014.

Email your entry along with your name and all your contact information to:

cindynorrispublicity@gmail.com

or mail your entry to:

c.b. norris publicity

1 E. Fox Chase Rd.

Asheville, NC 28804

Good Grief! Fall Tour is Heating Up! Check out the Events page for the full tour schedule.

Mud Season’s Spring Tour is just around the corner kicking off the first week of February! Please check out our events section for more info.