About Me

How did I start writing Letters from Santa and the Easter Bunny? 

It's the old story of a funny thing happened on the way to life.  I started with a small gift basket business, (hence the DBA name G & T Gift Baskets), filling them with products from other small businesses, rather than the big conglomerates.  I wanted to do something different, and I wanted to support small business.  I have no sense of the visual, and they didn't look as attractive as I would have liked, even though the quality of the products, hand picked by me, was outstanding.

I voraciously read every free email newsletter for small businesses I could get my hands on, and came across the idea of writing Santa Letters as a means of marketing, and drawing attention to, my main business, which was floundering.

In short, the baskets didn't sell, but the letters did.  Besides, I've always been a writer deep inside, and writing the letters from Santa reawakened the childhood passion I let outside forces convince me was irrational.  I gave the gift baskets all away one Christmas as presents, and focused on the letters.

The magic I try to share with every letter-- because every kid needs to believe, and not just in Santa, but most importantly in themselves-- boomeranged back at me.  Writing these wonderful letters has taught me to believe again in myself.

The letters have been the carriers of my own dreams, because I started writing seriously again, and even did the unthinkable-- I wrote my first novel.  I'm now revising several!

And I recently won first place in the juvenile/young adult novel category of the Panhandle Professional Writers' Frontiers in Writing contest with one of my manuscripts!

So you see, words truly are the carriers of dreams . . .