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🎄 Happy Holidays from us and the cats! 🧑🏼‍🎄

Thursday, Dec. 25, 2025

Hi Friend,

Happy holidays from us to you and yours!

Pictured here:

Left image: me (Beth Barany) with my husband, Ezra Barany.
Center image: our cats, Cinnamon and Rocket - can you guess who is who?!
Right image: Us -- me and Ezra with Cinnamon, who is shy, but very purry

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We feted Christmas with my sister's family; had Hannukah last week; and I did quiet solstice freewriting.

However you celebrate this time or year, or even if you don't, here's some writerly resources to take advantage of!

🧑🏼‍🎄 A Christmas Market for you 🎄

Brought to you by Daniel David Wallace.

Santa Wallace has created a delightful Christmas market with over 30 booths, all stocked with goodies for writers.

There, you will find so many great courses, books and writer support tools in Daniel's Christmas Market.

Here's the quick map of just some the booths! (So many awesome classes!)

Marketing by Shelby - The BookTok Blueprint
🎄 Beth Barany - Heart-Centered Marketing for Fiction Authors (my course!)
Sandy Vaile - Write Backstory With Confidence
Natasha Sass - 2026 Cozy Mystery Planning System
and so much more!!!!

All of this is available for $77 USD. ($1900+ value!)

And ... the best part if you've got writer friends, you can grab two tickets to the market for $98 and give one to that writer friend who does not need another journal or mug.

The Market will only be available for a short time!

Take a look: (click on Daniel's face!)

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Writer's Christmas Market 15+ writing courses. $1900+ value

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Yes, that's possible.

I'll tell you more about that tomorrow!

The short of it is:

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One of my superpowers is being able to synthesize a lot of different points of information -- taking into account your voice and personality and needs and wants -- and synthesizing that quickly into ways to get unblocked and a way forward that is in alignment with you.

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Sale ends soon.

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🎄 More goodies for your virtual stocking! 🎄

Write a Book in 2026

-- Awesome books from lots of writing teachers (paid offers)

New Year New You in 2026

-- Lots of books of all kinds! (comp/free ebooks)

Happy Writing!

Best,

Beth

PS. Thank you for reading this far.

My end-of year holiday project: Learning how to use Pinterest to market my books and courses. And catching up on my sleep.

What's your end-of year holiday project?

Hit reply and let me know. I always love hearing from you!

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Beth Barany
Creativity Coach for Writers

Teacher, Speaker, Workshop Facilitator
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I not only teach and coach novelists, I am one too!

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Including the award-winning, Henrietta The Dragon Slayer (Book 1), and Into The Black, about Janey McCallister space station investigator (Book 1)

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