Danish Cookies Renamed

There are many people who have helped me along the way to publication & I have tried to thank them in some small way.

A few years ago, I struck upon my go-to thank you gift: a tin of Anna's Cookies. They're real Danish butter cookies--just as good as my Aunt Henny makes--but with a twist. In the tin I send, half the cookies are covered in chocolate. Get it?

Well, I order the cookies on-line and there's a little box for comments about the package. I didn't know what that meant really, but I started writing little notes about the reason I was sending the cookies (e.g. "This person wrote me a recommendation letter." or "This person wrote a blurb for me.")

I never really expected that anyone was really reading those notes, but then one day I got a call from Claire, the owner of Anna's Cookies. She was so excited to see that the book was finally published and she hoped she could meet me when I was in the area. It was too cool.

I did meet her this Spring, as well as her lovely daughter Molly, when I read at Kepler's Books in Menlo Park, CA. (Of course, she served her yummy cookies.)

About a month ago, I ordered some cookies but decided to send them in a new beautiful blue and brown gift box that she's offering. She called to get some information I had input incorrectly and then asked why I had changed my go-to gift. "Because the blue & brown box is so pretty and it looks kind of like it goes with my website."

"Oh, you're right," she said. "How about if I change the name of the box to the Heidi Durrow Special?"

And now voila! You too can buy a Heidi Durrow Special from Anna's Cookies as gift or as a gift to yourself. You won't be disappointed!