You might say I've been experiencing an early Thanksgiving of sorts! It's still summer (albeit barely -- sorry for the delay of this newsletter), and I already have many people to thank for helping me mobilize for my Ultimate Cookies book tour. (See below for tour details.) 

My site has a new online store, soon to feature various cutters and kits from the book's projects, thanks to my tour sponsor fancyflours.com. I've got a new promo video, courtesy of the wildly creative team led by Rian Fiske at visualquill.com. And I'm about to start a week of video production for a series of online cookie crafting classes, none of which would have been possible without a tip from videographer and friend Joe Baran and the supremely talented crew at craftsy.com. My book tour, which is loaded with many cookie decorating classes and an especially exciting opening event at Macy's flagship location in NYC, wouldn't have shaped up so speedily (or perhaps at all) without my newly hired publicist Ron Longe from Media Masters Publicity. I consider myself pretty Type-A, but he's got me beat as far as attention to detail! 

Last but not least, I've refreshed the look of my Facebook page with a new avatar and pumped up other promotional materials with the help of the über-imaginative Marcella Hawley, who designed posters, note cards, and other book-ish collateral. A sample of her fine work is here: