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    Finding the Right Words: Perfect Phrases to Personalize Your Greeting Cards
    Finding the Right Words: Perfect Phrases to Personalize Your Greeting Cards
    Finding the Right Words: Perfect Phrases to Personalize Your Greeting Cards
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    Finding the Right Words: Perfect Phrases to Personalize Your Greeting Cards

    By J. Beverly Daniel

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    About this ebook

    Showing someone you care begins with

    Finding

    the

    Right Words

    Here you'll find:

    More than three dozen ways to say "Happy Birthday"

    Welcoming words for new family members...even pets

    Thoughtful condolences for personalizing sympathy cards

    Congratulatory wishes for weddings and anniversaries

    Helpful hints to simplify card-sending

    A monthly calendar for birthdays and anniversaries

    ...and more, in this book of indispensable phrases for all
    occasions. You'll never be at a loss for words again!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPocket Books
    Release dateNov 24, 2009
    ISBN9781439187869
    Finding the Right Words: Perfect Phrases to Personalize Your Greeting Cards
    Author

    J. Beverly Daniel

    J. Beverly Daniel is the author of FINDING THE RIGHT WORDS, FINDING THE RIGHT WORDS FOR THE HOLIDAYS, FINDING THE RIGHT WORDS FOR LIFE'S CELEBRATIONS, and many more.  She lives in Cheektowaga, NY. 

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    • 4/5
      This is the most useful I've seen of books of this type. The author's choices of word are both appropriate and graceful. Best of all, they serve as a springboard for the sender to add a few more thoughts that would make a card particularly meaningful. I intend to make this book a reference I will go to often

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    • 3/5
      Many people find it easier to write an essay than to write a short sentence on a greeting card. I'm one of those people, which is the reason that I bought this book. This book gives about thirty different examples for fifteen different occasions, and it has been helpful to me when I need to write a short note on a greeting card.The book does deliver on its promise to provide "perfect phrases to personalize your greeting cards", but fulfilling that promise makes for a short book. Daniel pads the book by providing "a monthly calendar for names, birthdays, and anniversaries," which isn't why I spent good money on the book. Thirty-seven of its 129 pages are virtually blank.This space could have been more effectively used by etiquette for each type of greeting card. She also could have a compendium of ways to write the complimentary close. I am chided for always writing "sincerely."This a useful book that could have easily been made more useful.
    • 2/5
      This (very) little book contains ideas for personalizing cards for 30 occasions. The categories run the gamut from frequent occasions such as birthdays or thank you notes, to the rarer events like retirements and new homes. Each occasion has a page or two of short sentences to help you express your sentiments.This book will not really help you write longer notes, or letters; but it is perfect for adding something personal to a ready-made greeting card. The last 40 or so pages are devoted to space for you to keep track of birthdays, anniversaries and Christmas/ Hanukkah/ Kwanzaa card lists. Without those pages, this would be more of a pamphlet than a book. I would have preferred more content instead of space for lists that I keep on my computer.I like the idea of customizing greeting cards, and I'm sure I'll use the phrases in this book to jump-start my notes. However, if I had leafed through it in a store, I'm not sure I would have bought it.2 Stars

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    Finding the Right Words - J. Beverly Daniel

    Finding

    the Right

    Words

    Finding the Right Words

    PERFECT PHRASES TO PERSONALIZE YOUR GREETING CARDS

    J. Beverly Daniel

    POCKET BOOKS

    New York · London · Toronto · Sydney · Singapore

    POCKET BOOKS, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

    1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020

    www.SimonandSchuster.com

    Copyright © 2003 by J. Beverly Daniel

    All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce

    this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.

    For information address Pocket Books, 1230 Avenue

    of the Americas, New York, NY 10020

    ISBN: 0-7434-7719-7

    ISBN: 978-0-743-4-7719-2

    eISBN: 978-1-439-1-8786-9

    First Pocket Books hardcover edition October 2003

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    POCKET and colophon are registered trademarks of

    Simon & Schuster, Inc.

    Manufactured in the United States of America

    For information regarding special discounts for bulk purchases, please contact

    Simon & Schuster Special Sales at 1-800-456-6798 or business@simonandschuster.com

    To

    John

    Tracey, George, Eric

    And especially to my granddaughter,

    Molly

    Acknowledgments

    I am grateful to my dad and mom, Frank Hoffman and the late Mildred Hoffman, for their unwavering support and faith in me to never give up my dreams. They gave me the courage to follow through and complete my book.

    To my brothers, John, Greg, and Joe, thank you for your support. Greg, you have always been my sounding board, and special thanks to Joe, without whose help this book would never have been completed.

    To my editor, Micki Nuding, many thanks for the enthusiasm and interest she has shown for this project. I have really enjoyed working with Micki and greatly appreciate her expertise.

    Many thanks to my wonderful agent, Mary Tahan, as well as Stedman Mays and Jena Anderson of Clausen, Mays & Tahan Literary Agency. Without their vision, faith, and encouragement none of this would have been possible. When at times things became overwhelming, Mary’s encouragement put me at ease and back on track.

    Contents

    Introduction

    Occasions

    Birthday

    Wedding Anniversary

    Anniversary to Spouse

    Wedding and Engagement

    New Baby

    Thank You

    Get Well

    Friendship

    Congratulations

    Graduation

    Bon Voyage

    Retirement

    Sympathy

    Sympathy II Condolence Thank-You

    New Home

    Thinking of You

    Apology

    Divorce

    Pets

    Relatives

    Step-Relatives

    General

    Mother’s Day

    Father’s Day

    Valentine’s Day

    Easter

    Passover

    Hanukkah

    Kwanzaa

    Christmas

    Helpful Hints to Simplify Card Sending

    Monthly Calendar for Names, Birthdays, and Anniversaries

    State Abbreviations

    Holiday Card Recipients

    Christmas

    Hanukkah

    Kwanzaa

    Introduction

    Throughout the fifteen years that I was in the card and gift shop business, my customers often asked me to help them find the right words to say what they felt, whether they were wishes for a happy birthday, congratulations on the

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