Giveaway! Win a copy of Mary Kay Andrews’ “Fatal Fruitcake”
UPDATE: We have selected a winner by random drawing and the winner has been notified. Thanks all for entering! We’ll do another giveaway soon. Happy holidays everyone!
Mary Kay Andrews’ short story “Fatal Fruitcake” has been re-released this holiday season to raise money for relief efforts following Superstorm Sandy.
Andrews originally penned the piece in 1997, writing as Kathy Hogan Trocheck, and decided to bring it out again after many of her publishing friends were affected by the storm.
We have a copy of the signed, limited edition item, complete with a jazzy cover and a dee-licious fruitcake recipe in the back.
Want it? Simply leave a comment below. We’ll draw one lucky winner at random. Good luck!
(By the way Mary Kay also is giving away a signed copy of “Blue Christmas” via her Facebook page. Click here for details.)
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126 comments Add your comment
Jen
December 13th, 2012
12:10 pm
I would love to have and put it under the Christmas tree for my mother.
SP
December 13th, 2012
12:20 pm
Better than the mother in laws cooking!
Heather
December 13th, 2012
12:20 pm
I LOVE all Mary Kay Andrews books and would be thrilled to receive a signed copy to add to my collection!!
jenn
December 13th, 2012
12:37 pm
what a nice compliment to her already growing list of wonderful books.
Hayley
December 13th, 2012
12:41 pm
The Callahan Garrity novels are great. I would love to add this to my collection!
Ann
December 13th, 2012
12:42 pm
Love all her books and her shop on Tybee Island.
Candy Galas
December 13th, 2012
1:19 pm
I want it, I need it, I’ve got to have it!
Aletha Flanagan
December 13th, 2012
1:19 pm
MKA is my favorite author and I love following her on Facebook! She is hilarious! I would LOVE to win!
Cheryl Green
December 13th, 2012
1:19 pm
Would love a copy of Fatal Fruitcake.
Joyce Craig
December 13th, 2012
1:20 pm
I met Mary Kay this past summer at a luncheon at the Burningtree Country Club in Decatur, AL. She is a hoot to be around and a spectacular author. Hope I win!
Diane E. Henson
December 13th, 2012
1:20 pm
If I didn’t get ANYTHING else for Christmas, winning that book would make it ALL GOOD!!!!!!!YEAH!!!!!
Tiffany Malcolm
December 13th, 2012
1:20 pm
I would like this very much. I have read all of the Callahan books and they are just great!
Kiersten
December 13th, 2012
1:20 pm
My mom, sister, and I are so in love with the Callahan Gerrity novels! Such a sweet thing to do after the storm!
Kimberly DeVries
December 13th, 2012
1:21 pm
Ooooh I would love it! Pick me! Pick me!
Jerriann Nelson
December 13th, 2012
1:21 pm
love, love, love her books!!!
Bonnie Hatfield
December 13th, 2012
1:22 pm
ok I am HOOKED on reading everything you write, I stumbled across your book, Savannah Breeze while on vacation in Myrtle Beach and I have been hooked ever since… I’d love to have a copy of this book.
Susan Kavanaugh
December 13th, 2012
1:23 pm
Really would love to win her book!
Brenda P.
December 13th, 2012
1:23 pm
I LOVED the Callahan Garrity series, but I must have missed this one because I do not remember it.
Kelly Saderholm
December 13th, 2012
1:24 pm
I would soooo love to have this! I love the Callahan Garrity Books!
Deidrah Shutt
December 13th, 2012
1:24 pm
Love MKA! Her books are great and I would love to read this one as well.
Brigetta Cremata
December 13th, 2012
1:24 pm
I would love to win this! I have now read every single MKA book (just finished Savannah Breeze late last night). I would love to read this at night after my young daughters go to bed. Thanks for the chance!
Ann Weightman
December 13th, 2012
1:24 pm
I love all of her books. It would be a wonderful Christmas present for me! I would love to win this.
Patti Dillard
December 13th, 2012
1:25 pm
I love her books! I would love to share this with my mom!
Emily Jenkins
December 13th, 2012
1:27 pm
Love her books!!
Diana Swanson
December 13th, 2012
1:28 pm
My first Mary Kay Andrews book was Blue Christmas and I was hooked ,I have gotten my Mother In Law hooked on the Callahan Garrity Books, this book would complete my collection!
Linda Lopez
December 13th, 2012
1:28 pm
How fantastic, I’d love it.
Suzan Williams
December 13th, 2012
1:28 pm
I would absolutely love to get a copy of this book. I am reading another Mary Kay Andrews book now and I am almost finished. It is almost time to start another.
Karen Rubin Brown
December 13th, 2012
1:30 pm
Would love to win
Mandie
December 13th, 2012
1:31 pm
I’ve never ever read a Mary Kay Andrews book, but have several of hers on my “to read” list. Would love to win one so I can get started right away
Brenda
December 13th, 2012
1:31 pm
This would make my day! Love me some MKA!!
Cyndia Montgomery
December 13th, 2012
1:31 pm
I have several of the Callahan books but not this one! And I have all of the Mary Kay Andrews books!
Merry Christmas!
April
December 13th, 2012
1:32 pm
Fun stuff
Sandy Dalton
December 13th, 2012
1:35 pm
Hello! I am in London, UK and would love love to have this to read! Am a huge Mary Kay Andrews fan loved Blue Christmas an all her other fabulous Books!
Jessica
December 13th, 2012
1:35 pm
I love Mary Kay Andrews and I would love this book!
Stephanie Latch
December 13th, 2012
1:35 pm
Thanks for sharing your writing talent and stories with us. Love your books.
Karen Nolan Bell
December 13th, 2012
1:37 pm
No Christmas is complete without fruitcake–and a “fatal” one completes my requirement for a perfect Christmas reading season. Please make my Christmas dreams come true!
Christi
December 13th, 2012
1:40 pm
Ooooh, pick me, pick me!!
Dianne
December 13th, 2012
1:41 pm
Sounds like a fun read, have read a couple Garrity books, looking for the rest. Would enjoy reading this book.
Rebecca Booth
December 13th, 2012
1:42 pm
I met Mary Kay Andrews in Raleigh at Quailridge books and enjoyed our conversation. I have read and loved everyone of her book and would love to win and read FATAL FRUITCAKE!
Thanks!
Rebecca
charlotte
December 13th, 2012
1:42 pm
I’m a HUGE MKA fan and would love love love to win a copy of this book to add to my collection! This is one fruitcake I won’t throw out! Good luck everyone!
Natalie bullock
December 13th, 2012
1:44 pm
Love her books haven’t read one i didn’t recomend to someone
Ericha
December 13th, 2012
1:48 pm
Me Please please please!!
James Henderson
December 13th, 2012
1:50 pm
The one fruitcake I’m sure I’ll enjoy!
Sara M.
December 13th, 2012
1:51 pm
What a nice gesture for the holidays!
Jennifer
December 13th, 2012
1:51 pm
I sure would LOVE to win, have enjoyed ALL of MKH’s books!! =)
Jan Gilliland
December 13th, 2012
1:54 pm
I have not read this so I need it! Love her books.
Jenny B.
December 13th, 2012
1:59 pm
Would love to give this to my sister for Christmas. She just discovered Mary Kay’s books.
Holly
December 13th, 2012
2:01 pm
Love Mary Kay’s books!
Nan Lee
December 13th, 2012
2:03 pm
Can’t believe I missed this book. Blue Christmas has sparked my holiday spirit since it came out. Sure need this one to add to the Christmas book shelf (yes, I have one with two dozen or so books and it needs Fatal Fruitcake)
Jacqueline A. Crucil
December 13th, 2012
2:03 pm
I hope Santa leaves this book under my tree. xoxoxo
LacreshiaTowe
December 13th, 2012
2:07 pm
I’m nutty as a fruitcake NEED this book!
Amanda Martin
December 13th, 2012
2:08 pm
I love all of Mary Kay Andrew’s books and I would love to read this one!!!!!
Jen Engelland
December 13th, 2012
2:08 pm
I would love to win this.
Sue Colavita
December 13th, 2012
2:13 pm
I ‘ve read most of Mary Kay Andrews books & will get to the rest, but I really miss the Callahan Gerrity series. They had wonderful characters. It would be wonderful to win this book.
Ginger Holt
December 13th, 2012
2:16 pm
Really love her books and would LOVE to add this one to my collection!
Christine Murphy
December 13th, 2012
2:18 pm
I have enjoyed her books, written as Kathy Trocheck and MKA. She is wonderful….Fatal Fruitcake sounds great!
Jan Brent
December 13th, 2012
2:18 pm
I love the Callahan Garrity novels! I recommend those and all the other MKA books to everyone. I would love to add this new one to my collection!
diana smelcer
December 13th, 2012
2:19 pm
what a great idea and what a great cause
pam piatt
December 13th, 2012
2:20 pm
I love her sense of humor! I always laugh when I read her facebook posts.
annie
December 13th, 2012
2:23 pm
No wonder I couldn’t find in book stores! So want to read!
beverly cribbs
December 13th, 2012
2:24 pm
I love Mary Kay Andrews and especially that most of her books are set in my hometown. I am always checking for her latest book to buy.
Judy Shapleigh
December 13th, 2012
2:24 pm
All I want for Christmas is Fatal Fruitcake and world peace, of course.
Monique Broz
December 13th, 2012
2:25 pm
My hubby and I both loved the Callahan series. Thanks for all the wonderful stories.
Joanne Deschenes
December 13th, 2012
2:25 pm
Gee, I’d like to have lunch with her at Sundae Cafe on Tybee sometime…
Heather
December 13th, 2012
2:26 pm
I LOVE MKA!
Sherri Stephens
December 13th, 2012
2:29 pm
I would love to read her mystery, I haven’t read any of her earlier stuff.
Leigh Ann
December 13th, 2012
2:34 pm
I would love to have a new Mary Kay Andrews read for the holiday break!
OTP
December 13th, 2012
2:35 pm
My girlfriend would love this.
Laura
December 13th, 2012
2:36 pm
What a generous gesture. I would love to win this book- it would make my Christmas season a very happy one!
Heather Feather
December 13th, 2012
2:37 pm
Perfect! I missed getting a limited edition. Winning would make this girl oh so very happy.
Lynn Tullis
December 13th, 2012
2:43 pm
Best Christmas present ever!!
Lisa G.
December 13th, 2012
2:46 pm
MK is a favorite of mine. I have all her books, with the exception of this one of course. Would love to add it to my collection!
Denise Davis
December 13th, 2012
2:49 pm
I have read all the Callahan Garrity novels, all the Mary Kay Andrews novels and I was pleased to sit at Kathy’s table at Jacksonville State University during the On the Brink: Emerging Southern Writers Conference many years ago. I could use some good stuff to read while my son is going thru his treatments for his cancer relapse. Heck, he might even read it! I LOVE Callhan Garrity and I have a feeling there is a lot of Kathy in that character
Ronni Malone
December 13th, 2012
2:49 pm
I have every book she has written, why stop now!!
Laura
December 13th, 2012
2:51 pm
Blue Christmas was my very first MKA book – now I think I’ve read most all of them written under both names – Would love to add another Christmas Book to my collection!
Carolyn F. Cromer
December 13th, 2012
2:54 pm
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Carolyn F. Cromer
December 13th, 2012
2:57 pm
love your work,your taste and your offbeat humor,I striv to be like one of your characters!
Dauna Easley
December 13th, 2012
2:57 pm
Is there anything better than a Christmas book? Yep…one written by Mary Kay Andrews and publshed for a worthwhile cause. Dauna Easley
Loretta Maher
December 13th, 2012
3:11 pm
I would give it to my pregnant daughter. She’s going to the hosptial tonight.She’s having a hard time.
And she loves Mary kays books . It just might cheer her up some.
Jane
December 13th, 2012
3:12 pm
All fruitcake is fatal to me, but I LOVE MKA’s books! I would love to be the lucky winner!
Ronna B
December 13th, 2012
3:19 pm
Do not recall this book I thought I had read them all. Loooove BLUE CHRISTMAS. Love all the books, such a good read.
Mary
December 13th, 2012
3:27 pm
Would certainly love to give this copy to a friend as a token of friendship. Hope to win.
Sally Germany
December 13th, 2012
3:42 pm
My favorite author! Read them all so far – would love to add this one to my collection.
Rollene
December 13th, 2012
3:45 pm
Love, love love any and everything MKA writes. Have been reading and re-reading her forever.
Amber
December 13th, 2012
3:49 pm
Love her! Saw her at Mistletoe Market and she acted like we were buddies- ha ha! All b/c of facebook!
Holly Blair
December 13th, 2012
3:49 pm
I have read all of her books except this one. I would treasure it.
Merry Christmas!!
Holly Blair
Dianne Tant
December 13th, 2012
3:51 pm
I have been trying to find this book to purchase, so hope I win it
Susan Shain
December 13th, 2012
4:03 pm
Cold days of winter would definitely be warmer with the enjoyment of a good book.
Deb Berryman
December 13th, 2012
4:03 pm
Me, please? Unemployed for over a yr now and can’t afford books.
Lou Turner
December 13th, 2012
4:03 pm
I LOVE MKA! She makes me laugh out loud all the time and when I am reading on a plane – I have to share why I am laughing! My kids would love to put this in my stocking this Christmas. Cause we all know if Mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy! Make my kids happy!
Deb Berryman
December 13th, 2012
4:05 pm
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Elaine
December 13th, 2012
4:10 pm
I love, love, love Mary Kay Andrews! And I would love this!
Susan Kimbrell
December 13th, 2012
4:14 pm
Would love to have since never read it. One day plan to go back and read earlier writings.
Antoinette D'Ammora
December 13th, 2012
4:14 pm
Would love to receive one of Mary Kay’s earlier works…and to get that recipe for fruitcake!! I’ve read all of her MKA books, my favorite being “Blue Christmas”.
Happy Holidays!!
Linda Davis
December 13th, 2012
4:32 pm
Excellent writer! She makes the characters come alive.
Amy
December 13th, 2012
4:35 pm
Merry Happy Festivus!
sue hickman
December 13th, 2012
4:39 pm
I’m a really big fan of your books
!!!!
TW
December 13th, 2012
4:42 pm
LOve her books.
Rene M
December 13th, 2012
4:42 pm
It would be wonderful to win this. It’s been a difficult year and one of the few joys is reading your books.
Staci Smallwood
December 13th, 2012
4:50 pm
I love Mary Kay AND fruitcake! Merry Christmas.
Diane Ragan
December 13th, 2012
4:56 pm
would love to have this. I met her at a book signing and have a signed copy of Savannah Breeze. Love the Callahan Garrity books; wish she would write more of them.
Debra Dunlow
December 13th, 2012
5:13 pm
My son Daniel and I met MKA at her book-signing at Nags Head last year…He was evacuated from his NYU dorm during Sandy & after food became scarce, he called us to come home. The only airline ticket I could find was $1200. Needless to say, my husband left NC at 4:30 pm & got back from his NYC son-rescue mission at 8am the next day, driving all night. I have read EVERY one of MKA’s books & am on the waiting list for this one. PLEASE DRAW ME!!!…please? Thanks!
kimberly hayward
December 13th, 2012
5:16 pm
have a group of ladies that we pass MKA’s books around to….would love to win this one!!!!
Shelia Coooer
December 13th, 2012
5:18 pm
I met Mary Kay Andrews at the Avondale Christmas Market last weekend and bought six books but did not buy myself this book, I would love to add to my collection!
Grace DeVoe
December 13th, 2012
5:39 pm
LOVE LOVE Mary Kay Andrews books….have them all….this would be a great addition to my collection……Please please Santa bring one to my home where it will be truly read & treasured
GENEVA SAVILLE
December 13th, 2012
5:46 pm
I HOPE I WIN……I MISSED OUT ON THIS BOOK AND AM ANXIOUS TO READ IT …
WISH ME LUCK !!!!!
CyndaP
December 13th, 2012
5:58 pm
What a great title! I can’t wait to read it.
Mary Trumble
December 13th, 2012
6:05 pm
Love MKA! You are so much fun!
Margaret Spencer
December 13th, 2012
6:22 pm
Oh!. Oh! Oh! Would love it so! I do love fruitcake and I have just written a short freelance newspaper article about loving/hating fruitcake. And I love MKA’s books!
Amanda
December 13th, 2012
7:41 pm
Wonderful contest. Thanks.
Linda Deylitz
December 13th, 2012
8:13 pm
There is not a book that you have written, that I have not absolutely LOVED!!!!! I would love to add this to my special collection! Keep them coming…I read them every night, and when I don’t have any more to read, I re-read them, and I enjoy them just as much the second time around. I guess I am happily hooked on your books!!!!
Cathy Thornhill
December 13th, 2012
8:14 pm
Yes, I’ve missed the house mouse. I do need this!
Stephanie
December 13th, 2012
8:15 pm
I love MKA!
Brenda
December 13th, 2012
8:19 pm
Love the Callahan Garrity series and would love to have this book. Thanks.
test
December 13th, 2012
8:29 pm
Good luck
deb willoughby
December 13th, 2012
9:43 pm
I have never read a book of MKA I didn’t just love.. I am so proud of her for the donations to Sandy victims
Tricia Pennington
December 13th, 2012
10:10 pm
Awesome! I would so love to have this book! MKA’s books are FANTABULOUS!!!
kathy turner
December 13th, 2012
11:22 pm
your absolute biggest fan in sandy springs ans i also own limited copy of crash course. You come to all my estate sales..no one reads you more than me!!, Once upon a midnight clear is classic..like you.
anja
December 14th, 2012
1:34 am
love love love mka books …this one is still missing from my collection….
Vickie Smith
December 14th, 2012
2:59 am
Merry Christmas to me if I win this MKA book!
Janice Henck
December 14th, 2012
5:37 am
Enjoyed the book signing a few months ago in Decatur. Would love to have this book too!
Kathleen Welch
December 14th, 2012
6:40 am
I would love a copy of “Fatal Fruitcake ” !
Anita
December 14th, 2012
6:41 am
I would love to win this book!!
Janet Sweat
December 14th, 2012
7:02 am
I love to read anything by MKA
Ellen Davenport
December 14th, 2012
8:14 am
I have never found a MKA book that I don’t love. Wonderful writer.
Pat Lynch
December 14th, 2012
6:19 pm
One of the few that actually likes fruitcake. My Mom made an old fashioned cake named Japanese fruit cake that was the rage of the church circles in the 60’s. I have read every book wriiten by Mary K., she always provide me with great entertainment and laughter.