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CBS New York Book Club Readers’ Choice kicks off the holiday season.
The CBS New York Book Club with Mary Calvi held its virtual meetup with Mary Kay Andrews, author of the club’s Readers’ Choice “Bright Lights, Big Christmas.” Andrews said her book was about bringing “the happy” to the holiday season. Readers agreed, saying the book was heartwarming, the characters went through changes in their lives, and the story was about the sense of humanity.
“Bright Lights, Big Christmas” debuted in the top 10 of the New York Times Best Sellers list.
Andrews’s love of antiquing is known to her fans. In the weeks leading up to the Book Club meetup, Calvi and Andrews visited The Antique Emporium in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Andrews shared that she finds inspiration in old portraits. Calvi and Andrews later had tea at the St. Laurent Social Club.
Andrews joined the Book Club virtual meetup from her home office in Georgia, which Andrews says is decorated with her book jackets and best sellers lists framed on the wall.
“It’s to remind myself when it gets hard that I’ve done it before and I’ll do it again,” Andrews said.
Andrews has published 30 novels and one cookbook.
Calvi asked Andrews if she ever dreamed when when she was a little girl that she would have such a remarkable career.
“No, I didn’t,” Andrews answered. “I wanted to be a newspaper reporter because I didn’t know that little girls like me could write books. So I kind of limited the scope of my dream, I guess. When I got older and I thought, you know what, I’m going to look outside that.”
Andrews wrote her first book when she was a mother to two young children and worked full time as a reporter for an Atlanta newspaper. She says she gave herself time on Wednesday nights to write, with a deadline to finish the book in a year. The book was never published.
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