Kristina McMorris resides in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and their two sons. At age nine, she began creatively expressing herself when she embarked on a five-year stint as the host of an Emmy- and Ollie award-winning kids’ television program. Kristina’s extensive experience in media and events led her to becoming a professional emcee and contributing writer for Portland Bride & Groom magazine.
In fall of 2000, deciding sleep was highly overrated, she compiled hundreds of her grandmother’s favorite recipes for a holiday gift that quickly snowballed into a self-published cookbook. With proceeds benefiting the Food Bank, Grandma Jean’s Rainy Day Recipes sold at such stores as Borders and was featured in a variety of regional media. It was while gathering information for the book’s biographical section when Kristina happened across a letter her grandfather mailed to his “sweetheart” during his wartime naval service – a letter that later inspired McMorris to pen her first novel, a WWII love story entitled Letters from Home. To read a more detailed bio check out her website bio page.
I want to say thank you to Ms. McMorris for penning a truly wonderful book. You, the reader, are taken back to a simpler, yet at the same time harder way of life for many of our grandparents and great grandparents. The sacrifices they made were truly courageous. Liz and Morgan’s story is wonderful, yet there is also a few underlying stories as well that will treat the reader. Ms. McMorris also gives you a few more bonuses in this book; a bit of background on her inspiration for this book as well as recipes that tie into the book and time period. I would so love to see this book made into a movie I think it would be a blockbuster hit!
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