Golden Gratitude - A is for Author Showcase

Welcome to ABCs of Golden Gratitude 2025! This is the third year I'm doing this on my Caboodle of Cozies blog. I'm starting a couple of days later this year, so we will finish after Thanksgiving. But that's okay because gratitude should go beyond the holiday anyway!

Here's how it works:

Each day for the next 26 days, I will take a letter of the alphabet and write about one thing I'm grateful for that begins with that letter. This is something I used to do every November in an online forum that ended in January of 2020. I continued the tradition on a blog that became a springboard for Caboodle of Cozies, so I thought it would be fun to continue the tradition here.

I invite you to play along. In the comments below, tell me what you're grateful for that begins with the letter of the day.  If you are a day late (or more) you can still go back to each day you missed and comment. My posts aren't going anywhere. :-) There is a label called "Golden Gratitude" on the right sidebar so they will be easy to find. With that label, you can also go back and read last year's Golden Gratitude posts.

I will still continue my usual posts as often as possible, so some days this month I will publish more than one post.

Let's begin.

A is for Author Showcase. My local library, in partnership with Sisters in Crime, had their annual author showcase this weekend. This year's event featured 15 mystery authors with new or upcoming releases. I really enjoyed hearing from each author. After they talked about their books, we had the opportunity to meet them and get books signed by them. I had met a few of them before, so it was great to see them again. It was also fun to meet new-to-me authors. It was pretty informal. It felt like I was hanging out with friends. In fact, I do consider some of them my friends.

Your turn! What are you grateful for that begins with A? Tell me in the comments below!