I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the GREETING CARDS FOR EXES by Rebekah L. Purdy Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

About The Book:

Author: Rebekah L. Purdy

Pub. Date: February 4, 2025

Publisher: Rowan Prose Publishing

Formats: Paperback, eBook

Find it: Goodreads, https://books2read.com/u/bQlRpD

“Purdy presents a beautifully complex array of characters that touch your heart.” –A Bookish Escape

Piper Mishner has spent the last year trying to get over her ex, which is hard to do after he decides to move into the apartment next to hers with his new fiancé. As if she needs the reminder of how painful the breakup was. Not to mention, her job as a greeting card writer is now at risk due to her cynicism about love.

 
“I’m bored with you and need a change.” The infamous words of Kerrie Holloway’s ex-husband, who doesn’t seem to understand the concept of being an “ex” since he wants her to pretend for their kids and family that they’re still together. While dating others and living in the same house. She gets a job in sales at a greeting card company, and is finally on the way to saving for her own place.

 
Maude Gilchrist has spent over fifty years married to the same man. A man who, one day, just leaves. No goodbye. No explanation. He was just gone. Bitter and alone, she decides to postpone retirement from the greeting card company. Although writing sappy cards about love is the last thing she wants to do.

Through lunch hour talks, weekend getaways, and drunken brawls, the ladies of All For You Greeting Cards Company help heal one another’s wounds and learn there are more important things in life than having a man. There may be a generational gap, but they all have the “ex-factor” in common. Everyone needs a friend by their side. Someone to talk to, laugh with, complain to, watch your back…and to go to jail with you. 

Fans of Ashley Poston, Colleen Hoover, Emily Henry, Christina Lauren, Mia Sheridan, and Kristin Hannah will enjoy “Greeting Cards For Exes” by Rebekah L. Purdy.

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About Rebekah L. Purdy:

Rebekah L. Purdy is an army veteran, born and raised in Michigan. She works full time for the court system and, in her free time, she writes YA stories across many genres, with more than 15 titles to date. She has a large family, including furbabies. “Greeting Cards for Exes” is her first women’s fiction book.

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Giveaway Details:

1 winner will receive a $10 Amazon Gift Card, International.

Ends March 8^th, midnight EST.

Writing Through Grief: Greeting Cards for Exes is my first book to be published since my husband passed away at the end of 2018. I feel like this was my “healing” project. I don’t think anyone totally understands the impact of grief until they go through something traumatic like this. Prior to my husband’s passing, I had like 2-3 books coming out a year and things were going really well. Once he passed though, I was in such a writing funk. It’s like I lost my creativity, and I couldn’t make myself write anything. I’d sit down with the intent to put something on paper and the words just wouldn’t come. I started getting into my own head, about maybe not being able to do it anymore, that maybe the mojo had run dry. And of course, during this time, I took a step back from my social media sites, places I’d always used to interact with my readers, some of whom I’d even become friends with. I felt as if, I’d lost touch with all the things and people who’d made my writing career so special. This for me was really hard, because for the 7-8 years leading up to my husband’s passing, writing had been a huge part of my life. But I knew I wasn’t in the right mind frame to write, and I really struggled with that.

The thing is writing had always brought me so much joy, so the thought of never being able to write again made me sad. It’d always been an outlet for me, since I was a child. But I feel like I needed to work through the grief, which took me time as I was trying to be strong for my kids and figure out how my life was going to look now that my husband, who was my best friend, wasn’t here now. It was a long process, and is still a process that I will probably continue to work on for the rest of my life to some extent. 

But I remember getting the idea for Greeting Cards for Exes and the excitement I felt being able to write again. I called my sister and was like: “Hey, I’ve got this idea, and I wanted to bounce some things off of you.” We spent a few hours on the phone discussing everything and I was like, whoa, I think I’m legit ready to do this. And so, I started to write. I believe the cast of characters kind of allowed me to work through some of those moments of grief I’d still been clinging to. Because in a way, the characters were working through their own sort of griefs, with their breakups and relationship endings. But there were still these deep friendships they had, and they kind of anchored one another, which in my own life I had my own “cast” of friends and family who really came alongside me as I worked through my emotions. Whether it was to let me cry or vent or laugh, they had my back and were my daily reminders that there’s no right or wrong way to grieve. 

As I wrote Greeting Cards for Exes, I laughed over scenes and cried over scenes, and it was amazing to just “feel” again. When I look back to typing the words: The End for this book, it was honestly the most freeing and therapeutic thing I’d felt. I had tears streaming down and I recall sending the last chapter overfor my sister to read, then messaging my agent that I’d finished writing my first adult book. It was proof to myself that I could still do this and that I’d just needed time to truly give myself closure and time to heal. This book will always be close to my heart because it truly was the spark and outlet I needed to jump start my creativity again. The characters kind of allowed me to fall in love with writing all over again. I think there will always be days that don’t feel the greatest, but I’ve proven to myself that I can still do this, and I want to still do this.