Her novel Christmas in Cranberry Harbor will be published by Sea Crow Press in October 2024.
I decided that I, and perhaps others, needed a happy, kind and sweet place to spend some time. —Candace Hammond
About Christmas in Cranberry Harbor
It was during the Covid lockdown in 2020 that Candace Hammond decided that she, and perhaps others, needed a happy, kind and sweet place to spend some time. Over the next several months she created a fictional Cape Cod town, Cranberry Harbor. A place where community and kindness is everything.
In Christmas in Cranberry Harbor, Lizzie Martin has followed in her father’s footsteps and became a journalist. Writing for the Boston Sentinel was a dream come true, but newspapers aren’t the way they were when she was growing up, filing stories for her Dad’s paper, The Cranberry Harbor Gazette in high school. Now corporate ownership has taken the heart out of her job, but the last thing she wants to do is move back to Cape Cod and work with her dad, who would love nothing more. She’s also been avoiding Cranberry Harbor during the holidays because he might be there. Jack Cahoon. The guy who broke her heart when he ended their engagement three years ago, at Christmas. Now they’re both back in town for Christmas, her dad desperately needs her help, and she can’t seem to avoid Jack now matter how hard she tries.
Christmas in Cranberry Harbor is a feel-good, sweet novel. A book, one reader said, “I’d love to curl up under a quilt with a cupcake and read.” Life can be challenging, but having a place like Cranberry Harbor to escape to can make it a lot more comforting. Christmas in Cranberry Harbor is the first in a series of four books, with Spring in Cranberry Harbor set to bloom in April, 2025.
About Candace Hammond
When Candace Hammond filed her first story in ninth grade about the new science building at her school, she had no idea that decades later she’d be filing many more. Since 2002 she’s been freelancing on Cape Cod, racking up close to 1000 bylines writing about pop culture, theater, music, fashion, movies and books. She also penned a series of stories she jokingly calls her “Perils of Pauline” pieces where she was sent on assignment to go kayaking, fly fishing, rock climbing and even took a polo lesson in Newport. Along the way though, she was bitten by the fiction bug, and since that’s highly discouraged in journalism, she began writing novels and plays. She is also the host of Arts Week, an interview show and podcast on WOMR radio in Provincetown where she gets to interview a very fun and interesting assortment of local and visiting creatives.
Candace grew up on Cape Cod, and never expected to stay here, but the natural beauty and the warm and supportive arts community is hard to replicate anywhere else. She lives on the Lower Cape with her musician partner, Frank Poranski, their giant cat, Mr. Bear, and always looks forward to visits from her three kids who all moved off-Cape, but who she entices back with promises of home-baked goods and babysitting.
Available for pre-order now on the Sea Crow Press website, locally at Sea Howl Bookshop in Orleans, and wherever good books are sold!
Look forward to: The Book Launch event for Christmas in Cranberry Harbor on October 20th at 2:00 PM with Sea Howl Bookshop happening at Parish Park, 44 Main Street, Orleans MA
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Perfect-bound paperback | 5.25 x 8 | 292 pages | October 8, 2024 | 978-1961864122
Fiction | Cape Cod | Romance | Christmas
