This is a guest post by Beth Carpenter, author of the novel A Gift for Santa.
When I was growing up, my favorite Christmas special was always Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer. I can still picture it on my parents’ big console television, with commercials showing electric razors gliding across the snow and Burl Ives as the singing snowman.
You all know the story of Rudolph, the reindeer that didn’t fit in because of his red nose. Rudolph struggled, but in the end, he was able to take his place on Santa’s team and become a great success. But do you know the story of Rudolph’s creator? He has some struggles of his own before he became a success.
In 1939, Robert L. May was working as a copywriter at Montgomery Wards. His wife was bedridden, suffering from cancer, which meant most of the care for their four-year-old daughter fell to him. Medical bills were piling up.
Montgomery Wards had a tradition of handing out books to children at Christmastime, and that year, they appointed Robert to design a book. As a child, Robert was small and shy. He used experiences from his childhood to create a misfit reindeer with a glowing red nose. He set the story in rhyming verse, using his daughter, Barbara, as a sounding board. She loved it.
When Robert’s wife died in July, his boss offered to take him off the project, but Robert refused and finished the story in August. The first copies were distributed that Christmas. Customers were crazy about them. Eventually, 2.4 million copies of the story were handed out.
Robert remarried in 1941 and eventually had five more children. In 1946, he received an offer from a company who wanted to do a spoken-word recording of the story, but he couldn’t accept because he didn’t own the copyright. Robert approached the company president, and in 1947, Montgomery Wards turned the rights to the story over to him.
The spoken-word recording was a success. In 1947, a small press called Maxton Publishing put out a commercial printing of the Rudolph story. Many publishers had passed under the assumption that the free distribution had saturated the market, but the new printing was a best seller.
In 1948, Robert’s brother-in-law wrote the song adaptation of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and it was recorded by Gene Autry in 1949. It sold more records than any other Christmas song except White Christmas.
The television special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer debuted in 1964 and has become the longest-running Christmas special on television.
Not bad for a red-nosed reindeer, or the shy little boy who grew up to pen one of our favorite Christmas tales.
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by Beth Carpenter
Contemporary Romance
Mass Market Paperback & ebook, 384 pages
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It’s the season for giving…and starting over?
A reindeer farm without Santa wouldn’t be Christmas in Marissa Gray’s Alaskan hometown. Luckily Chris Allen’s there to pinch-hit, although for Marissa, seeing her ex-fiancé again brings back memories of what might have been.
Ten years after their breakup, the feelings between the wildlife biologist and blue-eyed fisherman are stronger than ever. Only now there’s a foster kid in the mix, as well as the shocking crime that cost Marissa her job and her family’s security. She and Chris need to find their way to a meeting of minds and hearts to make this truly a season for second chances…
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(Northern Lights #1)
by Beth Carpenter
Contemporary Romance
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Where life's currents take you…
Dana Raynott just traveled 3,600 miles to reunite with the brother who changed his name and fled to Alaska nineteen years ago. It's impossible not to be moved by this wild, breathtaking state, even if Dana's no closer to finding the answers she came here for.
Her brother's best friend, Anchorage engineer Sam McKittrick, might be able to help her. He's strong and kind— a six-foot, irresistible blend of diverse cultures. He's also haunted by a tragic family history with a startling connection to Dana's past…
About the Author

Once upon a time ...
when Beth Carpenter was a little girl, she read everything she could get her hands on and entertained herself on the school bus by making up stories in her head. Not a lot has changed. She's still consuming books like M&Ms and spends her days creating happily-ever-afters for her imaginary friends.
She lives in Alaska and Arizona with her husband and an aggressively affectionate fifty-pound lap dog. She loves to hear from readers.
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