Writing Notes With A Personal Touch (ISBN 1567996620)

Amazon.com Review:
Contrary to popular belief, the art of letter writing is alive and well and is elegantly celebrated in the brief but beautiful Writing Notes with a Personal Touch by Daria Price Bowman and Maureen LaMarca. Full of articulate advice, the authors explain how to compose letters of love and friendship; expressions of sympathy; invitations, acceptances, and regrets; congratulatory and thank-you notes; announcements; and special communications from parent to child. It is all too easy to postpone such correspondence, but with this wonderful little book as your guide, you'll be able to face that blank page with confidence and compose something meaningful. As the authors assure you, letters needn't be literary masterpieces; they need only to capture sincere feelings. Long after the phone calls are forgotten and the e-mails discarded, these heartfelt missives will be treasured by their lucky recipients. --Amy Handy

Worth its weight in gold:
Absolutely beautifully written with concrete examples of lovely handwritten notes for every occasion - I can't say enough about this book. I only wish I had this book sooner - it is the perfect guide to writing thank you letters, accepting and declining invitations, and the hardest letters of all - sympathy letters. The book suggests beautiful phrasing that is sincere and believable. Very highly recommended.

Writing Notes with a Personal Touch:
This is a wonderful book because sometimes you don't have the words to express yourself in certain situations. For example, you may have had a sudden death in the family, or write a nice letter to thank someone, or personal birthday card, or just a thinking about you card. This a great book for personal touches to any letter or note you may want to write.

A few good tips, a pretty simple book.:
This book is just 71 pages long, and though it did offer a few very nice tips for writing personal notes, such as Invitations, Sympathy notes, Congratulations and Thank yous, it was a pretty simple book that I think all of us could have come up with if we gave it a shot. The most helpful thing I found was the author's advice to send quick notes on paper for times when you just know the receiver's life is stressful, like when a family pet dies, or a person loses their job, or even for good times, a son graduates, a friend publishes a poem etc... I hadn't thought of all that. These days with electronic communication it is easy to forget how meaningful some lasting words on paper can be. You can read this book in an hour, and it does pack some pretty good advice in those 71 pages.